About Me
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Our new edition of ANSWER Me! The First Three has 60 never before collected pages of essays that were written by Goad after the death of the magazine.
HELLO, WORLD! It’s been a dozen years since ANSWER Me! shot a hot, creamy load all over your face. And just when you thought you’d wiped it all off—SPLAT!—another thick wad sails straight into your eye.
ANSWER Me! is a big black slab of trouble. The magazine has been blamed for a White House shooting and a triple suicide. It has been banned in several countries and put on trial for obscenity in the USA. One of the co-creators has died (eerily foreshadowed in ANSWER Me! #3), while the other went to prison, only to get out and act like a bigger asshole than ever.
While all this was happening, everyone in the world lost their nerve and got hooked on psych meds and zipped their yaps shut for fear of being called a racist or a misogynist or a terrorist or...worst of all...a HATER. There’s nothin’ people hate more these days than a hater.
BUT IT’S O.K. TO HATE. ONCE YOU ALLOW YOURSELF TO FEEL THE HATRED, YOU WON’T WANNA STOP!
This fat, gorgeous, ridiculously underpriced anthology contains the legendary hatezine’s FIRST THREE ISSUES in their entirety. (Issue #4, the notorious “Rape Issue,†is being sold separately because it will probably upset you—see inside for details.) It also contains SIXTY NEW PAGES of wistful ANSWER Me! memories and tasty new articles written by philanthropist and humanitarian Jim Goad. There’s a strong chance that this is the best book ever published. Only an idiot would refuse to buy it.
There is only so much time to live, only so much time to hate. The world is upside down. It overflows with things worth hating. Every new dawn brings something to despise. The smiling faces who try to force love and peace and justice down your throat are often the most petty, hateful souls of all. Hate them, will you? Hate them hard. Hate them long. Hate them with every bleeding fiber of your obnoxiously savage heart. Don’t let them ever take away your hatred.
Formerly published by AK Press (ISBN 1-873176-03-1), long out of print.Issue No. 1
Released October 31, 1991.
Featured Russ Meyer, Timothy Leary, Holly Woodlawn, Kid Frost, Public Enemy, Iceberg Slim, Bakersfield, California, Sunset Boulevard, masturbation in literature, and Twelve-Step programs.
Issue No. 2
Released July 17, 1992.
Featured Anton LaVey, David Duke, Al Goldstein, El Duce of The Mentors, the Geto Boys, Ray Dennis Steckler, 100 serial killers and mass murderers, Vietnamese gangs, and Mexican murder magazines.
Issue No. 3
Released July 19, 1993.
Featured Jack Kevorkian, Al Sharpton, NAMBLA, The Kids of Widney High, Boyd Rice, Suzanne Muldowney, 100 suicides (including Colleen Applegate, Diane Arbus, Linda Marie Ault, Craig Badiali & Joan Fox, Thomas Barker, Raymond Belknap & James Vance, The Bergenfield Four, William Lee Bergstrom, Anilia Bhundia, Felix Bourg, Thomas Lynn Bradford, M. Jay Briggs, Buddhist Monks in Vietnam, Dan Burros, Chris Chubbuck, William Corcoran, Inocencia Rosa Cortes, Dennis & Lindsay Crosby, Ian Curtis, Carl Czerny, Jeffrey Davis, Jeanine Deckers, The "Deer Hunter" suicides, Giuseppe Dolce, The "Dungeons and Dragons" suicides, R. Budd Dwyer, Sergei Esenin, Donald C. Forrester, the "Gloomy Sunday" suicides, James Green, Charles Haefner, William Gordan Hall, Ernest Hemingway, Ann Hemmingway, Andrew L. Hermann, Dr. Albert Herschman, Adolf Hitler, Abbie Hoffman, Danny Holley, Derek Humphry's wives, the Ingersoll suicides, Jack the Bum, Joe, the Boy with Elastic Skin, Roop Kanwar, Doug Kenny, Thomas Kenny, the Kevorkian suicides, Mike Keys, David Koresh & Friends, Veronique Le Guen, Diane Linkletter, Mattrew Lovat, Paul Lozano, Tina Mancini, Donald Manes, Masada, Rich & Jamie Masters, Leanita McClain, Albert Medrano, the Mount Mihara suicides, Karl Miller, Yukio Mishima, Marilyn Monroe, Donnie Moore, Lillie Norwalk, the Old Believers, Frank R. Olson, Gerald Olson, the "Ozzy Osbourne" suicides, John Parks, Peregrinus, Scott Phillips, Sylvia Plath, Freddie Prinze, George Reeves, Rufus Ripley, Edgar Rosenberg, Gregg Sanders, Sappho, William Sexton, Del Shannon, Stephan Simon, Mitch Snyder, Stockbrokers during the Great Depression, Charles Stuart, Harry Swart, Jacques Vaché, Vincent Van Gogh, Vatel, Popo Walker, Doodles Weaver, John Webster, George C. Wheeler, Dan White, Dennis Robert Widdison, Mary Woodson, Wrzesinaski, John B. Young, and Zeno), guns, Andrei Chikatilo, pedophilia in Steven Spielberg's work, Mexican deformity comics, paintings and drawings by murderers (Kenneth Bianchi, Mark David Chapman, Gary Heidnik, Henry Lee Lucas, Ottis Toole, Charles Manson, John Wayne Gacy, and Richard Ramirez), and a suicide hotline.
