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ANSWER Me! is a discontinued magazine

Magazine

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which was edited by Jim

Jim Goad

Jim Goad is an American author and publisher. Goad co-authored and published the cult zine ANSWER Me! and The Redneck Manifesto. Known for his controversial political and socially charged viewpoints, Goad's work has been described as "compelling", "brutally honest" and "original" by author Chuck...

and Debbie Goad

Debbie Goad

Debra "Debbie" Goad was assistant editor of the magazine ANSWER Me!.-Biodata:She was born as Debra Susan Rosalie in Brooklyn, New York. Her husband, Jim Goad, was the magazine's primary writer and editor...

and published between 1991 and 1994. Extremely misanthropic

Misanthropy

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in its editorial content, it focused on the social pathologies

Pathology

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of interest to the Los Angeles

Los Angeles, California

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–based couple. The magazine was a major source of inspiration for the editors of Vice Magazine

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, for which Goad has written. Issue 4 of ANSWER Me! was the subject of a high-profile obscenity trial against two booksellers whose magazine store carried the issue.

Issue No. 1

Released October 31, 1991.

Featured Russ Meyer

Russ Meyer

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, Timothy Leary

Timothy Leary

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, Holly Woodlawn

Holly Woodlawn

Holly Woodlawn is a Puerto Rican-born transgendered actress and former Warhol superstar, who appeared in his movies Trash and Women in Revolt .-Early life:...

, Kid Frost, Public Enemy, Iceberg Slim

Iceberg Slim

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, Bakersfield, California

Bakersfield, California

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, Sunset Boulevard

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, masturbation

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in literature

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, and Twelve-Step program

Twelve-step program

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Issue No. 2

Released July 17, 1992.

Featured Anton LaVey

Anton LaVey

Anton Szandor LaVey , born Howard Stanton Levey, was the founder of the Church of Satan as well as a writer, occultist, and musician...

, David Duke

David Duke

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, Al Goldstein

Al Goldstein

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, El Duce of The Mentors

The Mentors

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, the Geto Boys

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, Ray Dennis Steckler

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, 100 serial killer

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s and mass murder

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ers, Vietnam

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ese gang

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s, and Mexican

Mexico

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murder magazines.

Issue No. 3

Released July 19, 1993.

Featured Jack Kevorkian

Jack Kevorkian

Jacob "Jack" Kevorkian , commonly known as "Dr. Death", was an American pathologist, euthanasia activist, painter, composer and instrumentalist. He is best known for publicly championing a terminal patient's right to die via physician-assisted suicide; he said he assisted at least 130 patients to...

, Al Sharpton

Al Sharpton

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, NAMBLA

North American Man/Boy Love Association

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, The Kids of Widney High, Boyd Rice

Boyd Rice

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, Suzanne Muldowney

Suzanne Muldowney

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, 100 suicide

Suicide

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s (including Colleen Applegate, Diane Arbus

Diane Arbus

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, Linda Marie Ault, Craig Badiali & Joan Fox, Thomas Barker, Raymond Belknap & James Vance, The Bergenfield Four, William Lee Bergstrom, Anilia Bhundia, Felix Bourg, Thomas Lynn Bradford

Thomas Lynn Bradford

Thomas Lynn Bradford of Detroit, Michigan is most famous for committing suicide in attempt to ascertain the existence of an afterlife and communicate that information to a living accomplice, Ruth Doran...

, M. Jay Briggs, Buddhist

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Monk

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s in Vietnam

Vietnam

, Dan Burros

Dan Burros

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, Chris Chubbuck, William Corcoran, Inocencia Rosa Cortes, Dennis

Dennis Crosby

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& Lindsay Crosby

Lindsay Crosby

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, Ian Curtis

Ian Curtis

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, Carl Czerny

Carl Czerny

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, Jeffrey Davis, Jeanine Deckers, The "Deer Hunter

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" suicides, Giuseppe Dolce, The "Dungeons and Dragons" suicides, R. Budd Dwyer, Sergei Esenin, Donald C. Forrester, the "Gloomy Sunday

Gloomy Sunday

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" suicides, James Green, Charles Haefner, William Gordan Hall, Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway

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, Ann Hemmingway, Andrew L. Hermann, Dr. Albert Herschman, Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler

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, Abbie Hoffman

Abbie Hoffman

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, Danny Holley, Derek Humphry

Derek Humphry

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's wives, the Ingersoll

Robert G. Ingersoll

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suicides, Jack the Bum, Joe, the Boy with Elastic Skin, Roop Kanwar

Roop Kanwar

Roop Kanwar was an 18-year old Rajput woman who committed sati on 4 September 1987 at Deorala village of Sikar district in Rajasthan, India. At the time of her death, she had been married for eight months to Maal Singh Shekhawat, who had died a day earlier at age 24, and had no children.Several...

, Doug Kenny, Thomas Kenny

Thomas Kenny

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, the Kevorkian

Jack Kevorkian

suicides, Mike Keys, David Koresh

David Koresh

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& Friends

Branch Davidian

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, Veronique Le Guen, Diane Linkletter

Diane Linkletter

Diane Linkletter was the daughter and youngest child of popular American media personality Art Linkletter, and his wife Lois Foerster...

, Mattrew Lovat, Paul Lozano, Tina Mancini, Donald Manes

Donald Manes

Donald R. Manes was a controversial Democratic Party politician from New York City. He served as borough president of the New York City borough of Queens from 1971 until just before his suicide in 1986.-Career:...

, Masada

Masada

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, Rich & Jamie Masters

Jamie Masters

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, Leanita McClain

Leanita McClain

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, Albert Medrano, the Mount Mihara

Mount Mihara

is an active volcano on the Japanese isle of Izu Ōshima. Although the volcano is predominantly basaltic, major eruptions have occurred at intervals of 100–150 years....

suicides, Karl Miller

Karl Miller

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, Yukio Mishima

Yukio Mishima

was the pen name of , a Japanese author, poet, playwright, actor and film director, also remembered for his ritual suicide by seppuku after a failed coup d'état...

, Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe

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, Donnie Moore

Donnie Moore

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, Lillie Norwalk, the Old Believers

Old Believers

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, Frank R. Olson, Gerald Olson

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, the "Ozzy Osbourne

Ozzy Osbourne

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" suicides, John Parks, Peregrinus

Peregrinus Proteus

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, Scott Phillips

Scott Phillips

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, Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath

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, Freddie Prinze

Freddie Prinze

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, George Reeves

George Reeves

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, Rufus Ripley, Edgar Rosenberg

Edgar Rosenberg

Edgar Rosenberg was an American television producer. Born in Fürth, Bavaria, Germany, to German Jewish parents, Otto & Lilli, the Rosenberg family migrated to America in 1940, due to the Outbreak of World War II. Rosenberg married comedian and commentator Joan Rivers and was the father of Melissa...

, Gregg Sanders, Sappho

Sappho

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, William Sexton

William Sexton

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, Del Shannon

Del Shannon

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, Stephan Simon, Mitch Snyder

Mitch Snyder

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, Stockbroker

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s during the Great Depression

Great Depression

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, Charles Stuart

Charles Stuart (murderer)

Charles "Chuck" Stuart was a man from Reading, Massachusetts who murdered his pregnant wife and inflamed racial tensions in the Boston area by concocting a fictitious African-American assailant.-Murders:...

, Harry Swart, Jacques Vaché

Jacques Vaché

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, Vincent Van Gogh

Vincent van Gogh

Vincent Willem van Gogh , and used Brabant dialect in his writing; it is therefore likely that he himself pronounced his name with a Brabant accent: , with a voiced V and palatalized G and gh. In France, where much of his work was produced, it is...

, Vatel

François Vatel

François Vatel was the maître d'hôtel of Nicolas Fouquet and prince Louis II de Bourbon-Condé.He is widely, but incorrectly, credited with creating crème Chantilly , a sweet, vanilla-flavoured whipped cream, for an extravagant banquet for 2,000 people hosted in honour of Louis XIV by Louis, the...

, Popo Walker, Doodles Weaver

Doodles Weaver

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, John Webster

John Webster

John Webster was an English Jacobean dramatist best known for his tragedies The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi, which are often regarded as masterpieces of the early 17th-century English stage. He was a contemporary of William Shakespeare.- Biography :Webster's life is obscure, and the dates...

, George C. Wheeler, Dan White

Dan White

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, Dennis Robert Widdison, Mary Woodson, Wrzesinaski, John B. Young, and Zeno

Zeno of Citium

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), gun

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s, Andrei Chikatilo

Andrei Chikatilo

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, pedophilia

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in Steven Spielberg

Steven Spielberg

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's work, Mexican

Mexico

deformity comics, paintings and drawings by murderers (Kenneth Bianchi, Mark David Chapman

Mark David Chapman

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, Gary Heidnik, Henry Lee Lucas

Henry Lee Lucas

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, Ottis Toole

Ottis Toole

Ottis Elwood Toole was an American serial killer, arsonist and cannibal. Toole was an accomplice of convicted serial killer Henry Lee Lucas...

, Charles Manson

Charles Manson

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, John Wayne Gacy

John Wayne Gacy

John Wayne Gacy, Jr. was an American serial killer, rapist and clown who sexually assaulted and murdered at least 33 teenage boys and young men between 1972 and 1978. Gacy buried 26 of his victims in the crawlspace of his home, buried three others elsewhere on his property, and discarded the...

, and Richard Ramirez

Richard Ramirez

Ricardo "Richard" Muñoz Ramírez is a convicted serial killer awaiting execution on California's death row at San Quentin State Prison...

), and a suicide hotline.

Issue No. 4

Released 1994.

Known as "The Rape

Rape

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Issue", features fake teen-mag interview with Richard Ramirez

Richard Ramirez

Ricardo "Richard" Muñoz Ramírez is a convicted serial killer awaiting execution on California's death row at San Quentin State Prison...

, Donny the Punk

Donny the Punk

Stephen Donaldson , born Robert Anthony Martin, Jr and also known by the pseudonym Donny the Punk, was an American bisexual-identified LGBT political activist...

, work by Molly Kiely

Molly Kiely

Molly Maud Kiely is an American alternative cartoonist best known for erotica. Her work is published by Fantagraphics/Eros Comix....

, Boyd Rice

Boyd Rice

, Randall Phillip, Shaun Partridge, Adam Parfrey

Adam Parfrey

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(on Andrea Dworkin

Andrea Dworkin

Andrea Rita Dworkin was an American radical feminist and writer best known for her criticism of pornography, which she argued was linked to rape and other forms of violence against women....

), Peter Sotos

Peter Sotos

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(with illustration

Illustration

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s by Trevor Brown

Trevor Brown

Trevor Brown is an English artist from London presently living in Japan whose work explores paraphilias, such as pedophilia, BDSM, and other fetish themes. Innocence, violence and Japanese popular culture all collide in Brown's art....

), pieces on amputation

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, the police

Police

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, racist

Racism

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country & western music

Country music

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, and Chocolate Impulse.

In 1995, a complaint about of this issue being sold at a Bellingham, Washington

Bellingham, Washington

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magazine store known as The Newsstand resulted in owners Ira Stohl and Kristina Hjelsand being tried on charges of distribution of obscenity

Obscenity

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. The defendants were found not guilty. A later lawsuit against the City of Bellingham by Stohl and Hjelsand resulted in the City paying $1.3 million to the plaintiffs on the grounds of violation of First Amendment

First Amendment to the United States Constitution

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rights and infliction of emotional distress.

The book

The first three issues were released in a collection with autobiographical introductory pieces by Debbie and Jim. It was first published as ANSWER Me!: The First Three (ISBN 1-873176-03-1) by AK Press

AK Press

AK Press is a worker-managed independent publisher and book distributor that specialises in radical left and anarchist literature. It is collectively owned and operated.-History:...

. It has since been reissued, along with 60 pages of new material, by Scapegoat Publishing (ISBN 0-9764035-3-6).

Chocolate Impulse

Chocolate Impulse was a "hoax

Hoax

A hoax is a deliberately fabricated falsehood made to masquerade as truth. It is distinguishable from errors in observation or judgment, or rumors, urban legends, pseudosciences or April Fools' Day events that are passed along in good faith by believers or as jokes.-Definition:The British...

zine

Zine

A zine is most commonly a small circulation publication of original or appropriated texts and images. More broadly, the term encompasses any self-published work of minority interest usually reproduced via photocopier....

" created by Jim and Debbie Goad, publishers of ANSWER Me!. Frustrated by the negative feedback they'd received from the zine community, the Goads wrote and distributed a pseudonymous screed against themselves (in which they claimed to be the lesbian couple "Valerie Chocolate" and "Faith Impulse"), going so far as to set up a fake address for it in Kentucky

Kentucky

The Commonwealth of Kentucky is a state located in the East Central United States of America. As classified by the United States Census Bureau, Kentucky is a Southern state, more specifically in the East South Central region. Kentucky is one of four U.S. states constituted as a commonwealth...

. The zine received some positive response from the publishers of Feminist Baseball and other zines that had negatively reviewed the Goads. In issue #4 of ANSWER Me!, Jim Goad

Jim Goad

revealed the prank

Practical joke

A practical joke is a mischievous trick played on someone, typically causing the victim to experience embarrassment, indignity, or discomfort. Practical jokes differ from confidence tricks in that the victim finds out, or is let in on the joke, rather than being fooled into handing over money or...

and insulted those who had taken the bait.

External links

The website for the Book (now sold out, likely not to be reprinted)
Collection of writings by Jim Goad, several from Various Issues
Short survey with images from The First Three
Review of The First Three
Amazon.com
Amazon.com
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page for The First Three
Article covering the obscenity
Obscenity
An obscenity is any statement or act which strongly offends the prevalent morality of the time, is a profanity, or is otherwise taboo, indecent, abhorrent, or disgusting, or is especially inauspicious...

trial
Trial (law)
In law, a trial is when parties to a dispute come together to present information in a tribunal, a formal setting with the authority to adjudicate claims or disputes. One form of tribunal is a court...

in Bellingham, Washington
Bellingham, Washington
Bellingham is the largest city in, and the county seat of, Whatcom County in the U.S. state of Washington. It is the twelfth-largest city in the state. Situated on Bellingham Bay, Bellingham is protected by Lummi Island, Portage Island, and the Lummi Peninsula, and opens onto the Strait of Georgia...

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