new zines and what that means

it's funny i was worried our catalogue would be too boy heavy but the three other zines we got coming in, not listed here yet are all girl things. girls make good stuff. i gotta find me some boys making zines.

we picked up alex wrekk.

holy shit that's cool. this girl is old school and kind of the Angelica Houston of zine writers. total fucking class and style in all the good ways. her new issues of brainscan are what the form is meant for.

#21 is an about the end of an abusive relationship, laying it out for the world and #22 is about IUDs which I'm still not convinced boys should know about. she says it makes me cooler. that so doesn't help but i guess she's right. girls definitely need to know.

we got guerilla craftfare which is a very fun craft zine for the uncrafty or as maximum rock and roll put it, the drunk. i love this zine. its fun. it isn't hoi polloi. it isn't craft snobby, knitting as a social trend. it's about fun. we love this zine, did i already say that?, and having it in our catalogue means a lot.

we got pulse which cj is reading right now. more on that later. its pretty cool. a feminist thing, a find yourself in a good way thing. it's pretty but it isn't just for girls.

by the way, maximum rock and roll reviewed fake life and said we were "sloppy and trashy but good." i've never been so proud.

-mike