This site celebrates itself as "...a continuing barrage of Avant-Pop fiction, Internet columns, interviews, manifestos, post-PoMo essays and lots more!" It is a prime example of how the Web allows many to become self-publishers with much the same consequences as when that unfortunate event transpires in the print medium. Relentless political and literary manifestos do little to redeem this site from being an altar to a single ego, despite his protestations of commitment.
Definite literary tastes are required in order to enjoy this site. A strong affinity for black humor, political cynicism, sexual fixations, and manifestos is the price of admission for this ezine. Ken Kesey, Allan Ginsberg, Amiri Baraka are all represented here, more often through references and indirect quotes than actual writings or interviews, however. In fact, one's opinion of this ezine revolves entirely around one's opinion of the editor, Mark Amerika, who seems intent on reviving the ideals and politics of the Beat movement in a 90's form.
Alas, like most revivals, the revivers, even when they are among the originals of the movement in question, seem to lack most of the creative energy and all of the originality of the movement harked back to. The consciousness-expanding powers of sexual fantasy and drugs are celebrated in manifestos that could have been lifted from any mid-Sixties underground newspaper. One of the most surprising aspects of this 'zine is that it is supposed to be representive of the Gen-X mentality, yet it is relentlessly political in a way rarely seen since the days of the Weathermen.