John Menick

Photo: Headbangers at El Chopo market. Source.

I look up and it’s three months later.

Some things happened in those three months — I’m sure of it. Some of those things involved words on paper, certainly.

Like there’s a new story coming out in the next issue of A Prior called “Consuelo’s Medusa.” It’s about art and Mexico and flying and someone named Consuelo. Medusa is in there, too. I’ll post it online as soon as the latest issue has aged a bit. The issue launches on March 22 at the Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo. In case you’re like me and won’t be in Oslo, you can find the issue at these establishments worldwide or order it online.

Also, at the Oslo launch Raimundas Malasauskas will be reading my most recent monologue, An Address Concerning My Supposed Existence. I’ll post the monologue here one of these days; give me time. I’m slow.

Then there are two little op-ed-ish things I wrote. They are both for architecture journals, though I didn’t write about architecture for either. One of them is about the El Chopo goth market in Mexico City (see the headbanging sweetness above), and is for Domus, a fine architectural magazine publishing in Italy. The other is for an architecture journal in Mexico City called Tomo. The Domus piece is online at the link just mentioned. The Tomo is not online, though they have a very fancy website.

Finally, there is a tiny thing I did for my favorite bilingual literary-fashion-culture magazine in Mexico City, Celeste. Not worth getting the issue just for me — I have a short reading list, of sorts — but it is worth buying it for all the other great contributors like Alan Page, Superflex, Alexandre Guirkinger, and Walead Beshty. That one is available in DF only, so get on a flight and go find a copy now.