The Great God Pan Is Dead wishes you a Happy New Year
I started this new blog to take the place of my old blog. I didn’t change the title, just the platform. The reason I restarted it was that I decided (mistakenly, it turns out) that COVID was declining. People were starting to go out and do things; I started off by checking out all the “fall season” art shows here in Houston. And that started an landslide of new posts, starting in mid-September, I’ve written 56 posts. I have 81 subscribers (please consider subscribing to The Great God Pan Is Dead—you’ll be alerted to new posts via an email, And it’s free.)
Weirdly enough, the most popular post was my first post, “The Houston Fall Art Season, part 1.” I have no explanation for that, except to speculate that Houston art lovers had a pent-up demand. In other words, people read it for the same reason I wrote it. We were all so jazzed to see things happening in town again.
Next was “Rice University Art Department and The Orange Show to Expand”. I think that was popular because a bunch of Rice alums discovered it. Third was “Goodbye Eve Babitz”; I think the explanation for that post’s popularity can be explained in one word: boobs.
I’ve been supporting this project in three ways.
First, I have a Patreon account. I have two tiers of support there. If you sign on as a Nymph or Dryad, you support me by paying $1 per month. If you are a Great God, you pay $5 per month and get two annual premiums, a zine (that I create and which is not published on the blog) and a piece of original art.
Second, I have a Storeenvy store. It’s where I sell my zines and paper publications. As I produce new zines, I will add them to the store. I have a small library of zines that I will keep on the store’s site until I sell out. Order one today!
And third, I have a book store on the Bookshop.org. It’s where you can buy books I have selected, and I get a small cut of each sale.
So if you like what you read, I would humbly ask you to become a patron or shop in my shops. Thank you to all readers, and especially all patrons, zine buyers and book buyers who have supported The Great God Pan Is Dead.
By the way, the title of this blog comes from Plutarch via William S. Burroughs.
I gut Dead City Radio when it was released in 1990. Burroughs nasal, stentorian voice made everything he said sound great, and on Apocalypse, the phrase “The great god Pan is dead” rings out with, well, apocalyptic finality. It has always stuck in my head and I revived it in 2009 to start this blog.