TheUnrememberedOne/MorbidiaDrekk's Blog (9)

I found the box containing my zine collection the other day. I spent the rest of the day thumbing through my favorites, sorting them into piles, absorbing their zine-ness... and let me tell you, it was a very good day.

The past few days have been spent reading, looking up distros online, and making lists of what I'll get when I have money again. I've also looked through my old sketch book and jotted down notes and ideas for several new zines. 

Which brings me to today. I logged…

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Nearing the end of February already. I have accomplished nothing.



The second issue of Hazel Harper has not yet been born. Maybe soon... maybe not.



It's the brain fog, you see. It seeps in, virtually unnoticed, making thoughts impossible to pull into focus. It is brought on by life. A mind numbing daily life of things that must be done. Wake up, feed the kids, shuffle them off to school, do what's necessary to keep the abode livable, talk to the necessary people, try to… Continue

Zine is such a cool word. Go ahead and say it... you'll see what I mean.

Summer... kids hanging out in my house all day being bored... Thank you September for giving me my space back.



I was sitting in bankruptcy court this morning (with an unfortunate in-law who went on an $8,000 dollar shopping spree involving her phone, a home shopping channel, and a credit card she should never have had in the first place) when inspiration struck. I had just finished the most recent issue of The East Village Inky and started on RatBrat when I had this crazy urge to… Continue

... again...

It is finished. I spent the entire weekend putting it together. Damn I feel like I accomplished something for a change. I'm already starting another issue... the writing part anyway. And I'm working on an 8 page mini that will be nothing but doodling. I may send it along with other stuff as an extra.

I named the new zine Hazel Harper. I'll be putting it together this weekend.

That's all I have to say about that.

Why are some zines so hard to name?

I am so sick of not having a separate workspace for my projects. Between the zines, the art stuff, and the fiber related stuff, my house is a mess. Every time I want to have an actual meal everything has to be moved from the table then put back when we're done eating. It sucks! Every house we've lived in has had an extra room that I could turn into a studio/office. Until this place. It's the nicest and the biggest of the places we've lived, but there are no extra rooms for me to claim as work… Continue