After the fact, I discovered that my co-publisher Bruce Craven had named our magazine after this movie.
Rick Moody emailed me out of the blue because he needed a copy of a piece he had written in a magazine I published in 1990. He was wondering if I still had the issue. Well, they don’t call me the Archivist Extremis for nothing. His piece was in our last issue of BIG WEDNESDAY, Volume 2 Issue #1. We published the likes of Bill Matthews, Campbell McGrath, Kate Braverman, Pagan Kenedy, David Means, Denis Johnson, and others. We promoted our publication with a monthly gathering at a bar with a game show-style event called Wheel of Poets. Our emcee was a woman named Jennifer Blowdryer. We actually had a wheel and she spinned it with it about as much disgust as you could possibly muster.
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Betsy Lerner 
Big Wednesday! Who’s deader: Jan-Michael Vincent or Gary Busey? Give it some thought.
Speaking of small journals….this one a new print and online literary journal – yes, one of my stories is in there-Our Stories….print just came out- interview with Richard Bausch…lots of good short stories….find in online first, Our Stories. Submit if you are a short story author. Lyn LeJeune Support this…looking through B&N yesterday, I noticed lots of short story collections..
Thanks…
Give us a link! I’m often surprised to find good stuff in unknown (to me) literary journals. I happened upon this a few weeks back, and it kinda blew my mind: http://onthecommons.org/content.php?id=2487
If anyone likes Nabokov …
Oh, shit. That’s a review. I actually saw the thing in an online literary journal. That’ll teach me to ask for links.
For a moment, I thought Gary Busey had written poetry. I admit, I was rather intrigued…
… and well you should be … here’s a little taste of the poetry of the guy known to fans everywhere as “He Be GB”
“Great things like this only happen for the first time once.”
“You know what `SOBER` stands for? It stands for `Son Of a B****, Everything`s Real!”
Still not convinced? OK:
“Drinking your own blood is the paradigm of recycling”
He’s what Bukowski could have been with more brain damage.
Big is such a catch-all word.
i miss Big Wednesday. Some of the first Betty stuff was published there. fun nights.