What White Elephant is a zine published in Midwestern City, MO., U.S.A., by Bigotry Industries. It focuses on black comedy and rock music, along with explosions. The title was taken from an idiom for a valuable but burdensome possession of which its owner cannot dispose and whose cost (particularly cost of upkeep) is out of proportion to its usefulness or worth. The zine has a number of reoccurrin
g features such as: Horoscopes by Madame Super Duper, a social advice column by Young & Dumb, poetry by local artists and a back page highlighting the latest things the writing staff has overhead out & about in the world. Contributors to What White Elephant have included Yeti_Detective, mr.ficklebritches, Marshall Edwards, Peanut Scholar, Spike Stackhouse, Madame Super Duper, Handful of Euphemisms, Guy Debord, Butchcat Bitchmouth, Young & Dumb, Sergeant Heartstomp, Richard Nixon and featuring poets Bliss, themanwiththegreenhat, Daniel Jones, and selected art by Dan M**h, Simon Crawford & Juha Korhonen. As of this immediate moment in particular space time, What White Elephant is available in physical copy by joining the zine's exclusive free mailing list (offer void in Tennessee, Kentucky and parts of southwestern Virginia), or by visiting their Scribd page for a digital pdf issue.
