The Banana King
"A Literary Zine (not about bananas)"

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CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
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GeneralReal and surreal stories about the odd characters and weird situations of everyday life.
MusicDuenow, Princess, Pearly Sweets, John Greenfield, PAL, Paper Bullets, The Functional Blackouts, Black Giraffe, BARR, Rasputina, Bjork, Bobby Conn, Leonard Cohen and Johnny Cash.
MoviesMe and You and Everyone We Know, American Splendor, Palindromes, Broken Flowers, Adaptation, The Royal Tennenbaums, Gummo, I Heart Huckabees, Wonder Boys, Beat, Bar Fly, Storytelling, Ghost World, The Ice Storm
TelevisionThe Office, Home Movies, Arrested Development, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Big Love, Ab Fab, Strangers With Candy, Six Feet Under
BooksMusic for Torching, White Noise, Self-Help, Birds Of America, When the Messenger Is Hot, Morvern Callar, Bed, Instant Love, Tales of a Punk Rock Nothing, Hairstyles Of the Damned, A Crackup at the Race Riots, A Confederacy Of Dunces, Lanark, Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man, A Good Man Is Hard To Find and Other Stories, Nine Stories, Franny and Zooey, Where I'm Calling From, Cat's Eye, Dancing Girls, She's Come Undone
HeroesJack Kerouac, Raymond Carver, Charles Bukowski, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Margaret Atwood, J.D. Salinger, A.M. Homes, Don DeLillo, Lorrie Moore, Alasdair Gray, George Saunders, John Kennedy Toole, Flannery O'Connor, Aleksandar Hemon, Harmony Korine, Charlie Kaufman, Wes Anderson.
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     The Banana King's Details
Status:Swinger
Here for:Friends
Orientation:Bi
Hometown:San Francisco, CA
Body type:0' 0" / Some extra baggage
Ethnicity:Other
Religion:Other
Zodiac Sign:Cancer
Smoke / Drink:No / Yes
Children:Love kids, but not for me
Occupation:Publishing
Income:Less than $30,000



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About me:
The Banana King is currently on hiatus due to a lack of funding and time constraints. Please continue to be The Banana King's friend as it will start publishing again someday.
Who I'd like to meet:
Writers, readers, illustrators, designers, publishers, editors, and printers.

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TJ





Sep 19 2007 6:43 PM

Thanks for the add. It's about time. I was beginning to worry that maybe you had come across something of mine and had chosen to quietly ignore me instead of cursing me out. But, no -- you like me, you really like me. ... Or, you will. hahahahahahahahahahahaha
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Jul 16 2007 9:20 AM


COOL MySpace Comments
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Jul 15 2007 4:36 AM

Hi

Hope you are having a good weekend, and all is going well for you in your reading and writing world….

Hope you will be able to visit Bugwriters soon….

Fraser
www.bugwriters.com/forum
Alan Emmins





May 14 2007 8:25 AM

Hey, just stopping by to say hello as I have been away from myspace for a long time... how's it going?

Alan



The Independent called it "A gruelling indictment of modern American culture"
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Apr 17 2007 5:57 PM

'City Smells' is a new literary project set up by the Edit Red Writing Community.

We are running three writing competitions, Flash Fiction, Creative Non-Fiction and Poetry, all with the theme 'City Smells. The winners of each of these competitions will win $100. But more than this, we will take the best work from each competition and compile a paperback 'City Smells' anthology. The writers who make it into the 'City Smells' anthology will each receive free copies of the book and be paid a royalty in book sales.

To submit to these competition and stand a chance of being published in the 'City Smells' book you must be a member of Edit Red, as the submission process is automated. Joining Edit Red and entering these competitions is 100% free. If you make it into the book, we will pay royalties based on book sales.

Edit Red has existed for many years and was created and is still managed today by non-fiction author Alan Emmins, creative writing teacher Chris Lee Ramsden and literary reviewer Sean Merrigan.

If you are not already a member, we hope you will join and take part in this great literary event. Sign up here for free!

Regards
Alan, Sean and Chris
Elizabeth Crane


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Apr 1 2007 7:34 AM

Haiku for The Banana King

The Banana King
is not about bananas.
Why would you think that?
Carly Couture





Jan 27 2007 11:28 AM

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Jan 24 2007 8:49 PM

Ode To the Banana King(Part 1)




Turning back ten thousand years
It's all a blur
Where the taxis go
Monster man, a willing friend
Lucy serves the melon cold
Violent and delicious souls

Four red trucks dressed illegally
Mother knows
How the bugle blows
Gonna get caught in her rug, babe

This is not a conclusion
No revolution
Just a little confusion
On where your head has been

Boats made out of paper float
Dreams made up
For the banana king, darling
Crumbs you have lapped freely
Oh, devious we all have been

Violent and delicious souls

This is not a conclusion
No revolution
Just a little confusion
On where your head has been
NILgravity





Dec 24 2006 1:24 PM

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Dec 24 2006 5:24 AM

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Dec 23 2006 6:40 AM

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Dec 15 2006 12:26 PM

Just stopping by to offer best wishes for the upcoming holidays.



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roger





Aug 24 2006 1:29 AM

Thank you for adding me. Come over and talk writerly stuff sometime.
The Genius





Aug 10 2006 3:20 PM

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The Sleepy Critic





Jul 17 2006 10:53 AM

Thank you for the add.
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Jul 12 2006 3:38 PM

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Thanks for adding me!
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Jul 11 2006 4:39 PM

see YOU at the BALL
Whiskers Ink





Jun 23 2006 12:24 PM

Enjoy the Weekend!

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Jun 10 2006 7:45 PM

a picture with 8 words is worth a thousand pictures with words.

don't be deaf

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Doug Travis





May 29 2006 11:38 PM

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Marcy Dermansky





May 23 2006 6:44 AM

Thanks for the add.
I love your lit journal.

Best,
Marcy
scott





May 19 2006 3:06 PM

didn't realize i wasn't linked to you via my myspace page, too. sorry about that. correcting it now...long live the bk.
Becky Garrison





May 17 2006 10:06 AM

Thanks for stopping by. Becky
Erin McCole-Cupp





May 13 2006 5:26 PM

Thanks for the add! Namaste.
scott





May 5 2006 6:14 PM

just got the hard covers. excited to send you one. when's issue 4 coming? yrs, s
Cagey House


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Apr 28 2006 5:31 PM

Thanks! Digging the site--especially "Is it a Cold or the Flu." Rally cool stuff.
Whiskers Ink





Apr 25 2006 7:58 PM

Thanks for adding me! It's always nice to connect with a literary magazine~
scott





Apr 9 2006 1:20 PM

just finished issue 2. loved it, from the levee to the bitchy, rinky dink sales-girl (i didn't feel sorry for her at all!). one more to go! all the best. yrs, s
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Apr 2 2006 3:07 PM

Next
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may 12th
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thepeardetective





Mar 24 2006 8:29 AM

Thanks for adding me.

Please keep them peeled for further evidence of hideous fruity crimes

the pear detective
scott





Mar 23 2006 10:19 PM

just got my first three issues - excited! loved your interview w/the streets. yrs, s
THE GARBAGEMAN AND THE PROSTITUTE





Mar 18 2006 2:25 PM

Hi Banana King--

Thanks for the ad(d).

I've met a few other books on here, but you are the first magazine.

I'll tell my dad about you.
xoxoxoxo
GmanandtheP
Bill Ectric





Feb 19 2006 1:11 PM

Thanks for adding me to Your Space!

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Jan 9 2006 1:01 PM

Thanks for the add. Please check out my Blessed Poison blog. I would love some feedback. Take care.
S.E.T.H.





Aug 18 2005 9:18 AM

Tis a comfort for me when the savages of my life on the Veldt overpower my basest male emotions. Ever since my Emma was taken from me, I live, if it can be called that, merely by the grace of The Banana King. I've seen the light. It comes through the bottom of my glass. So, I drink to your health. And then again. And again. And again. And...
John B.





Jun 2 2005 1:14 PM

I used to think writing (and reading writing) was just for soft-skulled eggheads who don't even know how to do their own laundry. The kind of people who wore prescriptionless glasses and looked both ways before they crossed the street. That was until I met the Banana King. These are dangerous people. Dangerous LIKE A FOX.
976-JUS-PLYN





Jun 1 2005 12:58 PM

have you guys ever wrote about acting legend charles bronson? well anyway, i think that would be pretty neat. in the meantime ill stick to your story about ecanamics err.. econimics or whatever that shit with money is called.
Cindy Duckworth





May 26 2005 3:45 PM

I stole my ex-boyfriend's copy of this zine; I loved it so much. I SUPPOSE I could have bought it myself, but I prefer to sell it.
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