J. Tanner Cusick is a charlatan dilettante exploring contemporary applications of fascist altruism.

Committed to the permutations of the night, he is the founder of Salon 269, a radically amorphous group of artists in lab coats who are researching the New Etiquette. Symposiums are held, pamphlets distributed, and forts built.

Currently on the table is a proposal for utopias that cannot last; it seems better this way.

Tanner is also at work on a treatise concerning the difficulties of fun. He feels a solution should be imminent.

His goal for 2007 is to throw “The Party of the Year” four times.

There is no reason not to believe any of this.