NYC ZINE FEST

NYC ZINE FEST was great. I almost skipped on it, and I'm glad Drew and Greg talked me into it. I saw some great art work and zines, met cool people, and someone even came up to me and said 'oh I read your blog.' ALso someone came by and said she was writing a piece on the zine fest and would include me in it (Manhattan magazine, I believe). That would be cool.

So someone reads the blog after all.
ALso, I'm officially sold out of Volumes 1-4. Considering a second printing of the most current issue, Volume 4 "We are all telling the truth" which has an interview with Jeff Stark. If you want to order it please let me know so I can decide on a reprinting.

Don't forget, looking for performers and readers for the Variety show, end of August, at HiChristina.

Cul de Sac

In (random year) in (random city) I took guitar lessons with (Tommy Carnes). He would just be (random teacher) were it not for a CD that he'd recorded and given to me. One of those CDs you get for free that you sometimes never even unwrap let alone listen to with a cheesy photo of himself in sunglasses for the cover, the tracks ranged from unmemorable to bad except for track number 10 which started out equally average and somehow, undescribeably, transformed from nothing into something. Something persistent, consistent, plain - and with only the weakest extra effort, the smallest insinuation of intent this song exploded when he got to the last verse. "I'm coming back home to you".

I don't normally go for singer-songwriters and acoustic guitars. I forgot about this song and moved four more times and somehow this year the song popped into my head. I can't believe I still had the CD. I went directly to track 10, yes, this was what I wanted to hear. Thank you, Tommy Carnes. I checked and he is not on iTunes, which is kind of a blessing because everything we post today seems to be an advertisement. But I will put this song on my blog (when I figure out how) because it ties in to the theme for Issue number 5: Home.

NJ Zine Fest successful

I went to NJ zine fest with Matthew Mendez. He picked up my zines on a 2-month solo road trip across the USA and took the time to email and tell me he'd bought, read and enjoyed them (nice!). We've become zine buddies as a result. His zine, Number Nothing is great. We shared a table yesterday and made some new friends. Nicole at Click Clack distro, Parcell Press Taylor and Juliet, Chris at Wooden Shoe book shop in Philly, Brandi of Fat Girl zine and old friends were there, too like Redguard of Absent-Cause zine. I sold many copies also sold two of my new york clocks which was a great bonus. The folks with book stores, distros and other zines were great. The residents of Rutgers however, not so saavy. Two girls came to our table. One read an entire piece from mine and the other read a piece from Matthew's. Then put it down and left. Can you eat half an apple and then walk away without paying? Not cool. My zine is $3 in stores and $4 via paypal/snail mail. Thanks.

WNHP Vol 4 April 17

We'll Never Have Paris celebrates Vol 4 with some new things like illustrations and interviews. Still nonfiction, still print only, no online ezine. Still a good honest read. Pre-order now. Volume 5 will be out November 1, submissions accepted now through October 1

Contributors include:
Jeff Stark (an interview!)
Nathan Schreiber (illustration!)
Jaime Borschuk
Cassie J Sneider
TJ Hospodar
Matthew Mendez
Karen Lillis
Cecelia Mariscal
tamara lazaroff

gearing up ahead of schedule: Vol 4

To my surprise, I pulled out the box of zines for sale under my couch and discovered I only have ten left. Those went fast!

This means I can definitely go on with Volume 4 since I must have made some money in sales and therefore have interest. Either that, or a whole box of zines went absently into recycling.

SUBMIT your essay on how the glass is half full in your life with a direct or indirect personal account kind of story of 1,000 words or less.
NEW! This volume I am interested in something new: Facebook status messages, send me yours. Also the interview. If you wish to be interviewed or want to interview me, contact me. I have never done either and it's on my mind.

Deadline for all submissions is now March 31.

Zine reading Wed Jan 7 at Bluestockings

Come on out if you live locally to Bluestockings Jan 7 at 7pm. Free/donation.
Bluestockings events
we make zines

Happy New Year

I saw the movie Revolutionary Road the other day, which was Hollywood and mediocre. However, it did bring up a scare for me, much like the year I had decided to be Cruella deVille for Halloween and then the movie remake came out and it looked as though I'd gotten the idea from the film, but I hadn't. The film's star point is the climactic build up move to Paris that then never happens and drama ensues.

This blog and zine are in no way reflective or related to Revolutionary Road. Please.

With that said, here are photo submissions of what Paris means to you.
Despite the deadline, keep these coming. thanks, 2009.