WET, The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing, 1976–81


presented by Julian Göthe


WET, The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing, Issue 1 (Vol. 1, No. 1), May/June 1976.

Published: Leonard Koren, 200A Westminster, Venice CA 90291.

4to (279 x 216 mm.), pp. [8].

Cover Design: “WET logo with dripping ink and grid of elements abstracted from “Mudbath” composed of small scale bathers designed by Leonard Koren".

Selected Content:

  • “Introduction by Leonard Koren”
  • “Photostory” featuring Leonard Koren
  • “Poolside snapshots from the first party at the Pico-Burnside Baths” by Paddy Reynolds
  • “Nights of the Bath" by Frederick Fisher
  • “Under underpants” by Lauren-Paul Caplin
  • “Due Voci a Tempo Bagno” by Steve Reich and Keith Jarrett
  • “Interview with Hope and Julia Alexander”

WET, The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing, Issue 2 (Vol. 1, No. 2), August/September 1976.

“Nothing but the Naked Truth”

Published: Leonard Koren, 200A Westminster, Venice CA 90291.

4to (279 x 216 mm.), pp. 15.

Cover Design: “Jeannine Olson getting hosed off after modelling for the lithograph “Mudbath” by Leonard Koren".

Selected Content:

  • “Best and Worst: To every place there is a season”
  • “Do it yourself: How to Build a Redwood Hot Tub” by Leon Elder
  • “The Further Adventures of Vapor Person" by Lyle Mayer
  • “Interview with Noel Young”
  • “New Products” by Irina Averkieff
  • “Wet to Wear” by Elizabeth Freeman
  • “Food and Poetry” by Lauren Paul-Caplin

WET, The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing Issue 3 (Vol. 1, No. 3), October/November 1976, $1.

“Bathe in Nothingness”

Published: Leonard Koren, 200A Westminster, Venice CA 90291.

4to (279 x 216 mm.), pp. 22.

Cover Design: “Two bathers in a six foot square jacuzzi designed by Tom Sewell”.

Selected Content:

  • “Drinking Water: Bathing from the Inside Out”
  • “At the Water bottling plant..”
  • “The Wonderful Waters - The WET Tasting Team samples Bottled Waters”
  • “Swimming across America” by Galen Cranz
  • “Beauty and the Biozone” by Elizabeth Freeman
  • “The Further Adventures of Vapor Person" by Lyle Mayer

WET, The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing, Issue 4 (Vol. 1, No. 4), December/January 1976, $1.

“Oral Hygiene, Naked People, Unusual Places, Mystical Insights”

Published: Leonard Koren, 200A Westminster, Venice CA 90291.

4to (279 x 216 mm.), pp. 30.

Cover Design: “Hope and Julia Alexander frolicking in the white tiled shower their father Peter built”.

Selected Content:

  • “No Onions" by Eve Babitz
  • “Toothpaste Ratings” by Irina Averkieff
  • “Oral Hygiene: WET interviews Brentwood dentist Rod Curry”
  • “Bodies of Water” by Stephen Laub
  • “Tales from my Toilet" by Paul Ruscha
  • “1977 Calendar: “23 beautiful women taking a bath in a bathing environment designed and built by artist Tom Sewell”
  • “Vapor Person”

WET, The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing, Issue 5 (Vol. 1, No. 5), February/March 1977, $1.

Published: Leonard Koren, 200A Westminster, Venice CA 90291.

4to (279 x 216 mm.), pp. 34.

Cover Design: “Ginny Livingston and Jayme Odgers enjoying the wholesome goodness of Rabyn Blake’s heated mudbath. Photograph by Guy Webster”.

Selected Content:

  • “The Healing Waters" interview with Bobby Klein
  • “Mud Mama" interview with Rabyn Blake
  • “Mud Matinee" - a gathering in Topanga Canyon co-hosted by Rabyn Blake & WET
  • “Wo/man” by Peter Hassinger
  • “For the Greater Good: Clean Water, Dirty Politics" by Lauren Elder
  • “Tea” interview with Peter Shire

WET, The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing, Issue 6 (Vol. 1, No. 6) April/May 1977, $1.

Published: Leonard Koren, P.O. Box 1017, Venice CA 90291.

4to (279 x 216 mm.), pp. 34.

Cover Design: “A vision of Southern California swimming pool culture by photographer Brian Leatart and designer Thomas Ingalls".

Selected Content:

  • “Center of World Problems” by Lowell D. Darling
  • “Secrets of the Super Spas” Book Review by Irina Averkieff
  • “Bathing Baby Buddha” by Jocelyn Fisher
  • “Floating bathing suit a boon to nude swimmers" (excerpt from Life magazine)
  • “Getting Wet in Public Places”
  • “Sweat", interview with Tom Johnson, author of The Sauna Book
  • “Detoxification” interview with John Calella
  • “FuDing Chen”
  • “Bob & Bob interview the USC Swim Team”
  • “The WET Scrapbook: Pictures from the third WET event by Lyle Mayer”

WET, The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing, Issue 7 (Vol. 2, No. 1), June/July 1977, $1.

Published: Leonard Koren, P.O. Box 1017, Venice CA 90291.

4to (279 x 216 mm.), pp. 34.

Cover Design: “Photo by Paul Vega, design by April Greiman".

Selected Content:

  • “Wet/Dry - A detailed statement of the magazine's philosophy”
  • “Back Attention” by Maeera Mougin and Lyn D. Root
  • “The Sutro Baths: Gone With the Tides" by Betsy Lewis
  • ”Two Bunch Palms" by Don Franzen
  • “Solar Heated Hot Tub” by Richard and Regina Dehr
  • “The Art of Bathing: Some advanced instruction in Japanese bathing techniques”
  • “Isolation Tanks” interview with Lee Leibner and Glenn Perry
  • “The Process of Ageing” by Athena Tacha
  • “Asian Bath Journal" by Judy Foreman
  • “Bob & Bob interview the Department of Water and Power”
  • “Center of World Problems” by Lowell Darling

WET, The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing, Issue 8 (Vol. 2, No. 2), August/September 1977, $1.

Published: Leonard Koren, P.O. Box 1017, Venice CA 90291.

4to (279 x 216 mm.), pp. 42.

Cover Design: “Covers: Mary Crawford. Photos by Guy Webster”.

Selected Content:

  • “Summer Profile” by Elizabeth Freeman
  • “Pyramid Lake, Havasu Falls” by Leonard Koren
  • “WET Dream Girls” by Leslie and Lisa Bowman, Sandi Iwataki and Charles Bush
  • “Ouch!” interview with rolfer Hank Walker
  • “Can a Conservative Middle-Aged Couple Find Happiness in a Redwood Spa?” by Charlotte A. Koch
  • “More Beauty: The Milky Way” by Maeera Mougin
  • “The Bath” by Gary Snyder
  • “3 Soaps” by Edith Benkow
  • “New Wave Music!” Wippo reviews the first DEVO single

WET, The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing, Issue 9 (Vol. 2, No. 3), November/December 1977, $1.

“Eclecticism”

Published: Leonard Koren, P.O. Box 1017, Venice CA 90291.

4to (279 x 216 mm.), pp. 42.

Cover Design: “Photograph by Matthew Rolston. Designed by Phillip Garner and Nancy Reese”.

Selected Content:

  • “Leaky Faucets”
  • “Different Notions of Cleanliness” by Athena Tacha
  • “Waterbeds - Great Expectations” by Eve Babitz
  • “Aquarium. Bacteria. Evolution. Geisha.” by Mark Schlesinger
  • “Hot & Cold Soups” by Irina Averkieff
  • “17 Beautiful Men Taking A Shower” by Leonard Koren
  • “Bathing with Mescalito” by Marc Ross
  • “Nudes” by Peter Hassinger
  • “Bob & Bob interview Levis Preston, the new Elvis”
  • “Water gardens” by Fuschsia Liverwort
  • “Q&A with Citizen Lowell Darling”
  • “Center of World Problems”
  • “John Sturgeon” by Sue Ellen Waller and Meghan Williams

WET, The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing, Issue 10 (Vol. 2, No. 4), January/February 1978, $1.

“Bent Bathing”

Published: WET Enterprises, P.O. Box 1017, Venice CA 9029.

4to (279 x 216 mm.), pp. 42.

Cover Design: “Photo: Moshe Braka, Model: Carol Mosner Straub, Design: Rip George”.

Selected Content:

  • “Bath Yoga” by Russell Clark
  • “Rain Forest Shower” by Patty Reynolds
  • “Bent Bathing” by Karen Pedersen
  • “Sweat” by Susan Gidcumb
  • “1978 Calendar”
  • “Dominant Watersports + Bathroom Bondage - Jane Gaskill interviews Madame Lou-Lou”
  • “Typographically Wet” by Gregory Thomas
  • “The Architecture of Frozen Water” by Marc Ross and John Masius
  • “Light From Steam” by Don Franzen
  • “Frozen Dinners” by Irina Averkieff
  • “Chic Cheek” by Maxine Wolf

WET, The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing, Issue 11 (Vol. 2, No. 5), March/April 1978, $1

“Animal”

Published: WET Enterprises, P.O. Box 1017, Venice CA 9029.

4to (279 x 216 mm.), pp. 42.

Cover Design: “Concept: Bunny Summers. Photos: Ben Sussman, Guy Webster. Models: Bunny, Eileen, Sandy and Mindi Sussman”.

Selected Content:

  • “Sounds of Soaking” by Kristine McKenna
  • “The Dial Soap Use Report” by Dr Ernest Dichter
  • “Bathing Habits of Non-Human Life Forms: Part 1”
  • “On turning Eighty” by Henry Miller
  • “Real Architecture for Surreal Lifestyles“ by Mark Mack
  • “Bob & Bob review the 1978 Dogs”
  • “Antique Hot Tub” interview with Sidney Copilow

WET, The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing, Issue 12 (Vol. 2, No. 6), May/June 1978, $1.

“Summer”

Published: WET Enterprises, P.O. Box 1017, Venice CA 9029.

4to (279 x 216 mm.), pp. 42.

Cover Design: “Cover concept and design: Dranoel Nerok. Illustration: Lynn Robb, Logo John Puchalski. Models: Dick and Jane”.

Selected Content:

  • “Confrontation Bathing” interview with Anthony Friedkin
  • “Frustrated Decade” by Judy Knoop
  • “Bob & Bob Explain Summer”
  • “Its Fizzy, Its Fun: A History of Seltzer Water” by Eugenie Bafaloukos
  • “Idaho’s secret Hot Springs” by Susan Geston
  • “Sunbathing” by Peter Hassinger
  • “Venice Sunroof” by Guy Webster
  • “The Intimate Gallery” by Martha Spellman

WET, The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing, Issue 13 (Vol. 3, No. 1), July/August 1978, $1.50

“Obsession”

Published: WET Enterprises, P.O. Box 1017, Venice CA 9029.

4to (279 x 216 mm.), pp. 50

Cover Design: “Photograph by Jules Bates, Illustration by Margaret Wynn, Logo by Jim Deesing".

Selected Content:

  • “Obsession” by Oscar Maxwell
  • “XTRA the Picture Newspaper” by Steve Lawrence and Miguel Sanchez
  • “Eternal Coffee“ by Charlie Haas
  • “Obsession” by Futzie Nutzle
  • “Excerpts from Sweat” by Mikkel Aaland

WET, Beyond Gourmet Bathing, Issue 14 (Vol. 3, No. 2), September/October 1978, $1.50

“Mud”

Published: WET Enterprises, P.O. Box 1017, Venice CA 9029.

4to (279 x 216 mm.), pp. 50.

Cover Design: “Photograph: Herb Ritts, design: WET Drones, logo: Jim Deesing, stylist: Tony Viramontes, model: Cocoa Mitchell”.

Selected Content:

  • “Modern Art” by Victoria Hamburg and John Peaslee
  • “Mystical Insights” by Futzie Nutzle
  • “Ritual” by Gregor Samsa
  • “Urban Camouflage” by Matt Groening
  • “Fiorucci” interview by Barbara Radice
  • “Eating Dirt” by Cheryl Lester
  • “Much of His Hair” by Linda Frye Burnham
  • “World Imitation Magazine” by World Imitation Productions
  • “Television/Tom Verlaine” interview by Philip Culp and Lynn Robb
  • “Aura Bath” by Irina Averkieff
  • “Body Brushing” by Susan Gidcumb Strauss
  • “Forbidden Words” by Matt Groening

WET, Beyond Gourmet Bathing, Issue 15 (Vol. 3, No. 3), November/December 1978, $1.50

“Style”

Published: WET Enterprises, P.O. Box 1017, Venice CA 9029.

4to (279 x 216 mm.), pp. 66.

Cover Design: “Roy Gyongy, Concept: WET Drones, Logo: Jim Deesing".

Selected Content:

  • “Future Fashion” by Matt Groening
  • “Art Functional, Art Wearable” by Matt Groening
  • “Style: WET interviews Timothy Leary, Candice Bergen, David Johansen and Cal Worthington”
  • “Future Fashion: Robin Lee Crutchfield” by Susan Springfield
  • “The Dice Life” by Irina Averkieff and Randall Badat
  • “Albino Gators in the Cool, Dark, Dank” by John Peaslee and Victoria Hamburg
  • “The Cars” interview with Ric Ocasek
  • “What does Entertainment show us about the Mental Health and Maturity Level of our Society” by Dr Linda

WET, Issue 16 (Vol. 3, No. 4) January/February 1979, $1.50

“Dry Love”

Published: WET Enterprises, P.O. Box 1017, Venice CA 9029.

Folio (346 x 276 mm.), pp. 72.

Cover design: “Design & Photograph: Beverly Parker”.

Selected Content:

  • “Current Events” by Matt Groening
  • “Bob & Bob: Falling in Love”
  • “The last chapter from an unpublished, surrealistic novel” by Sharon Hennessey
  • “1979 Calendar Insert”
  • “Love Witch” interview with Ruth Revzen
  • “Photos” by Marcia Resnick
  • “Talking Heads” Leonard Koren and Kristine McKenna interview Chris the drummer
  • “Hot-Dry Architecture” by Matt Groening

WET, Issue 17 (Vol. 3, No. 5), March/April 1979, $1.50

“Future”

Published: WET Enterprises, P.O. Box 1017, Venice CA 9029.

Folio (346 x 276 mm.), pp. 64.

Cover Design: “Daniel Arguelles. Photo: Lisa Powers and Taki Ono for Amnesia Studio”.

Selected Content:

  • “1979 Forecast” by Ruth Revzen
  • “Mind over Matter” by Lauren-Paul Caplin
  • “War with the Newts and other Novelties” by Oscar Maxwell
  • “Decorative Skin Mutilations” by Linda Stokes
  • “Insect Erotica“ by Howard Rheingold
  • “Modular Neurotics” by Dr Linda
  • “Canned Goods” by Cheryl Lester
  • “We Have Seen the Future and It Is Now“ by Victoria Hamburg and John Peaslee
  • “Brian Eno consults the Oracle” by Glenn O’Brian
  • “The Descent of Woman” by Oscar Maxwell
  • “Huh?” by Phillip Garner
  • “The Future of Reality” by Gene Youngblood

WET, Issue 18 (Vol. 3, No. 6), May/June 1979, $1.50

“Food”

Published: WET Enterprises, P.O. Box 1017, Venice CA 9029.

Folio (346 x 276 mm.), pp. 64.

Cover Design: “Actress Margot Kidder, photograph: Guy Webster”.

Selected Content:

  • “When Too Much is Never Enough” by Victoria Hamburg and John Peaslee
  • “Gourmet Madness” by Dr Linda
  • “Death by Starvation” by Oscar Maxwell
  • “The Well Heeled and the Walking Wounded” by Hunter Drohojowska
  • “Questions & Answers about Eschatological Chic” by Charlie Haas
  • “Undernourished Relationships” by Cheryl Lester
  • “Gourmet Bubbles” by Don Franzen
  • “Iggy Pop” interview by Kristine McKenna
  • “A long overdue Introduction” by Lea Perrin
  • “Squid Facts” by Isaac Cronin
  • “Eat Me Architecture” by Barbara Goldstein
  • “White Magic for the Lovelorn” by Ruth Revzen
  • “Fezzer’s Bathhouse Adventure” by Matt Groening
  • “Creative Methodologies” by Stephen Guarnaccia

WET, Issue 19 (Vol. 4, No. 1), July/August 1979, $1.50

“Outlaws”

Published: WET Enterprises, P.O. Box 1017, Venice CA 9029.

Folio (346 x 276 mm.), pp. 64.

Cover Design: “Deborah Harry, photograph: Larry Williams, type design: Jim Deesing".

Selected Content:

  • “xtremes" by Matt Groening
  • “Car Crazies” by Hunter Drohojowska
  • “Reflections and Connections” by John Peaslee and Victoria Hamburg
  • “Outlaws Past, Outlaws Present” by Debba Kunk, Dan Zam and L-379
  • “Zero Gravity” by Jeff Johnson and Wynn Miller
  • “Céline: Literary Outlaw” by Peter Hassinger
  • “Popcorn” by Anne Crawford
  • “Jerry” by Charlie Haas
  • “Boomtown Rats” interview by Kristine McKenna
  • “Bob & Bob interview real cops”
  • “Vegitechture” by Michael Sorkin
  • “A Dream” by Andronica Cat

WET, Issue 20 (Vol. 4, No. 2), September/October 1979, $1.50

“Religion”

Published: WET Enterprises, P.O. Box 1017, Venice CA 9029.

Folio (346 x 276 mm.), pp. 64.

Cover Design: “Ricci Martin, photograph: Guy Webster, design: April Greiman and Jayme Odgers".

Selected Content:

  • “My Life in Art” by Leonard Cohen
  • “Clean Clothes” by Susan LaTempa
  • “Sadhus” by Marshall Smith
  • “Instant This, Instant That” by John Peaslee and Victoria Hamburg
  • “Bitter Practice” by Lewis MacAdams
  • “Masks” by Roberta Markman
  • “Ritual Hydrology” by Doctor Bill Clewlow and Irina Averkieff
  • “Templizing Painting” interview with Peter Alexander
  • “Nicola Tesla” by Robert Bentley
  • “Nico and Lene Lovich" interviews by Kristine McKenna
  • “Tax Exempt Inc” by Hunter Drohojowska
  • “Death Speaks” by W. Somerset Maugham

WET, Issue 21 (Vol. 4, No. 3), November/December 1979, $1.75

“Is Language a Virus?”

Published: WET Enterprises, P.O. Box 1017, Venice CA 9029.

Folio (346 x 276 mm.), pp. 80.

Cover Design: “Sissy Spacek, photograph by Lisa Powers and Taki Ono, design by Roy Gyongy”.

Selected Content:

  • “The Language Virus Papers” by Howard Rheingold
  • “Symbolic Mutation” by Count Goblet d’Alviella
  • “Paris Interruptus” by John Peaslee and Victoria Hamburg
  • “Rolling with Tom and Jerry”: Interview with Jerry Harvey and Tom Sulter
  • “Guy de Cointet” by Michael Kurcfeld
  • “Concerning the Metaphysical Nature of Cigarettes” by Sharon Hennessey
  • “Not to Smoke” by Jean-Paul Sartre
  • “James Brown” interview by Kristine McKenna
  • “Howard Devoto” interview by Kristine McKenna
  • “Heavy Breathing” by Susan LaTempa
  • “Russian Jewish - My Favourite Type” by Ruth Charney

WET, Gourmet Bathing and Beyond, Issue 22 (Vol. 4, No. 4), January/February 1980, $1.75

“The Human Body”

Published: WET Enterprises, P.O. Box 1017, Venice CA 9029.

Folio (346 x 276 mm.), pp. 64.

Cover Design: “Richard Gere and the invisible man photographed by Larry Williams and designed by Paula Greif".

Selected Content:

  • “Mom and the Goldfish” by Laurel Ann Bogen
  • “Jonah on Fashion” by Jonah Greenberg
  • “Mondo Sumo” by Cheryl Lester and Taki Ono
  • “The Basketball Diaries” by Jim Carroll
  • “1980 Calendar”
  • “Longevity” by Rita Aero
  • “Unique McPeak” by Hunter Drohojowska
  • “David Byrne” interview by Kristine McKenna
  • “Is this your life?” by John Peaslee and Victoria Hamburg
  • “Business as Yoga” Wet interviews John Robinson
  • “Allee Willis” interview by Loren-Paul Caplin
  • “Artist’s Imitation” by Doug Hall
  • “The Root of High Abuse” by Mark Hunter

WET, Gourmet Bathing and Beyond, Issue 23 (Vol. 4, No. 5), March/April 1980, $1.75

“Interior Spaces”

Published: WET Enterprises, P.O. Box 1017, Venice CA 9029.

Folio (346 x 276 mm.), pp. 56.

Cover Design: “Illustration by Dave McMacken, photography by Guy Webster”.

Selected Content:

  • “Working Cats” photos by Terry Gruber
  • “The Welcome Backlash” by David Silvester, Frederick A. Praeger
  • “Kenneth Anger” an interview by Ann Bardach with photographs by Marcia Resnick
  • “The Box Man” by Kobo Abe
  • “Menage A’Un” by Julie Logan
  • “New Lines by William Burroughs”
  • “Dick Dale” by Kristine McKenna
  • “À la Recherche Du Baths Perdue” by Tom Schiller
  • “Eskimo Clothing” by James Kellogg
  • “Fezzer’s Hiding Place” by Matt Groening
  • “No Deposit, No Return” by John Peaslee and Victoria Hamburg
  • “Chairs, the Seat of Consciousness” by Stephanie Donon
  • “Designo Italiano” by Laurie Rosenwald
  • “The Ollies' New Pool” by Kristine McKenna

WET, Gourmet Bathing and Beyond, Issue 24 (Vol. 4, No. 6), May/June 1980, $1.75

“Travel Issue”

Published: WET Enterprises, P.O. Box 1017, Venice CA 9029.

Folio (346 x 276 mm.), pp. 60.

Cover Design: “Face: Mick Jagger, photo: Marcia Resnick, styling: Mary Lou Green, design: John Van Hamersveld, inset photo: Darius Anthony”.

Selected Content:

  • “The Book Of Coasts” by Marshall Brickman
  • “Psychic Surgery in the Phillippines” by C.J. Llift
  • “Captain Beefheart” interviewed by Kristine McKenna
  • “The Mystery of the Mutes” by Adam McLewis
  • “Travel Fashion” by Phil Garner, Nancy Reese, Denise Domergue, Mark Stock
  • “The Process of Elimination” Peter Warshall interview Rusty Schweickart
  • “Dennis and Diane transcend Sex” by Dennis Lamour and Diane Nonstud
  • “The Adventures of Howard Himmelstein” by Howard Himmelstein
  • “Transportecture” by Phil Garner
  • “Mick Jagger” interview by Liz Derringer

WET, Gourmet Bathing and Beyond, Issue 25 (Vol. 5, No. 1), July/Aug 1980, $1.75

“Special Anniversary 25th Issue”

Published: WET Enterprises, P.O. Box 1017, Venice CA 90291.

Folio (346 x 276 mm.), pp. 60.

Cover Design: “Dog: Whitey Stang, photo: Lisa Powers, illustration/design: Taki Ono”.

Selected Content:

  • “Wetrospective: A Look at Our First Fifteen Issues”
  • “Brian Eno” interview by Kristine McKenna
  • “1st Annual Wetplaces Winners”
  • “The Art of Rosaleas’s Hotel” by Lewis MacAdams
  • “Life at the monastery” by Leonard Koren

WET, Gourmet Bathing and Beyond, Issue 26 (Vol. 5, No. 2), September/October 1980, $2.25

“Power & Garbage”

Published: WET Enterprises, 2301 1/2 Main Street, Santa Monica, CA 90405.

4to (276 x 212 mm.), pp. 80.

Cover Design: “Design etc by John Van Hamersveld”.

Selected Content:

  • “An Open Letter to the Princess” by John Peaslee and Victoria Hamburg
  • “More Tales of Power” by Irina Averkieff
  • “The Science of Garbology” by Leroi MacAdams
  • “Thinktanks” by Howard Rheingold
  • “Paul Morrissey” interviewed by Ann Bardach
  • “Henry Darger’s Realms of the Unreal” by Lewis MacAdams
  • “Tom Verlaine” interviewed by Christine McKenna
  • “Some Wild Cherries” by Dale Herd
  • “Trashflow” by Phil Garner
  • “Tim Hardin” interview by Ann Bardach
  • “Some Illusions of Money” by MacAdam Lewis
  • “Corrugated Sheet Metal” by Frank Gehry
  • “Electric Powered Bathing”

WET, Gourmet Bathing & Beyond, Issue 27 (Vol. 5, No. 3), November 1980, $2.25

“We Eat Tuna”

Published: WET Enterprises, 2301 1/2 Main Street, Santa Monica, CA 90405.

4to (276 x 212 mm.), pp. 72.

Cover Design: “Photo/design by Dranoel Nerok".

Selected Content:

  • “Men in Skirts” photographs by Moshe Brakha
  • “Why I voted for Dick Brain” by Charlie Haas
  • “John Kennedy Jr, Son of Man” by Dennis Cooper
  • “Robert Smithson enters Art History” by Lewis MacAdams and Pet Patterson
  • “A Dead Kennedy Faces the Issues” by Stephen Rodefer
  • “Bud Cort drives us crazy” by Debba Kunk
  • “Stopping Time in the Avant-Garden”
  • “Gregory Corso, Chasing the last Fuckateer” by Jim Nisbet
  • “Ross Perot, eagles dont flock” by Jerry Lee Lewis MacAdams
  • “Robert Ashley, the Public Voice of Perfect Lives” by Kristine McKenna,
  • “Hero” by Peter Hassinger
  • “Holy Water” by Rev. Arnold MacAdams

WET, Gourmet Bathing & Beyond, Issue 28 (Vol. 5, No. 4), December 1980, $2.25

“Fire”, Dedicated to Arthur Brown

Published: WET Enterprises, 2301 1/2 Main Street, Santa Monica, CA 90405.

4to (276 x 212 mm.), pp. 72.

Cover Design: “Lisa Powers and Taki Ono”.

Selected Content:

  • “Apocalypse and How” by Richard Meltzer
  • “In A Foreign Land” by Michael Brownstein
  • “Spirit in the Dark” by Howard Rheingold
  • “Playing with Matches” by Greg MacGregor
  • “The Torch” by Leonard X. MacAdams
  • “Barbecuing white people in the suburbs” by Lewis MacAdams
  • “This Gun for Hire” by Lawrence of MaxAdams
  • “Children of Icarus” by Robert V. Camuto
  • “David Hockney likes Los Angeles”, an interview by Blair Sabol
  • “Smoking with the President of Thank Inc.” Kristine McKenna interviews George Clinton
  • “Fire Water” by Kim Stapley

WET, Gourmet Bathing and Beyond, Issue 29 (Vol. 5, No. 5), January 1981, $2.25

“Time”

Published: WET Enterprises, 2301 1/2 Main Street, Santa Monica, CA 90405.

4to (276 x 212 mm.), pp. 64.

Cover Design: “Photograph of Daphna by Guy Webster, concept/design by Elizabeth de Kooning”.

Selected Content:

  • “Just In Time” by Jim Trombetta
  • “No Time” by Howard Junker
  • “Time Flies” by Lewis MacAdams
  • “Women in Men’s shoes” photographed by Guy Webster
  • “Time and Again, California’s Last Spa”
  • “In No Time” Special Meher Baba Pictorial, with Meher Baba
  • “1981 Calendar Insert”
  • “Winston Tong and Bruce Geduldig Re-Enact the Mystery of the Neutrino” by Marek Majewski and John Acoca
  • “The Killing Time” Ann Bardach interviews Christopher Lee
  • “Times Were Hard” Merle Haggard interviewed by Kristine McKenna
  • “The Best Time of their Lives: Teenagers Tell Our Future”
  • “Time Will Tell” by Lewis MacAdams
  • “Time is Money and Time” by Corinna Mabuse
  • “Tick=Tock is the Real Father of Time” by John Peaslee, Victoria Hamburg
  • “Above Colorado” by Anne Lauterbach

WET, Issue 30 (Vol. 5, No. 6), March/April 1981, $2.25

Published: WET Enterprises, 2301 1/2 Main Street, Santa Monica, CA 90405.

Folio (276 x 212 mm.), pp. 68, illustrated wraps, saddle stitched.

Cover Design: “Cover Design and art insert by Bob Zoell".

Selected Content:

  • “A gallery of Noses” photographs by Guy Webster and Larry Williams
  • “China Club in L.A.”
  • “Inflatable Chinese Rain Hats”
  • “The $ Scientology Purification Rundown”
  • “Mark Alan Stamaty” interview by by Kristine McKenna
  • “Helmut Newton” interview by by Kristine McKenna
  • “A Palazzo in Venice” by Leonard Koren
  • “Sex with the Dead” by Lewis MacAdams
  • “Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality” by John Boswell
  • “Becker and Fagen of Steely Dan” interview by Kristine McKenna

WET, Issue 31 (Vol. 6, No. 1), May/June 1981, $2.25

Published: WET Enterprises, 2301 1/2 Main Street, Santa Monica, CA 90405.

4to (276 x 212 mm.), pp. 64.

Cover Design: “Elvis Costello by Pam Mower”.

Selected Content:

  • “Elvis Costello” interview by Kristine McKenna
  • “The Serious building Climber’s Handbook” by Mel Edelman
  • “World Guide to Nude beaches & Recreation”
  • “Amos Tutola" interview by Kristine McKenna
  • “Small corrugated shed penetrates large brick building in East Hollywood” by Leonard Koren
  • “Beverly Hills People: A Cast of 32,000”
  • “From Pus to Pious, John-Peter Witkins’ Carneval of Decay”
  • “Christ comes to Rodeo Drive”
  • “Sunday Afternoon Fever: Tokyo Teens strut their Stuff”
  • “Solar-powered Electric Chair”
  • “Stalking the Rare Black Molly”

WET, Issue 32 (Vol. 6, No. 2), July/August 1981, $2.25

Published: WET Enterprises, 2301 1/2 Main Street, Santa Monica, CA 90405.

4to (276 x 212 mm.), pp. 78.

Cover Design: “Teri Garr photographed by Penny Wolin-Semple".

Selected Content:

  • “Japanese Buyer’s Guide to Los Angeles Street Fashion”
  • “Enlist your Lymph Glands in the Fight Against Cellulite”
  • “The Stroke” by Lewis MacAdams
  • “David Lynch” interview by Kristine McKenna
  • “5 Queens” by Kristine McKenna
  • “Hart Island, New York, Island of the Dead” by Peter Koper
  • “Slash/Stuff it” WET interviews Steve Samiof
  • “First Homosexual Baths in Tokyo Tryout” by Kazuyoshi Miura
  • “Why Italian Toilets get better Milage” by Peter Shire

WET, Issue 33 (Vol. 6, No. 3), September/October 1981, $2.25 ($2.50 in Canada)

Published: WET Enterprises, 2301 1/2 Main Street, Santa Monica, CA 90405.

4to (276 x 212 mm.), pp. 78.

Cover Design: “Designed by Flamingo Terry with Mr. Ice Man for Tokyo Funky Studio”.

Selected Content:

  • “Head Dress” photographs by Guy Webster
  • “Swimmer’s Bodies” photographs by Josh Mitchell
  • “Laurie Anderson” interview by Kristine McKenna
  • “Tokyo Now”
  • “Tree Circus”
  • “Squeeze” interview by Kristine McKenna
  • “Henry Miller’s Bathroom” by Leonard Koren
  • “Wheatgrass-green blood”
  • “Capsule Hotel” by Kazuyoshi Miura
  • “Ecstasy”

WET, Issue 34 Gourmet Bathing & Beyond (Vol. 6, No. 4), November/December 1981, $2.25 ($2.50 in Canada)

“Love and Kisses”

Published: WET Enterprises, 2301 1/2 Main Street, Santa Monica, CA 90405.

4to (276 x 212 mm.), pp. 78.

Cover Design: “Priscilla Presley by Guy Webster, make-up by Noel de Souza, design by Leonard Koren”.

Selected Content:

  • “Glug!” photographs by Guy Webster, text by Ann Bardach
  • “San Francisco Street Art” by Brad Lapin
  • “A Novel Approach to Ed Ruscha”
  • “John Lydon and David Lee Roth” interview by Kristine McKenna
  • “Love Hotels” by Kazuyoshi Miura
  • “Sex in the Dark” by Matt Groening
  • “The Word F..k”