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I'd like to point you directly to The Skullboy Store. You can now buy comics and t-shirts by Great Hoboes artist Jacob Chabot online! Please visit the store and help support a fellow Great Hobo!

While you're at it, read a stellar review of Jacob's latest minicomic!

Longtime Hobo fellow traveler Dan O'Berry, a filmmaker extraordinaire, is proud to point you to his labor of love, IndieTalk.com, a subscription-based filmmaker forum, for sharing industry news, tech talk, ideas, and general info. It's great stuff to those Hoboes who dig the art of film...

Hobo author Joe Bakanauskas has helped found the rapidly expanding Earthborn Films collective. Says Joe: "EARTHBORN was founded on a gamble that once we mustered the support and solidarity of creative folks, film lovers could build a movie production and distribution network starting with nothing. Ten months after the initial proposal, we have a website, library, and a soon-to-be-launched Free Film School in central Connecticut. Over the next six months, we'll be helping raise funds for small projects and sister organizations in cooperation with us. In another year or two we'll have a major feature under our belts, or perhaps a bowling league. Please spread the word among screenwriters, media studies and labor studies experts, as well as anyone else who wants to send work or cash our way. The URL is www.earthbornfilms.com and you can reach us at info@earthbornfilms.com. See you online and underground!"

Sadly, the Great Hoboes were not able to march in this year's Mermaid Parade, breaking a long standing tradition. That said, we're in the process of converting a station wagon into a float and prepping costumes for next year. Gonna be quite a show! If you went this year, we're sure you had fun - Jacob and some of the other hoboes were able to make it as attendees. What can we say? Dick Zigun and the crew at Coney Island USA are great folks, and have a regular calendar of hoboish events. Please check out their site and make your way down to Coney Island as often as you can this summer. Between the sideshows, burlesques, freaks, and sun and fun, it's the best vacation spot in the world.

Have you heard Buck 65? Picture Tom Waits meets the Beastie Boys. This hip hop artist is very hobo...

Want to hear something else that's very hobo? How about Hayseed Dixie - the greatest hillbilly AC/DC tribute band ever...

Hobo favorites The Old Crow Medicine Show just jumped into the 21st century by cutting an album for Napster. Yes, they recently recorded an EP at Napster's studios in L.A. Check out their site for more info.

Please visit NYC's online indie radio, Radio Indie Pop. Radio Indie Pop features: Guided By Voices, Raveonettes, The Dandy Warhols, New Order, Sea Ray, Interpol, The Strokes, Longwave, The Stills, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Yo La Tengo, Orange Park, Stephen Malkmus, Elliott Smith, Nada Surf, Fooled By April, Sonic Youth, The Church, Beulah, Black Box Recorder, Sloan, The Star Spangels, Built To Spill, Flaming Lips, The Pixies, Scout and more more more... Enjoy!

Need to send a message, but you want it to have a touch of art deco nostalgia to it? Send a Retro Gram!

Mark Hugo is always calling the Great Hobo a f*@&ing hippie. See why... Find locally grown organic produce at local farms and farmer's markets..even in New York City, you hipsters...at LocalHarvest.org. Eat well - your body and America's farmers will thank you.

Ever been to one of Yellow Rat Bastard's stores? Ever read Yellow Rat Bastard magazine? Ain't they the best? A delightful blend of cool clothes, pop culture, snarky humor, and New York culture. Visit our friends at www.yrb.us!

Next up, I'd like to plug our good friend Little Brooklyn and her burlesque buddies from Starshine Burlesque, the hardest workin-est old school burlesque carny side show naughtiness! Check out their website for their latest schedule of performances in and around New York. Also, check out their friends at Shock and Awe Gogo!

Hobo fellow traveler Travis Dale discovered this blog...blog you say? blogs are so tired...not this one...1000 bars in 12 months...bloody brilliant...

Mark Hugo has been spied reading Modern Drunkard magazine at pretty much every one of his campaign stops this year. This uproarious take on the drinking life is one of the funniest things out there, and strangely relative to the Great Hobo culture. He's also been seen giggling his boobies off at the following: the mug shots up at The Smoking Gun, the cartoons at Home Star Runner, the twisted animation of RatherGood.com", and lastly the scary amount of information about Mystery Science Theatre up at MST3Kinfo.com.

Noble publishing house Fantagraphics, the publishers of R. Crumb comics, Ghostworld, Popeye, and many others, could use your help to keep them an active, viable publishing house for independent media. If you'd like to keep seeing excellent independent graphic novels and comic reprints, please visit their site and browse their store.

Do you know The Mancunian Candidate?!?

Charlie Shaffer, hobo-artiste-extraordinaire, found a nifty piece about a wood carver in Edison, NJ, which would be of interest to any of the hoboes who dig nostalgia kicks...

Hobo fellow traveller Ben de Menil went to Lisbon, Senegal, and Mali earlier this year. He took a slew of beautiful pictures while he was there! You can see some photos of his trip online.

Beantown-based Hobo Rebecca Blake Title is once again graced with literary heirlooms in her family. Not only is she a published author, but her mother, Elise Title, just released another great book with St. Martin's Press. Inside Out is the sequel to last year's Killing Time. Inside Out continues the story of the female superintendent of the first co-ed pre-release home for violent convicts. About her first installment Publisher's Weekly said: "Those who think women can't write tough prose should meet the star of this series debut .... Title succeeds at 'tough'... where many writers, including men, fail.... A work of fine intelligence and sensitivity." You can learn more about Elise Title's work at: www.elisetitle.com.

Some of the Hoboes have been going on benders lately. Our favorite night-out barcrawl is McSorley's on East 7th between 2nd and 3rd (start there - if you come in rowdy, you'll be leaving shortly), Brewsky's (also on East 7th between 2nd and 3rd) and then the KGB Bar at 85 E. 4th St. If the night's early enough and you're not too rowdy, heading over to the Washington Square area for a schwerma and espresso ain't such a bad idea, either. Remember, drink lots of water and play it safe kids. And beware of that West Nile and the mosquitoes, huh?

Heading uptown to the museums or to slum it with the Upper East Siders? Hit Café Fortuna on 71st & Columbus.

Friends of old friends, and fellow alumni of The Lower East Side and the New England college scene, The Bindlestiff Family Cirkus present great shows that combine circus arts, burlesque, pyrotechnics and bizarria. They were the closing act that the very-much-missed Palace of Variety on Times Square, and have been touring and active around the country, ever since. Check 'em out!

Hobo Rosalina Valdez has a few recommendations for some groovy tunes: Elliott Smith'sRoman Candle, Ill Nino's Confession, and Violent Work of Art's The Worst is Yet to Come. She'd also like to recommend a few books for your reading pleasure: Paulo Coehlo's Alchemist, Christopher Moore's Lamb, The Gospel According to Biff - Christ's Childhood Pal , and Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code.

Always ones to take notice of our contemporaries, the Hoboes highly recommend the following websites......in-nyc, "what's out on the edge" - - a brilliant listing of wild cabaret shows and the like around the city......The Onion - the best satire magazine since Mad......ZeFrank - twisted online musings.......GetUnderground.com - an excellent online arts & literature site that has posted our very own Charles Shaeffer, and caught the scorn of the irascible Hunter S. Thompson......The Big Takeover - one of the best indie 'zines on the market......Copper Press - the quintessential alt arts and music magazine......Official New York Skateboarding, from the people who brought us the late Metrospective - the skater's choice source for news and culture......Murph's Guide - a guide to the best of imbibery......Graffiti.org's collection of hobo freight graffiti......Country Joe McDonald - last of the great cowboy protesters......Weird New Jersey - an all too real outing of the urban myths of our neighbors' haunts in the garden state......Roadside America - the home of every freaky sideshow in the U.S. of A.......

Lastly, I'd like to leave you with a set of links that spotlight the namesakes and brave folks who helped develop the hobo image - the real hobo image; not our inferior bowery-booze-fueled-aspirations. Hobo.Com - a wealth of information about real life hoboes and their lives. A varied set of links dealing with all things Hobo... Hobo Signs - a visual lexicon of old timey hobo codes that were left by hoboes for other hoboes to pass on valuable information (E.g. "work available here"). SlackAction.com features a bunch of neat hobo-esque diversions, including info on old phonographs, radio, and more hobo signs. Lastly, dig the circus days of yore? Visit the Flea Circus! Know about some others? Please email me!

Have a suggestion? Please email us at: tyler@greathoboes.com.