{ Tuesday, May 13, 2003 }
Woot! A little piece I wrote for The Fray is now online, My Superpower, the germ of which was planted here at caterina.net. It is accompanied by some wonderful illustrations by Chris Bishop, Superpower trading cards! It's good to be back in the zine after so many years; I had a piece in the Fray's very first incarnation, when it launched back in 1996.
Derek is an old friend from back in the web's olden dayes. We both worked in the same building, he for Hotwired, and me for Organic, and we bonded over our excitement about new technologies like animated gifs, cute girls on motorcycles and the resentment we felt toward burrito preparers who didn't drain the black beans adequately before putting them in the tortilla.
He told me he was starting up a new webzine, The Fray, and could he use this thing I'd made for a Levi's proposal at work. We were trying to pitch a customer-content driven zine to Levi's, and the art kids at Organic, as I recall, were each assigned a classification in the teen taxonomy: jock, stoner, raver, prom queen. I got goth, and quickly wrote a poem about death, and illustrated it with Ernst Haeckel's superb and spooky engravings. Derek convinced me to put it up in his new webzine, where it continues to embarrass me as a terrible example of "poetry" written for my job. Hello? Gak?
But now it is part of the Fray's early days, and as such is archived there. The Fray has gone on to become a web phenomenon, with an enormous reader base, the Fray Cafe at SXSW, and an annual Fray Day celebrated with storytelling all over the country. I'm glad to be back in The Fray.
LINK | 12:45 AM | TB
I like the lines: I do not know, I can not know, how Death will come to me
esp with the penis-like sea creature engraving...
Wouldn't it have been great to have had Derek handy to collect Shrieking Woman's story? What was she /thinking/?
marrije | May 13, 2003 12:58 PMThat's a fantastic story, Caterina.
You know, the south park days were really super power friendly too - maybe it was the lack of adults, or as brad goodman might say, the "do what you feel" energy. It was really magnificent for a while, though yes, Pepitos was a mixed bag.
DMD! Hello!
South Park memories: I remember trying to find a spot on the grass to eat lunch and there only being space under the wire from which the pigeons pooped.
The over-the-shoulder look at Caffe Centro to see if any of your coworkers were around before dishing about them (or if your competitors were around before dishing out your biz plan).
Pepito's. But the burrito place down on Townshend was better I think. The South Park Cafe had the best french fries in the whole city. They blanched, then fried.
The Eagle.
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I got an email from fray just this morning! Your story was the first thing I read.
I want to hear more about the shreaking woman who was late. What's a super hero without a villian?
Em | May 13, 2003 4:06 AM