How did Morbid Curiosity start?
In 1988, my husband and I moved out here, and in January of ’89 we went to a slide show at SF Camera Works put on by Re/Search [an independent publisher of classic counterculture collections such as Modern Primitives, Pranks! and Bodily Fluids]. [Re/Search publishers] V. Vale and Andrea Juno were finishing a book and we went up to talk to them. They were a big reason we came out here. There was all this stuff going on in San Francisco and we had to be here. I was a Michigan farm girl; my dad’s a pig farmer with about 400 pigs and 100 cows. I went to college in Ann Arbor, but I was pretty much straight off the farm. So A.J. pulled out pictures from Modern Primitives and said, “Do you think these will make it through customs?” I had never seen anything like it in my life. So we helped them to do everything, but mostly I schlepped books around and saw how it was possible for two people to do this amazing thing. Inspired by tha
