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STRANGE TIMES WITH KEVIN STRANGEan interview by David Anderson


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Wow, Bizarro Whiz KEVIN STRANGE just got done talking to me.  With Anthos out there like STRANGE SEX, it’s no doubt that Mr. Strange is leading a new legion in the Bizarro Army.   I enjoy Kevin’s musings on Facebook, and always keep an eye out for what the guy is doing.We talk about everything from Kevin’s ‘underwater fears’ to SAVED BY THE BELL in this candid interview.  It was definitely a STRANGE time!






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David Anderson:  Hi, Kevin, thanks so much for joining me for this interview. I appreciate your time tonight.  I'm interviewing you on behalf of Atrophied Gangsters.
Kevin Strange:  Thanks for having me, man! We've been doing these blog interviews for a bit and they always drum up more interest in SHB, and we send our fans your way, so it's kind of like a mutual handjob with your buddy, you know the kind, where you don't make eye contact and never speak of such things again once you blow loads? Yeah, it's like that. Only gayer. So thanks!
DA:  Thanks Kevin!  I'll start off with some light questioning... If you could be any color animal, what color would you be?
KS:  I'd be a giant pink squid. That's just about the only animal that gets away with being pink and eats mammals the size of fucking buses.One of the first novel's I ever read was Peter Benchley's Beast.As if I needed more reason to be scared as fuck of the water after seeing Jaws.The 12 year old me was like, "Holy fucking SHIT! There's pink squids down there with eyeballs the size of fucking dinner plates??? Fuck outta here!!!!"
DA:  Haha, funny answer. Sometimes people are confused by that question, and they just pick a color, not an animal. It kind of forces you to commit to an animal.So, you seem to have a connection with the sea. Does that have to do with Lovecraft?
KS:  I guess me and ole Lovecraft share a mutual terror of underwater predators. When I was like 14, I went on vacation to see my aunt up in Seattle. She took me to Puget Sound and made me swim in this shitty little roped off section of the ocean next to a big dock. I kept diving off the thing in stark terror thinking a shark was going to snatch me right out of the air. I mean what the fuck are the ropes for? It's not like they're keeping any giant crazy monsters out. So I get home and I've got a Guinness book of world records that I liked to look at. So I'm going through it and I see world's largest octopus. Guess where they caught it? Puget Fucking Sound. I've never gone back in the ocean again. An artists interpretation of Kevin's fateful meeting with the "Puget Sound 'Puss"

DA:  Yeah, the ocean is a terrifying place. I mean, were "not supposed" to go in there, so sayeth our biology.But yet the human race has dreams and nightmares about its secrets.Authors often do copious amounts of intense research for a tale.  Describe the research you did for COTTON CANDY.

KS:  I don't research much of anything when I write mainly because the type of fiction I write is linked to the emotional state of my characters and the situations I put them in are largely fantastical and involve allegorical monsters in place of real-world conflicts. Cotton Candy draws a lot from my past experience as a porn shop manager. That was my first (and last) real gig. I started doing that shit when I was 19 and worked at the same shop for 6 years. I saw a LOT of weird ass shit working there, and I'm not talking about the porn. It was a character study man, watching all those men, totally ashamed of themselves for wanting to fulfill their base desire to get off. They'd come up with all sorts of excuses for why they were buying midget gangbang porn. It was for a bachelor party, for their brother, they only like it cause it makes the chick look like a giantess. You fucking name it, I've heard it. So for Cotton Candy, I wanted to take a guy who thought his porn addiction was the most fucked up thing in the world, and then put him in a gang bang with cannibal were-teddy bears.  Lol.
DA:  Wow, that actually makes sense. The porn store clerk who warns 'Mister P' about the 'dangers' of the Gangbang was kind of YOU, in a way. The main character was wonderfully developed, I can see why, given your experiences at the porn shop.So, I heard STRANGEHOUSE has a Lovecraftian Anthology coming out in the near future. What is the theme of that anthology? Can you talk about that yet?
KS:  We're looking for Bizarro stories that use elements of the Cthulhu mythos. That means any characters, monsters, settings, or plot devices like The Necronomicon, but used in a totally weird, original way, preferably involving copious amounts of gore and kinky sex is what we're looking for.  Submissions open January 1st and Close march 1st. Word count is 5000-8000 words FIRM. Bizarro Lovecraftian tales? You bet!

DA:  Cool, so "Bizarro Mythos”.If a man has sex with a random woman, it’s called ‘getting strange’. What happens when someone with the last name of Strange engages in such an act? Do you just put the “Strange” in italics?
KS:  What happens is they get the lay of their life. (winks)
DA:  ZING!
KS:  Hang on, let me elaborate on that.
DA:  Sure.
KS:  Believe it or not, my original pen name was supposed to be Kevin LeStrange, like LeStrange from the Harry Potter novels? I always liked Beatrice LeStrange in those books, and used to be a goth douche bag, so it fit. But one day, at the porn shop, one of the owners called up to bust my balls about it and asked, "Is Kevin Strange there?" And it stuck. It's weird going through 25 years of life known as one thing, and then build a cult career using a fake name. What that means is, there are more people in the world who know my fake name than know my real name. Maybe that's not weird to anybody else, but it fucks me up.(That's the first time I've ever told anyone the origin of my pen name, btw)
DA:  Haha, I think your name is cool, and purposely wanted to avoid questions on its "origin".But it's cool to know. I think building that kind of persona must be 'freeing' in certain ways, right? You can let your freak flag fly so to speak?
KS: Honestly, growing up in a small town, having 9 facial piercings, wearing pentagram T shirts and eye liner... I was more of a freak by my real name BEFORE I became an artist. I just don't find my actual last name all that aesthetically pleasing, and I guess the pen name helps keep my family from taking heat for my extreme movies and books.
DA:  So, I want to ask about TROMA films. I'm 30 years old, and only found out about TROMA a few years ago.I always thought B-Movies were like GREMLINS, THE GATE, and the TALES FROM THE CRYPT movies. I never realized I was missing out on the REAL B-Movies. What do you consider a B-Movie?
KS:  I think those are rightfully called B-Movies. That term was coined, if I'm not mistaken on my film history, by Roger Corman's movies when they'd play as second billing in drive-in theaters in the 50s and 60s. Cult movies are even more obscure than that, and started popping up as midnight theater movies in the 70s and then became the Video Nasties of the home video generation of the 80s when a bunch of horror flicks were famously banned in Europe. Evil Dead was among them. Now, with video stores dead and digital movies being so cheap and easy to make, there's a whole new generation of filmmakers like me who make micro-budget or no-budget straight-to-dvd flicks that, in my opinion, are some of the most original type flicks you'll ever see. One recent example that comes to mind is Thankskilling 3. That movie is like the Muppets on acid. When you have absolutely no one to answer to, art can be made at its purest level.
DA:  Nice! My local drive-in theater just closed. Do you have a local drive-in theater?
KS:  There's one about 25 minutes from here. I've been to it a few times, but honestly I'm a video kid. I grew up getting the shit beat out of me in junior high, so as a way to cope, I'd walk to the video store after school and rent horror movies and titty flicks to jack off to. Drive-in are mainly for gathering together your friends and hanging out on the weekends drinking and trying to get laid. I never got laid, so I sat at home and worked my dick manually.
DA:  Thanks for THAT mental image, haha.Jason Wayne Allen is kind of my ‘Obi Wan Kenobi’, in a way, and if his spirit were hovering here holographically, he would be influencing me to ask you about SAVED BY THE BELL.Please describe your experiences with the show. Jason Wayne Allen trains me in the ways of the Bizarro


KS:  I was actually laying in bed the other night with my girlfriend talking about that show. She's in the middle of a Cheers marathon on Netflix, and I asked her, in the fog of almost sleep, if she'd want to do Saved by the Bell next. She said she hated the show, which lead to weird sleep talk about Skreech's big cock and whether or not she'd be willing to suck it if given the chance. Anyway, I watched it every afternoon after school. Great show. I always wished I was as wise as Zach. And seeing the stuck up bitch go on to star in Showgirls, showing her tits and pussy, well, that was just an added little treat to my childhood boners.
DA:  Yeah, most of us "80's" kids jacked off to SHOWGIRLS. And for some reason that scene where the guy fingers JESSIE SPANO and she's like "stop, I’m on my period!" or whatever…that stuck with me man, it stuck with me.Well, Kevin, on behalf of ATROPHIED GANGSTERS, thanks so much for your time tonight! Awesome interview!KS:  Thank you, sir. Always a pleasure! May your Showgirl's stroke sessions contain much menstrual wonderment!

This is the first interview conducted by David Anderson, my partner here at Atrophied Gangsters. Good job! The pictures were a great touch! Thank you.
Anderson and I have been planning and working to turn Atrophied Gangsters into a legitimate press that releases print books, ebooks, e-zines, and everything in between.  The staff consists of two thirty year old men with a Peter Pan Complex, a love of beer, and a passion for Bizarro and Weird Fiction. If you are a writer, journalist, artist, or have anything to contribute to Atrophied Gangsters, email me at jwallen1018@gmail.com Love , Jason Wayne Allen



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David Anderson resides in the dusty oasis of Mesa, Arizona. When he’s not hunting lizards with his pet Schnauzer ‘Sulu’, he’s reading a good yarn, or cracking open a cold one. He dreams of one day owning and operating his own Ostrich Farm. You can find David at beermagik.blogspot.com

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D.F. Noble has been a sort of mentor to me since I first heard I had been accepted in the StrangeHouse Books anthology Zombie! Zombie! Brain Bang!. If I have a question, I usually contact Noble. He’s relatively new to the game too who, along with Kevin Strange (Robama Pocalypse, Cotton Candy), formed StrangeHouse Books  January of 2012 so in some ways he’s also a sort of a brother-in-arms--learning about promotion and the dos’ and don’ts’ in the world of the independent pulp writer, like I’m currently doing.            
             Unlike a lot of writers releasing zombie and pulp horror fiction, D.F. Noble has an intelligent, literary spice to his work, that’s subtle, and as humble and down to earth as the man himself. Beer Run of the Dead is one of my favorite zombie novels, and if you haven’t read it, please do so now. His story, and Kindle single, Baby Armor is clever and ingenious. Baby Armor makes me jealous, actually. I wish I’d thought of it. Also, Baby Armor is the best story in Zombie, Zombie, Brain Bang!—and that also makes me jealous. Click to buy Baby Armor for--narrated by Morgan Freeman--for just .99 on Amazon


Come to think of it, our relationship as acquaintances and writers, kind of reminds me of Mila Kuniz and Natalie Portman in Black Swan—ya know, without the hot cunnilingus scene.  Mila Kuniz goes downtown on Princess Amidala!          
 No matter how much I train, and fast, and sleep with choreographers, fuckin’ Noble will get the lead in this Bizarro ballet.
Jason Wayne Allen and Atrophied Gangsters is proud to present…
My Zombie Soul Brother 




    


J.W.A.:  So, have you seen Black Swan with Natalie Portman? Why do so many dudes think she’s so hot? Yeah, she played Princess Amagdala in the Star Wars films, which raised nerd-boners like flags on the 4th, but she only leaves me half-massed, like a national tragedy. Yeah, she’s kind of hot but there is something sad going on there.
     Thoughts? 
A pretty good movie, but confusing at times. D.F.N  : Well first, I'd to thank you for the interview. I'd also like to mention your short story Zombies of East Jesus is funnier than hell. Anybody that can put zombies, time machines, and the yearning to see some great boobs together to start off an apocalypse is brilliant in my book.(J.W.A.: Editors note: Aw shucks and* blushes*)
 As for Black Swan and Natalie... Black Swan was a lot better than I thought it would be. I walked away from it “half massed” like you said but it was still a damn good flick. I mean, she's a big budget actor, it's probably wrong of us to expect strap-on's from her and Mila, but hey, we were all secretly hoping for it. I think Natalie just has that mousy look to her. Almost like a new age Winona Ryder. Something about that frail elven look that really turns on the nerd in me. I start imagining me in armor, her with those ears and it's all over brother.
J.W.A.:  So, let’s say God was like “Noble, you’re such a bad ass, I’m going to do a remake of human kind in your image. I’m gonna hook you up with some fire-ass pussy! Name a star of motion picture, hell name a fictional character—ya like Vampirella, Lady Death, Jessica Rabbit, Gadget from Chip ‘N Dale’s Rescue Rangers?--name it, bro, who do you want as your Eve?”
D.F.N  :  Much in the vein of Natalie Portman, I would ask God for Keira Knightley. Another frail and exquisite princess type. I'm also a huge fan of Fiona Apple, so you can pretty much see where my heart and mind is won when it comes to women. I'm attracted to ladies of all kinds, but those in particular could make me act a fool and fist fight a guy for no reason besides genetic prowess. Being old and out of touch, I had to google Keira Knightley.  Not bad for a choice of  Eve. Personally, I'd have chosen someone with bigger tits and ass, but I'm a pig, and can't appreciate class and poise...that's how JWA rolls.

J.W.A.:  When I first started looking into StrangeHouse Books, the first thing I noticed in your Facebook pictures and around your guy’s page was Tromette, Ellie Church. Being a fan of Troma, I thought this was fucking cool! So, what’s the relationship between StrangeHouse Books and the lovely Ellie Church and Troma films? Tromette, Ellie Church likes StrangeHouse Books. 

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And Then YOU Die from HM&M Films D.F.N  : I think her and Kevin became friends on Facebook first, and since we all did shows at the same places it was inevitable that we would meet. Her and her hubbie Brian Williams are some of the coolest cats I've met on the road. I absolutely love those guys, great party people and both of 'em are extremely talented. Some of the best nights are Kevin, me and Brian standing next to Ellie while she tries to slide her foot into her phone thinking it's a shoe... We drink a lot. Jesus! I love Tromaville!
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J.W.A.:  Do you have a favorite Troma film?
D.F.N  : Class of Nuke 'em High, but eh... I would probably argue for Red Neck Zombies. I don't think it was a straight forward production from the Troma crew, but I watched the shit out of that movie when I was a kid. I think I actually stole it from a video store and never returned it. Something else Noble and I have in common. This is also my favorite Troma film, the third in the series has more boobs in it than you can count--even if you count by twos'


J.W.A.:  Who influences you as a writer?
D.F.N  :  When I was pretty young, it was comics like Spawn that really influenced me. Eventually I graduated to actual books when I shot out the neighbor's truck window with my BB-gun (it was a total ricochet, but no one ever believed me) and my dad pretty much grounded my ass after a good arse-kicking. He left me in my room for what seems like an entire summer. No games, no comics, no toys. Nothing. Just a box of books. Which happened to be Conan, a shit ton more of Conan, and the Holy Bible at the very bottom. I read all those Conan books and I think that's first real time I was swept away by reading. Eventually, I got to the Bible and you know, some of the Old Testament is a lot like Conan. I lost interest in the New Testament. Felt too sissy after coming off all the blood, rape, incest and war. After that, I gobbled up all the Stephen King I could find, got into Douglas Adams, Timothy Leary and Robert Anton Wilson. I would say those writers probably had the most influence on me.

J.W.A.:  How old were you when you first published, and what was it?
D.F.N  : I was first published in March of this year. I was 27 I think. I'm horrible with tracking time, so you'll have to forgive me. My first stories were published in the anthology Strange Sex. I had three stories in the thing, and a teaser in the back from Scary Fucking Stories. Basically what happened was when Kevin first put the idea forward, we had no idea if we would have any submissions since we were brand new to the scene and I wrote my balls off to make sure we had enough just in case. All the stories were based around horror and sex and comedy, and I think the gem from the work there was probably the story Foreigner. I won't give all the details, but it's written in broken English and probably the dirtiest, grossest thing I've ever written.

J.W.A.:  Do you write every day? Do you have essentials you have to have when writing: Coffee, Cigarettes, Booze, and Drugs?
D.F.N  : I try my damndest to write everyday. I tend to take a couple days off to take a break, but the process is always there behind the eyelids. Always plotting, fantasizing, daydreaming the next scene. I like to keep a steady 3-5k a day when I'm down in it. Sometimes it's only 1k. The staples are usually cigarettes and some caffeine based liquid. Usually coffee. I go back and forth with writing while drunk, and that usually depends if I have any booze left from the night before to write while I drink. Something about drinking, it brings out that talkative side in a person, and it can honestly help to loosen me up, and just write without pretension. Pot or anything else just sounds like a complete catastrophe trying to flush something out. Although, I couldn't lambast a person, who say, enjoyed eating a quarter bag of shrooms and doing an eight ball to get the job done. Hey, whatever floats your boat.
J.W.A.:  How did you hook up with Kevin Strange? The President of StrangeHouse Books.

D.F.N  : I first met him through a short film of his called “Dead Shit.” I played a small role as a Steak 'n' Shake zombie, and we talked here and there throughout the years after that. We started heavily talking again during 2011 when we both found out we were writing fiction, and things kinda blossomed from there. Not sexually though. Not yet anyway. Click Here! Check out Kevin's Books. I highly recommend Robama Pocalypse and Cotton Candy is the raunchiest and weirdest shit you will ever read

J.W.A.:  You guys are literary road dogs—the Metallica of the independent world of pulp fiction. What has been your favorite Convention? Where and Why?

D.F.N  : You know, this year is a blur. I have been so consistently drunk on the road, that all the shows really kind of smudge together in my mind. We bring at least two half gallons of vodka every show, so somehow through thousands of years of my white trash genetics, I'm able to get black out drunk and still talk to people and sell books. My kidneys fucking hate me. I don't think I can pinpoint any one particular show. I love Chicago though, it's the one place I always throw up at.
J.W.A.:  StrangeHouse Books, hands down, has the best cover artists in books. Mainstream, indie, or otherwise. Period.(Kevin Strange’s Robama Pocalypse made me aware of Jesse Reid Wheeler, who did the art for Celebutante Meat-House, and whom I consider a friend. Wheeler is slated to do the cover for my tentively titled, upcoming release, Bath in a Bucket of Butchers Knives) how do you guys find your artists and what is your favorite StrangeHouse cover?

D.F.N  : Ah yes, I have a huge boner for Jesse. That's a great writer and artist there. Total package, you know? Like I wish he was my dad. But usually, we've made some great connects through deviantart.com, guys like Gabriel Wyse (Scary Fucking Stories, Zombie! Zombie! Brain Bang, and Vampire Guts in Nuke Town) and Kevin found Shamus Beyale through a fellow indie filmmaker named Dustin Mills (Puppet Monster Massacre, Zombie A-hole). I'm not sure how exactly we met Jesse Wheeler, I think him and Kevin ran into each other online somehow. But a mix of internet stalking, and doing the shows have brought some killer artists to light. Favorite book cover is a throw up between Zombie! Zombie! Brain Bang! (Gabriel Wyse) and my brother's novel, Baby Fever (Shamus Beyale). Both are extremely beautiful covers.
J.W.A.:  Favorite beer?
D.F.N  : I'm a cheap bastard. PBR or even Keystone Ice, Old Milyuckee. I have a cast iron stomach, and I don't drink for taste.
J.W.A.: Same here. I always hear “I don’t know how you drink that stuff,” anytime I’m around people and sipping a 24oz Steel Reserve. PBR gives me the squirts though; I love it, but try to avoid it.
J.W.A.:  All us drunks have “I got so drunk, I…” anecdotes. What is your favorite of yours?
D.F.N  :High school, I got so drunk I took off all off my clothes but my boxers at a buddy's house party, threw up all over the bathroom, ate a big bowl of jello out of the fridge with his dog, went downstairs into his little brother's room, pissed on a kid in a big oval wicker chair who was wrapped in a sleeping bag, then proceeded to put on this tiny red jacket out of the kid's closet. I don't remember any of this. I remember waking up on the couch and not being able to move my arms because the jacket was so damn small. When I realized I was in only in my underwear, my first and immediate thought was that I was raped and I became extremely angry and wanted my pants. It took a minute, but they eventually led me through my path of destruction. That's probably the apex of my drinking fiascoes. We were on spring break in a small town, with access to too much liquor and other stimulants and depressives. A three day binge ended up on me pissing on a 6th grader. It's okay. He forgave me later.

J.W.A.:  Let’s talk Bizarro.Who are some of your favorite writers and books from the scene?
D.F.N  : Honestly, I'm still pretty new to the scene. Kevin introduced me to Carlton Mellick, and that guy is just pure inspiration. I have a hard time finishing a book because I read a thatch, and immediately get to writing. I've been writing weird shit since I was a kid, I just couldn't help myself. I couldn't write something “normal” for the life of me, so when I found the Bizzaro movement I instantly felt at home. I don't think everything I do can be claimed in the Bizzarro genre. Beer Run of the Dead is more just a straight horror comedy to me, and Scary Fucking Stories is straight horror fiction, so I deviate a lot, from being serious and creepy to silly and surreal. Just kind of quarky. And I'm gonna say something that people may bust my balls for, but Douglas Adams Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, to me, has all the elements of Bizarro. It's just so absurd and surreal, with flavors of Dada that it reflects a lot of Bizzaro even though it's a much older book. You wouldn't believe how happy I was to find that people were doing this. So much fiction is humdrum anymore and so overdone, that Bizzaro is a breath of fresh air. I can't really claim to be a Bizarro author, though some of the stuff I do could probably fall into the realm. I'm just a weird dude, I write weird shit.

J.W.A.:  I hear tale of StrangeHouse Books releasing a Lovecraftian anthology. If it goes down, are you submitting? And can you give us some kind of idea of what the story you’re submitting will be about? Since I was just a lad I've been a fan of Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos. I'm submitting, but have too many mythos stories in my arsenal. Deciding which is right for StrangeHouse will be tough. D.F.N  : Yeah, Kevin wants to start it sometime next year before the summer, and at the moment my mind is a complete blank on what story I'll do for it. I'll always submit something, or try to, which doesn't mean I'll get in just in case what I put out is pure crap. I'd rather not be included if I didn't have confidence in the thing. For example, Baby Armor in Zombie! Zombie! Brain Bang!, started as a simple joke. Kevin already had his story planned out, and I was binging ideas around trying to get a laugh out of the guy to see if something would stick. I mentioned a suit of babies and a bank robbery and bam, Baby Armor was born.
J.W.A.: Favorite Lovecraft story and why?
D.F.N  : That's a hard one, but the Shadow Over Innsmouth comes to mind first. Probably because we just listened to an audio version of it on the way to a show. So much of his stuff has genuinely creepy moments, but that story just sticks with me. It's got this almost detective noir, and I love the elements of using dialogue, and characters inside the story to tell you the story. I use a lot of that technique in Scary Fucking Stories and it just works somehow. Mix in a little 1st or 3rd person to deliver the action, and build it up with dialogue, and if you work at it hard enough, you've got your own creepy story to tell. Lovecraft just amazes me, for his era and those ideas that man created and the major influence he's had in horror, it just makes me hope there's an afterlife of some sort so he can look down and see what good work he's wrought. He died penniless and with regret from what I know, but now, his thoughts are immortal.. J.W.A.:  Kindle, Nook, and E-readers in general:What’s your opinion on digital publishing and the paper-less era?What about self-publishing?

D.F.N  : I'm kind of old school. I prefer a book on my shelf, and I didn't think I'd ever come around to the e-book craze, but... Goddamn, it's pretty easy on your wallet, as a consumer and a publisher, so I understand it. I'd still rather have a book. I don't have to worry about charging the battery, and as far as I know, I couldn't get the author to sign my digital copy, so I'll respectively stick to paper for the most part.      And self-publishing, I can't encourage it more. StrangeHouse was born under the same urge as the frustrated writer waiting to get published. There are tons, and tons of amazing authors out there, and as any writer knows, it's not easy to get into a publishing house, especially if you have dreams of playing ball with the big boys. People also tend to forget that Poe and Mark Twain were self-published. There's just something attractive about cutting your own path and having no one to answer to that gives me an erection about that kind of freedom and power. I mean, you still have to do the hard work. Nothing comes easy, and all of us have to pay our dues to achieve that dream of writing for a living. That's a lot of sacrifice and grit to do that. If you have those kind of balls, I say do it.
J.W.A.:   Beer Run of the Dead is a future cult classic. What are some of your favorite zombie novels?
D.F.N  :Well thanks on the compliment, ha. I'll have to buy you dinner and take you on a date for that. And for a long time (before the internet was so easily accessible) zombie fiction was fucking hard to find. I found Brian Keene's The Rising and City of the Dead and I love those books. Probably the only books I read twice, and I eventually came across J.L. Bourne's Day By Day Armageddon. Those two really stand out to me. I know there's a ton more out there, I just haven't got to them yet.
J.W.A.:   Many critics and readers are of the opinion that, Zombies are over saturating the market, zombies are everywhere. Do you think there is anything else left to be said regarding the undead?
D.F.N  : Me and Kevin argue about this quite a bit. He hates zombies. He's in the over saturated camp. Personally, sure, a lot of zombie entertainment is over done, and terribly produced. But there are gems out there. Look at the Walking Dead for fucksake. I think what we're seeing is zombies being inducted into the monster hall of fame alongside Frankenstein, Vampires, and Werewolves. Zombies are enjoying somewhat of a heyday, and I'm happy with wide selection to choose from. I think of that zombie paradigm as a playground. It's a playground that we're used to, a lot of the same plot, and characters are going to be common place, but that doesn't mean there can't be new exciting additions added to that playground. I mean, we're not just dealing with zombies, it's also the apocalypse and people have had boners for the apocalypse since time immemorial. You're going to be hard pressed to remove that from the human psyche. It's also part of the reason I wrote Beer Run of the Dead. I wanted to add my own section to the playground. I wanted to create something for zombie fans being a huge zombie fan myself. And inevitably, zombies are the background. People come for the zombies, but stay for the characters.

J.W.A.:   What do we fans have to look forward to in the future from D.F. Noble and StrangeHouse books?
D.F.N  : I've just finished the first draft of a new novel called “Grown Ups Must Die.” It's more on the serious, survival horror side of my fiction, and deals a lot with gritty reality. Fucked up parents, bullies, savagery and an event that leaves children to fend for themselves during an apocalypse. I would say imagine Lord of the Flies on acid, meets Night of the Living Dead , meets The Signal, meets Conan and Gummo. The story was so fucking big in my head, I literally had to break the first book down otherwise the damn thing would have been a tome, and just cost too much on the consumer side. So, like Beer Run, it will have several other books trailing it to encompass the whole story. And I'm about halfway through a new novel called “Apocalypse Meow.” Which is a detective noir, with bits of bizarro quarkiness and just good hokey fun like Matlock on shrooms. A lot of the novels this year are definitely apocalypse themed for the coming End Times. Planet X and what not.
J.W.A.:   Well dude, it’s been awesome. Thank you for the interview, and I always look forward to your drunken I.M.s and bullshitting with you in the wee witching hours.
D.F.N  :Thanks again, Jason. Always a blast. One of these days we'll meet up at a show and drink the tits off something.
See ya on Facebook.You can always find us at www.strangehousebooks.com www.facebook.com/strangehousebooks my personal page at www.facebook.com/dfnobleauthorWe're also on goodreads.com and all the books are available at amazon.com.

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“Jeremy C. Shipp’s boldness, daring, originality, and sheer smarts make him one of the most vital younger writers who have colonized horror literature in the past decade. Shipp’s modernist clarity, plus his willingness to risk damn near everything, put him up at the head of the pack with the very best.”
–Peter Straub   legendary author of Ghost Story, The Talisman(with Stephen King), Black House(with Stephen King), Shadowland and other essential-reading horror classics


“Shipp’s clear, insistent voice pulls you down into the rabbit hole and doesn’t let go.”
–Jack Ketchum    Author of Off Season, Off Spring, The Woman( with Lucky Mckee), The Girl Next Door and other books worthy of quoting and worship




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I had the honor of interviewing Bram Stoker Nominated, and critically acclaimed author Jeremy C. Shipp. This is only my second official interview for Atrophied Gangsters and I was more than a little nervous. I follow Shipp in NewsFeed on Facebook pretty rabidly but never correspond with him directly, because I assume writers of this caliber are busy all the time, and I don't want to hinder that next novel. When he's not making some funny, quotable quip, he's posting these amazingly awesome pictures--like GodZilla battling the Stay Puft Marshmellow-Man--or he's giving away free Kindle books. Like Attic Clowns, which is already sort of a cult classic, and I predict future generations will envy us who got it for free. 
Mr. Shipp is self-deprecating, humble, and someone I admire as a writer and a person...a haunted person, a person who writes their way through Coulrophobia and rises above . His Attic Clown yarns are that personal wink that says "Friend, you're not alone,". 
Him and I come from that lost generation--a time of clear Pepsi, slap-bracelets, Hammerpants, and T.G.I.F. was an acronym that meant something... I'm Jason Wayne Allen of Atrophied Gangsters and I am proud to present

A TOTALLY DRAGON INTERVIEW WITH JEREMY C. SHIPP of THE FLAPJACK

 http://www.jeremycshipp.com http://www.twitter.com/jeremycshipp http://www.facebook.com/jeremycshipp
JWA : So, I’m interviewing a Bram Stoker Award Nominated author…kind of nervous, plus I’m an amateur at interviewing.      I feel kind of like that nerd who’s finally going to get laid by the hottest chick in school, and all of his friends tell him to think about baseball or he’ll prematurely ejaculate…you, Mr. Shipp, are the hottest chick in school.Let’s play ball…
JCS : Thank you. That’s the third time today that somebody’s called me the hottest chick in school, but it still feels just as sweet.     JWA : Speaking of hot chicks in school, let’s touch briefly on Bayside High and those rascals from Saved by the Bell: What was up with Kelly Kapowski being the hottest chick in school? I much preferred Jessie Spano. Plus, I thought her and Zack had much better chemistry.  Yeah, she had tough exterior and firm feminist convictions that may not appeal to most men, but you saw how she melted for A.C., underneath she was as girly as Kelly and in my opinion just as attractive, maybe more attractive.  Thoughts?
JCS : Kelly and Jessie were both amazing women, but to be honest, I thought Zack and Screech would end up together. Their chemistry was undeniable. And I thought it would be interesting for the coolest kid in school to get with the dorkiest. (Wait, was Zack the coolest kid in school, or was it just me thinking he was the coolest? Hmm…)



Like the special abortion episode of Saved by the Bell, I think we're due for a Screech and Zach wedding special.
JWA : According to your Wiki article you published your first story at the age of eighteen, what was the name of the story and is it still available to the public?
JCS : My first acceptance letter was for a story called “Love Thy Demon.” The tale is no longer available, and that’s probably for the best. But for those interested in my early work, I am thinking of releasing my first short story, which I wrote in 4th grade. It will blow your mind like a hairdryer blowing dry somebody’s brains.

JWA : What was it like, publishing at such a young age? That had to do wonders to your confidence.
JCS : After I was published the first time, I sang and jigged and made merry. But sadly, my confidence remained unchanged. I still lacked the confidence to tell Kelly my true feelings and she ended up marrying Zack.
JWA  :(Editor's note) Don't worry Mr. Shipp, Saved by the Bell is a sham without it's laugh track, and that marriage episode had no laugh track...you may still have a chance.

JWA :  Do you have any formal education in writing?
JCS : I got a degree in creative writing from UC Riverside. The writing workshops were good experiences, but ultimately, I learned the most about writing fiction from reading fiction.

JWA : What is your writing schedule like? Do you write every day? Have a word count goal? Anything along those lines?
JCS : I write every day, usually at night. I like to start during the witching hour or the sandwiching hour. I don’t have a word count goal. I just write until my brains fall out and my spleen beings to melt.
JWA :   Are there essentials you need while you write? Like, Cigarettes, booze, drugs Et Cetera…?
JCS : I do prefer to be surrounded my monsters and mythological creatures when I’m writing, but other than that, I don’t have any particular needs. When I’m writing, I often forget to eat, or drink. Sometimes I don’t even breathe.
JWA :  I got into you from reading your story Flapjack from the Bizarro Starter Kit (Blue) maybe three times, and still have no idea what the characters are. Forgive me for asking but are they humans from a different dimension? I got a hobbit vibe on my first read but then noticed on your blog; you have a thing for gnomes. Are the characters from Flapjack gnomes? And why are gnomes so tippy cool?

JCS : Gnomes are tippy cool, because of their tip-top hats and their fashionable bears. And as for the beings in Flapjack, I can’t tell you what they are. I promised them I wouldn’t.

JWA : Let’s talk about Bizarro. As you most likely know Bizarro Con is happening as I type these questions (11-15-2012) why aren’t you there? Your last Facebook update was something like, ‘Helping my parents put up Christmas decorations…’ why are you not frolicking nude through the streets of Portland, Oregon with Jeff Burke, drunk and freaking out squares? 
JCS : I’m busy scraping paint on a house, trying to earn some scratch, while my doppelganger and my golem go to Bizarro Con in my place. Hopefully they won’t kill too many people during the festivities.
JWA : Who is your favorite author from the Bizarro scene?
JCS :  Choosing a favorite Bizarro writer would be like choosing my favorite yard gnome, and that’s impossible.

JWA : You give the vibes of a sensible guy with a dignified air. You know who else has that vibe? Peter Straub. Peter Straub had good things to say about you. That had to be a confidence builder, right?
Horror Demigod Peter Straub has been called an  impeccable dresser by Stephen King, and he's known to be a huge jazz fan--Straub has class. JCS : I was deeply honored by Peter Straub’s words. But honestly, I’m still as insecure as ever.
JWA : Jack Ketchum said nice stuff too—JACK KETCHUM!? "Who's the scariest guy in America? Probably Jack Ketchum"-Stephen King

JCS : I know, right? I don’t know why I’m lucky. Oh wait, yes I do. I do have a room filled to the brim with lucky rabbits’ feet and four-leaf clovers.
JWA : Could you tell who wrote what in The Talisman or Black House? Peter Straub said in an interview the only person he met that could was Neil Gaiman. I could not. Could you?
JCS : Yes, I can tell, but I promised Mr. Straub that I wouldn't.

JWA : If you died and had to introduce yourself to God as an author, but could only name one book that defined what your fiction was all about, what book (or story) would you ask God to read? In other words, what is your favorite Jeremy C. Shipp book (or story)?

JCS : I would probably recommend Cursed. There’s a lot of me in that book. A lot of my mind and my heart and my imagination. And I love those characters. They’re some of the best imaginary friends a writer could ask for. 
JWA : Who are your favorite authors?
JCS : Some of my favorites are: Arundhati Roy, Lois Lowry, Haruki Murakami, Kurt Vonnegut, Kazuo Ishiguro, Gregory Maguire, George Orwell, Amy Tan, Charlotte Bronte.
JWA : I read that your house inspires a lot of your work, is there anything or anyone else?
JCS : I’m inspired by my family and friends, by world events, personal events, people on the street, dreams, nightmares, clouds, toys, cats, hummingbirds, spaghetti.
JWA : What are your thoughts on Kindle or eBook publishing? Also, what about self-publishing?
JCS : I love real books. I love the way they smell, the way they look sitting there on a bookshelf, the way they feel in my hands. Sorry, that sounded way too sexual. Anyway, while I am a fan of printed books, I also like eBooks. I don’t really care how my fans and readers read my stories. As long as they’re enjoying my work, I’m happy. And I believe self-publishing can be a good thing when authors put out quality books.

JWA : Attic Clowns was great (it also inspired me to put a clown in my Kindle book CELEBUTANTE MEAT-HOUSE and there is a blatant nod to Attic Clowns besides that, you’ll have to read the story to get it) and I foresee a day when Clowns usurp the zombies and vampires and IT becomes the Dracula of the Clown genre. Thoughts?
JCS : First of all, I’m honored to hear that Attic Clowns inspired you in that way! And I agree. Someday, clowns will become more popular than all the other creatures of the night. And then, it’s only a matter of time before my hordes of clowns minions rule the Earth.
JWA :  You like Takashi Miike a lot, favorite Miike film? Shipp's Story Victim: A Story Inspired by
Takashi Miike
Can be found in The Magazine of Bizarro Fiction issue  one

JCS : Audition is strange and horrifying and enthralling. I also love The Happiness of the Katakuris. I’m a big fan of weird musicals. There’s always a weird musical playing somewhere in my brain at all times. That’s why I break into song so often.


JWA : If you were a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle, which one would you be and why?
I don’t do machines, I’m not cool but rude (or is it crude?), and I’m not a party dude. At the end of the day, I would probably be a boring leader like Leonardo. That makes me a little sad.
JWA : The first TMNT movie stands the test of time. Watched it recently and besides April O’Neil’s hairstyle and some late ‘80s early ‘90s dialog, there was zero cheese…except on the pizza! (rim shot!)
JCS : Ha ha! That is one shell of a film.

JWA : Favorite music, bands, and do you listen to music while you write?
JCS : Some of my favorite musicians/bands: Pink Floyd, Akeboshi, A Fine Frenzy, Of Monsters and Men, Mumford and Sons, Frightened Rabbit, Flaming Lips, Johnny Cash, Aimee Mann. I used to listen to music while I would write, but these days I prefer silence mixed with the sounds of Attic Clown chortles and yard gnome yodels.
JWA : If you could punch anyone square in the face right now, who would it be and why?
JCS : I would punch myself in the face and give myself a black eye. Then I’d have something interesting to post on Instagram, instead of my usual photos of spaghetti.

JWA : Advice for new writers looking to break into the Horror, Bizarro, and weird fiction scene?
JCS : First and foremost, it’s important to sell your soul to a demon or an anthropomorphic toaster. That always helps. In addition to that, write every day, even if you only have time to write one paragraph. Shop your stories around to respected magazines and publishers. Talk to other writers in your genre. Sacrifice a Smurf on a blue altar, using a toothpick dipped in gummiberry juice.
JWA : Facebook or Twitter—which do you prefer?
JCS :I like Twitter. It’s a fun challenge, attempting to write something funny/interesting in 140 characters. But I think I prefer Facebook, because of all the cat pictures. And I like chatting with folks there.
JWA : Thank you for answering these questions. I can’t wait to read more from you, Mr. Shipp. I’ll see you on Facebook. I always look forward to the totally DRAGON pictures you leave in Newsfeed.
JCS : Thank you, good sir! May the spork be with you.
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Jason Wayne Allen is an author of Horror and Bizarro fiction. He is currently working on a novel, and many short stories and a novella or three for his 2013 takeover.JWA'S FacebookJWA'S TwitterJason Wayne Allen's Amazon Author's Page LIKE IT!
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My name is Jason Wayne Allen. I'm a writer and I like to correspond with other writers. After a long, meandering, go- nowhere conversation with someone, who should be working but is I.M.ing with me, about rectal real estate and Kaiju monsters. Sometimes I read the conversation back and think it'd make a cool interview or conversation to post in a blog. 
So here ladies and gentlemen is ATROPHIED GANGSTERS and my first interview is with the lovely, talented author of: SHE MAKES ME SMILE, THIS ONLY HAPPENS IN THE MOVIES, and her and I also share the STRANGEHOUSE BOOKS anthology ZOMBIE! ZOMBIE! BRAIN, BANG! 
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My Zombie Soul Sister: MANDY DEGEIT MANDY DEGEIT

The Great Mandy DeGeit and I have a few things in common. We're both in our thirties, we both just started publishing in May, 2012, we write in the same genre, and worship the same literary gods (Jack Ketchum is a big one, he'd probably be the Jesus of our Gods) we both share an anthology, and we both have a common enemy of productive writing: Facebook.Her and I were loaning each other Kindle books this morning, when I had the notion of trying a formal interview for a blog I wanted to start and here it is...

Mandy DeGeit-MDGJason Wayne Allen-JWA

JWA: Nice. Okay...let's do this. I feel like you're an older woman about to lay me down and take my virginity...lol Nervous...okay… MDG: hahaha  JWA: Where are you from? MDG: My mom's vagina... LOL! Just kidding. Originally I'm from ShaniaTwainTown, also known as Timmins, Ontario. JWA: Do you have a favorite Shania Twain song? MDG: Not at all. JWA: Do you think her marriage to Mutt Lange was her way of getting to the top of the country and pop charts? MDG: Bhahaha :) not sure, but whatever she did it worked... Next topic please! :) lol I'm working on usurping her from her throne and making Timmins Mandyland. :) JWA: Whose bed has YOUR boots been under? MDG: I leave them on. JWA: Sweet
JWA: How long have you been writing?MDG: I've been writing my entire life, but I just started submitting for publication in May.MDG: May 2012JWA: Exactly the same here! I just typed that exact thing in my other blog about myself. MDG: I got back into the writing groove after my first con, which was Horrorfind 13.
JWA: So, you had some trouble with She Makes Me Smile because a publisher wanted to change a lot of stuff? MDG: Ha. it's not that he wanted to change it; he just did it and didn't tell me. I had to find out when my books came in. Once I saw what happened, I asked him about it and he told me my story was unpublishable and the changes HAD to be made. (He also added a spelling mistake in the title... She Make's Me Smile.) But yeah, he violated the story... If it was unpublishable then send me a rejection. JWA: So, he wanted you to lip sync a novel, basically? Just using you for your author’s photo. What a dick. MDG: I have no idea what he wanted... but I'm not the first person this happened to. When I blogged about it, a bunch of other authors spoke up saying the same thing happened to them :( JWA: Why wouldn't the publishers just write it themselves?MDG: When you're a new author, you're worried about being blacklisted. We don't know how things work. This publisher took advantage of the fact we are new authors. He's still at it.JWA: You're not allowed to name him?MDG: His name is HE WHO SHALL NOT BE NAMED! Lol... Nah it's Tony Giangregorio and everyone needs to stay away from his 4 small presses. Undead Press, Living Dead Press, Open Casket Press and the one he just started STFU Publishing.
JWA: So, how'd you hook up with Kevin and the boys of StrangeHouse? MDG: I bought their antho Strange Sex cause I loved the cover. After reading it, I added them on FB and we've been chatting ever since. JWA: They're cool guys.
JWA: So, who do you read?MDG: I try to buy a book from everyone at every con so I read a lot of my peers. Right now I'm really digging the bizarro stuff. JWA: What Bizarro authors do you like?MDG:  I've only read Mellick so far... I have a few anthos of bizarro stuff to get to soon... They are in my giant to be read pile. Lol! I have a serious book buying addiction... JWA: Oh Man, you're just scratching the surface! Just wait 'til you discover Cameron Pierce, Garrett Cook, Gina Rinalli, Bradley Sands et cetera...
JWA: Anyway, tell us about your writing schedule? Any essentials to write, like coffee, cigarettes, drugs, booze? MDG: I write in the morning, early morning, before my brain gets all polluted from the day. I have to write sober... I've tried to write drunk, but I wake up the next day thinking "What the hell is this?" Lol! I write, and then drink :) Coffee is a must. when I write JWA: Same here. What's up with writers and booze? MDG: I think we all have demons... the booze quiets them. : P 
JWA: So, you sell sex toys in your spare time? MDG: Haha well kind of. I like to call them Pleasure Objects. I focus on Masturbation more than sex. You need to think of yourself first. I do own a home business though called IdleHands.MDG: http://www.idlehands.ca/ JWA: Explain Pleasure objects? Are we talking dildos? Swings? Gimp masks?MDG: Vibrators, lubes, pocket pussies. Stuff like that. No BDSM stuff, no flavored lubes or body paints, just stuff you'd use on yourself.JWA: So how'd you fall into that gig? MDG: I used to manage a sex store so opening my own business just made sense. JWA: Fucking lucky. I work at Office Depot as a day job. I suppose I could masturbate with some of their products...but still...MDG: I wouldn't suggest the paper shredder... LOL!
JWA: 'Round about, what age are you?MDG: Turning 35 in December, but I act like I'm 12 most of the time. :D JWA: I just turned thirty in October. We're still relatively young.
JWA: So, what are your thoughts on kindle, self-publishing, and other alternate routes to being published? MDG: I have two stories self-published so far, the rest are with publishers. I can go either way, as long as people are reading what I write. I personally prefer to read actual books, but Kindles are nice when travelling. Self Pubbed stories can be good as long as the author takes their time to ensure it's done right and not riddled with mistakes. Oh and don't self-pub just cause no one will publish you... Maybe you need to revisit the story.
JWA: I think covers will make or break the sales of a Kindle book. A lot of Kindle books have terrible cover art. Oh, I don't self-publish or publish for free either. Monica O'Roark gave me some advice regarding free publishing and the like, in an instant message once. You like Monica right?
MDG: Yeah that's an important rule... Get paid. MDG: And yeah I just met Monica at Killercon, I think she's awesome. JWA: Have you read Suffer the Flesh? This is seriously one of the most brutally violent and disturbing books I've ever read. I loved it! MDG: no not yet.JWA: Monica O’Rourke is Splatter Punk as fuck! MDG: lol I'll be sure to check it out.
JWA: Okay...ZOMBIES why do you like them? Mandy's other Zombie Antho...MDG My tbr pile is a little out of hand. Meh...I'm not really a zombie fan. The whole RAWR brains makes me crazy. I wrote Humanification cause I wanted to write something different than the usual. On that note, my novel I'm working on is kind of zombie-esque, but again, I’m working on writing a different kind of zombie. I prefer the darkness that resides inside people instead of monsters... We are all capable of horrible things and that's what scares me. MDG The Only Way is another zombie one, but I took it down a different path as well. Think outside the box. :D
JWA: So besides writing and masturbating, what else does the lovely and talented Mandy DeGeit enjoy doing? 11:12am Mandy DeGeit I love hanging with friends, travelling, going to concerts, getting tattoos and playing around on FB JWA: Oh and please let us know. Is it Dee G EET or something else? The pronunciation? MDG Duh Gate Rhymes with I'm great lol :) Mandy's Amazon pageJWA: Ah, nice. My Kindle's Text to Speak pronounces it Dee Jeet as in tweet. 11:14am MDG LOL! 
JWA: Music do you listen to music while writing and what do you like? MDG I don't usually listen to music while writing, it gets in the way and I end up writing the song lyrics... I do listen to some instrumental at times. When I'm not writing, I love everything but country and rap; I'm more partial to the heavier stuff. and my favorite band is Volbeat. :)  JWA: So what writer or artist do you admire most?MDG Everyone who is an artist... Being a writer, I know how hard it is to create something from an idea, so props to everyone who can! :) I'm probably my biggest fan though. LOL!  JWA: Only seconded to me. JWA: Do you have any formal education in writing?MDG Nah, just practice. I did well in English classes, but I only went as far as high school.
JWA: So, what inspires you? MDG When people tell me they read my stuff. I love hearing that I scared someone, or made them feel something. I also like the idea of being famous, so I'm working on that. :)  JWA: It's refreshing to hear a writer that admits that! They're usually so full of shit. EVERYONE wants to be the next Stephen King. MDG: Not me... I want to be Mandy DeGeit. :D  JWA: Well you got what you want but some Stephen King cash couldn't hurt, probably.  JWA: Rich or famous? Which one/MDG: Famous. but comfortable... Money isn't the be all and end all, but you need to pay the bills.
JWA: Okay, when you're finished moving your bowels do you fold the toilet paper before you wipe, just crumple it up?MDG: Ew, that's horrible LOL!  JWA:  What, wiping? You Canadians! You guys use Bidets right? MDG: No that's not us. Sticks and leaves up here. JWA: Swanky. Us Americans are too pampered. 
 JWA: Do you lock your front door when you leave the house? MDG: Yeah, I'm paranoid. I have the door locked when I'm home.  JWA: According to Michael Moore you guys do not.MDG: In smaller towns they don't, here in Ottawa we do  JWA: You heard it folks--Ottawa is the Compton of Canada.
JWA: Celebrity Crushes?MDG: Ummm, I don't know really. I really want to clone me, maybe a boy version of me. Cause I'm awesome and kind of a celebrity. :D
 JWA: Do you masturbate to your own image in the mirror? 
MDG: No that would just be weird. I have a good imagination. lol would having sex with my clone be masturbation? I wonder that... lol JWA: If I were gay, I would masturbate in the mirror. Just sayin' MDG: hahaha  JWA: I guess it'd be mutual masturbation if you guys just fingered each other. Would that also be incest? MDG:  No idea... New topic lol  JWA: Can you really look down on incest in regards to sisters that have sex? I mean there is really no chance for a genetically mutated offspring. MDG: Still wrong. JWA: How?
JWA: Okay we have totally gotten off track...um writing...yeah. Plug some stuff and links... MDG:  kk... publication page is here...  http://mandydegeit.wordpress.com/publications/
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