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MIKE TOPP by Mike Topp

May 27, 2025 · Micros

TODAY Today a bully from my high school is coming by to beat me up one last time (he has cancer). AMERIKKKA Of course Amerikkka leads the league in serial killers. There are a great many serial killers in town right now—because of NYC’s favorable tax laws and enterprise zones and the big serial killer parade we have every year, and because in a lot of our restaurants serial killers eat free. A JOINER Here’s something you might not have known about me: I was a joiner in high school. Carbona Club, Whip-Its Society, Nutmeg Club, Friends of…

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EIGHT QUESTIONS FOR MIKE TOPP by Sabrina Small

September 3, 2024 · Interviews & Reviews

A memory of my interview with Mike Topp, which I forgot to record, and then turned into a pseudo-transcript, at which point I solicited interjections from the artist. The first thing I tell Mike Topp is that I didn’t realize who he was. That I hadn’t done any homework beyond reading his tweets and a few poems on Hobart. I tell him his name is so gay it approaches drag, so I was picturing a young gay dude who had watched a lot of Warhol films and revered Peter Sellers in Being There, a practicing naif, a retro naif even….

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THE STUYVESANT BEE by Mike Topp

August 21, 2024 · Fiction

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EXCERPTS FROM ‘AMERICAN AIR’ by Mike Topp, featuring art by William Wegman

August 19, 2024 · Fiction

BUY A COPY OF ‘AMERICAN AIR’ HERE SPOKESPERSON FOR MELLINGER CO., LOS ANGELES, CALIF., DEPT. 54 Friends, you’ve heard me speak before in praise of Barns for Nobles. Well I’m no longer with that company. I’m here today to tell you about a new product I’m even more enthusiastic about called Count Branula. It’s a new cereal that tastes like bran. In fact I can’t even tell the difference. THE EARLIEST SALADS Probably the earliest salads were nothing more than some greens dumped in a bowl. VASE I was at Mom’s and I dropped this…

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THE STUYVESANT BEE #216 by Mike Topp

June 2, 2024 · Mike Topp's Stuyvesant Bee

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THE STUYVESANT BEE #223 by Mike Topp

May 26, 2024 · Mike Topp's Stuyvesant Bee

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THE STUYVESANT BEE 218 by Mike Topp

May 19, 2024 · Mike Topp's Stuyvesant Bee

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THE STUYVESANT BEE 220 by Mike Topp

May 5, 2024 · Mike Topp's Stuyvesant Bee

Each citizen was given a small apology to take home.

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THE STUYVESANT BEE 217 by Mike Topp

April 28, 2024 · Mike Topp's Stuyvesant Bee

What started as a legitimate effort by the people of Salem City to root out those that used magic or supernatural powers to harm others quickly deteriorated into a witch hunt.

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THE STUYVESANT BEE 219 by Mike Topp

April 21, 2024 · Mike Topp's Stuyvesant Bee

At first I didn’t mind living next door to a mad scientist but after a while I started to get irritated by the insane laughter coming from his laboratory at all hours of the day and night.

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