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August 2010 Blog Posts (86)

Truckface!

Very suddenly LB's Truckface has become one of my favorite zines. And now we carry them! Hoorah!

Truckface #10- This is what got me hooked on the goodness that is Truckface. There was a copy of it in the car on tour last spring and it got passed around until we'd all read it and were making jokes about "the most famous leaf of all," cracking…

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Added by Ms Valerie Park Distro on August 16, 2010 at 12:00am — 1 Comment

New Zine: Striking Distance #1

Striking Distance is a punk rock fanzine that contains four new stories plus, as always, excerpts of letters from your favourite anonymous zinesters and other urban neurotic punks. This little zine is $2PPD / trade / a buck in person. I will be tabling at the 10th Annual Portland Zine in Portland, Oregon (Aug 28-29) and at Canzine in Toronto on Oct 24th.…

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Added by Chris Kiss on August 15, 2010 at 7:24pm — No Comments

House of Flying Zines Part 1

Just received an invite to have some of my publications included in a zine and self-published art mag exhibition at the Baltimore Book Festival in late September. Shout outs to Jim Lucio for the invite.

Amusingly, when I posted a few days ago about being invited to send some of my publications to the zine show in Istanbul, I was thinking to myself that it would be nice to get the chance to do that more often. I even started to post a comment… Continue

Added by Paco on August 15, 2010 at 2:00am — 2 Comments

To the Pen Pals Group

Okay. I hope this isn't inappropriate or bad netiquette or anything, but I tried to "message" Hibou, the Pen Pals group owner, but it said I had to "be friends" first. I know this sounds ridiculously antiquated and cranky, but I have a problem with the whole "friending" thing on the Net, because I feel it trivializes and automates the ancient and organic institution of "friendship". Please allow an old fossil his Victorian quirks.

Sooooo.....I'm contacting Hibou this…

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Added by James N. Dawson on August 14, 2010 at 10:09am — 2 Comments

Dildo Machine #2 is done!

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Added by Eric on August 13, 2010 at 5:30pm — No Comments

Saling-Pusa #3 is out! 1.50 USD

So THe 3rd issue of SP has been printed out. It's a small print run, so get a copy while you can. it's also my 24 Hour ZIne for this year. paypal 1.50 per copy, email me at i_reply@live.com if you have questions.

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so I lost my master copy of SP2 before I had the chance to make a copy and/or scan... it sucked. but I salvaged some of the material and added some more to come up with SP 2.5. It's almost done, and hopefully I'll be able to finish and print them out towards… Continue

Added by Saling Pusa Distro/closed on August 13, 2010 at 4:00pm — 1 Comment

Your next stop, the Twilight...

Zone

It was Michael Jordan who helped popularize the term known as the "zone." That mental level of focus where you're able block out all the noise and any other distracting factor in your head that might prevent you from seeing the goal that is ahead of you.

I've kinda' been in the zone lately. I don't at all mean to suggest that I am anywhere near the level of those whose mental discipline… Continue

Added by Paco on August 13, 2010 at 3:00am — No Comments

Destash: craft supplies, zines, etc. --AND-- looking for fliers, etc

ONE: I am FORCED to clean my room and everything that doesn't fit into my 2 enormous craft boxes will have to go. so if you are interested, email me at i_reply@live.com -or- you can also message me through here on wmz but please include youre email address in the msg. THANKS!

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some of the stuff im getting rid of:

old zines i made

some zines from my collection

beads, strings…

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Added by Saling Pusa Distro/closed on August 13, 2010 at 2:30am — 4 Comments

we made a zine

I made a zine with my 5 year old son. It's called Butterfly Zine. It's about us watching some caterpillars grow into butterflies and is filled with photos and drawings we made, plus facts about butterflies. 16 pages, 1/4 size, full color. Want one? It's $2 (or a kid-friendly trade of some kind -- message me first). PO Box 330156, Murfreesboro TN 37133. …

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Added by Jerianne on August 12, 2010 at 8:05pm — 1 Comment

my first zine, Ladybug #1 is now ready & available!!

2011/03/10 update:

now available for online purchase!! visit …

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Added by Yvonne G. on August 12, 2010 at 6:30pm — 6 Comments

Moving, Philly, and zine titles, among other things.

So, in Sept, I will be moving to Philly. I'm really excited about this for a lot of reasons. I'm 30 and there are a million things I've never done, places I've never been, etc. Also as much as I love Tazewell, and it partially made me who I am, the opportunities are really limited here. Job and educational opportunities, of course, but also social ones. I love my family and friends and I feel so lucky to have the friends I do that I don't even have words to describe it (which is kind of ironic… Continue

Added by Sarah Arr! on August 12, 2010 at 10:42am — 1 Comment

'Larry' issue three

'Larry' issue three is A5, 32 pages, black and white, and as always printed on recycled paper (though this time it's 120gsm paper as oppose to 80, so it's a little heavier...). Each copy is hand-tied, numbered, and has a little window cut out of a cartridge paper cover, this time using a sharper scalpel, but with a rather crooked ruler.

Content in this issue includes friendships, promiscuity, visual identity, a guide to the drawing technique of sgraffito, and a bunch of other… Continue

Added by Lee Taylor on August 12, 2010 at 4:30am — 1 Comment

To Turkey With Love

I may be wrong, but I don't think I've sent any of my zines to Turkey before. In fact, I think that the furthest into that part of the globe I've sent a zine order was Slovenia. Well, I have sent stuff to Israel, which is just south of there.

Anyway, a guy named Gamze Özer sent me an e-mail asking me to participate in a zine show at an interesting gallery in Istanbul that he curates for. The e-mail…

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Added by Paco on August 12, 2010 at 1:30am — No Comments

i've finished my new fanzine! it's called "I'm One Of An Odd Family #3" !!!!

yerrrrrrrr, i have a big box full of them. they are A4 size/12 pages/all black and white. interviews with Tortoiseshell Male (weird english hiphop), Hentai Cum Dungeon (err, e-grind, from Ann Arbor), & Loke Rahbek (Danish power electronics/noise artist)... also, a section of album reviews. and that's it, nothing else.

if you'd like one, then i s'pose we can trade, but only if your zine is good. otherwise paypal me some money for a copy..... i'm also in the process of finding…

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Added by kitty magic on August 11, 2010 at 9:30pm — 2 Comments

many thanks

for envelope of aussie goodies....because have to

go into hospital this day....and have had pleasure

going through 'treats'...:):)...will be home next week

thanks again

tim

port angeles wa

Added by tim scannell on August 11, 2010 at 7:23am — 1 Comment

Life as a white picket fence

This has been a long time coming. My eldest son is now 3 yrs old, and most of what I have written on here has come from things felt/experienced during the earliest of stages of parenthood. I love my boys. They are my world. Getting them here, that's a whole other story. This zine depicts just a few of the raw sentiments I felt necessary to explore in script. This was important for me, more so than sharing, but if you do by chance get to read this, remember it's personal, but not intended to be… Continue

Added by Tasha on August 11, 2010 at 5:48am — No Comments

New issue of Ilse Content!

The offices of Ms Valerie Park are all abuzz because today is the day that Ilse Content Vol 9 hits the street. I feel awesome, having just finished this awesomeawesome new issue.

Three dollars.

Ilse Content is like a motivational speech to start a revolution. Personal or… Continue

Added by Ms Valerie Park Distro on August 11, 2010 at 1:00am — No Comments

Musea Art Contest 8/10/10

The answer to, and winner (if any) for, our last contest question of:

"Defenestrate', is one weird word. It means to throw someone out of a window. The term likely comes from an incident in 1618, in Prague, when

two imperial commissioners were thrown from a window in the Palace of Prague. My question is this, what happened to the men.

Though the drop was some 30 feet or so, they landed in a…

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Added by Tom Hendricks on August 10, 2010 at 10:31am — No Comments

making it shorter?

having difficulty keeping my head and short, precise, condensed and limited where possible the content and over all length of pending 'zine 'life as a white picket fence' so as to get it out and done like a bandaid! plus, shorter rants, i have concluded, short result in a higher likely hood that they will get read. SO, it will be. and quite possibly finished before the debut, as i am growing weary of its existence before it;s been born.. quite a worry really, eh?!

so it is, such is life,… Continue

Added by Tasha on August 10, 2010 at 7:27am — No Comments