It is reported that the 14-year-old Nietzsche was known as “The Little Pastor” at the Schulpforta school, for his resemblance to a country parson in seriousness and other-worldliness. In fact he was sometimes called    “The Little Groover” for his wild harmonica playing and hipness, and the whole received biography of him is open to deconstruction. Indeed

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Presenting: The Defenestrati, a crowd-created Defenestration comic.

———— Daniel Bailey lives and drinks and writes and makes computer drawings in Muncie, Indiana, the Midwest’s cultural epicenter. His blog is called Metaphysical Dick Touching (http://97percent.blogspot.com/).

Avast me hearties, and welcome to th’ September 2007 issue of that scurvy rag Defenestration! Here at Defenestration HQ, Talk Like A Pirate Day doesn’t end on September 19th. We start talking like pirates, two thirds of the crew gets drunk on Eileen’s special “Irish Rum Recipe #35, Specifically For Pirates,” and the rest of

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assume a new identity every quarter hour: be saintly, paranoid, the lonely owner of a cat. butter a slice of bread on both sides. drop it. frown at the result and repeat your experiment seventeen times; take notes for posterity. sing a song he doesn’t like. gather dust balls and put them on a shelf

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