JC Autobody & the INDIAN̈A Mythos

"Time is a flat circle." -RC

"There's something in the water here in Petroleum."

So says Lew Hurl, Jr., the founder and editor-in-chief of the mid-North's most influential rock rag - Drag Magazine.

You won't find it on the shelf, nor will you find it on eBay, the Marketplace, or anywhere else except DL;BR dot com when the time comes, because it doesn't exist.

Drag Magazine, like JC Autobody's Petroleum* and Brazil's Husherville, is a work of fiction.

An apocryphal history of the brownfields of former industrial corridors of Petroleum, the Husherville gas booms, the doomed trappers at Ville-de-Hussiere and the indigenous settlement of aacimwahki, dressed in the disguise of a monthly scene report.

In Indian̈a, Drag Mag is a rosetta stone linking the past, the present, and the ancient. A Creem-style magazine for the world's Rustin Cohle's, with Lew Hurl, Jr., its oracle and seer.

This summer, all will be revealed.

Or lots, anyway.

*A Petroleum, IN, does, in fact exist up in Wells County, near Ft. Wayne. As of 2022, it has a population of 196. Despite sharing the name with the fictional city, the resemblance ends there.

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What I’m reading: Sing Backwards and Weep (Mark Lanegan)

What I'm listening to: Plastic Beach (Gorillaz)

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