Knee-Jerk Blog

Knee-Jerk Offline VOL Two Is HERE

kneejerkonline — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 06:14:24 +0000

Hello friends,

The second annual print edition of Knee-Jerk Offline(VOL 2) is heading to the printers and will be available soon. As we did last year, we’re running a Kickstarter campaign to help with some of the printing costs.

I hope you’ll more so look at this as a way to pre-order the new issue. All donations over $3 will be rewarded with various tokens of our appreciation. But starting with a donation of $13 you will receive a copy of the new issue along with a PDF version of our recent chapbook publication, The Risk-Taking Gene by Steve Tomasula. For $15, you’ll receive print versions of both books. And so on and so on; the more you’d like to help, the more great rewards we’d like to send you.

You can find all you need to know about the new issue, rewards, and how to help by clicking this link: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1706005210/knee-jerk-offline-vol-two

Jon, Steve, and I would greatly appreciate any help you can offer and hope that you’ll enjoy the work that we and all of our amazing contributors have put into VOL 2 and Knee-Jerk’s other projects as a thank you for your generosity. We’d also like to ask those of you with social media accounts if you would be willing to help spread the word with a link or a blog post. Of course, if you’re unable to help this time around, we’ll completely understand and will still love you and give you a big hug next time we see you!

For those unfamiliar with Kickstarter, it’s a website designed to help fund creative projects. Knee-Jerk set a goal ($500) of what we need to cut our out-of-pocket costs to produce the new issue and a date by which we hope to be funded. If we make the goal by midnight on February 25th, we’ll receive funding, minus 5% that goes to Kickstarter. If we don’t reach our goal by that point, the money donated will not be taken out of your account and we do not receive funding.

This volume features nearly 200 pages (including color illustrations) of all new content from some of our favorite writers and artists:

Schuyler Anderson

Kyle Beachy

Tom Bissell

Michael Capozzola

Trinie Dalton

Sarah Rose Etter

Pete Gamlen

Kelsey Heinrichs

Gary Lutz

Adam McOmber

Dinty W. Moore

Hal Niedviecki

Ben Percy

Shann Ray

Rowland Saifi

Adam Schuitema

Drew Shannon

Brenda Sieczkowski

Patrick Somerville

Chris L. Terry

Donna D. Vitucci

Leni Zumas

Your donation will help put a huge dent in our printing costs. In return for your generosity, we have several gift offers (including free print issues and copies of our chapbook by Steve Tomasula), listed to the right. Even the smallest donation will be greatly appreciated and help get this magazine into bookstores and in your hands. Thank you!

The Mispronouncer (Adam Drent) New Album Available Now

kneejerkonline — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 18:04:50 +0000

Knee-Jerk contributor and creator of the Bedtime Stories mp3 series has just dropped his second album, The Free Refill.

The new album is available to stream or download at no cost to you whatsoever.

18 tracks of perfect beats for leaning back into a lawnchair, slurping a slushy, and dealing with this summer heat.

www.themispronouncer.bandcamp.com

We’re Throwing a Party!

kneejerkonline — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 17:06:14 +0000

Casey Bye is Memphis-bound! Our Co-Founder, Arts & Media Editor, and Cutie-in-Residence will be taking his talents to the birthplace of Crunk by mid-July. To celebrate the time we’ve spent with our bespectacled human beatbox, Knee-Jerk is hosting a going-away reading, featuring fellow Casey Bye-enthusiasts Noelle Hufnagel, Geoff Hyatt, Mason Johnson, Jacob Knabb, Lauryn Allison Lewis, Simon A. Smith, Leah Tallon, Ben Tanzer, Chris Terry, and Brandon Will! We’ll also have music from DJ Jeremy Alvarez! Feel free to pass this along to friends, neighbors, and whoever else you think might like watching Casey re-enact his tiger pee story. It starts at 7:00 pm Wed. July 6th at

Beauty Bar Chicago

1444 W. Chicago Ave.

Chicago, Illinois

Love, The Other 2/3s of Knee-Jerk

Steve Gets Punched 4 Times (our final Essay & Chapbook Contests promo)

kneejerkonline — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 07:12:48 +0000

Last chance to enter our Essay & Chapbook Contest s before midnight, June 30th, 2011.

Guest judges for the Chapbook contest are Lindsay Hunter and Mary Hamilton. Win publication and up to $500.

The Chosen One

kneejerkonline — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 06:19:32 +0000

Enter our ESSAY AND CHAPBOOK CONTESTS by June 30th, 2011.

Ben Tanzer Grows a Mustache

kneejerkonline — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 06:17:06 +0000

ENTER THE ESSAY & CHAPBOOK CONTESTS by June 30th, 2011.

Read our interview with Ben Tanzer

Read our Follow-up interview with Ben Tanzer

K-J XXX

kneejerkonline — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 15:49:35 +0000

You don’t want to see this video. So spend your time instead submitting to KNEE-JERK’S ESSAY & CHAPBOOK CONTESTS. Deadline: June 30th, 2011.

Knee-Jerk Circle Jerk.

kneejerkonline — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 19:08:15 +0000

It’s exactly what it sounds like. Enter our Essay and Chapbook Contests. Deadline June 30th, 2011.

Mary Hamilton’s Quickies! Finale

kneejerkonline — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 15:01:43 +0000

Tonight is Mary Hamilton’s last Quickies! before moving to L.A. Come cry with us. And drink and listen to 20 amazing readers and drink and then cry some more.

7:30pm at the Innertown Pup, 1935 W Thomas, Chicago

Readers:

Jac Jemc
Natalie Edwards
Jill Summers
Steve Tartaglione
Kathleen Rooney
Scott Stealey
Brandon Will
Caroline Picard
Robyn Pennacchia
Patrick Somerville
Melanie Datz
Jessi Lee Gaylord
Zach Dodson
Jonathan Messinger
Robbie Q. Telfer
Tim Kinsella
Toby Bengelsdorf
Jacob Knabb
Tim Jones-Yelvington
Dave Snyder
and probably more!

Knee-Jerkstar Galactica

kneejerkonline — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 14:55:54 +0000

We’ve never seen Battlestar Galactica. So we decided to parody it. Send us your parodies to the KNEE-JERK ESSAY & CHAPBOOK CONTESTS! DEADLINE: JUNE 30TH, 2011.