Not Art #29: FACT Libs

I have published a new zine. It is called FACT Libs, and it is based on that fun party game where you think of words out of context and then plug them into a story in order to tell a true and accurate story correctly on the first try. As you can see in the picture above, “it’s a lot of fun.“

Making it was a lot of fun too. Writing things, particularly jokes that make me laugh, and doing the layout, drawing that guy on the cover, fighting with the print shop over their bad registration and devil-may-care attitude towards their own shoddy work, even folding and mailing issues to subscribers and people whose addresses I had laying around, it was all a really good time. It may be a touch trite, but creating does feel like the opposite of scrolling.

I happened to read this little pep talk around the time I was working on this, but it pales next to the feeling of actually doing it.

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In other zine-related business, I am now serving up back issues in a new Ko-Fi shop here. Subscriptions are still available on Patreon, but it seems like I can make that available through Ko-Fi pretty soon as well.

Many Thanks to Eila!

I made a little fan teaser trailer for a movie that Amazon Prime recommended to me last night called KING TIDE.

Good looking movie, good performances, interesting plot. Iffy title. Check it out.

(Also, I was hoping my friend with a kid called Eila would see the video and be weirded out.)

Shower Jams: Bang bang

The Likely Scoundrels (that’s Steve Fite and Jonathan Stokes!) return to the shower - perhaps the first return guest musicians? - for all new jams in our 2025 season.

I’ll admit, I think of myself as someone who doesn’t like this song very much, probably owing to overexposure from the kids who got high and watched Kill Bill every afternoon in college. But this, I like. I just want the groove to loop forever, which is lucky, because it kind of does when you’re editing a music performance.

Shower Jams: Deed I Do

Season 2 of Shower Jams is kicking off with Ben Bromfield on keys (that are too large for the shower) and Erik Desiderio on the bass (which is pretty reasonable for the shower). I’m always such an optimist about how iPhone footage is going to look, and I’m never satisfied.

Medusa's Side

Here’s another original tune by Becky Sanders (with bandmates Ben Bromfield, Libby Ward, Matty Barreca, and Erik Desiderio), recorded for the 2025 NPR Tiny Desk Contest.

It feels like the final exam to cap off our year of 25 shower jams. As they say on Sirius, share and enjoy!

(if anyone out there is using an RSS reader, I’m sorry that video embeds don’t come through anymore, but trust that there’s a video linked above!)