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April 2009 Blog Posts (84)

BETRAYED! #19

New BETRAYED blog post is out.

I'm on my ownsome this time - camerads will be back next week. Planning for Balmer DIY Fest, exciting. I think I did a good job holding up the fort on my own. Swinging next week back to horrifying, this week's a little more lighthearted, because I'm coming out of grief. A friend of mine died. Got to write funny stuff to make myself feel better.

Hope you all are… Continue

Added by betrayedzine on April 5, 2009 at 6:09pm — No Comments

Submissions for issue #4

Submissions are now open for the 4th issue of Hoopla - the world’s most revolutionary craft zine.

The theme for Issue #4 is MAKEing Love. As always the theme is open to interpretation (you can even ignore it completely) but is based around the idea that craft action is positivist action. It’s about creating the world we want to see as opposed to protesting against the way things are.

Submissions welcome in the form of pictures, patterns and writing or a combination of the… Continue

Added by Hoopla on April 5, 2009 at 5:19pm — No Comments

Dallas Observer blog Interview of Musea Editor

For you readers outside of Dallas, We have one main daily, The Dallas Morning News, and one main Weekly, the Dallas Observer.

Jesse Hughey, blogger from the Dallas Observer DC9 Blog, e-mailed me on April First and suggested an April Fool’s Joke. He would interview me, and then instead of the usual pro-band conservative Observer stance, he would agree with my ideas.

Well, I don’t know how well the joke worked, but it did allow me to spell out my ideas on the art and music… Continue

Added by Tom Hendricks on April 4, 2009 at 11:01am — No Comments

Identity in Schooling- What lead me to Zines...

At CSU Monterey Bay where I have been attending college for the past five years students are required to complete a final project called a Capstone Project to sum up their college education. As a Liberal Studies student I am required to pick a topic that interests me and complete a project based on that topic. Identity Development is a topic that has been very prevelant throughout my college education through my minor in Human Development, and through the many Liberal Studies "teacher" classes… Continue

Added by Dorrie on April 1, 2009 at 11:00pm — No Comments