editorial – The Seminary of Praying Mantis Publishing

I was thinking about what is left over from work done or from ones own experience. I think of a scene from the Musical Film Paint Your Wagon when a scheme is made to gather all the gold that falls down under bars and saloons. Miners for gold losing their gold dust. A clever way to get rich or collect from what is unknowingly or uncaringly left behind.

That is what it is like for me now as I gather my Flipside Fanzine gold that is dissected all over the place. I know I will never get rich from my gossamer shining memories or documentation of a scene during my youthful rebellion, but it seems to go on shimmering everywhere. It has a real story and narrative that I still gather.

I cannot put back together the vein of gold enduring as a solid experience that was documented but I can try and show my story, the Flipside Fanzine story, as it happened, and this is important to me. I can be a magnet pulling the gold of Los Angeles Flipside Fanzine towards me and alchemize the authentic narrative to share. A richness like gold that will endure.

A Flopside Editorial

The memos the men wrote made clear that they were aware children had been raped and otherwise assaulted and were attempting to keep authorities in the dark. They discussed giving the abusive priests out-of-state assignments and keeping them from seeing therapists who might have altered law enforcement.

– Los Angeles times: Charges unlikely for Mahony by Harriet Ryan… Wednesday January 23 2013

Mahony should admit his guilt and step down.

All the parents of the Catholic Church should give up their faith and step down because a terrible crime was committed, again and again and again.

He did not protect the innocent nor did he give help for those in need.

The Catholic Church is based on a mythology that is as false as its actions. I am going to start a new ritual.

I call it the HOLY SPIT and each time I see a Catholic Church I will do you know what? I invite you to join me.