THEE cornpone ZINE from SW Ohio

MAY 6th

Just received a fine package from KNUCKLES ON STUN, a cassette label I'm still getting familiar with- wow, you all worked fast! 

FWP is chock full of reviews, essays, reminiscences and perhaps even some POMES (ye, POMES). Issue 8 predicted for Fall '25. 

Completed the book A RAGE IN HARLEM by Chester Himes yesterday. A blast from start to finish- I've been into real straight-ahead criminal-made fiction lately: Himes was a one-time jewel or jewelry thief, and Nico Walker who scrawled and pecked out the fantastic CHERRY was a bank robber. Both wrote their stories in prisons. Both are worth reading like NOW!

APRIL 30th

Just moved to a new HQ- although FWP is the bestest zine on the market, I'm also posting on Substack these days. Username @fauxwoodpaneling, naturally. Not all of that will make it to the printed page, and on the flippy-flop, some stuff will be extended in print. It's all free- except one rant.

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PARTY! I'm in an Andrew W.K. kinda mood. Also pleased that my latest vehicle (07' Toyota Highlander) has a working CD player and tapedeck, radio... so, GET TO SENDING ME YOUR CDs and CASSETTES! Many many thanks,

Wade

APRIL 14th

A note about flexis! An older head told me that if you have a problem playing one, consider placing it on top of another record before dropping the stylus- preferably a 12" or an LP. then it won't slip, slide, glide or any of that... hopefully. 

MARCH, APRIL

Ready for orders.

25 dolla for #7 and #6 together.

15 dolla for each issue individually, shoulda stated less lazily earlier.. it's all good.

@wadeoberlin1 via PayPal.

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FEBRUARY UPDATE, UPDATED!!!

Holy flip this thing is really coming together! Buckle up! FWP 7 ought to feature two hefty interviews ...Gregg Turner! Storyteller, Meltzer collaborator and solo/groop artist of note, you know him, and Pat D. Hearse of Pittsburgh's THE PUKE, whose work has been collected beautifully by GET HIP records. Both interviews were swell as all hell!

**** this issue comes with a bonus booklet collecting B.c. Miller's notes on Carducci's German New Wave / NDW Systematic list found inside Rock and the Pop Narcotic. Be sure to hear Mr. Flap Jaw episode 4, which draws from these notes. That episode is found on archive.org and is linked below ****

Also in this one- book reviews of bio and autobio "In The Brewing Luminous" and "The Wanderer Talks Truth" ...Cecil Taylor and Dion... plus Lisa Carver's latest collection of exhibitions and her more Gulcheral work, "Lover of Leaving" and "I Love Art" respectively.

Yeah, there are various music, film and anime reviews also that are more reflexive exercises than anything, and even one restaurant I had the pleasure to scarf at. Plus old-time style thrills/situation comedy from radioechoes, Suspense, The Whistler and Fibber McGee and Molly! EDIT: less radio this time around, will save for next time...