March 2012 Blog Posts (76)

I have been trying to avoid writing a blog about memories of Zines from the past,but as i prepare to begin my sentence within the next week(as soon as theres a bed open),I feel compelled to put down something for posterity,and shit.I think 85 was a good year.I was living in a Ford Econoline in Berkeley with my wife,a 17 year old runaway from Boston.University Avenue had a cool coffee shop,that was our bathroom/breakfast spot.Comic Relief was around the corner.That was where i first met D,who…

Thanks to everyone who stopped by the Junk Drawer table at the Chicago Zine Fest.  It was fun with Guess the Odds & Ends.  Some people…

Things I need for my next issue:

• a list of some of your favorite sandwich toppings
• someone who can draw a sandwich 

e-mail me at theavocadozine@gmail.com by April 1st!

I went to Chicago Zine fest with Simone yesterday, and it was AMAZING.  The community there was so friendly and welcoming, and I bought some great zines )Indigo, You've Got a Friend in PA, Hoax, "Life, Death, Love & All of the Above", Mend my Dress, On the Cusp,and a few others. I also got to meet some fantastic people.  Thanks to everyone there who willingly engaged in long conversations with that random girl flipping through their zines. 

The Enchanted Times has been sitting happily alongside my TangleCrafts stuff for the last couple of years, but it actually now makes up at least half of my stock, so that the TangleCrafts header wasn't really feeling like the most appropriate sales banner for it (although still appropriate to the rest of the stuff).  Although I will continue to keep a lesser amount of ET stock in the…

Just picked up these new Rad Dads yesterday. As always, totally awesome.

Rad Dad #21

"Another issue of Rad Dad- the awesome, long-running zine on radical parenting. This issue has a focus on the Occupy…

Relaxed after reading

I closed my book.

My eyelids follow

and there appeared stairs.

I began to descend

step after step.

The light of my lantern

bounced off the quartz

embedded in the walls.

I blinked my eyes

and a draft of air,

a repeating echo,

swept me away...

across an ocean

and an ocean beyond

across outer space

across time itself ...

There appeared ahead

a high raised place.

I stood on a mountain…

A Small Success is Still a Success on Great White Appetite

CALLING ALL QUEER FOLKS EVERYWHERE OF ALL AGES!!! (:

My BFF Alex and I are starting a zine! It’s going to be called “Array: A Queer Manifesto of Life” We’re now taking submissions for the zine and we want to hear from YOU!



You can submit: 

-A Short Story/Poetry/Prose/Lyrics 

-Personal Experiences 

-Rant/Rave

-Collage

-Photos

-Inspiring…

Hi, my name is Gabriel, I'm from France and I'm here in the United States for six months as an international student in San Francisco. I'm currently doing research on zines: I study communication in France and I'm writting a 60 pages thesis about zines and alternative medias in the American underground culture.

I would like to get in contact with zinesters to interview them for my research. If you are or used to be a zinester and are willing to help, get in touch with me! The…

It's Spring and I'm It on Great White Appetite

Go read the interview here: Once Upon A Distro.com

Seattle: A Formal Apology, pt. 3 on Great White Appetite

i didn't make it to the shitty,stupid,fucking sellout fake zinefest last year.neither did dylan.he had a good reason,but mine is better-it SUCKED SHIT.i was at work,for one.if your a member of we make zines,work is a place you go when you grow up and pay bill's-you'll find out about it later.anyway's,though,how do i know it was a horrible travesty and a crime against the zine community(which also sucks)?well,first off'it was located in Compound,a fucking stuffy,sellout capitalist dump that…

Seattle: A formal Apology, pt. 2 on Great White Appetite

Is there any way to put PDFs up on wemakezines for download?

Yay, after 2 years we finally made it! The second issue is done and ready to be read by yous...

It consists of 10 written pieces and some stencil art.

Available as PDF for free or hard copy (price/postage to be negotiated depending where it will be shipped).

Contact me: Juggling_the_Rainbow@yahoo.co.nz

1. Food and Feminism: Collaboration Zine

     An entirely collaborative zine that explores the concept of feminism and food preparation. Even though I enjoy food and cooking it feels so fundamentally anti-feminist to be the female in the kitchen and to be choosing these traditional gender roles. Please explore these themes through any medium that inspires you. …

Hi!  I'm new here, so I don't quite know how this all works, but my zine is called Creative Evolution.  It's two poems, two longer pieces of writing, one playlist (with a CD included), some photography, collage, line drawing, random nostalgic stuff (like a photo-copied letter I wrote home from sleepaway camp copied into my zine).  I'm gonna start working on an Issue 2 soon, and would love any submissions of anything at all!!  Photography, WRITING, other art....oh, and if anyone has any…

Seattle: A Formal Apology on Great White Appetite