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A collection of 61 issues

The Gear Fantasy Musical: A Satirical Journey Through Consumer Culture

A musical comedy with dramatic bite exploring the seduction of tools as totems in American consumer culture Overview The Gear Fantasy Musical is a sharp, satirical comedy that uses a premium gear store as a funhouse mirror reflecting our consumer obsessions. Through the journey of everyman Joe Lugnut, the musical

Corey Deserved Her Own Movie

A Tribute to the Girl Who Wrote the Songs In the neon-soul canon of late-'80s teen films, Say Anything... is remembered as a gentle masterpiece. John Cusack, boombox aloft. Peter Gabriel, in full emotional crescendo. Lloyd Dobler, earnest and directionless and ready to follow love across oceans. But

Steely Dan: Navigators of the Eldritch Newport

A TiGGR One-Shot by The Grey Ledger Society, 2025 Genre: Cosmic Horror / Jazz Rock Scene: Newport Jazz Festival, 1976—a labyrinth of pulsing tents, non-Euclidean stages, and starlit dissonance. Goal: Perform a “perfect set” of three songs from fractured realities to seal a cosmic rift before the Cosmic Conductor claims

Still Here: A Salute to the Un-Erased

To the menopunks, the pro-aging rebels, and everyone who refuses to vanish “If the system never wanted you loud, visible, or wise—be all three. Then make a zine about it.” There’s a storm gathering—not one of spectacle, but of memory. You won’t hear it on morning

To the Listener Who Still Sings: A Response to Heidi Berry

I've been listening to Heidi Berry for most of my adult life—through imported LPs, late-night headphones, and now, strangely and beautifully, through her words. Her recent blog post, The Burning Question, hit with the weight of a whispered truth—one you didn't know you needed

Smoke on the Waters: A TiGGR One-Shot

A Mothers’ Folktale Inspired by the 1971 Montreux Casino Fire TiGGR: Tiny Game for Generalized Roleplaying Players: 2-5 (1 GM, 1-4 players) Playtime: 30-45 minutes Components: 2d6, pencil and paper, LLM optional but encouraged The Premise December 4, 1971. The Mothers of Invention are rocking the Montreux Casino in Switzerland.

The Adventurers Known as the Mothers

A Grey Ledger Society Folktale In every age, there are bands of travelers who refuse to march in formation. Who wander the strange edges of the map, thumbing their noses at kings and monsters alike. Who weather chaos, betrayal, fire, and failure — not through brute force alone, but through audacity,

TiGGR: Tour des Alpes

or, Der Klang der Kurbel In honor of their ambient-industrial masterpiece, the members of Autobahn undertake a cycling tour across Europe. They seek resonance, ritual, and maybe a lost demo tape hidden in an Alpine yodel. RULES OF TiGGR (Tiny Game for Generalized Roleplaying) Stats: Body, Mind, Charm. Distribute 3

No Fun: TiGGR Takes on the Filth & the Fury (And Malcom McLaren)

TiGGR: Sex Pistols – Punk Road to Ruin The Tour That Imploded. The Spark That Lingered. A friend was at the Dallas show. He said there was nothing on the planet like it. Not the noise, not the sneer, not the way it felt like the stage itself might bolt for

The Twice-Imagined Bookshop

A Bookstore, Brussels He hangs a handwritten sign in the window: “Closed Wednesdays. Open late for readings.” The shop smells of yellowed paper and Gauloises smoke. She curates a shelf called A Room Within a Room. He files poetry under Tremors, history under Wounds, and music biographies under Ghosts Who