Just added a pretty awesome Olympia zine called Radical Mycology, which will teach you a good percentage of things you might want to know about mushrooms. Not one of the classic zine subjects, I know, but that's what makes it so good. Check it out. Totally recommended if it's something you're at all interested in.
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Added by Ms Valerie Park Distro on December 9, 2009 at 11:48pm —
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Though we tend not to care much about most holidays, we thought we would have a sale anyway. Maybe think of it as an end-of-the-year sale, instead. It's a two parter...
1. We're clearing some space. In the next couple months we're getting a lot of new stuff in and restocking a lot of stuff and we need to make some room. So, with each order in the next month, we're putting in some extras. Zines we only have a copy or two left of and don't list anymore, cd's, tapes, buttons, stickers, matchbooks,…
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Added by Ms Valerie Park Distro on November 24, 2009 at 4:59pm —
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It's been a while since we've added any new zines, so many of us working on zines and never finishing them, but yesterday the new issue of
Sugar and Heartstrings came out! We also restocked a couple, too. I've been out on tour for the last month, so I just started back to work today on some zines I was working on before I left. I included the rest of this month's update below for anyone…
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Added by Ms Valerie Park Distro on November 14, 2009 at 6:17pm —
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This month, people gave me a lot of great things to give away with orders (bunches of cd's, zines, buttons, stickers...even shirts and posters), so if you've been thinking of placing an order, just know that'll I can promise to send along a few extra things. Also, on the website, we have a new music player! Which means, you don't have to download 50 some songs individually to check out all the music we have to offer, you can just play it right off the site, super easy. This is what's been going…
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Added by Ms Valerie Park Distro on September 14, 2009 at 10:20pm —
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We are (finally) carrying Craven Rock's long-running Eaves of Ass zine, one of my absolute favorites. We just added:
Eaves of Ass #6- The music issue! Essays from this went on to be included in 2008's Best American Music Writing collection.
Eaves of Ass #7- Brand new! In the vein of new journalism, Craven repo…
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Added by Ms Valerie Park Distro on August 17, 2009 at 2:10am —
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We just sent out this month's email update, so I thought I'd pass it along here, too!
New for August!
Conceptualizing Confluence (Zine)- Karl Blau's audio recording zine! ($2)
Dirty Sweet Experience- ST (CD)- dreamy, slightly fuzzy, goodness. ($5)…
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Added by Ms Valerie Park Distro on August 8, 2009 at 6:12pm —
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While we've added lots of great zines this month, I wanted to mention how great I think our feature of the month is. It's not zine or music, but a double cd audio documentary called
I Want To Do This All Day Long, which is about radical education/alternative education programs in the U.S.
Amber and Amina, who made it, traveled across the country and visited 22 different free schools,…
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Added by Ms Valerie Park Distro on August 4, 2009 at 4:28pm —
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Hey, just in case you're in the northwest area and you're not aware, PZS starts tomorrow at 2:30. We're driving down in the morning and will be there all three days. We've managed to gather manymany great things that are not on the distro: new isssues of Funwater Awesome, issues of Mend My Dress, a new Olympia zine about DIY culture and building community, the olympia punk paper Nuts, a bunch of buttons, a zine/paper that's all interviews with Swedish punk/hardcore bands and comes with a cd and…
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Added by Ms Valerie Park Distro on July 24, 2009 at 12:02am —
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After a weekend up in Anacortes, Wa for What the Heck Fest, we come back bearing gifts. One of them being a really cool zine about the art of home recording from our friend and musical experimenter, Karl Blau. Check it out!
Conceptualizing Confluence: The Absolute Basics of Audio Recording ($2)
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Added by Ms Valerie Park Distro on July 20, 2009 at 12:15pm —
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This month's distro update is up- with new things, restocks, mp3's, video links and plenty of news. Though, to avoid adding in its many links again, I will just direct you to our myspace, where all links are already properly in place. Check it
here!
You could also just join our mailing list and we'd simply send it to you every month. Let us know if that interests you: msvaleriepark@gmail.co…
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Added by Ms Valerie Park Distro on July 16, 2009 at 1:17am —
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We just started carrying
Captian Heather Comics, which is totally wonderful zine that you should check out.
Five dollars.
More along the lines of a graphic novel than a comic zine, Captain Heather Comics is stories from the life of Ms. Heather Dunn. All stories within are completely charming and written with the grace and wit that not many zinesters have just yet. Wonderful characters,…
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Added by Ms Valerie Park Distro on July 9, 2009 at 3:00pm —
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Use Your Words (Press) is a new art collective here in Olympia that we have the pleasure of being a part of and helping start in the last month or so. We are real excited because this Sunday is our first event! If you are in/near/around/passing through the Olympia area, you should come! It goes something like this:
Zine Readings!: Alexis Wolf (reading from her new issue of
Ilse…
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Added by Ms Valerie Park Distro on June 26, 2009 at 6:54pm —
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Just noticed that there are only a few issues left of the
first issue of Basic Paper Airplane and thought I'd put that fact out there. It comes with a totally weird mix CD and a fully functional paper airplane.
Also noticed that we're also down to our last copy or two of:
Ilse Content #6…
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Added by Ms Valerie Park Distro on June 23, 2009 at 11:54pm —
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So, while the options are limited on what you can do with a blogger page, we did some layout work to try to make the distro easier to read/use, a little prettier... Any thoughts? Anything you'd like to see?
I 've been wondering if people would like it better if the side links were separated by what type of thing they are (zine, handmade book, cd, tape, record), or if that would just get jumbled and confusing.
Would love to hear what people think. Thanks! -MVP/JJ... msvaleriepark@gmail.com…
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Added by Ms Valerie Park Distro on June 13, 2009 at 12:38pm —
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So, as always, this is an abbreviated version of our mailing list update, but thought I'd include the free sampler zipped mp3 cd link: http://drop.io/mvpdistrosampler
And, of course all things can be found at www.msvaleriepark.blogspot.com -MVPD/JJ
New!
*52 Card Pick-Up (Zine)- A personal memoir of dealing with great amounts of chaos, all at once. ($2)
*Annabeth- Extra Orchard (CD)- Wonderfully mesmerizing folk epics. ($8)
*Groves- EP (CD)- For those of us who like to drone. ($5)
*Jordan O' Jor…
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Added by Ms Valerie Park Distro on June 3, 2009 at 7:09pm —
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We at Ms Valerie Park Distro are putting together a fun email newsletter thingy for June, with a bunch of links to fun things and a bunch of free mp3's and we think you should join. We're not in the business of pressuring people or being weird, but just wanted to let y'all know that we think it's fun and maybe you will, too.
send us yr email! msvaleriepark@gmail.com
P.S.- Also, that free-zines-for-zine-libraries-if-you-can-pay-a-few-bucks-for-postage offer still stands and I actually just got h…
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Added by Ms Valerie Park Distro on May 31, 2009 at 5:55pm —
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(or home zine libraries/personal zine libraries), I realize I have a fair amount of quite good zines in multiple copies that I don't distro and I'm a little unsure what to do with. I've donated to all the local zine libraries, so thought I'd throw it out there that, if anybody wanted an envelope of random zines to add to their collection, I would totally send an envelope like that yr way. I would just need a couplefew dollars for shipping. It would probably be 5 or so zines...let me know if you'…
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Added by Ms Valerie Park Distro on May 28, 2009 at 12:28am —
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We at the Ms Valerie Park Distro are headed to Boulder, Co in the morning to attend this weekend's Utne Reader awards ceremony because our very own Ariel Birks got nominated for Zine of the Year for
Jesus Christ Superzine! Kinda weird, we're totally going to be the only zinesters at the thing, but how often do you get invited such a thing? For us, not very often. We'll keep y'all posted on the weirdnes…
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Added by Ms Valerie Park Distro on May 14, 2009 at 1:00am —
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(this is a less personal version of the one we send to our mailing list, which you can join by sending an e-mail to us: msvaleriepark@gmail.com, all these things can be found at www.msvaleriepark.blogspot.com/)
New for May!
All the Ancient Kings (Zine)- The wacky comic adventures of Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Hunter S. Thompson, Leonard Cohen, and Warren Zevon. ($4)
Funwater Awesome #1 (Zine)- What might at first seem to be all about the wonders of Tumwater, Wa, is mostly storie…
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Added by Ms Valerie Park Distro on May 6, 2009 at 9:25pm —
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Ilse Content is one of my favorite zines. It has been around for six years and someday should get put in book form like Doris, Invincible Summer, or Cometbus- it's just as good as any of those. Until that day comes, we have a new issue out to satisfy our hungers. It just came out this week and I just put it up on the distro, you should check it out:
http://msvaleriepark.blogspot.com/2009/05/may-feature-of-month-ilse-content-vol-8.html
♥ MVPD/JJ
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Added by Ms Valerie Park Distro on May 4, 2009 at 4:39pm —
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