Hobby Zines.   Posted 26 June, 1992.  All zines reviewed by Jerod Pore.
Send your hobby/game/job/pet zines to Jerod Pore  1800 Market St. #141
San Francisco  CA  94102-6227.  This file is Shareright (s) 1992.  You
may reproduce and/or distribute this document at will, so long as others
may reproduce and/or distribute this document.

These are zines about various types of jobs, hobbies, games; zines about
doing stuff.


Games, mostly Role Playing Games and Play by Mail.

%Title:  Clobberin' Times
%Descr:  I think that's the title.  This is a BIG APA about SuperHero,
particullarly Champions, RPG's.  Unlike most APA's there's no single
title.  Whichever part is in front is the name, I guess.  Anyway, these
guys are ultraenthusiastic, yet not especially serious, about SuperHero
comics and the Champions RPG and other adolescent vices.
%Info:   Write to Mike O'connell  149 Arbuckle Ave  Folsom  Ca  95630
350+ pages standard.


%Title:  The Games' Afoot  Number 7
%Descr:  AD&D style RPGs; playing them, GMing them, designing them.
Character profiles.  Life on the road.  All the hoopla about why RPG's
will make you kill your parents.
%Info:   $2.50 each to Zirlinson Publications  1447 Treat Boulevard
Walnut Creek  CA  94596  24 pages digest (sorta).


%Title:  The Player's Forum  Number 7
%Descr:  Mail-order companies that die with no refunds.  Detailed
reviews and info about a variety of PBM game systems.
%Info:   $1.00 each to Player's Forum  P.O. Box 28  Lynnwood  WA  98046-
0028  14 pages digest & recycled paper.


%Title:  CHRPS
%Descr:  Funny take-off on RPGs.  Character attributes include Macho.
Skills include Bowling and Rescue.  Haven't you always wanted to live a
TV show from the 70's?
%Info:   $2.00 to Bruce Kroeze  2415 Glenwood Avenue N.  Minneapolis MN
55405  12 pages digest.


%Title:  Penguin Dip  Number 47
%Descr:  Yes, Penguin Dip is more than just a Diplomacy zine, but as
that takes half the contents, this seems the logical place for it.
Letters, book and movie reviews and various comments take up half the
zine while the Diplomacy games with scattered Harpers statistics take up
the other half.  I'd play if F5 hadn't taken over my life.
%Info:   $15.00 a year to Stephen H. Dorneman  99 Pond Avenue #200
Brookline  MA  02146  14 pages standard & recycled paper.


%Title:  pinGame journal  Number 5
%Descr:  All about pinball.  Letters, collecting machines, focus on the
game Riverboat, trip to a confest, guessing game, how a pinball game is
built and classified ads.
%Info:   $24.00 a year to James Schelberg  31937 Olde Franklin Drive
Farmington Hills  MI  48334 36 pages standard.


%Title:  National Mah Jongg League News
%Descr:  Not just letters, puzzles and tips, but Mah Jongg tournaments
for charity.
%Info:   $4.25 a year to The National Mah Jongg League, Inc.  250 West
57th Street  New York  NY  10107  16 pages digest.


%Title:  National Poker Association News
%Descr:  Like the NRA, but for poker players.  Where card rooms are
becomming legal (or aren't) and how you can help.  Where members get
discounts.  Tournament results.
%Info:   $20.00 a year to National Poker Association  2460 Juniper Ave.
Boulder  CO  80304.  6 lavender pages standard.


%Title:  International Home & Private Poker Players' Association
%Descr:  Two different two-pagers from the same source.  First there's
an every-other-month newsletter of upcomming tournaments and results.
Secondly is the monthly tips sheet, like how to handle a losing streak.
%Info:   $7.00 a year to IH3PA  Rte. 2  Box 2845  Manistique  MI  49854
2 pages, standard.


Critters.

%Title:  The Calquarium   Volume 34 Number 1
%Descr:  All sorts of esoteric data about strange and interesting fish.
Who is breeding what.  How to stack tanks.  What type of lighting is
best for which type of fish.
%Info:   $22.00 a year to Calgary Aquarium Society  PO Box 6116  Calgary
Alberta  T2P 2C7  28 pages, standard.


%Title:  The Dick E. Bird News   Volume 5 Number 7
%Descr:  Birdhouse of the month.  Birdwatch horoscope.  Bird & squirrell
pictures and humor.  Bird related trivia.  Deadly serious ecology raps.
Reads a little like Out West.  Kind of entertaining, but is probably
hilarious to serious birdwatchers.
%Info:   $12.00 a year to Dick E. Bird  PO Box 377  Acme MI 49610  16
pages, tabloid.


%Title:  Afghan Monthly   Volume 2 Issue 1
%Descr:  "Regular Bitch Classes - 23 Bitches."  Cheap shot, I know.
Mostly contest info, breeder info.  Names stranger than horses.
"Karzak's Sephira Tattoo" for instance.  Interview with a breeder.
Obedience school failures.
%Info:   $28.00 a year to The Afghan Monthly  9710 Hanover Road  MI
49241-9780  16 pages tabloid.


%Title:  The Irish Wolfhound Quarterly   Volume 14 Issue 3
%Descr:  Pictures, contest and breeding data about really BIG dogs.
What's in dogfood.  Stories from around the world.  Letters and lots of
ads.
%Info:   $10.00 each to Irish Wolfhound Quarterly  4401 Zephyr Street
Wheat Ridge  CO  80033-3299  66 glossy standard pages.


Music, Magic and Dance.  Why not group them together?  Note well:  These
are zines about *playing* insturments.  Zines getting all fanish about
musicians are in a file of their own.


%Title:  Zen Wind   Issue 7
%Descr:  Truly a zen zine.  Unbound, non-copyright, e-prime english
syntax and using a unique system of musical notation.  As much a
spirituality zine as a zine of playing music.  On the spirituality side
is an essay on the Taoist Heritage of Zen.  On the music side there are
two pieces:  'Tundra VII,' done in one pitch for all participants and
one pitch for each individual; and 'Clear Like Space,' a series of
compositions for various sizes of recorders.  A most fascinating
publication.
%Info:   $4.00 (donation) to Tundra Wind  P.O. Box 429  Monte Rio  CA
95462  50 pages standard.


%Title:  Genii  Volume 55  Number 2
%Descr:  Mostly ads for tricks with prices that go up to thousands of
dollars.  Who's doing what in the magic world (including dying).
Interviews with big name Vegas acts.  How to do a variety of tricks.
Convention reports.  Reviews of how-to books.  Does it spoil the fun?  I
don't know.
%Info:   $3.50 each $30.00 a year to Genii  PO Box 36068  Los Angeles
CA  90036  76 glossy pages, standard.


%Title:  Attitude   Volume 7  Numbe 4
%Descr:  This issue features various African and Afro-Carib styles of
dance, teachers, choereigraphers and groups.  What the ABT, the Royal
Ballet and local troupes are doing.  Reviews of Asian performances.
%Info:   $6.00 each $20.00 a year to Attitude 1040 Park Place  Brooklyn
NY 11213  84 pages, standard.


Collecting stuff, regardless of how common or obscure.


%Title:  Calgary STAMPede   Volume 11 Number 4
%Descr:  Convention reports, auction catalogues.  Notes on the
standardization of stamp perferations (I'm thrilled!).  Upcoming events.
%Info:   $15.00 a year to Calgary Philatelic Society  Box 1478  Calgary
Alberta  T2P 2L6.  8 pages, digest.


%Title:  DecalcoMania   Number 92
%Descr:  For the collectors of radio station promotional and internal
materials, from bumper stickers to playlists and market lists.  No
stranger than hams who collect QSL cards.
%Info:   $1.00 each to Phil Bytheway  9705 Mary NW  Seattle  WA  98117
10 pages, standard.


%Title:  8-Track Mind   Issue 71
%Descr:  Will eight-track technology never die?  Personal eight-track
stories, including an astounishingly sappy tale of Karen Carpenter and a
little girl dying of leukemia.  Questionnair results.  The search for
quad.
%Info:   Russ Forster  13731  Jenny Drive  Warren MI 48093  32 eight-
track shaped digest pages.


%Title:  Optimistic Pezzimist   Number 13
%Descr:  Results of an auction of the little candy dispensers, with some
fetching several hundred dollars each.  Pictures of obscure PEZ, want
lists, sale lists, Hello Kitty PEZ wannabes (!), customizing PEZ
dispensers, letters & ads.
%Info:   $18.00 a year to Mike Robertson  P.O. Box 606  Dripping Springs
TX  38 pages, digest.


%Title:  Eraser Carver's Quarterly   Issue 9
%Descr:  Making stamps, stencils and other tools of mass-produced
expression on the cheap.  Many samples.  I'm impressed with what one can
do with lifted office supplies.
%Info:   $3.00 each or $10.00 a year to Mick Mather 205 Myron Rd
Syracuse NY  13219-1225  12 pages, digest.


%Title:  Venusian Travelogue   Number 2
%Descr:  And just what do you do with all those rubber stamps, dutifully
made or obsessively collected?  Send the impressions here, and they'll
be added to the continuing story of Phil, the dulcimer playing
armadillo.
%Info:   $1.25 each to Benjamin Wade  602 Elba Drive  Goddlettsville  TN
37072   32 pages digest.


%Title:  Postcard Examiner   Number 40
%Descr:  Promotional, political, pretentious post cards; they'll collect
them.  From a summer in France to the Gulf 'War' to postal service
commeratives.
%Info:   $1.25 each to Ann Rusnak  Box 4177  Carson City  NV  89702  8
pages, standard.


Zines about work.  Hate your job?  Tell the world.

%Title:  Stripper Magazine    December 1991
%Descr:  Proving there's a trade zine for just about everybody.
Interviews with strippers, porn stars, promoters and agents.  News, club
features, product ads (wanna buy a merkin?), North American club and
agent listings.
%Info:   $3.00 each or $24.00 a year to Stripper Publications  344 West
49th Street  Suite 4C  New York  NY  10019  52 pages, standard.


%Title:  Dish Washer   Number 3
%Descr:  Dishwashing dreams, dishwashing art, stories about washing
dishes at various jobs.  Excerpts from a book, lifted from the
University of Mississippi, on how to be a dishwasher.
%Info:   "A couple of stamps and a letter" to Pete  1825 11th St. #6
Arcata  CA  95521   16 pages, digest.



%Title:  Cheap Relief  Volume 5 Number 1
%Descr:  Although it looks (and costs) like a 'legitimate' newsletter,
Cheap Relief has a real zine-like attitude.  "Granted a little knowledge
can be useless..." and goes into a feng shui primer.  "The best solution
to meetings would be not to go."  Reviews of related newsletters and
Washington area groups.
%Info:   $4.00 each to Jean Lawrence  POB 11501  Washington DC  20008-
0701.  4 pages, standard.


%Title:  American Window Cleaner  Issue 31
%Descr:  How to stay warm, 35 stories up in a Manitoba winter.  Window
Cleaner slang.  Rating safety standards.  Squeegee care.  Window cleaner
of the month.  Product reviews, ads, letters, just like a 'real' zine.
%Info:   $35.00 a year to AWC  27 Oak Creek Road  El Sobrante  CA  94803
40 pages, standard.


Miscellaneous hobbies.

%Title:  The Rational Enquirer  Volume 12  Issue 10
Descr:   Play stump Mensa!  This is the publication of the Mensa
Question and Answer SIG.  If you have a question that you've been unable
to have answered any other way, ask here.  Conversely, your wealth of
otherwise trivial knowledge would be appreciated here.  Examples:
"Theoretically, can an element with an atomic number over 92 have a non-
radioactive isotope?  Is so, could it occur naturally?"  "During WWII,
as I recall, the vegetable juice cocktail V8 for a time was called V7.
Which was teh strategic vegetable that was removed to aid the war
effort?"  Fascinating what people know and desire to know.
%Info:   $1.00 each or $11.00 a year to Q&A SIG  8206 Monaegan Ct.
Severn  MD  21144.  email Prodigy ID CNVB41A.  (I don't think Prodigy
has an internet gateway).


%Title:  GreenPrints   Number 7
Descr:   Delightful gardening zine.  Entertaining stories, often packed
with useful gardening data.  Not just the 'burbs and the sticks, but
getting dirty in the city.
%Info:   $3.25 each to GreenPrints  P.O. Box 1355  Fairview  NC  28730.
66 pages, digest.


%Title:  Museum Insights  Volume 3 Number 6
%Descr:  A guide to obscure museums across America.  Bozeman's complete
Tyrannosarus; olive trees in Santa Barbara; flying lessons from
Australian women in Ohio.
%Info:   $28.00 a year to Museum Insights  Box 313  North Amherst  MA
01059  8 pages, standard.


%Title:  Roadside  Volume 2 Number 1
%Descr:  For those who appreciate the diners of the Northeast.  Not so
much for the food, but the architecture, the neon, the ambiance of
eating in a converted tram.  They're enthusiastic about that neon!
%Info:   $12.00 a year (free in selected diners) to Coffee Cup
Publications  29 Hunt Street  Watertown  MA  02172  10 pages, tabloid.
email ROADSIDER@aol.com


%Title:  crosswords  Volume 1 Number 2
%Descr:  For people like me, who ride bicycles on roads and trails to
actually *GET* someplace.  Obsessive equipment details; complete with a
user survey about tires that went out over Usenet.  Interview with Jeff
Lindsay, who builds bikes by hand.  Article on Cyclo-Cross racing (where
often the rider must carry the bike).  Maintenance tips and equipment
reviews.  Get this and Kokopele Times (to be reviewed in Travel zines)
for DIY bicycle info.
%Info:   $1.00 each to Mark Chandler  P.O. Box 3207  Walnut Creek  CA
94598.  8 pages, standard. email chandler@wc.novell.com


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