Pantuso This crazy guy distributes a bunch of weird crap around New York City, and then Doug Skinner makes a filmstrip-style documentary about it on the Internet. Blood Brothers One bleeds, the other doesn't. Original Sin Seamy images of world-heavy phantasmagoric suffering painstakingly detailed in garish color, provided here for your pleasure. Paintings courtesy of Joe Coleman. Bad Acid Trip David Shapiro wanders around the beach for a few days in a newspaper suit. A cartoon odyssey. Flesh Eaters Our pets love us even more than we think they do. By Stephen Williams. Growing Up in Cosmic Harmony, and How It Sucked Smoking pot and living amongst naked women and talking plants wasn't good enough for Ptolemy Tompkins. My Dead Grandmother As a Work of Performance Art Daniel Pinchbeck tells a depressing story about his family's private history. Fortunately, there's a part in there about him getting frequent enemas as a child.	TOOZEDAY KOMIX New Komix every Toozeday! The Toozeday Komix 100th Anniversary Special! Five of your favorite Toozeday Komix luminaries, brought to you in full color, bonus-sized glory! Fully exclusive masterworks never seen by human eyes! SUB-GIGO 4: Valentine's Day Come now, let Word make love to you! Produced by Daron Murphy. Celebrity Prank Phone Calls Hear John Bowe secretly ridicule poor, lonely people who are not and never will be famous. It may be sad, but it's also funny! Salvage Culture: A Series Junk Stephen Fowler found in a dumpster. Part Six: "The Romance and Sex Life of the Date." Before The White Man Came If God loved us, then why did he create the White Man? A scary filmstrip by Brian Dewan. Thrift Store Paintings Free art by anonymous weirdos! Courtesy of Jim Shaw. Enter The Land of Plenty Come find sin, sleep, and sorrow in a labyrinth of your own design! An audio-visual anti-adventure by Marc Trujillo. Paper Doll Fun! Now, for the first time ever, the cast of Dame Darcy's "Meat Cake" is gathered together, fully unclothed, for you to meet and mildly manipulate.	WORK People talking about their jobs. Every Monday. Biography of a Prose Style Daniel Harris is the bravest man in the world. Painting by Numbers You may not know much about art, but Komar and Melamid want to know what you like. Memoirs of a Street Salesman John Bowe starts out hawking bracelets and ends up as a naked beast. The Friendly Man When your boss the media star wants to give people good news, don't bother him with the facts. By Scott Carrier. Cutting Timber in Alaska Amidst rain, wind, helicopters, grain alcohol, bears, and a lot of trees, Steve Tyler works hard. Tales of Work-Related Stress Another clip-art comic by Sabin Streeter.	Biosphere Somewhere in a San Francisco mall, there's a shop selling psychedelic new-age posters of great whales singing their majestic songs, deep beneath the waves; and lush, green rainforests where thousands of exotic species thrive in harmony, far from the cities of man. Alexis Rockman's paintings will not be found there. Obsolete Media Rotting books, tape decks, old film cameras, antiquated computers-- "knowledge as clutter, to be swept out to let air and light in." Photographs by Moyra Davey. Words by Geoffrey O'Brien. Rats They can ruin your sex life. And eat your dinner. Human attempts to kill them are in vain. The Year of the Rat scurries on. By Stephen Williams. 24 Hours In Manhattan Moyra Davey can tell you what time it is in a New York minute. Why You Drive Where You Live Tom Vanderbilt examines how the car became king, and suburbs the kingdom. A companion piece to the POV documentary, "Taken for a Ride." Shooters What's it really like to pull the trigger? Interviews by Stephen Williams.	My Mother's Living Room Daniel Harris tries to figure out what the fat lady in the polyester suit is doing. Office Photos Lots of people have jobs where they have to go and work in a big building with desks and computer terminals and things like that. Steven Ahlgren thinks this is great. Really great. Lieutenant Mamiya's Long Story A Japanese soldier goes to the Outer Mongolian desert and gets burned up to the very core of his life. An excerpt from The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami. Virtual Paradise Into a chaotic world, plagued by ominous stress and unpredictablility, comes Virtual Paradise, a soothing antidote to the troubling realities of everyday existence. Airport '97: The Strange Nature of JFK You probably didn't know this, but a lot of really cute, fuzzy animals live at the airport. Oh, and tropical diseases and dogs with cocaine stuffed inside of them, too. By Margaret Mittelbach and Michael Crewdson. Signs Some of them say something; some of them don't. By Warren Neidich. Beach Guru A tale of drugs and deceit. By Alex Garland.	ASK DR. LOVELADY Your questions about sex and love answered by a real New York shrink. A new installment every Wednesday. First Comes Love, Then Comes Marriage All-new, squeaky-clean romance story from Word. By Robert Bingham Phone Numbers Love comes and goes, sex lasts for seventeen minutes, but phone numbers are eternal. By Mike Albo. Modeling Photographs of men taking pictures of women. By Brad Valdez. Comic Book Ladies A lonely girl reads about lesbians. Then she tries to pay for sex with Japanese people. By Romy Ashby. Sex and Money Is that a roll of quarters in your pocket or are you just happy to see me? By Stephen Williams. Charlotte Paul Vee wrecks his marriage.
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