
Personal zines (or perzines)   Posted 31 July, 1992.  All zines
reviewed by Jerod Pore.  Send your zines to Jerod Pore  1800
Market St. #141  San Francisco  Ca  94102-6227.  email
jerod23@well.sf.ca.us

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These are inexpensive (like many sfanzines, these are available
for "The Usual" - something in trade) zines of everyday life and
opinion.  Ever get a "family newsletter" around "the holidays"
from some distant relative or vague acquaintance?  Imagine
getting, from a stranger, a slightly stranger version of the
family newsletter.  The better of these are outlets of great
creativity, and make the otherwise mundane lives of the authors
entertaining.  Others are strivings against boredom, or cries of
loneliness.


%Title:  Glen Burnieland  Number 17
%Descr:  The amazingly humorous adventures of Mr. Chuck, Ms.
Maggie, Christina and Peter.  They buy a van, they diet, they
install an air conditioner, they're tortured by cruel shoes and
strong sun.  They are Buddha!  Life CAN be fun!  A most wonderful
anti-depressant, and the one of best of the bunch.
%Info:   FREE!!! (one of the great deals in zinedom)  Mr. Chuck
9195 H Hitching Post Lane  Laurel MD  20723

%Title:  Little Free Press
%Descr:  Ernest questions freedom, emotional states, life as
adventure and bad teeth.  Plus reviews of what he's been reading.
%Info:   Stamps to Ernest Mann  Box 54177 Minneapolis MN  55454-
0177  3 pages, standard

%Title:  Das Luftschloss  Number 1
%Descr:  On being German in America, where history seems to stop
with 1945.  Where to get German language movies.  An interesting
catalog scam.  Questioning German surnames and Bohemian origin -
yo! Dwight, there are LOTS of people in Bohemia with German
sounding names.
%Info:   Free  Dwight Decker  20003 North 23rd Avenue Apt #193
Phoenix AZ  85027  12 pages, standard

%Title:  The Stouffer Catalog  Number 3
%Descr:  Carlos writes (quite legably) about teaching, learning,
North Carolina as part of the Amazon, books found in the Attic
and other delightful topics.  His writing is poetic, his subjects
often touching.  Sometimes a page is done in Portuguese.
%Info:   $2.00 a year Carlos Stouffer  706-A Hibbard Drive
Chapel Hill NC  27514.  6 pages, legal (previous issues have been
on different sized paper)

%Title:  The Skookum Inlet News  Volume 1 Issue 4
%Descr:  Kevin writes about different stuff, but his hand writing
and copy machine are both bad enough to make me give up
attempting to decipher it.
%Info:   $0.05 each to Kevin  SE 260 Hudson Road  WA  98584-9351
4 pages, standard.

%Title:  The Bottlerocket House of Stones  Number 16
%Descr:  Karl writes about "The Nasty Girl," multiculturalism,
rap, neighbors, Plato.  A very distressing piece on a scummy 7-11
security guard who sucks up to cops for the opportunity to crack
some protestors' skulls.
%Info:   1 stamp to Karl Myers  1020 Seneca B-3  Seattle WA
98101  2 yellow pages, legal.

%Title:  Blue Blue Sky   Edition 1
%Descr:  Kristina offers poetry, drawings and homilies.
%Info:   Free  Kristina Chasse  249 Cotton Road  Lewiston ME
04240  6 standard pages with lots of white space.

%Title:  Ophie's Web  Volume I Number 3
%Descr:  Ragtime goes back to school, buys cassettes for a
quarter each, reads some zines, reprints some comics, and
considers the possibilities of sit-com sci-fi hybrids.
%Info:   The Usual  PO Box 30534  Raleigh  NC  27622-0534  6
pages, standard.

%Title:  The Letter Parade  January, 1992
%Descr:  Bonnie Jo reprints a page of Glen Burnieland and View
From the Ledge style clippins, gives ten useful tips on making a
marriage work (1. Lower your standards), and a hell drive from
Boston to San Francisco.
%Info:   $10.00 a year to Bonnie Jo  Box 52  Comstock MI  49041
6 pages, variable.

%Title:  The L.A. Gang Bang  Issue 39
%Descr:  Gary, Lee, Mary and Valorie, not-so-recent transplants
from southern New Jersey, write about life in LaLa land.  Many
people write about their lives wherever.  Topic of the month:
whom would you kill?  Reviews of different stuff.
%Info:   $9.00 a year or The Usual to Gary, Lee, Mary and Valorie
1212A  N. San Fernando #244  Burbank CA  91504-4298  6 pages,
standard, a different color each month.  email
76116.130@compuserve.com

%Title:  The Observation Ward  Number 27
%Descr:  Comments on the random scan.  How the amount of hair (or
lack thereof) indicates the level of reform of a Soviet leader.
(Gorby bald, Stalin bushy).  Fortune cookies and ecumenical
quotes.
%Info:   $6.00 a year to Donald Ward  Park Alhambra 56  999 E.
Valley Blvd  Alhambra CA  91801-5205  2 pages, standard.

%Title:  The Almagest   January 1992
%Descr:  Rick bitches about local radio (c'mon, it's bad
everywhere) and the FCC.  Also a Kiefer Sutherland filmography.
Hobbies for the truly creative.
%Info:   SASE to Rick Harrison  Box 547014  Orlando FL 32854   4
pages, standard.

%Title:  The Latest News  Volume 4 Number 1
%Descr:  1991 in Retrospect (it sucked).  Every book with a title
that starts with "The Joy of..."  Letters and zines.  On the
keeping of lists and other triva.
%Info:   $1.25 each to Jennifer Payne  P.O. Box 245  Clinton CT
06413   6 pages, standard.

%Title:  The Northwest Review  Volume II Number 1
%Descr:  Karen and Frank are still looking for work, yet Frank
saved his pennies for a shortwave (should've stuck with the 803-
A, Frank, they're wonderful) and is a somewhat happy camper.
Cheapskate tips of the month:  subscribe to The Tightwad Gazette
and buy bananas seperately.  News from the readers and about the
cats.
%Info:   $1.00 each to Karen and Frank Grigaliunas  P.O Box 316
Cumberland MD  21502   6 pages, standard.

%Title:  Sponsor Me Zine  Number 2
%Descr:  Pictures and paragraphs of guys who skate.  How tough it
is to be a vegan skater, data on cruelty-free skate sneakers.
%Info:   $1.50 each to 107 Avondale Avenue  Syracuse NY  13210
10 pages, standard.

%Title:  Effendi  Number 4
%Descr:  All that happened in the two and a half years since #3.
Working as a video clerk.  Ballsy moves in public places.  A
sleazy night out before starting bible college, including some
the harrassing of a transvestite.  They called the transvestite
in question a shim, an intriguing word (she + him / shimmer
[??]).  Anyway, the part of the tale that I liked was the so-
called shim pulling a gun.
%Info:   $1.00 each to P.O. Box 925142  Houston  TX  77292-5142
14 pages, standard

%Title:  Jason Underground's Notes from the Trashcompactor
Number 5
%Descr:  Jason questions the humanity of Miss America and scams
mainstream magazines.  Both the pro-life and pro-choice movements
are nothing more than political solutions.  Goes to Cornerstone
91 and thinks he'll die at age 23.  Reviews, playlist, pullquotes
and White Boy.
%Info:   Free from Jason, who really should print his address IN
THE ZINE!!!

%Title:  The Nancy Mauerman Newsletter   Number 24
%Descr:  Nancy dreams she plays football, gets a ukelele for
Christmas, thinks she deserves social security, travels to
Vermont, considers moving to the Lawrence Welk Desert Oasis
resort and sops ironing her clothes.
%Info:   Probably free from Nancy  121 Country Parkway
Williamsville NY  14221  2 pages, standard.

%Title:  Notes from the Hellbox    Volume 1 Number 4
%Descr:  S. Chant raves about PRINT'91, has this great and
detailed theory about the how and why of human error and reviews
a 60 year old zine.
%Info:   $1.00 (?) to S. Chant  83 Chase St.  Burlington VT
05401  12 pages,  digest.

%Title:  The Unintelligencer    Number 4
%Descr:  J.C. waxes nostalgic:  fires, camping, shoes, when fags
stayed in the closet (he says that outright homosexuality is
'disrepectful' towards people who are squeemish about sodomy),
junior high, all cars were American  and the national debt.
%Info:   $1.00 each to J. C. Coleman  PO Box 3194  Bellingham  WA
98227  16 pages, digest.

%Title:  Joe Wesson Magazine   begun 11-10-1991
%Descr:  On the stages of employment and unemployment with a
degree in economics.  Donald Westlake books.  Working in Hutzel
Hospital with other sfans.  Long letters.
%Info:   The Usual to Joe Wesson  1605 Valley Road #1  Pullman WA
99163  9 pages, standard.

%Title:  Prof's Pals Perzine    February 1992
%Descr:  Star Trek, new roommate, subscriber list, survey.
%Info:   The Usual to Professor Pyramid  PO Box 601  St.
Petersburg FL  33731-0601  4 pages, standard.

%Title:  America's At Our Doorstep    Volume IV  Number 5
%Descr:  An almost daily diary of running a Bead&Breakfast Inn in
rural Maryland, occasionally delivered like lines from a haiku.
"The crunch of leaves under foot.  The sapsucker's haunting call
from high in the rainswept trees.  A shotgun blast resounds
through the woods at daybreak."  Where do I sign up?
%Info:   $1.00 each to Dennis W. Brezina  Box 411  Churchton MD
20733  8 pages, standard.

%Title:  The Garlic Press   Volume IV  Issue 8
%Descr:  Beer and Alcoholism.  Kinda hard to tell if Henry is for
or against 12 step.
%Info:   $0.75 each to Henry G. Vanek  2801 Oakland Avenue
Nashville TN  37212-5809  6 pages, standard.

%Title:  The Potassium Revue     Issue 8
%Descr:  Mark's life is getting better.  Reprint of a 1987 essay
on why comics are lame.
%Info:   Trade to Mark Ivanhoe  6923 South Drive  Richmond VA
23225-1303  12 pages, standard.

%Title:  Sand Castles   Number 7
%Descr:  Vicki's mom gets married, so she goes to London for the
wedding.  On being to only person at work to read the Unix
manuals.  Anni Ackner on what makes a restaurant a hangout.
Letters.
%Info:   The Usual to Vicki Rosenzweig  33 Indian Road  New York
NY  10034  22 yellow pages, standard.

%Title:  Notes From Oblivion   Numbers  23 7/8-25
%Descr:  Jay requests you read all three issues.  Jay was one of
the first people to document a case (his own) of multiple
chemical sensitivities, a.k.a. environmental illness.  Each month
it gets progressively worse.  He'll be forced to move, so the
address may not be valid.  He's blind, on disability, unable to
make ends meet, forgets whatever happened before he went to sleep
and you bitch about your life?  Have some *real* pain, served
monthly.
%Info:   Anything (but audio prefered) to Jay Harber  626 Paddock
Lane  Libertyville IL  60048   4 pages, standard.

These two were posted in the 'choice' section, and included here,
where they belong.

%Title:  Food for Thought #3
%Descr:  Seth moved from New York to San Francisco and loves the
Lower Haight.  The coffee houses, the bars, the weird little
stores and weirder people.  Lots and lots of veggie recipies.  No
one else has the balls to write a gumbo recipie that calls for "A
shitload of garlic (8-80 cloves)."  That's MY kinda gumbo!  Food
to eat while watching TV, food that's better than church.  I'm
hungry just reviewing it.
%Info:   $2.00 to R. Seth Friedman  900 Oak Street  Apartment #11
San Francisco  CA  94117  28 pages, digest.

%Title:  Slubberdegullion   Number 4
%Descr:  OK, maybe it's a sfanzine, and maybe it's a perzine, but
whatever it is, Slubberdegullion is great.  Nigel writes
soooooooooooooo snidely about his job at IBM (and current lack
thereof), about the sorry state of Labour Politics and sorrier
state of British SF fandom.  Why hasn't anyone else pointed out
that smart drugs will make you look like Durk and Sandy?!?  And
what have to be the most entertaining letters in a sfanzine.
%Info:   The usual to Nigel E. Richardson  9 Windsor Green  East
Garforth  Leeds  LS25 2LG    10 pink A4 pages.
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