arthur

i say i'm allergic to newsprint, but that isn't strictly true.

i'd started reading arthur when i saw you could get issues for free when buying recs from forced exposure. it had rekkid reviews by byron coley and thurston moore, so it seemed cool. then i found a big stack of them by the door at the wreck room last weekend, which is timely, since my current entertainment budget is more half price books than forced exposure.

this month's ish has an interview/appreciation of brian eno, a long piece about living off the grid in hawaii, instructions for siphoning gas from an suv, and a recipe for garlic-less pasta sauce that i've gotta try (maybe substituting plum tomatoes from our graden for the called-for tomato puree), with accompanying backstory that's almost as good as andre edmonson's "my mom's sauce" rap.

great writing, reasonably priced: what's not to like? (there's also a blog that has unique content worth reading.)