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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, crawfish, 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, 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

Michigan Musicians on Vacation: Misty Lyn Bergeron communing among the redwoods

By Mark | December 3, 2013

A few weeks ago, kind of on a whim, I reached out to a local musician and asked if he’d be willing to talk about a recent vacation he’d taken to Gettysburg. It went well. I enjoyed hearing about something that he was insanely passionate about, and I think he enjoyed, for a change, talking […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Michigan, Special Projects, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Arlo, Avenue of the Giants, bartending, Big Love, Big Sur, Bill Hicks, birth stories, blue green algae, burgers, buruli ulcer, Carmel, Carnival Cruise, community service, consumption, cruise, crying, East of Eden, Eli Eisman, epiphanies, fast food, Garden City, gardening, gated communities, Glen Campbell, Grey Goose, Halliburton, Hee Haw, Hee Haw Honeys, hippies, how to be a better human being, Iggy Pop, interviews, John Steinbeck, Joseph Campbell, Lake Michigan, Lake Tahoe, Las Vegas, Lust for Life, malaria, martinis, Matt Jones, Michigan Musicians on Vacation, Misty Lyn, Misty Lyn Bergeron, musicians, musicians breaking the law, nature, polygamy, private property, private roads, Rawlins, redwoods, Rhinestone Cowboy, Salt Flats, San Francisco, Seva, Siddhartha, spiritual quests, spirituality, sun poisoning, Timothy Monger, travel, travel tips, trees, Utah, vacations, vans, vegetarianism, vertigo, Zen, Zion National Park. | 6 Comments

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