(writing)

Book Reviews:

• The! Greatest! Of! Marlys! by Lynda Barry
• Lobotomy: Surviving The Ramones by Dee Dee Ramone
• The Funhouse Mirror: Reflections In Prison by Robert Ellis Gordon and Inmates of the Washington Corrections System
• A Massive Swelling: Celebrity Re-examined as a Grotesque Crippling Disease and Other Cultural Revelations by Cintra Wilson

Antenna Internet Radio Shakes Up The Digital Airwaves

Behind the scenes at Antenna Internet Radio.

An interview with the authors of punk rock oral history Please Kill Me (and a forthcoming book on the porn industry).

SLAMNation:

Jeepers! This site seems to have disappeared. Archived copies to be posted soon!

Wasting Time on the WWW (a column devoted to one of my favorite pastimes):

• Sites That Sell, Sites That ... I'm Not Sure What They Do
• The Magically Silly World of Found Photos

Gas Station Boy

A delusional crush story, originally printed in Fantasy Cat zine. Factsheet Five called it "charming."
Pssst! The lyrics to the song are here ...

Seattle Webgrrls:

Grrl Profile 5.0

An interview with Webgrrl Laura MacMahon for the Seattle Webgrrls site. (No longer online at seattlewebgrrls.org.)

Tripod:

Zines Go Mainstream

This is the introductory page for a multi-piece feature on zine books I wrote for Tripod, back when they published original content on their site. Links to individual sections here:

    review: Zines! Vol. 1 by V. Vale
    review: The Factsheet Five Zine Reader by R. Seth Friedman
    review: Rollerderby and Dancing Queen by Lisa Carver
    review: Inconspicuous Consumption by Paul Lukas
    interview: Chip Rowe
    interview: R. Seth Friedman
    interview: Paul Lukas
    zine books I'd like to see
    personal media conference call

A Survey of Recent Works in Catalog Escape Literature

A review of catalogs as if they were books.

Fizz:

Collecting Madwoman: Lisa Matson

Collecting Madpeople:
Bruce Woodbury and Enid Westberg

Two articles for the "Collecting Madman" series. Lisa collects My Little Ponies (really!), while Bruce and Enid collect a whole lot of things.

Spider Stompin':

Getting Our Kicks at Trader Vic's

My sisters Amy and Lily and I went to England last summer. The latest copy of Lily's zine tells all about it, including our trip to this legendary tiki bar.

For those who might not have been in a while.

Pomegranates:

It's Mauve

Seven Whiskey Sours

"Ministories"—creative fiction and/or nonfiction. Pomegranates.com has turned into something else; I hope to put copies of these pieces up here soon.