Mission:
To cover the art industry and its many, many by-products.
World Headquarters:
Brooklyn, NYC.
Contact:
Send links, laudatory salutations and pointless videos to: c [at] c-monster [dot] net. Before hitting send, however, be sure to read this.
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On Flickr. (A set of the favorites.)
On YouTube.
On DailyMotion.
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ABOUT OUR STAFF:
C-Monster, director of operations.
Raised by a clan of gypsies throughout the Andean puna, C-Monster speaks five languages and was taught to read palms and recite epic poems at the tender age of three. She fled to the U.S. during the Great Border War of 1941, and after her arrival, worked for many years at a Luby’s Cafeteria in Lubbock. Her interest in art was cultivated during repeat viewings of The Joy of Painting on PBS.
San Suzie, far-flung correspondent.
Born in Karl-Mark-stadt in the former East Germany, San Suzie was raised by her nuclear engineer parents in Cuba, where she later joined the National Ballet. After defecting while on tour in Winnipeg, she wound up working at the Stardust in Las Vegas, and began blogging in March 2007, after the building was toppled by developers.
Yvonne Connasse, Paris bureau chieftess.
Born in Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port, Yvonne moved to Paris at the age of seven as a wet nurse-in-training. After she was obliged to immigrate to Northern Africa following an unfortunate incident at the Swedish embassy, Yvonne spent the war years fronting as a cabaret singer at a gin joint in Casablanca. Après le déluge, Yvonne has dedicated herself to art, design, film, fashion and the search for the perfect dry martini.
Vidalia, staff photographer.
Hailing from a renowned agricultural clan in the vicinity of Mexicali, Vidalia ran away from home at the age of 12 to join gunslinger Adela Velarde and the forces of Venustiano Carranza in their armed overthrow of Mexican dictator Porfirio Díaz. In her post-revolution years, she served as chief roadie and touring manager for the Meat Puppets. She now teaches weekend workshops in pistolcraft and assault rifle training.
Gay Swan, San Francisco stringer.
Born on horseback in the Mongolian Steppes to deserters of the Peking Acrobats, Gay Swan began her career as a contortionist in the outback at an early age. In her teens, she brought her talent to California, using the surfboard as her stage, and spare-changing between gigs. When she isn’t translating ancient Mongolian poetry or plucking the sihu, she’s pursuing her PhD in the study of carnies, freakshows and American oddities. Vegas is her second home.
Sebastian Puig, Mediterranean Writer-at-Large.
Born Gaylord Puig in a tiny Catalan town, Puig always knew that a surname pronounced “pooch” was just too fey for a queer boy. So, he chose as a first name the manly “Sebastian” – after viewing (15 times) Derek Jarman’s film about the perforated Roman martyr. Trained at the Sorbonne as a painter and the Courtauld, as an art historian, Puig now lives in Barcelona with his American filmmaker husband, U.B., and their daughter, Anastasia. His primary avocations are body-building and baking. He is the author of Honey Soaked, an honest 550-page critique of Greek-vs-Turkish baklava.
