PLANET LOCO
Anthology of essays
1996-2002

Politics | Art | Sociology | Philosophy
385 pages + xxxvi paperback

Writer: Nina Wilhelmina

Editors: Luh Kingkin & Rawi Salatin

Proof readers & Preface writers:
Ryan Kane & Thomas Erskine

Supplement:
History of Indonesia 300 A.D. - 2002

Loco [Spanish]: crazy/mad

• A wise parent would tell her kids that they can be anything when they grow up, except happy.
• All men are brothers. That's why they keep borrowing your money.
• Cooks don't eat.
• Nothing works against stupidity, unless you consider AK-47.
• Life is a one-way street, built for the purpose of putting up roadside billboards.
• True love is a myth. So is the "Best Supporting Actor" category and the W. Bush administration.
• There's always a little light at the end of the dark tunnel. It usually is a fast train heading to your direction.
• If you hate a man so much, marry him.
• If you can't find anything new, the less boring will do.
• If you are out to lie, work on your vocabulary.

125 essays of contemporary Indonesia especially before, during and after the upheaval known as 'the Reform' in the end of the twentieth century. This book brings forth the issues of the day and alternative points of view upon virtually everything the writer puts her mind into: Presidential quirks, parliamentarian maneuvers, why feminism and communism are against commonsense, social snobs, artists and fine art, the eccentricity of the literati, marauders and manslaughter, civil wars, random hatred, the internet culture, thongs in workplaces, international crisis, manhandled music, ideological debates, the merit of football frenzy, the sin of golfers, the melancholy of monsoon, the bliss of ophthalmology, the nature of the air force, civil disobedience and the reasons to prohibit singing.

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BOOMTOWN BRATS
Anthology of notes/sketches
1998-2002

Arts & Humanities
265 pages + xxii paperback illustrated

Writer: Nina Wilhelmina

Illustrators: Malaie Verleger, Art Redner & Bintang Ratna

Editor: Rawi Salatin

Preface by: Ryan Kane

There was a dog who lived with a good family in a suburban area. He was given his own house at the front lawn and near the gate. He loved his life and he loved the postmen. He loved to lounge and bark occasionally at the people who were passing the house and considered it a good sport. There was a loganberry bush he particularly liked, and he loftily guarded his buried treasure under the shadow of the bush. One day a stray cat came and hopped onto the brick wall near the dog's house. "Hey, doggie," she smirked, "What's up with you today?" The dog said, "A lot! I've been....let's see...coming over some postmen, burying John's left shoe, chasing away some birds, and probably biting an alley cat or two, as a desert on today's menu." "Sounds like a typical Londoner's day," said the cat, sitting and yawning. "And what have you been doing, cat?" asked the dog. "I be," said the cat. "That's all. Not as busy as you are, obviously. Yet this is kind of tiring." The dog eyed her lugubriously. She was his favorite lunatic for her ability to talk like that. But he was not going to let her spoil his good day. He said "How do you know it is YOU that be?" "Because I know it isn't you," replied the cat. Moral: the confused soul can answer only that he does not understand who he is, he concludes what he is by ascertaining what he is not. Moral: Next time, doggie, remember that you're chained to the gatepost. Don't tease a cat who is completely free to scratch your nose.

(Lawn Dog & Alley Cat © 2000 Lance Gallagher & Nin)

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DOG DAYS EVE
Autobiographic stories
61 pages illustrated

Writer: Nina Wilhelmina
Illustrator: Nina Wilhelmina
Released 2002

The most devilish quality of the first eighteen years of your life is that all these can't be delegated to anyone else. You either do it yourself or come another way to your senses. Watching Young Guns won't mean you were a galloping outlaw and reading A Catcher in the Rye doesn't make you a bumpkin coming of age in the New York underground.

There is a strict line between fact and fiction. Between the two, real life is the more fantastic realm.

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NOT A NEW SONG
Lyrical prose
25 pages paperback illustrated

Writer: Nina Wilhelmina
Illustrator: Nina Wilhelmina
Editor: Rawi Salatin

Produced by Falcon, Ayr & Montrose Press, Scotland licensed by Badd Painting Indonesia with
Wordsmith Garage, Germany
Released 2001

the song was about a rainbow it said god created it and that was all about it. the next was about red flowers in somebody's front yard on the second couplet the flowers were pink it was not explained how come or if they were the same flowers all those in the song. the third was scary it told of people killing swans and ducks they put them into a big pot and there was a girl she asked them to dance four times alit had never liked this one. she knew all the songs the other kids knew them too those were the classic songs for kids nothing had changed nothing was new. or was it? alit thought she wouldn't have been affected she had heard all those songs before but she caught herself humming to them all the same. so alit thought they must have been good songs because good things are like them so much she had known that. good songs are new the second time around and they wouldn't get to be boring by endless repetition.

THE MISADVENTURES
OF ANGERINA KIBITZKY
Stories | Poetry | Sketches | Pictures | Lyrics
89 pages paperback illustrated

Writer: Nina Wilhelmina
Illustrator: Nina Wilhelmina

Editors:
Rawi Salatin & Lance Gallagher

Produced by Badd Painting Indonesia with
Falcon, Ayr & Montrose Press, Scotland
Released 2001

Kibitz [slang, American English]: meddling in other people's business

"Well," Zorn closed her eyes in recollection, "No evidence that they lied about the last time they saw Minoue alive. All fits into Gascoine's midnight to one-twenty. Everybody got an alibi. Unless this is Agatha Christie's conspiracyism - but so far there's nothing to sustain the theory. Michael Starr is generally liked by everyone. Of course he also slept with Matsuri Minoue, but I think it's nothing to them - unless Destiny wasn't as peculiar as people said of her, in which case Matsuri or/and Starr might have gotten a sudden inspiration to whack her when a fight ensued. Bobby East knows nothing of the affair - or so I conclude this far. He's the most unpredictable. He could have become homicidal, suicidal or both had he known about it, or he forgot it in a second or took it as normal. No one really was a friend of the Spiessbuerger couple, except Destiny. The Spiessbuergers don't belong there -- they are too far away from being artistic. Maisy Spiessbuerger could have done it as you said. But the reason wouldn't have been herself - it must have been the kid. Maxim Spiessbuerger is five year-old, but there are cases of very young kids who killed for or without reason. What a stupid name they gave him. If I were him I might have killed because of that."

FIFTEEN STORIES +
CHEMISTRY OF THE NIGHT
© 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 Nin

Compilation of previously published stories
(1989 - 2001)
56 pages Badd Painting Archives

ICED (1989)
POINT ZERO (1990)
FEATHERWEIGHT (1991)
MORE OR LESS GOD (1991)
DOG, Ph.D (1992)
WIFE (1992)
JADED (1993)
SORE (1994)
DISCOUNT (1994)
VOID (1994)
FLOWERS ON HER HEAD (1995)
ABOUT THE MORROW (1996)
SLUSH FACTORY (1996)
ROMANCE AT SHORT NOTICE (1997)
WAIF WATCHER (1999)
+ CHEMISTRY OF THE NIGHT (2001)

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