Poster Bot — The Monarch Review
The Misadventures Of Billy: The Irredeemably Iconoclastic Goat
Friday, December 2, 2016 1:18 — 2 Comments
Once upon a time there was a goat named Billy. Billy was sad, Because Billy didn’t fit in. Billy had hopes, And Billy had dreams. Billy could see yesterday, and imagine tomorrow. People made fun of Billy, and they imagined nothing. Billy wrote, and Billy drew. But no one read and no one knew… That today is based on yesterday, And tomorrow is based on today, And “now” is only fleeting.
Protecting The People: Copwatching With Mike BlueHair
Thursday, October 13, 2016 11:27 — 10 Comments
After nearly five years of being filmed and observed by him, Portland police know he can’t be intimidated… they also he’s not going away. We’ve seen his videos in The Oregonian, The Portland Mercury, and in Willamette Week, showing him standing between chaos and bloodshed when a gun was pulled on BLM protesters downtown. But have we ever really seen Mike BlueHair? I met up with the local copwatcher for an interview, a ride-along, and a closer look at the man behind the camera. Not everyone knows what copwatching is, so I asked Mike to define the term in his own words, “A copwatcher,” he said, […]
More Than A Thousand And One: The Many Faces Behind The Faceless Howler
Thursday, April 14, 2016 16:52 — 14 Comments
One of the greatest misconceptions among Lovecraft fans is that his creation, Nyarlathotep, has only a thousand forms. The idea stems from the novella Dreamquest Of Unknown Kadath, in which Nyarlathotep appears as a Pharaoh, giving the story’s protagonist a warning, “pray to all space that you may never meet me in my thousand other forms.” What readers tend to overlook is the key word “other” i.e. that in addition to the slender Pharaoh there are also a thousand others… for a grand total of a thousand and one. I went on a dream-quest of my own, looking for the illusive one, […]
Love For The Craft: The Weird Tales Of W.H. Pugmire
Tuesday, March 1, 2016 10:47 — 1 Comment
In the early 1970s Seattle’s seekers of the macabre were stalked by Count Pugsly, a ghoulish vampire lurking in the horror-filled chambers of Jones’ Fantastic Museum. 20 years later that same bogeyman could be seen, in drag, washing dishes and busing tables at The Cyclops Cafe. Today a portrait of the ghoul hangs on the cafe’s cyclopean walls and I asked a cyclopean waiter if he knew who the face in the portrait belonged to, “His name is Wilum-” he said, “I haven’t seen him in quite a few years, but I know he’s still around.” Wilum Hopfrog Pugmire is still around, he may not […]
A Part Of Living: The Deadly Art Of Ego
Wednesday, January 27, 2016 13:48 — 0 Comments
In contemporary culture the word “ego” has become synonymous with the word “vanity,” but Freud defined the ego as the functional self, working as a moderator between the internal world of fantasy and the external world of cultural norm. I met a man named Ego, expecting him to be as egotistical as the contemporary fallacy, but was surprised by his refreshingly moderate nature. Although you’d never hear it from him, Ego Shoreclay is a successful painter, tattoo artist and graphic designer, who’s finely detailed explorations in the macabre are sought after by collectors world wide. I wanted to ask him about his work, but felt a […]
Sweet Amy Nicole: An Interview With Benefits
Monday, November 30, 2015 10:52 — 0 Comments
For lack of a better term, some might say Sweet Amy Nicole is a business woman, a working girl, or even a professional, but professional or no, she made me feel like a pro… I’m a Journalist, for an arts & entertainment magazine and my contemporaries might ask that I defend contacting a woman with Amy’s expertise, but I’m also a Gonzo Journalist, possessed by a demon. “Go for it-” it says, “Have another drink. Talk to her. The power of Journalism compels thee!” After a little foreplay, not only did Amy agree to an interview, but looked forward to […]
In The Midst Of Monsters: An Interview With Nick Gucker
Tuesday, September 29, 2015 9:08 — 0 Comments
Nick Gucker is an illustrator, graphic designer and lifelong fan of horror and science-fiction. He’s known professionally as Nick The Hat and though this term of endearment is in no way related to the many hats he’s worn during an exciting and prolific career, he is a man of many talents, not the least of which is his appreciation for the bizarre. He’s the caretaker of his own night-gallery, a menagerie of taxidermied, canned and cured critters. He’s collected morbid masks from exotic kingdoms as far east as Bali and a bestiary of yokai monsters from the land of the […]
A Night Of Blight: Psychic Warfare At The Mercury
Thursday, September 17, 2015 11:08 — 0 Comments
I don’t think Jake, The Monarch’s Editor and Chief, had any idea what he was getting into when he accepted Poster Bot’s first article. The Monarch takes great pride in providing opportunities to new (and often eccentric) authors, but nobody expected this author would be a real-life counterpart to the debauched Gonzo Journalist he writes himself as. Poster Bot does good work, but he’s not easy to work with, so I was brought in as a special Gonzo Editor to share the burden. Jake chose me because I’m physically intimidating, or as Poster Bot describes me “A 300 pound graduate […]
A Day At The Beach: An Evening With The Artists Of RAW
Thursday, July 2, 2015 10:13 — 0 Comments
The worst part about the evening’s entertainment was waking up the next morning. I’d been drinking all night and went to bed late, but for some reason woke up early. My body wanted something that didn’t involve sleep. Food? Water? Not even close… More. I wasn’t craving more gin, just more RAW, more from the online organization of artists who’re part of a global community supporting local events. I spent the night before immersed in Splendor, RAW’s June art/fashion show at The Fremont Foundry. My interest in RAW was almost strictly in the fashion portion of the evening… My friend […]
Fascinating Figures: An Interview With Sara Lanzillotta
Tuesday, May 12, 2015 10:46 — 0 Comments
Sara Lanzillotta’s dolls have been sold across the country, at fine art locations ranging from the avant-garde MF Gallery in New York, to the on-guard Seattle Art Museum. Her portfolio of hand-sewn sculpture includes monsters, burlesque dancers, circus performers and the sideshow oddities traditionally exhibited alongside them. Her studio is difficult to locate, but I found it, camouflaged beneath a blanket of wisteria… the face of a Japanese Oni hanging above the door. I knocked on the door just as Sara’s husband was leaving for a pool game, then tip-toed past the grimacing Oni as Sara (a 4’11”, pastel-Goth) led me into her boudoir. She’s known […]
The answer isn't poetry, but rather language
- Richard Kenney
