Needle Magazine - Spring 2011 Issue is live. You can purchase it right HERE.
I will cop to being the reason that Needle's a little late. Got a lot of stuff on my plate right now. But it is still, technically, spring, though it doesn't feel like it here in Little Rock, what with near 100º temperatures. But it is. So there.
Big thanks go out to Naomi Johnson, Daniel O'Shea, Stephen Blackmoore and Matthew C. Funk for getting all the stories right. And of course, to our fearless leader, Steve Weddle.
While every issue of Needle is chock full of in your face, smack 'em up, rough and tumble shit, this issue has a few notable entries. First, it's the second installment of Ray Banks' novel, Wolf Tickets. Second, Tom Piccirilli has a story in it - this is a major coup, since we never thought he'd deign to grace our pages with his crime-writing badass self. There's also an amazing little piece by William Shakespeare, hisownself, as related to Daniel O'Shea. And another Team Decker member brings the grit - as Frank Bill might say if he wasn't too busy perusing the pages of Playboy - Matt C. Funk, the funkmeister, Dr. Funkenstein, the funk of 40,000 years, smacks you around with some New Orleans crime.
Also, Todd Robinson - another member of Team Decker - has a piece of gambling wickedness in our pages. And David Cranmer - the fearless leader over at Beat to a Pulp - has a story in there that will make you feel good, if you like killin' and stuff.
Plus, the guy who directed Cherry 2000 has a story in there, Steve De Jarnatt. He has seen Melanie Griffith naked, or that's the scuttlebutt at the Needle Headquarters.
Shit, y'all, it's jam packed with depictions of aberrant behavior. You know you want it.
Get you some Needle.
I'm a lucky bastard to be involved. Thank you, both.
ReplyDeleteA little late? Shit, you should cop to being a big reason the magazine exists at all and THE big reason it looks of awesome.
ReplyDeleteAnd, yeah, some damn great stuff in this one.
The authors with stories in here have once again COME CORRECT.
And, as you point out. Naomi Johnson, Daniel O'Shea, Stephen Blackmoore and Matthew C. Funk are the bomb diggity for reading/previewing/editing/proofing this mofo.