Gargoyle Humor Magazine: March 2010 Archives

The Spring 2010 Issue is out!

By Gargoyle on March 31, 2010 11:06 AM | No Comments

The new Gargoyle is dropping like a feather in a vacuum! It includes thrilling features such as:
- Defenestration techniques!
- A sneak peek of Obama's commencement speech!
- Interviews with St. Vincent and Absofacto! (Transcripts below)
- How to Skin A Cat!
- Spy at Law!
- The final Sickly Peter!
And more!

Pick up a copy at one of our normal drop spots or buy a subscription!

Absofacto Interview Transcript

By Gargoyle on March 31, 2010 9:00 AM | No Comments

By Cathy Fisher

Jonathan Visger has been a fixture of Ann Arbor's music landscape (like the mighty elm) for years as the lead singer and songwriter for Mason Proper. Recently, he's been releasing a steady stream of solo work under the alias Absofacto, under a pay-whatever-you-want system. His music straddles the line between pop listenability and indie/experimental/ electronic/noisy eclecticism.

We talked in the back of Café Ambrosia, directly beneath a speaker which was playing what seemed to be a best-of collection of Jimi Hendrix guitar solos. This lent the conversation an epic tone that may not come through in this write-up. So instead of imagining it happening in Ambrosia, imagine it happened while we were doing sick tricks on dirt bikes. Really. In fact, that's how I remember it.

C: I'm not gonna do the bad questions that other people suggested to me.

J: [laughs] What were the bad questions, just out of curiosity?

C: "Do you have any nicknames?"

J: Yeah, that's a bad question.

Continue reading Absofacto Interview Transcript.

St. Vincent Interview Transcript

By Gargoyle on March 31, 2010 9:00 AM | No Comments

By Simin Manole and Michael Mejia

SM: I guess the first thing to mention is we've never interviewed anyone before.

MM: Not one (laughing)

AC: Oh you haven't?

SM: No, this is our first interview.

AC: Oh!

MM: This is a pretty good way of starting an interview.

AC: Because I assumed, with the "Interview [Issue]," that you interviewed these people.

MM: Well, not us. People we work with have interviewed whoever, and just kind of, you know, if you see an opportunity, go for it.

SM: So I guess I would like to start off by asking, do you remember your first interview?

AC: My first interview? Yeah, I think it was with a blog pretty early on, like 2005, 2006. I remember one of the questions they asked was like "do you like vikings or ninjas better."

SM: That's definitely from the internet.

AC: Yeah, I was like you definitely work for a blog, don't you? I think my answer, well my answer might have been vikings at the time, but now it's definitely ninjas.

Continue reading St. Vincent Interview Transcript.

Punday Monday - March 29, 2010

By Stuart on March 29, 2010 5:22 PM | No Comments

Cars with faulty transmissions really grind my gears.

I'm not listening to my music until Easter. I lent all my CDs to a friend.

Punday Monday - March 15, 2010

By Stuart on March 15, 2010 11:48 PM | No Comments

Q: How do vultures get through airports so quickly?

A: They don't have to check carrion.

Jack knew the best places to find clams, thanks to his excellent mussel memory.

Punday Monday - March 1, 2010

By Stuart on March 1, 2010 9:43 AM | No Comments

The drug dealer sometimes grew shrooms above his garage. He had a spore-attic supply of psychedelics.

To summarize, do the opposite of winterizing.

Critics panned Steve Nash's "Slam Dunk Iced Tea," saying it was, "just plain Nash-tea."

Chris was unbelievably bored when he 4chan-ately stumbled upon the darkest corner of the internet.

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