January 24, 2025 at 6:22 PM
If you're tired of the phrase "Fuck around and find out," there are a slew of alternatives from other countries. My favorite is the Czech expression, "Eat a candle. Shit a candle."
More over at Torn Pages. www.patreon.com/c/tornpages
More over at Torn Pages. www.patreon.com/c/tornpages
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March 17, 2025 at 5:34 PM
If you're tired of the phrase "Fuck around and find out," there are a slew of alternatives from other countries. My favorite is the Czech expression, "Eat a candle. Shit a candle."
More over at Torn Pages. www.patreon.com/c/tornpages
More over at Torn Pages. www.patreon.com/c/tornpages
I just hit 125 posts over at Torn Pages. If real pages of nonexistent books is your thing (and isn't it everybody's?) then head over there. Laughs abound.
To make it even easier, the first 100 Torn Pages are free, free, free. Check it out here:
www.patreon.com/c/tornpages
To make it even easier, the first 100 Torn Pages are free, free, free. Check it out here:
www.patreon.com/c/tornpages
Get more from Johnny Shaw's Torn Pages on Patreon
creating real pages from nonexistent books
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August 21, 2025 at 9:36 PM
I just hit 125 posts over at Torn Pages. If real pages of nonexistent books is your thing (and isn't it everybody's?) then head over there. Laughs abound.
To make it even easier, the first 100 Torn Pages are free, free, free. Check it out here:
www.patreon.com/c/tornpages
To make it even easier, the first 100 Torn Pages are free, free, free. Check it out here:
www.patreon.com/c/tornpages
For the 3 people who care, I'm back from my hiatus and am posting new Torn Pages regularly again.
For those people who don't know what I'm talking about (everyone minus 3), I've written some of my funniest & weirdest work here. The first 100 Torn Pages are free to read.
www.patreon.com/c/tornpages
For those people who don't know what I'm talking about (everyone minus 3), I've written some of my funniest & weirdest work here. The first 100 Torn Pages are free to read.
www.patreon.com/c/tornpages
Get more from Johnny Shaw's Torn Pages on Patreon
creating real pages from nonexistent books
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January 10, 2025 at 3:35 PM
For the 3 people who care, I'm back from my hiatus and am posting new Torn Pages regularly again.
For those people who don't know what I'm talking about (everyone minus 3), I've written some of my funniest & weirdest work here. The first 100 Torn Pages are free to read.
www.patreon.com/c/tornpages
For those people who don't know what I'm talking about (everyone minus 3), I've written some of my funniest & weirdest work here. The first 100 Torn Pages are free to read.
www.patreon.com/c/tornpages
Remember, when you buy the inaugural issue of YOU HAD TO BE THERE, you don't just get one copy. You get two copies for the same price.
One for you. And one to leave in your dentist's office. It's called marketing. Look it up.
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One for you. And one to leave in your dentist's office. It's called marketing. Look it up.
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June 15, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Remember, when you buy the inaugural issue of YOU HAD TO BE THERE, you don't just get one copy. You get two copies for the same price.
One for you. And one to leave in your dentist's office. It's called marketing. Look it up.
www.patreon.com/tornpages/sh...
One for you. And one to leave in your dentist's office. It's called marketing. Look it up.
www.patreon.com/tornpages/sh...
In a world where a bunch of fake shit is being created from real writing, why not support a writer creating real writing from a bunch of fake shit. Or something like that.
I just posted the 132nd Torn Page. The first 100 are FREE for anyone to read!
www.patreon.com/tornpages
I just posted the 132nd Torn Page. The first 100 are FREE for anyone to read!
www.patreon.com/tornpages
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October 20, 2025 at 2:57 PM
In a world where a bunch of fake shit is being created from real writing, why not support a writer creating real writing from a bunch of fake shit. Or something like that.
I just posted the 132nd Torn Page. The first 100 are FREE for anyone to read!
www.patreon.com/tornpages
I just posted the 132nd Torn Page. The first 100 are FREE for anyone to read!
www.patreon.com/tornpages
Pre-orders are open for my Xeroxed and stapled funzine, YOU HAD TO BE THERE! Buy it or become a Torn Pages patron. You win either way.
Including art by a young @jordanharper.bsky.social & an exclusive excerpt of @jesslourey.bsky.social's horror screenplay, HOG!
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Including art by a young @jordanharper.bsky.social & an exclusive excerpt of @jesslourey.bsky.social's horror screenplay, HOG!
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April 14, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Pre-orders are open for my Xeroxed and stapled funzine, YOU HAD TO BE THERE! Buy it or become a Torn Pages patron. You win either way.
Including art by a young @jordanharper.bsky.social & an exclusive excerpt of @jesslourey.bsky.social's horror screenplay, HOG!
www.patreon.com/tornpages/sh...
Including art by a young @jordanharper.bsky.social & an exclusive excerpt of @jesslourey.bsky.social's horror screenplay, HOG!
www.patreon.com/tornpages/sh...
According to the shipping & receiving dept at Wisconsin HQ (aka @ericaruthneubauer.bsky.social) the first printing of YOU HAD TO BE THERE is in the mail.
Thanks for everyone who bought a copy. There's still time to order what everyone's calling "You made a what?"
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Thanks for everyone who bought a copy. There's still time to order what everyone's calling "You made a what?"
www.patreon.com/tornpages/sh...
Buy “You Had To Be There #1: The Only Magazine that Matters” on Patreon | Johnny Shaw's Torn Pages
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June 25, 2025 at 11:11 PM
According to the shipping & receiving dept at Wisconsin HQ (aka @ericaruthneubauer.bsky.social) the first printing of YOU HAD TO BE THERE is in the mail.
Thanks for everyone who bought a copy. There's still time to order what everyone's calling "You made a what?"
www.patreon.com/tornpages/sh...
Thanks for everyone who bought a copy. There's still time to order what everyone's calling "You made a what?"
www.patreon.com/tornpages/sh...
I'm not sure what it is either, but if you want to read comics Jordan Harper drew when he was 10 and an excerpt of Jess Lourey's horror screenplay "Hog!" plus a bunch of my shenanigans (I'm particularly proud of the TMNT/Finnegan's Wake mashup), then it's for you.
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www.patreon.com/tornpages/sh...
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June 3, 2025 at 7:37 PM
I'm not sure what it is either, but if you want to read comics Jordan Harper drew when he was 10 and an excerpt of Jess Lourey's horror screenplay "Hog!" plus a bunch of my shenanigans (I'm particularly proud of the TMNT/Finnegan's Wake mashup), then it's for you.
www.patreon.com/tornpages/sh...
www.patreon.com/tornpages/sh...
In April, 2026, the Romantasy publisher Ever Amour Books was accused of using AI to create a large number of books on their list. Defiantly, they published their summer catalogue in defense, including the synopses of their upcoming books.
I'll let you be the judge.
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I'll let you be the judge.
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May 13, 2026 at 11:15 AM
In April, 2026, the Romantasy publisher Ever Amour Books was accused of using AI to create a large number of books on their list. Defiantly, they published their summer catalogue in defense, including the synopses of their upcoming books.
I'll let you be the judge.
www.patreon.com/tornpages
I'll let you be the judge.
www.patreon.com/tornpages
Read the interview and then plan on giving Johnny $6.65 of your hard-earned money.
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June 11, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Read the interview and then plan on giving Johnny $6.65 of your hard-earned money.
www.patreon.com/tornpages/sh...
www.patreon.com/tornpages/sh...
Just posted a page from the rare ska zine SKANKIN' IN 2-TONE TOWN over at Torn Pages.
If you need a laugh (and who doesn't right now), the first 100 Torn Pages are available to everyone to read, not just patrons.
www.patreon.com/tornpages
If you need a laugh (and who doesn't right now), the first 100 Torn Pages are available to everyone to read, not just patrons.
www.patreon.com/tornpages
Get more from Johnny Shaw's Torn Pages on Patreon
creating real pages from nonexistent books
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February 15, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Just posted a page from the rare ska zine SKANKIN' IN 2-TONE TOWN over at Torn Pages.
If you need a laugh (and who doesn't right now), the first 100 Torn Pages are available to everyone to read, not just patrons.
www.patreon.com/tornpages
If you need a laugh (and who doesn't right now), the first 100 Torn Pages are available to everyone to read, not just patrons.
www.patreon.com/tornpages
Here you go. Coincidentally, also the only place you can get my Juggalo noir novella WHOOP! WHOOP! that I wrote as Icy Thug Nutz (I'm not kidding. It's a real book I took actual time to write.)
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June 3, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Here you go. Coincidentally, also the only place you can get my Juggalo noir novella WHOOP! WHOOP! that I wrote as Icy Thug Nutz (I'm not kidding. It's a real book I took actual time to write.)
www.patreon.com/tornpages/sh...
www.patreon.com/tornpages/sh...
Here's the exclusive sales channel (a term I've heard used by businessmen). Also the only place to get a copy of my juggalo noir novella WHOOP! WHOOP! that I wrote as Icy Thug Nutz (I'm not kidding. It's a real book that I took actual time to write.)
www.patreon.com/tornpages/sh...
www.patreon.com/tornpages/sh...
Buy “You Had To Be There #1: The Only Magazine that Matters” on Patreon | Johnny Shaw's Torn Pages
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June 3, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Here's the exclusive sales channel (a term I've heard used by businessmen). Also the only place to get a copy of my juggalo noir novella WHOOP! WHOOP! that I wrote as Icy Thug Nutz (I'm not kidding. It's a real book that I took actual time to write.)
www.patreon.com/tornpages/sh...
www.patreon.com/tornpages/sh...
The 2 new Torn Pages are only for patrons, but the first 100 can be read by anyone. Where else can you read sentences like this?
As was his right, the lefthanded right-wing amputer left, but he had been right—all that was left was my right.
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As was his right, the lefthanded right-wing amputer left, but he had been right—all that was left was my right.
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Get more from Johnny Shaw's Torn Pages on Patreon
creating real pages from nonexistent books
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January 19, 2025 at 3:18 PM
The 2 new Torn Pages are only for patrons, but the first 100 can be read by anyone. Where else can you read sentences like this?
As was his right, the lefthanded right-wing amputer left, but he had been right—all that was left was my right.
www.patreon.com/c/tornpages
As was his right, the lefthanded right-wing amputer left, but he had been right—all that was left was my right.
www.patreon.com/c/tornpages
Day 215
This one's for you, #FuhrerFlorida
🎵We were only seventeen
We were holding in our screams🎵
#AnneFrank
#TheSecret
#TornPages
1246 #Days&Days to go
#ProtestSongs
#Gasoline
#StillHidingInHomes
#TheAirborneToxicEvent
This one's for you, #FuhrerFlorida
🎵We were only seventeen
We were holding in our screams🎵
#AnneFrank
#TheSecret
#TornPages
1246 #Days&Days to go
#ProtestSongs
#Gasoline
#StillHidingInHomes
#TheAirborneToxicEvent
Florida bans the Diary of Anne Frank.
A literary classic that serves as a cautionary tale about the rise of fascism and the importance of documenting atrocities as they’re occurring.
We all must document this time in history. Keep copies. Write everything down.
Make sure that the truth will out.
A literary classic that serves as a cautionary tale about the rise of fascism and the importance of documenting atrocities as they’re occurring.
We all must document this time in history. Keep copies. Write everything down.
Make sure that the truth will out.
August 23, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Day 215
This one's for you, #FuhrerFlorida
🎵We were only seventeen
We were holding in our screams🎵
#AnneFrank
#TheSecret
#TornPages
1246 #Days&Days to go
#ProtestSongs
#Gasoline
#StillHidingInHomes
#TheAirborneToxicEvent
This one's for you, #FuhrerFlorida
🎵We were only seventeen
We were holding in our screams🎵
#AnneFrank
#TheSecret
#TornPages
1246 #Days&Days to go
#ProtestSongs
#Gasoline
#StillHidingInHomes
#TheAirborneToxicEvent
In the labyrinthine scriptorium of the soul, it's the torn pages that hold the most light.
#ScriptoriumOfTheSoul #VulnerabilityAsIllumination #TornPages
#ScriptoriumOfTheSoul #VulnerabilityAsIllumination #TornPages
September 28, 2025 at 7:30 AM
In the labyrinthine scriptorium of the soul, it's the torn pages that hold the most light.
#ScriptoriumOfTheSoul #VulnerabilityAsIllumination #TornPages
#ScriptoriumOfTheSoul #VulnerabilityAsIllumination #TornPages