time, time, time, what has become of me?

I just realized while writing a bio for my reading in January:

I've been publishing xerox zines for almost 20 years.

It was 1986 when I made my first one in high school and I've had publishing projects continuously since then but for the rather miserable time in the mid-90s though it occurs to me that even then, I helped Darko's friend Xrissa make one when we lived in Santa Fe. Hmm.

1986: "Voices from Underground" (oh the angstiness! but reasonably decent articles!)
then later, the untitled poem-booklet with the little chaos-arrow sigil made of fish skeletons.
1987-89: R4tatosk. only 4 issues... i think i must have made other things but i can't remember without going to dig through my stuff.
1990-91: safe sex booklet and V4nilla M1lkshake, with Masha. 3 small books: Poetagraphica, Buy Me, and Fear of Dreams. infinite amts of stickers and crap like that. And the stuff i did for the U-Lez group and our culture-wars coalition and The Howlers and The Polemicist.
1992: involved with Venus Inf3rs... wrote that article about net sex that made all the leatherdykes run out and get netcom accounts.
1992-95: Slut Ut0pia, and bunches of one shots.... and the Bitch Manifesto and Scum Manifesto reprints. Punk Paper Dolls. more infinite stickers.
1996-97. dry but for doing that thing for Xrissa -- "R4vens and L0bsters" a series of short dreamy essays that i found charming. she used to walk around wearing a huge plastic lobster around her neck on a string. how NOT to make her zine? Feeling rotten about my own writing during this time as Darko was nasty about it.
1998-99: no zines, but wrote a bazillion very complex MUD areas.
2000: wrote a lot for everything2.
2001-03: T0llbooth Press. bunch of small books: W00dbird Jazzophone. Fl0rentino. Short. 4 poems of longing. Inamorata. Pray3rs are better sung. E.K.'s book (ergh. nightmare project.) started Composite mag.
2004: Cuts anthology. foray into dealing with actual printer instead of xeroxing.

I just realized it as I was trying to write the bio -- somethign which always makes me itch uncomfortably -- while cruising my CV and typing the words "editor and publisher" feeling a little bit bogus, as always. But! 20 years next year! Wow.

My projects are incredibly small - i suck at the distribution and just usually hand them out to people or sell them at random times, though Slut U+opia had distribution for a while through a couple of places. I think I still have a box of 100 R4tatosks - what to do with them!? I usually print 200 of everything but sometimes it's only 100 or it's some freaking random number and I don't keep track. I always liked this one illustration in the comic book version of S4lome where she is sort of floaty looking with her arms outstretched and paper and doves are flying around sort of magically from her fingertips. The charm of little paper zines is that you can shed them like dandruff or glitter. I would like to make more tiny things like N3ttlebeck's "This is Important" that can be scattered to the wind. This is part laziness but part on-purpose freedom, I think. Cheap zines, cheap to make, black and white, not too hard to make (my error with the T0llbooth handmade books...) yet nice enough that people don't look at them, pick them up, and throw them away.

Comments

[GraceD]

Xerox Xine! Yes, yes, yes. I hope folks are still doing these, and on their company's time. I was involved in one, way back in the mid 70s, with friends who went to Cal. 'The Albany Voice of Dissent', tagline: Dull only to the Dull. Distributed to friends, friends of friends, and their friends.

Thanks for triggering this fond memory of pre-blog citizen journalism.

Badger., I really should be reading you more often. I will make it so! Done!

[Prentiss Riddle]

Put up the PDFs!

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