Erik Houdini
A miracle escape.
Louisiana born. Elder Zoomer. DSA member and founder of HOUDINI Magazine. The indie-web's most well-known political pundit.
HOUDINI runs on its readers. Members pay for the magazine and the people who make it.
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New from HOUDINI
Babylon Dialectic. HOUDINI's trading card game: 250 cards drawn from real paintings, free to play in your browser.
HOUDINI.TV. Eight channels of free television from the crates: grindhouse horror, cartoons, anime, kaiju, skate tapes, wrestling and leftist lectures.
Goat DS. A Goat Format companion for the Nintendo DS. About 600 people downloaded it in its first two weeks.
The HOUDINI network
HOUDINI Magazine. The magazine itself, with new pieces from the HOUDINI Collective every week.
Gaslight. Public domain pulp, free to read, with a printable zine for every story.
Temple of Ra. Goat Format and the 1999 Tokyo Dome era of Yu-Gi-Oh!, home of the challenges that became Goat DS.
HOUDINI on itch. Homebrew for the Nintendo DS and DSi, like DOOMDINI and Snap Camera, plus the zines.
The Zine Rack. Zines from the collective, free to read and print.
It Came From the Crates. The collective's favorite finds on the Internet Archive.
Dead projects lie in the Crypt.
The HOUDINI Collective Link Arcana SmokeBreak
Latest from the magazine
- November 2EDITORIAL: Republicans Have No Right to Rule
- October 31Dockworkers and Activists Block Ports Across the World in Protest Against War, Genocide
- October 26Shem Shelley's FROM UTOPIA - Issue 46
- October 23Hyperspekulation: A Blackened Ecology for the End of the Summer
- October 22SLUG SELECTS: HOUDINIWEEN
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The Crimson Crypt
HOUDINI's private Discord, for the artists and organizers around the magazine. Draculas get in at $7 a month through Patreon.Work with Erik
I write about politics and the indie web, and I build websites. Both are for hire.
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About Erik Houdini
Louisiana born. Elder Zoomer. DSA member and founder of HOUDINI Magazine. The indie-web's most well-known political pundit. Known for coming up out of the gutter, creeping through your thought membranes, and exploding onto the scene like a landmine in the killing fields or the ocean passages that power a collapsing economy. Living in the cool zone. A collaborative mindset for creation led to what has been built. Took the name Houdini and brought it back 100 years later. Game recognizes game. It's about a miracle escape. Build something with your hands, even if the gears of the system have left them bruised. We will build together, our solidarity allowing us to break through the pain of a system designed to break us. From this we will create a new world, a new culture, a new, just society.
In a collapsing world, kindness stands resolute, breaking through the nihilistic, death-as-worth, necropolitical landscape of the second quarter of the 21st century.
Hauntological necromancer. Graphic designer. Esoteric internet celebrity. Chaos magician. Militant guerrilla marketing guru. Pulp author. Socialist. Poet. Person of Interest.
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