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Essays, interviews and information that originally appeared in issues 1-4 of the print magazine Reign of Toads from 1991-1995. As these texts are HTMLified, links will appear.
Reign of Toads #4 (1995)
  • INTERVIEWS:
    • Product Schwa: Bill Barker
    • Even the End will Be All Glorious: Lida Husik
    • Dead Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry: Bill Hicks talks Noam Chomsky, Cops, Orange Drink and then he dies
    • The Low-Budget, Normal Bias, Heliocentric World of Fuzzhead
  • ESSAYS/INFO:
    • The Poor Citizen's Guide to Getting on the Internet: detailed information on getting your old 8-bit computer (TRS-80, Apple IIe, C64, etc.) on the Internet
    • Friends(TM): the doublespeak and hand-jive of a new age pyramid scheme
    • Vehicles of Consciousness: associate editor Spiro(s) Antonopoulos's inspired rant on Roswell, Ketamine and dimethyltryptamine
Reign of Toads #3 (1993)
  • INTERVIEW:
  • ESSAYS/INFO:
    • Sample and Hold: the editor's contorted essay on sampling and digital reproduction
    • A Young Person's Guide to the Internet: an early attempt to turn people on to the Internet back when nobody knew what it was
    • The GNU Manifesto: a slightly edited version of Richard Stallman's essential call to action for the free software movement
    • The Ra Expeditions: Sonny "Sun Ra" Blount returns to Saturn
Reign of Toads #2 (1992)
  • INTERVIEWS:
    • Industrious Music: Christopher Swartz
    • Legitimate Strangeness: Triptic of a Pastel Fern
    • A Month of Apocalypse: John Cramer
  • ESSAYS/INFO:
    • Nevermind the Overmind: Nirvana, Terence McKenna, Rodney King and White Guilt
    • I Like My Ween: Our man Steve delivers the fanboy take
Reign of Toads #1 (1991)
  • INTERVIEW:
    • One More Cigarette, One More Nail: A rambling discussion with comic artists/writers John Bergin (Brain Dead, Ashes, From Inside) and J. O'Barr (The Crow)
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