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DIY Guide to Drums

Lisa Ann Schonberg's fine (adapted from zine) book DIY Guide to Drums is back in stock!

Description: Lisa Schonberg is one of the finest drummers in all the lands. Not only does she drop jaws in bands like Kickball, Explode Into Colors, and STLS, but…

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Added by Ms Valerie Park Distro on October 11, 2010 at 10:07pm — No Comments

Newsletter for October!

Hello! A new season is upon us and, though I'm ridiculously cold, I couldn't be happier. I love fall. This last month has been harvesting from the garden, touring, being sick, and getting the house ready for some winter nesting. It's been tumultuous in its seeming calm. It's kind of hard to believe so much happened in such a short amount of time. But it did and it was (mostly) good and here we are at a new month, a new season, and a new newsletter. Hope you all are well and I would love to send… Continue

Added by Ms Valerie Park Distro on October 5, 2010 at 1:00am — No Comments

New issue of Race Revolt is here!

After a long hiatus, Race Revolt 5 is here! This large-sized compilation zine on race, gender, and activism is out of England and doesn't often make it over to our shores, so we're honored to be carrying it. We also got a few more issues of the Race Revolt Collection, a best of from the first four issues.



I will also… Continue

Added by Ms Valerie Park Distro on October 4, 2010 at 11:00pm — No Comments

Friends of Polly back in stock!

One of our most popular zines, Friends of Polly, is back in stock after a little absence from our shelves.It's a compilation zine on the subject of polyamory published out of England and has writings from the people behind such zines as Race Revolt,… Continue

Added by Ms Valerie Park Distro on September 21, 2010 at 11:30am — No Comments

New!(sletter for September)

Hello all! And a warm welcome to the many new folks who signed up at last week's Portland Zine Symposium, a blast that cleaned us out and filled us up. Many new things, many things we need to restock. I've been a bit obsessed with helping orchestrate/conceptualize a tour, so my mind has been in the clouds and I've been catching up on distro-related things very slowly. Despite my slowness, this month is still one of the best months ever. Especially if you want to do some reading. It runs the… Continue

Added by Ms Valerie Park Distro on September 7, 2010 at 10:30am — No Comments

Reading tonight in Seattle, new issue of DIY or Don't We, and a Golden Girls book!

For any of you that might be up that way, Alexis Wolf (Ilse Content), Craven Rock (Eaves of Ass), and Joshua James (Basic Paper Airplane) will be reading tonight at Pilot Books on Capitol… Continue

Added by Ms Valerie Park Distro on September 3, 2010 at 2:30pm — No Comments

Almost Gone! (part two)

The Portland Zine Symposium cleaned us out! So, while we rush to get things back in stock and add all the new acquisitions, we thought we'd give another little list of things that are down to the last copy and might not be back in again for a while (or, in some cases, ever).

Eaves of Ass #7 (Zine) ($3)- as he works on an epic piece on Juggalos, it doesn't seem like printing anymore zines will be in the cards for a… Continue

Added by Ms Valerie Park Distro on September 1, 2010 at 2:30pm — No Comments

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 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

Newsletter for August

Hello and welcome to August. I hope you all had as exciting and adventurous of a July as I did. It was great. But, goal for this month: hang out in

Olympia. I haven't been around that much and it's a bit of a shame since this is such a good place to be in the summer. So, other than

going to the Portland Zine Symposium (August 28th & 29th, see you

there?), I think I'm going to hold somewhat strong to this goal. Here at the distro, there are many goodnesses- music that spans… Continue

Added by Ms Valerie Park Distro on August 9, 2010 at 9:30am — No Comments

Peaches & Bats and other literary zines





















The new issue of the literary zine…

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Added by Ms Valerie Park Distro on July 19, 2010 at 2:04am — 3 Comments

Newsletter for July!

So, it took a while, but summer has finally come to the northwest. A week ago I was wearing three layers of sweaters and now I'm wearing short shorts. It's pretty good. A couple things- one, bestsellers. The list I made at the end of last year seemed to be a total hit (everybody love lists), so I made one for the first half of this year. I also made a whole pile of new bookmark/flyers (four different… Continue

Added by Ms Valerie Park Distro on July 10, 2010 at 10:02am — No Comments

Bestsellers!

Think it's kind of fun, so we tallied the scores and came up with these as our bestsellers from the first half of 2010 (as of 6/18/10):

1. Basic Paper Airplane #3 (Zine)

2. Jesus Christ Superzine #1 (Zine)

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Added by Ms Valerie Park Distro on June 19, 2010 at 4:00am — No Comments

Ilse Content Vol 3 back in print!



A found stack of this early issue of Ilse Content brings it back to life. Poetic prose of letters, sisterhood, religion, body image, dealing with a friend's abuse, finding ways out of formulas and creating a life that is undeniably your own. ($1)…

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Added by Ms Valerie Park Distro on June 18, 2010 at 4:17pm — No Comments

A Mary Wollstonecraft Zine!

This was in the last newsletter, but I thought I should give it proper reverence. It's this month's Feature and is a pretty amazing tribute to a pretty amazing feminist.

Hyena in Petticoats: A Mary Wollstonecraft Zine- This epic 64 page zine is the…

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Added by Ms Valerie Park Distro on June 14, 2010 at 2:52pm — No Comments

Newsletter for June!

New

Gumar and his Magical Midi Band- The Compact Disc EP (CD) ($5)- A limited edition six song ep of dance jams.

Hyena in Petticoats: A Mary Wollstonecraft Zine (Zine) ($4)- Our feature of the month! A fascinating history piece from Alexis… Continue

Added by Ms Valerie Park Distro on June 4, 2010 at 10:30am — No Comments

New Issues of Shotgun Seamstress & Shortandqueer



Just got in the most recent issues from both SS and SNQ, both awesome.

Shortandqueer #15 ($2)- A compil ation of speeches and performances that Kelly Shortandqueer gave between 2006-2010. A couple different Tranny Road Show performance pieces, a speech delivered at the Transgender Day of Remembrance, and the keynote speech from the Colorado Gold Rush Conference.…

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Added by Ms Valerie Park Distro on May 25, 2010 at 11:30am — No Comments

Newsletter for May!

New

How Wally Met an Alien (Zine) ($3)- for what sounds like a tongue-in-cheek story, How Wally Met an Alien describes a profound sadness and loneliness that I found hauntingly beautiful.

Letters- Plays Selections from the Tapestry Songbook (CD) ($5)- an EP of… Continue

Added by Ms Valerie Park Distro on May 1, 2010 at 2:30am — No Comments

Gardening Zines?

Hey, does anyone make/know of any good gardening zines? I've tried to carry some in the past and nobody has ever come through. I'm an avid gardener and it's the season, so I would really like to carry something on the subject! Shoot me an email if you have any suggestions: msvaleriepark(at)gmail(dot)com. Thanks! -JJ

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Added by Ms Valerie Park Distro on April 9, 2010 at 1:18pm — 2 Comments

Newsletter for April!

New

Corespondents- Ur (CD) ($10)- the perfect album for a good many situations- dinner parties, acid trips, movie sequences, road trips, and the like.

Inoculation (Chapbook) ($10)- Sarah Tavis' awesome new chapbook of experimental fiction. With musical accompaniment by Letters.…

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Added by Ms Valerie Park Distro on April 5, 2010 at 9:00am — No Comments

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