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write NOW DESTINATION OF THE MOMENT >> Working For Change NOW 9/27/01 >> The best Subject Lines of the month. THEN 9/26/01 >> Not much to say these days... it's been really quiet. >> In skateboard related news, Brian "Street Pirate"Anderson has defected from Toy Machine and been jumped into the Girl family. And Lakai Footwear is about to announce the addition of another big name... initials M.J. -- not related to Rudy Johnson. >> I've been drinking all the beer left over from a bar-b-que we had a couple weekends back. Not more than 3 at a time, so don't worry. >> My feet have actually gotten a little bigger in the past couple years. The effects of gravity? If anyone knows, please tell me. THEN 9/21/01 >> The Bend Nicknames are now available for purchase by credit card. Check the Bend Consumption Machine. >> Original Mel Bend and Andy Jenkins artwork is now available through the Bend Store (the Consumption Machine). It means you can use plastic to buy, pay your creditor back in installments and in the process, help the American economy out -- not to mention Mel and Jenkins... THEN 9/20/01 >> FOURTH nickname sold... Bob Kronbauer will now be known as "The Silver Crotch," when appropriate. Due to popular demand, watch for Bend Nicknames to be added to the Bend Consumption Machine soon. >> Commonwealth Stacks has added a film section, Cinema, featuring "The Gap Folding Board / Phsychedelic Furs" series. Click on the black window at the right and download at will. THEN 9/18/01 >> Third nickname sold... "If it's not already sold or on layaway, I would like to purchase nickname #8; Lashes. I have always been told what a wimp I am, so this addition of a 'tough' nickname might somehow inspire some confidence in me. For $7 bucks I am willing to try anything." --Josh Caffrey, December 9 Also, nickname #7; Floolish Bill, should actually be FOOLISH Bill. Apologies for the typo... it has been repaired. THEN 9/17/01 >> We've decided to go on with NOW. Please visit our special response section, "The Days Following 9/11/01." Send your thoughts. >> The second Bend nickname has been sold! To Oak Kelsey, of course. >> A parable, "Sinking Ships" by Daniel Quinn. THEN 9/12/01  Photo: Bob K. (click on photo for special response section) THEN 9/11/01 >> Please. The madness... it has got to stop. Give your prayers (whether you pray or not) to the innocent people lost. Then search for grace in all the shit. Our hearts go out... THEN 9/06/01 >> We've finally organized a few of Megan Baltimore's stories and put them up. About time. Watch for a Tony Larson section to show up in the next few days. THEN 9/05/01 >> The Sky-H book on eBay already? Don't bid... it'll be on the Bend Consumption Machine soon -- at a reasonable price. THEN 9/04/01 >> FREE! A practical joke you can play : Just before Thanksgiving dinner (that's coming up on Nov. 22nd), sneak into your grandmother's -- or other hosting relative's -- kitchen and take the labels off ALL the canned goods. >> Send in your drawings for the Bend Diurnal Drawing. Only requirements are that it be a drawing and at least 500 pixels tall at 72dpi. Just email it to us as a jpeg. Or use old-fashioned mail and we will actually scan it for you. If we like it. Just remember, we put up a new one every day, so your odds are pretty good. >> In case you haven't clicked around the site recently, check the Cerverò Polaroids piece. Luis is a talented filmmaker, photographer, traveler from Spain. THEN 9/02/01 >> Grand Royal has closed its doors. RIP... >> Some nicknames, if you need one. >> New Bend section : The Diurnal Drawing. Every day (pretty much, you know us) there will be a new drawing posted. Please feel free to submit. Send jpegs. Bend Press 22500 S. Vermont Avenue Torrance, CA 90502 USA fax 310/783/1920 ©2001, Bend Press / Andy Jenkins All Rights Reserved All other works copywritten by the individual artists / writers |