New Pop Lit

The Analog Artifact



WHY are select bottles of wine or champagne of high value– and are guaranteed to increase in value?

Why can the same be said of many artworks– like a Van Gogh painting?

Because they’re artifacts of a moment in place and time in the actual world. A Van Gogh painting in particular, created by a unique human intelligence and a human hand. Something far, far different from temporary images created by electronically-lit pixels on a screen, for which the moment of time is always now. Which is why printed literature is superior to the online brand, which has no actual substance to it.

This is why the ultimate goal of the New Pop Lit project is to develop more unique kinds of print literary journals, a rare kind which can only increase in value– and especially will not be created by any kind of bot-driven artificial intelligence. We call the prototypes of such we’ve created to date, zeens.

Why Fast Pop?


Because we want to change things up as we wait for the AI Chatbot gimmick to play itself out– hordes of simple-minded tech suckers-with-gadgets posing as artists and writers.

We want writing that’s faster to post and faster to read.

We hope to eventually have regular contributors along with ourselves. Maybe even invited Guest Stars, a la old TV series.

The writing should be different, but not difficult. Quirky and/or entertaining. This blog will have more variety in presentation and writing than the numerous too-long stodgy Substack formal essays currently inflicted on readers.

Fast Pop will be possibly a supplement to our main site and possibly a replacement for it. Who knows? We might go offline total analog total anarchy in a week, so disgusted are both of us right now by the insanities of technology.

“A desperate measure,” you say. Maybe! But we’re going to try a series of new measures and all kinds of new writing– mixed with commentary and fragmented rants– as a way to break the stultifying logjam calling itself literature today.