via Xerography Debt by noreply@blogger.com (librarian666) on 3/7/10
Eaves of Ass: Promise & TheftUS: $3 or trade
36 pp.
Craven Rock
10511 Phinney Ave N.
Seattle, WA 98133
eavesofass@yahoo.com
An aspiring writer struggles to maintain a semi-vagrant, alcohol-laden lifestyle, whilst writing and driving a cab. The collection of food stamps is an ironic bonus. I wish I had the guts to live this way, but I insist on a life of quiet desperation. Worth a read, especially if you are a struggling artist, desperate to generate creative output in an environment that has multiple drags on creativity.
The Baltimore Bicycling Manual, Issue #1, December 2009
Free
Stephen B. Thomas
www.let-off.com
User-friendly guide to riding a bike for commuting or recreation. Offers pragmatic, frugal-minded advice on gear, tools, bikes, and attitude, for biking is a mind-over-matter activity.
Also gives a summary of some state law requirements in Maryland, with some tongue-in-cheek commentary.
Has advice on selecting both new and used bikes with insight into appropriate bike style and price ranges. Includes info on bike shops and venues for used bikes in and around Baltimore.
rum-muffel
£1/€1.50/$2 incl postage, free to prisoners
18 pp.
PO Box 74
Brighton
BN1 4ZQ
UK
morningmuffel@yahoo.co.uk
www.morgenmuffel.co.uk
www.stevelarder.co.uk
A collaborative zine comic with pages drawn by alternating members of a 2 person, woman/man team, that chronicles a trip to Cairngorms National Park and other parts of Scotland.
A joyous chronicle of hiking, cafes (including a vegan co-operative cafe), train travel, Edinburgh, and meeting up with friends along the way.
Exuberant, simple, cheap, fun travel with friends: life doesn't get any better than that.
The Famous Hairdos of Popular Music, Volume Three - Morrissey, Fall 2009
Ethan Krause, ed.
$3 US only; maybe trade
34 pp ; 16 images
PO Box 11872
Milwaukee, WI 53211
februaryness@gmail.com
thefamoushairdosofpopularmusic.blogspot.com
Start with "a single, Xeroxed image of Morrissey's famous hair"; add whatever primitive line-art the muse suggests; and Voila! - an amusing, purely visual zine. Includes blank postcards for the reader to add their artistic flourishes to add to the hair image and mail back to the zine editor for future zines devoted to Prince, Barry Gibb, David Bowie, Aretha Franklin.
Keywords: art, parlor games, Rorschach test, culturejacking
The Silk City Series, Issue #1, (May 2009) and Issue #2 (June 2009)
Eric Nelson
$2.50 US; trades ok
9 pp.
160 South 3rd Street, Apt 3
Brooklyn, NY 11211
ericnelson83@gmail.com
Short narratives that give glimpses into some rather painful lives. The dialogue is especially effective in showing, with remarkable clarity how drugs and alcohol infiltrate life, in a moment-by-moment way. The second issue is particularly powerful as it shows mostly through dialogue how people who love each other are forced to lie to each other in a don't-ask-don't-tell way because of their relationship to drugs. It also gives a non-user great insight into what life is like for those who are involved in being a dealer and user. The thing that is so alarming is the casual, business-as-usual tone that Nelson gives to these brief stories.
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