Happy New Year!

[Anne Elizabeth Moore]

Happy happy to all of you!*

Now that the '08s have gone by the wayside, let's take a moment to do a little wrap-up I'll call, Things I Probably Should Have Mentioned Last Year:

• Infiltrating the Underground
The Paper Tiger TV documentary is now online, or you can order it here if you've never heard of the internet. Or, get in touch to set up a screening and discussion at your school, infoshop, or house party!

• 17 Theses on the Edge
My 2007 zine-turned-art-obect-turned-TIN HOUSE-essay was listed as "notable" in the 2008 Best American Non-Required Reading, edited by Judy Blume. Which is one of the parts that tickles me to no end.** I've reprinted (and corrected) it, and you can get it at my Etsy store. Or, if you're in Chicago, at Quimby's!

I have several big projects upcoming in these next few months that you are most sincerely invited to to view or participate in, so let's call this section, Ladies and Gentlemen, Get Out Your '09 Calendars!:

• The Unlympic Games
Attention Chicago: A highly organized, internationally recognized, massively marketed, thoroughly branded, and extremely expensive series of sporting events is coming to your town. This is not it. From Saturday January 24 to February 14 2009, InCUBATE and I will host a series of games called the Unlympics. They will consist of real sports, fake sports, and things that aren't sports at all—plus serve as a meeting ground to discuss the implications of our city hosting the Olympic Games in 2016. Full schedule is here, mailing list is here, our informal poll about the 2016 bid is here, and the online sign-up sheet to reserve your place in the February 7 Spelling Bee is here. (Limit 50.)

• Holle, Cambodia
The first in-depth exhibition of my self-publishing effort in Phnom Penh with a group of 32 amazing young Cambodian women will be held at ThreeWalls Gallery in Chicago in conjunction with the Southern Graphics Council. Featuring the group’s zines on topics as diverse as agriculture, women’s issues, spirituality, education, health care, and the country’s unique and disturbing genocidal history, the show includes the international debut of the collaborative book New Girl Law. A rewrite of a traditional Khmer text that prescribes proper girl behavior, New Girl Law is a hand-bound, letter-pressed demand for human rights and a captivating vision of Cambodia. Find out more here or pick one up here. Opening February 20.

• Without You I Am Nothing: Cultural Democracy from Providence and Chicago
The Spring 2009 Green Lantern exhibition of works on paper that are not intended for public consumption but to create small venues for public participation has a home online, and projects and collaborations are rapidly growing out of it. It is exciting. Opening March 27.

Finally, it's Time To Say Goodbye.

Until Next Time,

aem

*We here at AEM Industries do realize that we've entirely missed the boat on the "Happy New Year" business, and would like to be the first to extend you greetings and many happy returns on the joy known only as February, 2009! Please enjoy it responsibly.

**The other part being that, as one reviewer compared this essay to a work by a famous philosopher, I believe I can claim the distinction of being the only writer in 2008 to be both read by Pamela Anderson and compared to Kant.