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December 2009 Blog Posts (47)

Candy or Medicine Volume Eight Out Now

Sending out the decade in style, Candy or Medicine Volume Eight continues to captivate with 16 pages of all new artwork including “Wandering Through the Terrain” by Pat Aulisio, some office life slice-of-life by Jessica Seck Marquis, “Epicurus on God” by Cliff Lipp, another tale of love gone awry by Kevin Richardson, an obtuse toon by Mister Ben, more of the wokka wokka humor you’ve come to love from Ray N. and Josh Blair, a back page pin-up from mini-comic veteran Brad W. Foster plus a cover… Continue

Added by Josh Blair on December 31, 2009 at 8:44pm — No Comments

Musea Art Contest Last of the Year

The answer to, and winner (if any) for,

our last contest question of:

This film remake of Shakespeare's The Tempest, has Ariel played

by a ROBOT! Name it.

IS

Forbidden Planet with Robby the Robot, from 1956! Note the great music!

When I was a kid I had a robot. Wind it up and it said:

"I'm Robby the Robot, Mechanical man, guide me and stir me, wherever you can!"

Winner is pending!

The rest of you need to "Oil up on your… Continue

Added by Tom Hendricks on December 30, 2009 at 11:03am — No Comments

be my fan <3

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Hannah-Neurotica/236252297355?ref=mf

because why the fuck not, ya know?

add and leave a comment <3

Added by Hannah Neurotica on December 28, 2009 at 12:25pm — No Comments

Issue 5!!!! Still available!

A little peek at the wonderful cover by Oscarr
We'd be glad to trade, contact us!

Added by ectoplasm on December 27, 2009 at 4:17pm — No Comments

Merry Christmas...LAIR style!

The 87th episode of my "Living Zine," LAIR OF THE YAK, is having its annual Christmas Show tonight # 9PM Eastern---check it out on blogstar.com OR right below!

Added by Nick Cato on December 26, 2009 at 5:56pm — No Comments

UTNE READER praises Baltimore's "thriving independent literary scene"

Utne Reader profiles Smile, Hon, You're in Baltimore!, and Mobtown's literary scene in general, in its January/February 2010 issue.

Baltimore's "thriving independent literary scene should serve as an inspiration to anyone, in any city, who feels the… Continue

Added by Eight-Stone Press on December 22, 2009 at 2:00pm — No Comments

Hits Just Keep Coming (Musea E-mail Club #496)

Dear Reader,

Christmas week and time to celebrate. Here are the latest additions to the world's first all world music list, the BIG LIST - The net is the world's jukebox and here is the first best list of those songs and videos (most new some new to most of us). I guarantee that all of these are great music and great fun. Listees and Listeners both - help me help promote all these fine talents. It's not a CD its a new paradigm in music! Pass the word - or the notes! MS = MySpace, YT… Continue

Added by Tom Hendricks on December 22, 2009 at 10:47am — No Comments

Durable Goods Issues 1-11

Here are a listing of the writers that appear in Durable Goods Issues One-Nine.

Issue One

Doug Draime

Michael J. Solender

Aleathia Drehmer

Issue Two

Pris Campbell

David E. Oprava

Beto Palaio

Aleathia Drehmer

Issue Three "The Ladies Issue"

Nadine Sellers

Kristin Fouquet

Cheryl Townsend

Aleathia Drehmer

Issue Four

F.D. Marcel

Jason… Continue

Added by Aleathia Drehmer on December 21, 2009 at 11:00pm — No Comments

A Piece of Wistful Poetry

Blessed be the Sunlight
Oh, here it comes again
Slicing through the rain and clouds
And upon my windowframe.

It may oh maybe
Not so beautiful
Californians cannot see
But a ray of sunshine is a ray of hope
Appreciated eventually.

Added by Nicholas Whitman Kessler on December 21, 2009 at 5:25pm — No Comments

Zinester Quiz for Art Smarts (12.21.09)

The answer to, and winner (if any) for,

our last contest question of:

The actor in the space opera began saying his part:

"Engines on! Countdown begins! 10,9,8,... LINE!"

But seriously though, what FILM invented the countdown?

IS

Countdown was first used by the 1929 German science fiction movie "Die Frau im Mond" by Fritz Lang to increase the drama of the launch sequence of the story's lunar rocket, says wikipedia.

I had no… Continue

Added by Tom Hendricks on December 21, 2009 at 10:20am — No Comments

black light diner distro update, december 2009

Hello everyone! Just a little update about the new zines available at Black Light Diner Distro!

HELLO ALABAMA: A ONE-SHOT DISASTER (Tuscaloosa, AL)

Courtney's (Muse) anti-love letter to Alabama was written after she packed up and moved from North Carolina to Tuscaloosa, Alabama to attend library science school. The move came with an unexpected downside in the racist and conservative attitudes… Continue

Added by Erica S. on December 20, 2009 at 6:47pm — No Comments

2010 Wall Calendar.

Everybody loves to know what day it is.

This is the etsy listing http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=37116274

I you are interested and don't want to use etsy you can send me $4 well concealed cash to:

ladypajama

po box 9354

missoula, mt 59807

*please include an extra dollar if you are from outside of the… Continue

Added by ladypajama on December 20, 2009 at 11:17am — No Comments

Dungeons & Dragons Continues

So far I have an interview, tons of products for possible review, an Opinon Editorial piece that will be reprinted in the zine (I plan on sending it to Adbusters and Renaissance in the meantime), another op-ed that is still in outline form, and A LOT OF GAMING EXPERIENCE with this new group I've been playing with in Portland. I also plan on putting a short (if comical) Tunnels & Trolls solo adventure at the end. Keeping my fingers crossed that this will work out.

--Nick

Added by Nicholas Whitman Kessler on December 18, 2009 at 7:12pm — No Comments

Two Last Minute Gifts

Reader,

Here are two small gifts for you. The first is the new issue of Musea,

the second is the Musea Reading Fund, half off of any classic anything!

The new issue of Musea, "Chess Sets" is now up on the Musea website

at musea.us. For Christmas each year, I've tried to write a short story

that fits the season. This year it's the story of Barty, who as a child

loved to draw. The story starts out:

Once while 8 year old Barty was working on a drawing… Continue

Added by Tom Hendricks on December 18, 2009 at 9:47am — No Comments

Anyone want flyers made? (Plus possible "flyer trade")

Hey everyone,

I've been super bored all day and on a massive photoshop kick. I've been designing flyers for all my different projects, except now I'm out of projects to design them for. Does anyone want a flyer/flyers made up for their zine/distro/other project? I'm making them quarter-size, so I can do four of the same or four different ones to a page.

If you'd like some, just let me know what info you'd like on it and what style you're into (grungy, cute, vintage… Continue

Added by Mab on December 17, 2009 at 1:03pm — 5 Comments

It's Christmas-time in the city...

This is a holiday ornament I received as a gift via the P.O. Box this morning. Comprised of red and green beads. A silver and red pipe cleaner. Wire. And a .32 shell casing.

The envelope bore neither note nor return address. Moreover, it was marked "Hand Cancel! Fragile", so there wasn't even a postmark. But perhaps the most frustrating (yet tantalizing) part in figuring out who sent it was narrowing the perhaps too-extensive list of… Continue

Added by Eight-Stone Press on December 17, 2009 at 12:00pm — No Comments

SMILE, HON, YOU'RE IN BALTIMORE! seeking stories/artwork/photography for upcoming sex issue

BALTIMORE - Literary zine Smile, Hon, You're in Baltimore! is accepting submissions of sex-related stories, essays, poetry, photography and other artwork for a forthcoming special issue through Tuesday,… Continue

Added by Eight-Stone Press on December 17, 2009 at 11:45am — No Comments

2009 is over?

Looking back at my first blog post, I can't believe 2009 is done. A better year than 2008, yes, but 2009 did nothing for me. Or I did nothing for it. 2010..... the more productive year?

Added by S. M. on December 16, 2009 at 5:29pm — 1 Comment

December Distro Update!

Well, as weird as it seems, this is the year anniversary of the Ms Valerie Park Distro! Funny to think that something I started in my pajamas one cold winter morning from a few of my friends' things in a box is now something I "do". Kind of didn't see that coming.

In the last month, it's been wonderfully bitter cold in Olympia and I've been taking it pretty slow. Here at ye ol distro, I lowered some prices on things and got in a bunch of good new stuff. Also, (I know this is dorky, but),… Continue

Added by Ms Valerie Park Distro on December 15, 2009 at 2:16pm — No Comments

Musea Art Contest 12/15/09

The answer to, and winner (if any) for,

our last contest question of:

This noted writer left Russia for America, moved to

Hollywood, met Cecil B. DeMille and became an extra on his film

"King of Kings". There she met and later married another bit player

in the film, before her visa could run out! Name her.

IS

Ayn Rand

I had no winner.

Seems the Fountainhead was dry on this one.

I don’t

dumb down,

so… Continue

Added by Tom Hendricks on December 15, 2009 at 11:26am — No Comments