Jim Goad
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James Thaddeus "Jim" Goad is an American author and publisher, noted for the controversy surrounding his (now defunct) magazine ANSWER Me!.
He was raised in Philadelphia, PA. He met his late ex-wife Debbie in New York City. They married and moved to Los Angeles where he worked in a print shop. He moved to Portland, Oregon in 1994.
Jim and Debbie published four issues of their zine before running afoul of authorities with #4 (the "Rape Issue"), which offered multi-faceted views of sexual assault. The Rape Issue was discovered for sale at The Newstand by a young woman attending in Bellingham, who passed it on to a battered women's shelter. The Newstand was acquitted of trafficking obscenity, primarily because the prosecutor couldn't prove the sellers knew ANSWER Me! was obscene. Additionally, the prosecutor could not definitively define obscenity.
ANSWER Me! was also blamed for the suicides of three British youths in 1996 and for Francisco Martin Duran's rifle assault on the White House in 1994. (Duran quoted a line from the magazine in a note he'd left in his van before firing 29 rounds at the White House.)
In 1998, Goad was arrested for beating his then-girlfriend. Even though he had filed a restraining order against her and had documented several recorded death threats she made against him, he pled guilty and served a prison term. He was released in October 2000.
Goad has authored four books: The Redneck Manifesto, wherein he explores issues of class in modern America; Shit Magnet, his autobiography (written while in prison); ANSWER Me!: The First Three (a compilation of the magazine's first three issues), and Jim Goad's GIGANTIC BOOK OF SEX, an anthology of his post-prison writings for sex magazines.
He also contributed his writing to the book Apocalypse Culture II, and a spoken word piece to the Boyd Rice album Hatesville.
Goad maintains a website which has an archive of his old articles and new items. A reprint of ANSWER Me! has been released by Scapegoat Publishing in Baltimore. Goad's GIGANTIC BOOK OF SEX is due to be released in April of 2007.
[edit] Works
- ANSWER Me!: The First Three ISBN 1-873176-03-1
- The Redneck Manifesto ISBN 0-684-83113-9
- Shit Magnet: One Man's Miraculous Ability to Absorb the World's Guilt ISBN 0-922915-77-6
- Truck Drivin' Psycho (CD) Discriminate Audio, 2003 (reprint of 1996 album)
- Trucker Fags in Denial (comic book with artist Jim Blanchard), 2004
- Jim Goad's GIGANTIC BOOK OF SEX ISBN 1-932595-20-1
[edit] Made Contributions To
- Apocalypse Culture II edited by Adam Parfrey ISBN 0-922915-57-1
