August 2012 Blog Posts (43)

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

The first reality TV show was based on a big science experiment. Name the reality show and the experiment it was based on.

IS

The first reality show was the Dutch show Big Brother - and they came up with the idea after the Biosphere 2 experiment in the Arizona desert. Both had people locked in together.

We had no winners. Seem most of you had your brains locked up in a biosphere!

I don't dumb down/so…

Beginning at the End (+ new zine listings!)

"The Itinerant Postcard" is a 24-page quarter-sized perzine with prose, poetry, and illustrations by Edward Gorey. $1 or trade.…

I am working on a feature-length documentary film about zines and indie press culture. I am in the pre-production planning stages of this project and would like to make contact with people who make zines for interviews to be used in the film. 

Please feel free to get in touch with me about the film: jwallace@now-sound.com and thanks for your interest!

Ready to pollute the visual airwaves of the zine world, the newest issue of Twilight World (#13) offers 12 pages of perzine god-knows-what. Featured are a stroll through the streets of Bakersfield, CA and an almost fail art project immortalizing many unpopular cult musicians. Also crammed in are reviews of a…

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Well,the other day I was typing my blog having a latte' at the cafe' (as alway's),just typing away,writing the usual stuff,about how boring zines are and how much band's suck and how hair gel used to really mean something.Well,this kid comes up and asks me if I'm Bobby Madness-I didn't really think much of it,so I said yeah.So then he asked me if I wanted to go meet this girl that really dug my comic's,and had been dying to meet me.Well,I'll admit it,I figured she was probably pretty…

Hello everyone, my name is Amber, and I just wanted to say I am glad to have found this site so soon after creating my first ever zine!    Anyway, I will be regularly creating new zine issues.   My Zine series is called Let's C, and it was so much fun to make.   Anyways, I'm off to explore my new computer!  Tata for now!

I'm trying to start a Feminist Zine at Centenary College of Louisiana. Any tips/advice/words of wisdom? 

Or, rather, a really re-done website. A new look, with art by Rachel Lee-Carman (of Show & Tell) and all designed by Evan Hashi (of Twig Palace). A…

Marked For Life #8

bus stories

$1/24 pages/Quarter size

by Sage



Sage writes, "My intentions were to fill issue #8 with stories about weird and funny things that happened while riding the city bus in Olympia, Wa, but soon after…

I don't usually bring up local stuff,since I live in a small town no ones ever heard of-the Schenectady of the west coast-but today is different.Today,I'm pining over the loss of The Bad Apple,the coolest/crappiest store since As Seen On TV.For those of you who don't know (everybody),it was located in possibly the worst place to open a store,the meth soaked white trash haven of Foster Blvd-a section of town famous for hit & run's,whose chief export is Jail resident's.In it's heyday,there…

Finished a split zine with Perth zinester Fergus. 

It’s 80 pages (40 pages each), 1/8 size and the theme is food. Fergus is an omnivore, I’m a vegan so there’s something for everyone. It’s $1.20 (plus 60c postage AU, $2.35 postage elsewhere). You can get it from my etsy (…

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

Was Edgar Allen Poe, a "dog" or a "cat" person? You must give evidence for your choice too,

IS Cat Person. He was devoted to his favorite cat, Catarina and wrote her when he was away. When he'd write at home, she'd perch on his shoulder. (Literary Trivia - A Malone)

Our winner was Dan from Warwick RI. "Quoth the rest of you, 'Nothing more!'

I don't dumb down/so please wise up.

Now on to a new Q.: Win…

Man,i could not go to the portland zine fest.no way,i just couldn't.I just would have gotten pissed off at all the stuck upedness,and people being wierd and not talking to me and shit.It's thier right to be a mean stuck up person,i guess,but i just would have bugged out and killed somebody.My friend's went to the one before this last one,and said everyone just treated them like dogshit.The wierd thing is,when i look at most of the shit that people are putting out,i just don't really…

Poems written in August 2012

Comments welcome.

[poem notes in brackets like this]

POEMS

1. [ Children's poem for my book "Moon Tea".

A mom answers her child's question]

"How many miles to Wonderland?"

"It's as close as can be.

Close your eyes you sleepy head

and get their in your dreams."

2. [A Dorian Gray type poem]

I put a spell

on this kid's book.

Read it each year

as you grow up,

and it grows too.

The…

Hey, check this out!

You're almost welcome to dropping your infos, publications, bands, reviews, ads, and much2…

After 2 years I have finally produced a new zine.  Get in touch for trades, I would love to trade for other art zines or comic books.…