I wrote a guest editorial for Auxiliary Magazine. You can download the pdf here. I did not write my bio and I’m not taking any responsibility for that.
Auxiliary is an alternative fashion, music and lifestyle magazine - available online and in print– and I was asked to do something that related to alt culture. I don’t really know what alt culture is or where I fit into it. Am I an alternative? I doubt it. I did drop out of high-school instead of riding the office train to retirement at sixty five but, far as I can tell, I never had alternative to being myself. Most of the important decisions I made turned out to be irreversible before I knew they were important. I suspect most people are in the same boat.
Not really sure what to write, cognizant that people only listen to me because I dress well and determined to give the public what they want, I wrote an editorial comparing alt culture to the dandy. Seemed apt. And, if not, at least it’s some bullshit I can stand behind. Or in front of. I do have a book to promote, ya know.
I don’t read many magazines but Auxiliary seems decent, which is a shame. I prefer indecent publications like American Conservative or anything else that includes splayed vaginas like Pat Buchanan. But Auxiliary lacks nudity and remains suspiciously quiet on the state of the American family and illegal immigration.
I suspect “alt” is just a codeword for secret homosexual, communist Illuminati agenda.
Aside from myself, you’ll find a lot of pictures. If, for some reason you prefer reading to gawking at (clothed!?) goth girls, there’s Clint Catalyst, Nina Flowers, industrial band Android Lust and Andy Deane as well as an interview with Michael Swaim of little known humor site Cracked.com.
Anyway, go have a look. Enjoy or don’t. I’m not going to tell you how to live your fucking life.
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Jennifer @ Auxiliary
August 3, 2010 at 2:52 pm (UTC -5)
Thanks for contributing to the issue! Sorry there wasn’t any nudity!
- Jennifer
Ryan Oakley
August 5, 2010 at 2:00 pm (UTC -5)
Maybe next time.
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