What we, as individuals, have been up to!

As bizarre as it sounds, the individuals that make up the Microcosm collective DO manage to do things outside of Microcosm - and here's proof:

Adam Gnade spent a good part of September on tour, playing songs in support of his connected books/records project. He has finished a new 66-page mini-novel that will be out in December. He recommends Ivan Turgenev, the Remedy Diner in Raleigh, NC, and the bands Under White Pines, Dark Hills, and Damon Moon and the Whispering Drifters.

Matt Gauck gave the best zine reading of his life to a totally packed house with his amazing friend Deanna Michaelson, and is now so excited about zines it's positively ODIFEROUS. His bike touring zine, Next Stop Adventure #5 is nearing the halfway point, and might actually be done at some point before the Mayan meltdown in 2012. He is also studying astral projection for fun and activist purposes, and no, he's not joking.

Rio is hard at work on his Revenge of Print zine and is living off his rice cooker (rice cooker bread = someday!). He discovered the 1976 tabletop role-playing game based off Watership Down, Bunnies & Burrows, and plans to play it while listening to British post-hardcore band based off Watership Down, Fall of Efrafa.

Joe was on tour for the month of September with Joshua Ploeg and Elly Blue talking about bicycle economics, activism, and culture. When he's not doing that he's editing Aftermass, his new documentary about the evolution of cycling in Portland over the last forty years and how it has impacted the present. He missed his cat.

Jessie has been so busy ordering zines, answering emails, and packing those lovely orders that she didn't even have time to write this.

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