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04/26/2002
Been way too long... The publisher's been neck-deep in political affairs, most notably an in-depth investigation into Congressman Gary Condit's involvement in the murder of Chandra Levy. We'll soon put up a page devoted solely to the political writings of Todd Brendan Fahey, at EtherZone.com, Disinfo.com, Patriotist.com, FriendsOfLiberty.com, OriginalDissent.com and other fine Right/libertarian forae. Fr now, tho, a Google search (above link) is the best way to go.

04/18/2001
If it doesn't get him killed first, Fahey will blow open the crime of the century: "Who Killed Congressman Lawrence Patton McDonald?: The State Department Cover-Up of KAL Flight 007." Part 1 of this serial investigation was read by approximately 4 million readers in a dozen Web media organs; it opened and will continue to open exclusively at Oliver Stone's Disinfo.com.

4/11/2001
Fahey's essay on the psychedelic/visionary experience, "Room 55, the Hotel van Onna, Amsterdam," is reprinted in a new book by Dan Merkur, Unconscious Wisdom (State University of New York Press, 2001;ISBN 0-7914-4947-5).
4/2001
Frank Wyatt, one of the founders of the prog-jazz/rock quintet Happy The Man, has released a solo CD; on it, is "A Dream of Amsterdam," which was written for and dedicated to author Todd Brendan Fahey, after Wyatt's reading of "Room 55, the Hotel von Onna, Amsterdam." TBF is quite honored and humbled by it. Check out Mr. Wyatt's MP3 page.

3/23/2001
Germany's Strange Verlag (Strange Books) has announced it will publish Wisdom's Maw: The Acid Novel in a German-language paperback edition for pre-Christmas 2001 release. We say: Wunderwahr!

11/24/2000
As Prelude to Service With a Smile: The Story of Happy the Man (Far Gone Books, 2001), Far Gone Books is Happy to announce publication of Oblivion Sun: Poems of Frank Wyatt. Frank Wyatt, lyricist, woodwinds guru, composer and pianist of the legendary progressive rock quintet, is also a visionary poet of the first water. Oblivion Sun will come signed by Mr. Wyatt, in a trade paperback original, for $12.95 (shipping included).

6/29/2000
(Far Gone Books, 2001; signed by the band & the author, in a trade paperback first-printing of 2,500 copies), a biography of 70s Washington D.C.-area art/prog. rock group Happy the Man, which Genesis founder/singer Peter Gabriel once called "my favorite band." Fahey has secured the input and kind cooperation of founding members of HTM and will attend several of its year-2000 reunion concerts on the Eastern seaboard.
Happy the Man--originally signed to Arista Records/Clive Davis and produced by legendary soundsman Ken Scott (Supertramp, Mahavishnu Orchestra)--are authors of three LPs (1972-1979): Happy the Man; Crafty Hands; 3rd: Better Late.... Widely considered America's greatest progressive rock band--the equal of UK's Genesis, Yes and Gentle Giant--the quintet was lost in the shuffle of Corporate Rock in the 1970s and faded away...until now. Happy the Man is back with US. Rejoice, those who have ears to hear.

1/1/2000
"Never thot I'd live to see it," says Fahey, who spent the Millennium in the company of fair Mystics, witnessing a spectacular sunrise off Korea's west sea (Cholla-do province). Milling around an ancient tea-garden in Kyong-ju, scrutinizing the various Buddhas' guise at Nam-sa... Asked what all this meant, the author pauses: "Well, I tell you, I know now how it feels to be George Harrison."
...& in other indiecredible news, Steamshovel Press writer Adam Gorightly, giving Wisdom's Maw a plug, weaves awesome magic on the Sixties, the CIA/LSD axis, Neal Cassady, & Cosmic Coincidence.

12/10/99
Physicians have diagnosed Fahey as having Marfan's Syndrome, a rare, genetic disorder of the connective tissue, which ultimately destroys the heart's aortic valve. Further echocardiograe will be performed, to assess the seriousness of the damage to-date on the author's heart, but there is evidence of great leakage currently. He will spend the next several months working on completing Hell Bottled Up!, Dogshit Park & other atrocities, and a slim collection of his poetry, All White Noise to the Traveler: 1983-1998.

8/9/99
From a distant perch, Todd Brendan Fahey has taken to revising Hell Bottled Up!: Chronicles of a Late Propaganda Minister, the abberant account of his years as an ultra-Right political operative in the maelstrom of Arizona politics in the mid-1980s. Keep your eyes open for portions of Hell Bottled Up! to begin appearing in Web- and print-'zines nationwide.

5/15/99
TBF has joined the ranks of so many literary expatriates. Currently, somewhere in Asia, it is not known when or if he will return Stateside. Operations of Far Gone Books will continue, and there are a few remaining 1st-ed. copies of Wisdom's Maw; however, in the author's absence, no further copies will be signed (if you were lucky enough to get a signed 1st, you might have a good investment on yr hands).
Fahey's very demented collection of short stories, Dogshit Park & other atrocities, is being readied for publication, and will appear on or before Jan. 1, 2000, in an edition of only 1500 copies, and with an expected cover price of $12.95 (includes shipping); you may guarantee your signed copy of Dogshit Park by making payment early. As per usual, send checks and money orders to: Far Gone Books, P.O. Box 3027, Lafayette, LA, 70502-3027. The author wishes to thank those many folks and reviewers who have enjoyed Wisdom's Maw: The Acid Novel and the labor of love that is Far Gone Books.

12/5/1998:
TBF will make a pow-wOw w/ the Rev. Ivan Stang and Robert Anton Wilson at Fringeware, Austin, TX, on this day. Local police and animal control officers are said to be "standing by, very vigilantly, for this event."

12/1998:
Todd Brendan Fahey has announced that he is seeking the Reform Party nomination for Congress, District 1, Louisiana in a special election to be held May 1, 1999. Among Fahey's pet issues will be the legalization of commercial hemp and the decriminalization of marijuana in the Bayou State. A political steering committee, "Fahey 2000," has been formed, and a Web site for such is currently under construction. The author would love to hear from you! (as always: fargone@fargonebooks.com )

11/1/1998:
Look to the British Web 'zine,Spike which has published Fahey's "Fear & Loathing in Amsterdam: The Smoke Abortion"--chronicling the squalid tale of how an upstanding young journalist was forced by a NY cigar magazine to ingest all manner of inebriants and write home about it.Spike will also reprint TBF's interview with the fine Philly digest Carbon 14.

10/22/98:
Todd Brendan Fahey has just completed Essential preMortem, a collection of essays and meditations on, among other things, the literary life, underground publishing, manic-depression, and the Human Condition, such that it is. Topping out at 35,000wd, Essential preMortem is Fahey's longest sustained effort since completing the Dogshit Park stories in 1993. Selected essays will appear online in this Web site shortly.

8/8/1998:
The Complete Lollipop Documents by Todd Brendan Fahey are now compiled in one convenient location! Check 'em out:
"Down On the Farm: Part I"
"Going Down the Road Feeling Bad: a Report on the Health of the Amerikan Spine": Fragment I, Fragment II, Fragment III, Fragment IV, Fragment V

8/8/1998:
As screen-rights to Wisdom's Maw continue to be mulled over by industry execs, Todd Brendan Fahey has begun penning the screenplay to his "acid novel."
Fahey's casting choices for the big-screen version of Wisdom's Maw are said to be thus:
Aldous Huxley: Peter O'Toole
Franklin Moore: Craig Sheffer (A River Runs Through It)
MK-ULTRA Chief, Dr. Sheldon Gottfried: Roy Scheider
Lorraine Devlin-Moore: Kate Winslet
Gen. George Creasy: Lee Ermey (Full Metal Jacket)
Jack Kerouac: Randy Quaid
Neal Cassady: Willem Dafoe
"Captain" Al Hubbard: Ed Asner
We'll let you know!

4/11/1998:
R.U. Sirius, through his online WebOffensive REVOLTING! will publish an excerpt of the hoary Hell Bottled Up!: Chronicles of a Late Propaganda Minister, Todd Brendan Fahey's aberrant memoir of his two years in the maelstrom of Arizona politics in the mid-1980s.

4/1/1998:
Wisdom's Maw will be translated into Polish and published in a paperback edition of 5000 copies in 1999 by Adam Rachocki and Company, Warsaw.

3/98:
Lollipop begins serializing "Down On the Farm," the longest of Fahey's Dogshit Park stories, in the March issue (3 installments, with cartoons).?As well, the British Webzine Spike will soon publish "Dogshit Park." Look for 'em!

10/01/97:
A mini-essay on Wisdom's Maw is featured in this quarter's edition of a kewl Web site called Furious Green Thoughts.

8/25/97:

Chalk this one up to a blind pig finding an acorn once in awhile...

NONE OTHER THAN OLIVER STONE (thru his Illusion Entertainment) today summoned forth a copy of Wisdom's Maw. We wait/we hope. "How long, O Lord?...How long?" HST

7/21/97:
Boston's Lollipop will run serially, beginning August's issue, the saga of TBF's aborted joining of the Furthur Festival Tour, to be titled: "Going Down the Road Feeling Bad: A Report on the Health of the Amerikan Spine." Look for it!

5/15/97:
Rumors of its death had been greatly exaggerated: Mondo 2000 #16 JUST HIT THE NEWSSTANDS. This is no magazine, folx: Issue #16 of Mondo 2000 is a Statement of Purpose; we live amidst Giants, and among the slicks Mondo is the Emerald Three-Eyed Queen. Say we here at Far Gone, Inc.: Skip the latest Hollyworst movie, cough up the $7 for this here Mondo, or may your next cappucino be brewed with Liquid Plumber. !

5/11/97:
Rumor has it Mad Todd has developed an insoluble crush on Alanis Morissette... Can anyone among ye assist our dear Professor in the meeting of America's Canadian sweetheart?

2/26/97:
Far Gone #2, aka "some beat thing," is FOR SALE! @ $12.50 postpaid. Handsewn cover; demented original cover art, as per usual; a phat 80pp., with poetry of Jim Tolan, Skip Fox, Arthur Winfield Knight, Geri Lynn Baumblatt, Brian Richards, & Stephen Ellis, twisted prose by Todd Brendan Fahey, a scorchingly funny screenplay called "Elvis Lives," by Joe Camhi, film criticism of "Easy Rider," by Jack Gillis, a memoir of Alan Watts by Gabriel Monteleone Neruda, & more. 250 copies won't last long. Make checks & m.o.'s payable to: Todd Brendan Fahey, P.O. Box 43745, Lafayette, LA, 70504-3745.

2/9/97:
Far Gone, Inc., Folk Find Kindred Spirit in American/Amsterdam Mystic Artist -- Details here.

1/23/97:
Deep thinkers, free speech nuts, and Deadheads will want to check out the February issue of Internet Underground magazine, in which Professor Fahey interviews John Perry Barlow. Look for it!

1/15/97:
Far Gone Books has found a distributor: BookPeople, of Oakland, California. All hail BookPeople!

Photo of Todd Brendan Fahey by Gerard Martin

04/26/2002	Been way too long... The publisher's been neck-deep in political affairs, most notably an in-depth investigation into Congressman Gary Condit's involvement in the murder of Chandra Levy. We'll soon put up a page devoted solely to the political writings of Todd Brendan Fahey, at EtherZone.com, Disinfo.com, Patriotist.com, FriendsOfLiberty.com, OriginalDissent.com and other fine Right/libertarian forae. Fr now, tho, a Google search (above link) is the best way to go.
04/18/2001	If it doesn't get him killed first, Fahey will blow open the crime of the century: "Who Killed Congressman Lawrence Patton McDonald?: The State Department Cover-Up of KAL Flight 007." Part 1 of this serial investigation was read by approximately 4 million readers in a dozen Web media organs; it opened and will continue to open exclusively at Oliver Stone's Disinfo.com.
4/11/2001	Fahey's essay on the psychedelic/visionary experience, "Room 55, the Hotel van Onna, Amsterdam," is reprinted in a new book by Dan Merkur, Unconscious Wisdom (State University of New York Press, 2001;ISBN 0-7914-4947-5).
4/2001	Frank Wyatt, one of the founders of the prog-jazz/rock quintet Happy The Man, has released a solo CD; on it, is "A Dream of Amsterdam," which was written for and dedicated to author Todd Brendan Fahey, after Wyatt's reading of "Room 55, the Hotel von Onna, Amsterdam." TBF is quite honored and humbled by it. Check out Mr. Wyatt's MP3 page.
3/23/2001	Germany's Strange Verlag (Strange Books) has announced it will publish *Wisdom's Maw: The Acid Novel* in a German-language paperback edition for pre-Christmas 2001 release. We say: Wunderwahr!
11/24/2000	As Prelude to Service With a Smile: The Story of Happy the Man (Far Gone Books, 2001), Far Gone Books is Happy to announce publication of Oblivion Sun: Poems of Frank Wyatt. Frank Wyatt, lyricist, woodwinds guru, composer and pianist of the legendary progressive rock quintet, is also a visionary poet of the first water. Oblivion Sun will come signed by Mr. Wyatt, in a trade paperback original, for $12.95 (shipping included).
6/29/2000	(Far Gone Books, 2001; signed by the band & the author, in a trade paperback first-printing of 2,500 copies), a biography of 70s Washington D.C.-area art/prog. rock group Happy the Man, which Genesis founder/singer Peter Gabriel once called "my favorite band." Fahey has secured the input and kind cooperation of founding members of HTM and will attend several of its year-2000 reunion concerts on the Eastern seaboard. Happy the Man--originally signed to Arista Records/Clive Davis and produced by legendary soundsman Ken Scott (Supertramp, Mahavishnu Orchestra)--are authors of three LPs (1972-1979): Happy the Man; Crafty Hands; 3rd: Better Late.... Widely considered America's greatest progressive rock band--the equal of UK's Genesis, Yes and Gentle Giant--the quintet was lost in the shuffle of Corporate Rock in the 1970s and faded away...until now. Happy the Man is back with US. Rejoice, those who have ears to hear.
1/1/2000	"Never thot I'd live to see it," says Fahey, who spent the Millennium in the company of fair Mystics, witnessing a spectacular sunrise off Korea's west sea (Cholla-do province). Milling around an ancient tea-garden in Kyong-ju, scrutinizing the various Buddhas' guise at Nam-sa... Asked what all this meant, the author pauses: "Well, I tell you, I know now how it feels to be George Harrison." ...& in other indiecredible news, Steamshovel Press writer Adam Gorightly, giving Wisdom's Maw a plug, weaves awesome magic on the Sixties, the CIA/LSD axis, Neal Cassady, & Cosmic Coincidence.
12/10/99	Physicians have diagnosed Fahey as having Marfan's Syndrome, a rare, genetic disorder of the connective tissue, which ultimately destroys the heart's aortic valve. Further echocardiograe will be performed, to assess the seriousness of the damage to-date on the author's heart, but there is evidence of great leakage currently. He will spend the next several months working on completing Hell Bottled Up!, Dogshit Park & other atrocities, and a slim collection of his poetry, All White Noise to the Traveler: 1983-1998.
8/9/99	From a distant perch, Todd Brendan Fahey has taken to revising Hell Bottled Up!: Chronicles of a Late Propaganda Minister, the abberant account of his years as an ultra-Right political operative in the maelstrom of Arizona politics in the mid-1980s. Keep your eyes open for portions of Hell Bottled Up! to begin appearing in Web- and print-'zines nationwide.
5/15/99	TBF has joined the ranks of so many literary expatriates. Currently, somewhere in Asia, it is not known when or if he will return Stateside. Operations of Far Gone Books will continue, and there are a few remaining 1st-ed. copies of Wisdom's Maw; however, in the author's absence, no further copies will be signed (if you were lucky enough to get a signed 1st, you might have a good investment on yr hands). Fahey's very demented collection of short stories, Dogshit Park & other atrocities, is being readied for publication, and will appear on or before Jan. 1, 2000, in an edition of only 1500 copies, and with an expected cover price of $12.95 (includes shipping); you may guarantee your signed copy of Dogshit Park by making payment early. As per usual, send checks and money orders to: Far Gone Books, P.O. Box 3027, Lafayette, LA, 70502-3027. The author wishes to thank those many folks and reviewers who have enjoyed Wisdom's Maw: The Acid Novel and the labor of love that is Far Gone Books.
12/5/1998:	TBF will make a pow-wOw w/ the Rev. Ivan Stang and Robert Anton Wilson at Fringeware, Austin, TX, on this day. Local police and animal control officers are said to be "standing by, very vigilantly, for this event."
12/1998:	Todd Brendan Fahey has announced that he is seeking the Reform Party nomination for Congress, District 1, Louisiana in a special election to be held May 1, 1999. Among Fahey's pet issues will be the legalization of commercial hemp and the decriminalization of marijuana in the Bayou State. A political steering committee, "Fahey 2000," has been formed, and a Web site for such is currently under construction. The author would love to hear from you! (as always: fargone@fargonebooks.com )
11/1/1998:	Look to the British Web 'zine,Spike which has published Fahey's "Fear & Loathing in Amsterdam: The Smoke Abortion"--chronicling the squalid tale of how an upstanding young journalist was forced by a NY cigar magazine to ingest all manner of inebriants and write home about it.Spike will also reprint TBF's interview with the fine Philly digest Carbon 14.
10/22/98:	Todd Brendan Fahey has just completed Essential preMortem, a collection of essays and meditations on, among other things, the literary life, underground publishing, manic-depression, and the Human Condition, such that it is. Topping out at 35,000wd, Essential preMortem is Fahey's longest sustained effort since completing the Dogshit Park stories in 1993. Selected essays will appear online in this Web site shortly.
8/8/1998:	The Complete Lollipop Documents by Todd Brendan Fahey are now compiled in one convenient location! Check 'em out: "Down On the Farm: Part I" "Going Down the Road Feeling Bad: a Report on the Health of the Amerikan Spine": Fragment I, Fragment II, Fragment III, Fragment IV, Fragment V
8/8/1998:	As screen-rights to Wisdom's Maw continue to be mulled over by industry execs, Todd Brendan Fahey has begun penning the screenplay to his "acid novel." Fahey's casting choices for the big-screen version of Wisdom's Maw are said to be thus: Aldous Huxley: Peter O'Toole Franklin Moore: Craig Sheffer (A River Runs Through It) MK-ULTRA Chief, Dr. Sheldon Gottfried: Roy Scheider Lorraine Devlin-Moore: Kate Winslet Gen. George Creasy: Lee Ermey (Full Metal Jacket) Jack Kerouac: Randy Quaid Neal Cassady: Willem Dafoe "Captain" Al Hubbard: Ed Asner We'll let you know!
4/11/1998:	R.U. Sirius, through his online WebOffensive REVOLTING! will publish an excerpt of the hoary Hell Bottled Up!: Chronicles of a Late Propaganda Minister, Todd Brendan Fahey's aberrant memoir of his two years in the maelstrom of Arizona politics in the mid-1980s.
4/1/1998:	Wisdom's Maw will be translated into Polish and published in a paperback edition of 5000 copies in 1999 by Adam Rachocki and Company, Warsaw.
3/98:	Lollipop begins serializing "Down On the Farm," the longest of Fahey's Dogshit Park stories, in the March issue (3 installments, with cartoons).?As well, the British Webzine Spike will soon publish "Dogshit Park." Look for 'em!
10/01/97:	A mini-essay on Wisdom's Maw is featured in this quarter's edition of a kewl Web site called Furious Green Thoughts.
8/25/97:	Chalk this one up to a blind pig finding an acorn once in awhile... NONE OTHER THAN OLIVER STONE (thru his Illusion Entertainment) today summoned forth a copy of Wisdom's Maw. We wait/we hope. "How long, O Lord?...How long?" HST
7/21/97:	Boston's Lollipop will run serially, beginning August's issue, the saga of TBF's aborted joining of the Furthur Festival Tour, to be titled: "Going Down the Road Feeling Bad: A Report on the Health of the Amerikan Spine." Look for it!
5/15/97:	Rumors of its death had been greatly exaggerated: Mondo 2000 #16 JUST HIT THE NEWSSTANDS. This is no magazine, folx: Issue #16 of Mondo 2000 is a Statement of Purpose; we live amidst Giants, and among the slicks Mondo is the Emerald Three-Eyed Queen. Say we here at Far Gone, Inc.: Skip the latest Hollyworst movie, cough up the $7 for this here Mondo, or may your next cappucino be brewed with Liquid Plumber. !
5/11/97:	Rumor has it Mad Todd has developed an insoluble crush on Alanis Morissette... Can anyone among ye assist our dear Professor in the meeting of America's Canadian sweetheart?
2/26/97:	Far Gone #2, aka "some beat thing," is FOR SALE! @ $12.50 postpaid. Handsewn cover; demented original cover art, as per usual; a phat 80pp., with poetry of Jim Tolan, Skip Fox, Arthur Winfield Knight, Geri Lynn Baumblatt, Brian Richards, & Stephen Ellis, twisted prose by Todd Brendan Fahey, a scorchingly funny screenplay called "Elvis Lives," by Joe Camhi, film criticism of "Easy Rider," by Jack Gillis, a memoir of Alan Watts by Gabriel Monteleone Neruda, & more. 250 copies won't last long. Make checks & m.o.'s payable to: Todd Brendan Fahey, P.O. Box 43745, Lafayette, LA, 70504-3745.
2/9/97:	Far Gone, Inc., Folk Find Kindred Spirit in American/Amsterdam Mystic Artist -- Details here.
1/23/97:	Deep thinkers, free speech nuts, and Deadheads will want to check out the February issue of Internet Underground magazine, in which Professor Fahey interviews John Perry Barlow. Look for it!
1/15/97:	Far Gone Books has found a distributor: BookPeople, of Oakland, California. All hail BookPeople!