matty johnson
“little matt” is our one-man street team- a handsome mile-a-minute talker, sharp as a damascus blade, with awesome full sleeve tattoos he gave himself with a homemade tattoo gun at age 14 (!) and an almost inextinguishable font of maniacal schemes. we give him huge stacks of flyers which grant him just the angle to hassle mercilessly all manner of folks he runs into- fresh punks, secret goons, clever animals, street poets, weird babes and so forth. he recently shaved his head and got a job as a salesman for a promotions company, wearing nautica shirts and running around the mall trying to sell salon packages and not get nabbed by mall security. i was worried at first that he was using his incredible people skills for evil, but then his second day on the job he got drunk with a co-worker and the usual madness re-ensued. he writes the zine “poor and forgotten” and can always be counted on for a solid high-five and a great story. lately he’s taken to pretending to be canadian. if you see him and he starts this shit, just roll with it.
matty johnson for mayor! D.I.Y.L.A.M.F.!!!!!
One day I went by HBML to hassle people who’d promised artwork for the Snow Ghost Scary Joke Book:
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~benedett/jokebook/
Of course, none of the art was ready, but Matty, who I hadn’t asked for art, but who’d heard about the request, ALREADY had some art prepared, and it was awesome.
I’d vote him for mayor in a second.