James Thaddeus "Jim" Goad (born June 12, 1961) is an American author and publisher, noted for the controversy surrounding his (now defunct) magazine ANSWER Me!. Image File history File links Unbalanced_scales. ... For other uses, see Author (disambiguation). ... A publisher is a person or entity which engages in the act of publishing. ... ANSWER Me! was a magazine edited by Jim and Debbie Goad. ...

He was raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 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. Nickname: City of Brotherly Love, Philly, the Quaker City Motto: Philadelphia maneto (Let brotherly love continue) Location in Pennsylvania Coordinates: Country United States State Pennsylvania County Philadelphia Founded October 27, 1682 Incorporated October 25, 1701 Mayor John F. Street (D) Area    - City 369. ... Debbie Goad was born Debbie Rosalie in Brooklyn, New York. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... Flag Seal Nickname: City of Angels Location Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates , Government State County California Los Angeles County Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 1,290. ... Nickname: Location of Portland in Multnomah County and the state of Oregon Coordinates: , Country State Counties Multnomah, Washington, Clackamas Incorporated February 8, 1851 Government  - Type Commission  - Mayor Tom Potter[1]  - Commissioners Sam Adams Randy Leonard Dan Saltzman Erik Sten  - Auditor Gary Blackmer Area  - City 145. ... Year 1994 (MCMXCIV) The year 1994 was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by the United Nations. ...

Jim and Debbie published four issues of their zine before running afoul of authorities with #4 (the "Rape Issue") which was discovered for sale at The Newstand International 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. During the trial, the DA told the jury that "Basically, it tells you how to rape everyone".^[1] In actuality, though different contributors (notably Randall Phillip and Shaun Partridge) advocated rape, no expository explanation for rape existed. A zine—an abbreviation of the word fanzine, and originating from the word magazine[1][2]—is most commonly a small circulation, non-commercial publication of original or appropriated texts and images. ... ANSWER Me! was a magazine edited by Jim and Debbie Goad. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...

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.) Colorado DOC Photo of Duran Francisco Martin Duran (born September 8, 1968 in Albuquerque, New Mexico) is best known for his actions of 29 October 1994 when he fired 29 rounds from a rifle at the White House. ...

In June 1997 Debbie Goad learned that she had ovarian cancer.Jim and Debbie Goad divorced in December 1997. In 1998, he was arrested for beating his then-girlfriend Anne Sky Ryan, who had left several death threats on his answering machine (all documented on jimgoad.net) and against whom he had filed a restraining order. 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. The Redneck Manifesto is the title of a 1997 book by author Jim Goad in which he deliniates some of his views about what he sees to be the disenfranchisement by modern culture of some specific groups, and how certain aspects of our society such as racism and sexism cover... Cover of the first English edition of 1793 of Benjamin Franklins autobiography. ...

For years Goad has been promising works ranging from an encyclopedia about race to a definitive story of the origins of NASCAR, but these works have yet to materialize.

He maintains a website which has an archive of his old articles and new items. Scapegoat Publishing published an expanded reprint of ANSWER Me!: The First Three in 2006. Feral House published Jim Goad's GIGANTIC BOOK OF SEX in April 2007. Goad currently lives in Atlanta, GA with his wife Shannon. They are expecting a boy soon whom they have already named Zane Thaddeus Goad. In early June of 2008, Goad was diagnosed with a plum sized brain tumor that has a low probability of being cancerous. [1] Feral House is a book publisher owned and operated by Adam Parfrey. ... This article is about the state capital of Georgia. ...

Works

• ANSWER Me!: The First Three. Edinburgh: AK Press, 1994; Baltimore: Scapegoat Publishing, 2006. ISBN 1-873176-03-1
• The Redneck Manifesto. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997. ISBN 0-684-83113-9
• Shit Magnet: One Man's Miraculous Ability to Absorb the World's Guilt. Los Angeles: Feral House, 2002. ISBN 0-922915-77-6
• Truck Drivin' Psycho (CD). Discriminate Audio, 2003 (reissue of 1996 album).
• Trucker Fags in Denial (comic book with artist Jim Blanchard). Seattle: Fantagraphics Books, 2004.
• Jim Goad's GIGANTIC BOOK OF SEX. Los Angeles, Feral House, 2007. ISBN 1-932595-20-1

AK Press is a collectively owned and operated independent publisher and book distributor that specialises in radical and anarchist literature. ...

Contributions

• S.W.A.T. Deep Inside a Cop's Mind (CD). Amphetamine Reptile Records, 1994.
• "Let's Hear It for Violence Toward Women!", on The Boyd Rice Experience, Hatesville! (CD). World Serpent Distribution, 1995.
• "Roadkill" (excerpt from Shit Magnet), in Apocalypse Culture II, ed. Adam Parfrey. Venice, CA: Feral House, 2000.

Apocalypse Culture II is a book edited by Adam Parfrey and published by Feral House in 2000 (ISBN 0-922915-57-1). ...

External links

• Jim Goad's Personal Website
• The UNPOP ART Movement's official website
• DISCRIMINATE AUDIO website
• Audio interview about The Redneck Manifesto
• Wikiquote