A new group blog from the estimable provocateur Dr. Menlo, American Samizdat, themed so: “underground word lines especially needed by progit-heavy U.S.” It will include contributions from invited participants including “Fred Pyen of Metascene, Andrew Aab of gmtPlus9, Kirsten Anderson (founder, owner and curator of Seattle’s first and best alternative art gallery, the Roq La Rue), Brooke Biggs (formerly purveyor of the Bush Files over at Mother Jones, who now does the highly recommended Bittershack)…”, that ol’ Bushwacker Fred Lapides, Adam Rice from randomWalks, Mark Woods of wood s lot, and Jim of jimwich. RU Sirius was invited too, but no sign of him yet…

I’m honored to have been among the invitees, and may post there from time to time. Dr. Menlo astutely reassured me in the invitation letter that he doesn’t intend this to take any more time than my preexisting weblogging activities — that would be like blood from a stone — but that I might get extra mileage from time to time from posting some of the items from FmH on issues that particularly incense me.