Top 5 Reasons Why You Don’t Care About Zines
Suzy runs the Toronto Zine Library. It’s a rad little place with a giant collection that could only get more darling if it were overrun with bespectacled floppy-eared bunny rabbits browsing the archives. That said, ziney-types generally don’t drop in as much as they should. Why? I dunno. Jerks maybe. But our expert has some theories.
5) You no longer are, or never were a, a fifteen year old girl.
4) You stopped thinking that marxi-femi-anarchi-knitism was the only way to live about a week ago. Though you’re still waiting to hear back from a few potential contributors for your forthcoming asexual/vegan/pescatarian cook/per/lit-zine.
3) Why spend countless hours slaving over “yr” (Stolen Sharpie Revolution 3rd Ed Wrekk 47) little d.i.y. publication when you can look just as cool the easy way, by smoking.
2) Seriously, have you noticed how boring reading is?
1) It’s cool, Hal Niedzviecki doesn’t either. [Ed.'s note: no less than 5 people on staff have been under the employ of Hal in various capacities. We hereby distance ourselves from this monster burn.]
ha, you know what’s funny? my dad sent me this (he’s got google alert set up for all his children). he thinks this is some kind of major assault on my reputation.he also sent me a wikipedia entry about me that said broken pencil sucked or something like that. anyway, zines are not all that ‘hip’ right now, which in my mind just makes them all the more interesting. still, i’m not sure that zines will ever thrive in a library environment. when viewed in that context they end up seeming out of place and pointless, like reading a phone book from 1973. we’ve been donating zines to the toronto reference library for years now, not so much because i think people actually want to go to a library or a museum and read zines, but because it stands as an alternative archive to the mainstream bullshit, and it should have a place in the cannon along side the rest of the nonsense that libraries deem to collect and preserve for all time like chatelaine and hello! canada or whatever. that’s right, i called zines nonsense. maybe i don’t care. ha! truth be told zines will probably still be kicking around long after every blog ever done is lost to a freak meteor that erases the entire world’s hard drives. speaking of blogs, check mine out: http://www.peephal.com/blog
If there’s one thing I stand for it’s major assault.
You, me, fist fight. You can bring your dad.
You make some fair points, though you might want to come in and actually check out our collection before making any specific judgments.
If you’re in uncomfortable position and have no money to go out from that point, you would have to receive the credit loans. Because it would help you emphatically. I take commercial loan every year and feel myself fine because of that.