THE ACTUATOR, THE NEXUS. ALEX SMITH’S LASER LIFE QUEER SCI-FI READING SERIES MAKES ITS SPRING RETURN. featuring: special guest: POLYMER MONOCHROME, aka Paul Walker of SGNLS in his sci-fi reading debut!! We are ecstatic to hear this new/old voice. Alex Smith/ARKDUST: “Close your eyes little starry Captain, little man of cosmos, you’re almost there, becoming....
WE WALKED AROUND THE BIG BOX STORE FOR PARTY SUPPLIES KIND TO OUR WORKING WALLETS, AFTER A DINNER STOP AT RUBY BUFFET, WHERE THE NEON LIGHTING AND TENDER PIANO MUSIC (THE LIKES OF HEARD IN MANY DORAMAとか) REFRESHED OUR CASUAL TENSION. TWO SCIENCE FICTION WRITERS. TOO WEIRD REALITY FICTION. THE PARTY THE PARTY WE GOT...
Eighteen here. April 3rd, 2013 saw the Philadelphia stop of Imogen Binnie‘s NEVADA book tour, where Metropolarity crew was honored to read some intimate and non-SF type ish for the people. This was the most packed I’ve ever seen the A-Space, my neighborhood’s conveniently crucial anarchist community space. It’s a big deal when Topside Press...
WE HAVIN A HOUSE PARTY FUNDRAISER TYPE JAWN PHOTOBOOTH w/LATEST FRACTAL-EDGE AUGMENTED SPX TECHNOLOGIES ROOM OF SPIRIT & TIME LOUNGE CELEBRATION OF THE SUN RETURN OF METROPOLARITY MEMBER R.PHILLIPS PUBLIC RELEASE OF SE:1 EP:1 METROPOLARITY ZINE BLACK LIGHT :: STROBE LIGHT SPACE PUNCH (U-IN-THE-FACE) SOUND TECHNIQUES W/ OUR OWN DJ ALEXX & SPECIAL GUEST DJ...
Metropolarity is honored to read alongside author IMOGEN BINNIE on tour supporting her debut novel NEVADA. An ALL STAR CREW from PHILLY & NY will read to you. Let’s get intimate~ be there! WHEN: APRIL 3 TIME: 7:30–9:30 WHERE: A-SPACE @ 47th & BALTIMORE AVENUES, PHILA PA (FACEBOOK RSVP) WHO & WHAT: IMOGEN BINNIE Imogen...
Ohh the Zine-A-Thon! This was a good way to spend a Sunday. We sat around a line of tables piled high with crafting supplies, surrounded by books and zines in the anarchist book shop, Wooden Shoe. The crews behind Roots and River Philly and Femme Dreamboat zine had invited Metropolarity along to read as part...
Femme Dreamboat and Roots and River Philadelphia are having a Zine-A-Thon! Five whole hours of zine making as a fundraiser for Roots & River Philly Collective + for Femme Dreamboat Zine! They’ve invited local folx with zines to read from their zines, or teach a zine related skill every hour. You want even more of...
EVERYONE, IT TURNED OUT THE PREVIOUSLY ADVERTISED 12.12.12 SUBMISSION DEADLINE + ANTHOLOGY FORMAT WAS A FUMBLE, AS WE FORGOT THE LINEAR PERCEPTION OF TIME AND HEAVILY MEDIATED BINARY MIND-SPIRIT STILL PERSISTS. SO RATHER THAN CLOSED INTRANET BUILDING WE WOULD LIKE TO PURSUE OPEN NETWORKING AND COMMUNITY OVERLAP AS WE DEVELOP OUR TECHNOLOGIES. WE ARE LOOKING...
THE THREE KNOWN TALES OF HATIM MUZUMBO by Alex Smith 1. Men are in the village. Tall men, healthy, but not like the last men who planted wooden stakes or tied orange ribbons to bushes in the nearby fields – not white men. Their skin was like ours a bit, their rubber suits pipe lightning...
Under these streets, under these, under the train tracks, the shit that goes on in the woods, the shit that goes on while this train is driving by above our heads, the things that go on, on these streets at night when the lights go off, are the kind of things that, that, that people...
In the unseasonably warm and rainy Philadelphia winter, on the verge of the great paradigm shift which our media keeps misconstruing as “the end of the world,” we listen to a mix offered to us by local queer artist CAMILA R4DIOACT1VA. Spiraling computer sounds, slow step guitar, and steady choral vocals filtered in and out...
Maggie Eighteen’s ALL THAT’S LEFT dystopian spec fic cyborg series crosses streams with +HIRS+ queer grind thrash band as the first track of a remixes 10″ album coming out in the near future. Listen below. ALL THATS LEFT: generations of vomit. aka you keep fucking up her pronoun (so us faggot cyborgs will kill you)...
