I know what your first question will be;
How did a white guy come up with this?
but really you should be asking why even because everyone else already did. Confused? You’re welcome! This concludes our introduction to today’s markets.
Someone somewhere invented bad Catholics and it came to me that no one has invented bad Buddhists because no one cares. Now however—with the introduction of ‘Bad Buddhist Gang’—you too can wax poetic and smoke dope*.
*As part of your very own West Coast fictionary-list.
Can you no longer suffer ________________?
Social irrelevance
Being tongue-tied
The common nymph
Standard notation
Another’s composition
Are you tired of ________________?
Politically stale organizations
Colorless institutions
Professionally cycling circles
Creatively void spaces
Fashionable statements
Have you ever ________________?
Waited for things to die
Sought pro-social movements
Become aware of mistakes
Grown unlikely to quarrel
Been horizontally expansive
Before this is all over I can explain. This is a lit mag psuedo-real-but-actually-for-honest journal of sorts that might get a publishing run if people like it and other people would like to write for it // collab thing.
It’s creativity with words under a given theme.
Such a space as this doesn’t exist and I know that because boring. People are boring. Also consumed by digital media. And busy elsewise. This shit has got to stay on target or I’ll be singing Where is my mind? by The Pixies.
It’s politics, society, cultural analysis, poetry & books.
Clarification
It can’t be ‘The Bad Buddha Gang’ because that’s a real gang (think the relationship between ‘The Church of Satan’ and ‘The Satanic Temple’). The direct personification or presence of entity is no longer. The ‘BBG’ organ is a liberated conceptual/intellectual abstract no longer within the ASM body.
‘BBG’ as an exploration mixes politics, philosophy and mental health because so does everyone else. Some are more explicit. Some are more implicit. Some commercial. Or life style. Even health and wellness. There’s bleed through in all cases. Playboy and GQ aren’t all tits and personal grooming—they have coverage.
The cultural daring of print media declines by the year—so does the cultural daring of everyone—so much so that no one can sensibly justify the idea of Geoffrey starting this project. Why he’s starting this project is a direct result of his reading and his listening as well as the patterns inherited into himself in the ordinary ASM process.
Lexicon
Assimilated (abbrv. ASM pronunc. AY-SIM)