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The Untold History of Zines… Doug Holland on Pathetic Life

By Mark | October 3, 2021

When I set out to interview all of the folks that were doing work that I respected back in the ‘90s, during the golden age of zines, there was one person I knew I wouldn’t be able to speak with. I’d been told by multiple people that Doug Holland, the man behind the legendary zine […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Crimewave USA, Mark's Life, Media, Pop Culture, Special Projects, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized | Also tagged affordable housing, aliases, Anderson Valley Advertiser, ass shaving, B Traven, back hair, Banksy, being left alone, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Bill Brent, Black Sheets, book deal, Book of Zines, boundaries, Bruce Anderson, Bummers and Gummers, cheap, cheapskate, Christianity, Christopher Becker, cockroaches, COVID, Crank, Craphound, dachshunds, Daily Blab, David Letterman, Dead Magazine Club, Death, Desert Moon, diary, disappearing, Dishwasher, Dishwasher Pete, Doug Biggert, Doug Holland, Duplex Planet, famous people who published zines, fanzines, fat, film ideas, finding love, frugality, fucked up families, Gulp Life, Harold and Maude, hemorrhoids, High Weirdness by Mail, Hollywood, honestly, Jeff Kay, Jeffrey Meyer, Kate Moss, Kool Man, Larry Farber, Libertarian, Loki Quinnangelis, Macy’s, mail drops, Marie Prevost, masturbation, McDonalds, Michael Jackman, Mike Gunderloy, mothers, movie reviews, murder, Murder Can Be Fun, New Orleans, New York Times, obsession, odd jobs, off-grid, office work, old movies, orgies, pathetic, Pathetic Live, pen names, personal zines, Pete Jordan, piss, pissing in sinks, playing hooky, privacy, quitter, quitting, reading, Rebecca Schaeffer, residential hotels, Roger Ebert, Rosebud, running away, Russ Meyer, San Francisco, Satanic Temple, science fiction, Seattle, secret identity, See Hear, Seth Friedman, shit, shitting on the floor, sinks, slobs, Sniffin’ Glue, solitude, Spiderman medallion, stalking, Stephanie Webb, Stymie, suicide, Sweden, Temp Slave, The Untold History of Zines, Tower Records, traumatic childhoods, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, underwear, Union Square, Utne Reader, waif models, West Virginia Surf Report, Wisconsin, Zine World | 11 Comments

Talking boudin, crawfish and Burger King milkshakes with Southern Foodways Alliance oral historian Amy C. Evans

By Mark | March 16, 2013

I had the occasion a few months ago, when doing some research into “the ham of my people” (country ham with redeye gravy), to stumble onto the work of Amy C. Evans, the award-winning, Mississippi-based oral historian of the Southern Foodways Alliance. On a whim, I sent her a random collection of questions, and, as […]

Posted in Food, History, Mark's Life, Other | Also tagged A. L. "Unk" Quick, Alisa Lay, Allan Benton, American Studies, Apalachicola, Atlanta, Bacon, barbecue, Bill Tinker, boudin, Burger King, Caju, Center for the Study of Southern Culture, chicken, Collins Oyster Company, country ham, Crawfish Shack Seafood, documentary film, Down the Bayou, Edna Stewart, Florida, Florida’s Forgotten Coast, fried chicken, Georgia, Gloria Quick, gumbo, Gus’s World Famous Fried Chicken, ham, Hieu Pham, Hurricane Katrina, Joe York, John Saucier, Kentucky, Leann Hines, Levee Run Farm, Liberty, Louisiana, Memphis, Mimi Gladys, Mississippi, New Orleans, Oral History Association, pork, remoulade, satsumas, Saucier’s Sausage Kitchen, sausage, SFA Founders’ Oral History Project, Souther Foodways Alliance, Southern Boudin Trail, southern food, Southern Studies, Sugarcane, tamale, Tennessee, the south, University of Mississippi, Vietnamese food | 14 Comments

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