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 […]
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68 hours in Manzanita…. The Monkey Power Trio’s 24th day as a band
The weekend of October 20 marked the 24th meeting of my one-day-a-year pseudo-band, the Monkey Power Trio. For those of you who might not be familiar with our origin story, it all began back in 1995 with a promise between old friends one hot, summer afternoon in Brooklyn. Without much in the way of any […]
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The Untold History of Zines…. Jeff Kay on the West Virginia Surf Report
In an attempt to better document the American underground press, or at least the sharp, tiny sliver of it that I find most interesting, I’ve given myself the task of reaching out to all of those former and current zine publishers that I know, and asking them about their motivations and experiences. Today’s interview is […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Mark's Life, Special Projects, Uncategorized Also tagged 4AD, alt.zines, Bill Bryson, blogs, Cheap Trick, comedy, Crossroads Road, Crum, Deadwood, DIY, Dream Police, Drudge Report, Earl T. Grey, Factsheet Five, fast food, fat jokes, fuck, getting laid, Howard Stern, John Hughes, Kinko's, Kix, Los Angeles, Mad magazine, Marc Maron, memoirs, Michael O’Donoghue, National Lampoon, Ninjalicious, Phyllis Diller, Queen, Quimby's, Roger Ebert, Rush Limbaugh, small town America, The Offense Newsletter, The Untold History of Zines, The West Virginia Surf Report, Tower Records, Trout Fishing in America, tuberculosis, underground press, viral posts, West Virginia Surf Report, zine friends, zine pioneers, zines 18 Comments