Issue 18 was by filmmaker and visual artist Mike Mills. Entitled “The Fabric of Events,” the issue was a minimalist nod to the punk rock aesthetic of the 70’s and 80’s and served as both a 2013 pocket calendar and a brief survey of culturally relevant historical events from the last two centuries, from the invention of the telegraph in 1844 to Reagan’s assassination attempt in 1981 to Kurt Cobain’s first childhood poem in 1976.  In the book’s introduction, Mike wrote:

“Traditionally in aviation, accident investigations focus on creating a “chain of events” to understand a crash - a number of actions and their effects in a singular contiguous order. When Air France Flight 447 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean in 2009, I was surprised to see the phrase “fabric of events” used - a new model that emphasized many sequences working simultaneously on different levels and directions, with and against each other to make a particular moment in time possible. The idea of a historical fabric points to a non-hierarchical, non-linear way of understanding how moments, events, laws, things external and “real,” and things internal and subjective can shape our present story of who we are and how we love and are alone, how we are controlled and attempt to be free, and our relationship to different kinds of people and plants and animals.  The entries here were pulled and edited from sites like Wikipedia and About.com. The images were culled from Google image searches.”