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For Fourth of July Weekend, 2022:

Stardust as “The Leers,” Clark’s Manifesto (2004-2015) (Netcong Records #032) available here. 

net cong, Parisian Prefecture (Netcong Records #031) is now available here. 

Two texts:

Thousands now living will never leave (on Hart Island): https://www.theawl.com/2018/01/thousands-now-living-will-never-leave/

Happy publication day to Craig Champlin. The Ernie Bedlam Stories (Netcong Records #028 (TXT)) is now available for purchase here.

The book is best enjoyed whole, like the Old Man's fish on the sea, but here is a morsel for those without that appetite this moment:

MORTALITY

Yep, Ernie thought, as he lay sprawled on the couch like a theme park, Another legend out the door. Ah life! You got to take the beer with the sweet. Ernie had tried to find knickers for Payne Stewart’s tribute, but his legs were short and hot pants with a forty inch waist were hard to come by, even at the gay resale shop.

Ernie didn’t know what to do with life, much less death. When Mickey Mantle died, Ernie had a moment of silence, during which he thought, Of course, the man drank like a fish. Privately he had hoped Mick had willed his used Playboy collection to him. When Ernie heard, Where have you gone Joe DiMaggio... on the Mexican band stand cable TV station, he knew just what to do. He went to the bar. There Ernie found countless others drowning their sorrow over the demise of Joe, Jesus and Jake the mechanic, who liked to beat on his wife a little.

After Dad Bedlam passed nine months ago, Ernie had been left an orphan. He’d had great experience handling death. His advice, when asked was, It’s tough but don’t take it personally. If someone’s still pitching, you got to come up to the plate.The only glitch in the picture occurred when Wilt Chamberlain recently passed. The man was just too tall and had slept with too many women. This left Ernie befuddled and thirsty.

When last seen, Ernie was furiously looking through the bins at the used record store for a recording of Dylan’s “When the Ship Comes In.” Once he found it, he ran home and watched re-runs of “Let’s Make a Deal” and drank a six pack.

Walter Payton’s death left Ernie speechless and morbid. He sat on the couch and listened to “Dust in the Wind” by Kansas and watched the witch’s Dorothy say, Auntie Em, I want to come home. There was no more sweetness in Chicago today. Ernie finally passed out, clutching Garcia, the Beanie Baby, to his chest.

net cong, "Ballad of Hughey Long" b/w "Laguna Suite 3" + "Laguna Suite 4" (Netcong Records #008B) now available here. The sequel to net cong, "True Gentleman/Fun-Swinger's Last Stand" (Netcong Records #008). Not the sequel we deserve, the sequel we need.

net cong, Depeche Moses (Netcong Records #027C) postponed temporarily due to inclement weather.

net cong, La Troisieme Depeche vol. 2: Depeche Moves (Netcong Records #027B) now available here.

Craig Champlin, whose Ernie Bedlam Stories will be released mid-March (Netcong Records #028 (TXT)) has released the first episodes from the podcast series Ernie Bedlam's Bedtime Stories, a co-production Mighty Small Studios, CHI, IL, available here.

"But if I carry out my neutral and living nucleus, then, within my species, I shall be being specifically human." - C. Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.

"It's like having a coin and not knowing in which country it is legal tender."

In Print: Animal Meditations vols. 1-3, engineered by Colin Everest, are available here. Nice press is here.

"The possessed are not possessed by what is coming but by what is coming back."

Forthcoming: net cong, La Troisieme Depeche (Netcong Records #027A-C). Depeche Men, Mar. 2, 2017; Depeche Moves, Mar. 9, 2017; Depeche Moses, Mar. 16, 2017;

Craig Champlin, Ernie Bedlam Stories (Netcong Records #028 (TXT)), Mar. nth, 2017.

The Natural Blush, Anouk Aimee (tentative?) (Netcong Records #029), Apr. nth, 2017.

net cong, Processional Music, Sioux Falls, SD, June 3, 2017, venue TBD.

"Life is so continuous that we divide it into stages, and we call one of them death."

Retirements:

Netcong Records #010A The Natural Blush, The Moment of the Natural Blush (Raw Materials);

 Netcong Records #010B The Natural Blush, The Moment of the Natural Blush (Completely Conditioned);

Netcong Records #011 The Natural Blush, “Shanks/Monroe Doctrine,” b/w “I Will Make a Fisher” & “Small Symphony”;

Netcong Records #013 net cong, Week w/ Two Sundays” b/w “First Laguna Suite”.

"The room was a portrait of an empty stomach."

News from #netcong: the house was empty but the bed was warm.

Why we play the game #22.

All excerpts above from Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H (1964).

Aloha,

The Caper (Netcong Records #020);

The Diviner (Netcong Records #023); 

Korea (Netcong Records #024);

B. Ives (Netcong Records #009);