Comments on: Before blogging http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/12687 Minneapolis + St. Paul Sun, 22 Nov 2009 06:28:20 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: mnblrmkr http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/12687#comment-176128 mnblrmkr Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:16:07 +0000 #comment-176128 What was remarkable was that it was 6 teenage girls in a two-bedroom hotel room and we didn't kill each other.<br /> <br /> Sounds like a <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0275022/" target="_blank">movie</a>. What was remarkable was that it was 6 teenage girls in a two-bedroom hotel room and we didn’t kill each other.

Sounds like a movie.

]]> By: Jerad http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/12687#comment-176090 Jerad Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:03:17 +0000 #comment-176090 I remember how cool I felt as a suburban 8th grader reading the first (and to my knowledge, only) edition of Metro, compiled by some BBS-user named AJ. It had poetry, stories, and an ad for the Rocky Horror Picture Show. I was in city envy heaven and things would never be the same. I remember how cool I felt as a suburban 8th grader reading the first (and to my knowledge, only) edition of Metro, compiled by some BBS-user named AJ. It had poetry, stories, and an ad for the Rocky Horror Picture Show. I was in city envy heaven and things would never be the same.

]]> By: andyst http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/12687#comment-176052 andyst Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:08:42 +0000 #comment-176052 Ha, that's always my first reaction when I hear about a zine fest, too: "shit, I've got to do one now!" It's why my career as a zine creator was so spotty and probably disappointing -- surely as spotty and disappointing as my blogging career has turned out. Heh heh. Ha, that’s always my first reaction when I hear about a zine fest, too: “shit, I’ve got to do one now!” It’s why my career as a zine creator was so spotty and probably disappointing — surely as spotty and disappointing as my blogging career has turned out. Heh heh.

]]> By: sandburg http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/12687#comment-176020 sandburg Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:26:42 +0000 #comment-176020 I don't really know if zines should be seen as a predecessor to blogs, or as obsolete-- at one point, I had a zine and a blog, and so did some other people I knew. Zines were just more fun to make and distribute. There are still a lot of zines still being made, as well. (Hit It or Quit It is still being made too, or at least I remember reading on Jessica Hopper's blog that she had a new issue like, last year.)<br /> <br /> I'm not old enough to have old-school zine memories from the 80s/90s, so all mine are from around the 2000s. <br /> <br /> Anyway, me and a few of my friends who all did zines piled into a car and drove to Madison for the first zine fest there in 2004, and amassed a huge collection of zines and other stuff. It was fun. I still have them all. What was remarkable was that it was 6 teenage girls in a two-bedroom hotel room and we didn't kill each other. Sadly, I don't think any of us do zines anymore. I should try to track them all down.<br /> <br /> When I first heard about the zine fest again, my immediate reaction was "Shit! I need to make a zine quick!" But seeing that it's in two weeks, and I don't feel like I have anything interesting I've written recently, I don't think that's going happen. I do have a button machine, though, so I might try to come up with some stuff to trade.<br /> <br /> At the first Minneapolis Zine Fest, apparently Ericka of Pander Zine Distro (RIP!) liked one of the photographs I was selling and bought it, which I thought was pretty cool.<br /> <br /> One of my zines was called "Anurachy!" and it was about deformed frogs. I don’t really know if zines should be seen as a predecessor to blogs, or as obsolete– at one point, I had a zine and a blog, and so did some other people I knew. Zines were just more fun to make and distribute. There are still a lot of zines still being made, as well. (Hit It or Quit It is still being made too, or at least I remember reading on Jessica Hopper’s blog that she had a new issue like, last year.)

I’m not old enough to have old-school zine memories from the 80s/90s, so all mine are from around the 2000s.

Anyway, me and a few of my friends who all did zines piled into a car and drove to Madison for the first zine fest there in 2004, and amassed a huge collection of zines and other stuff. It was fun. I still have them all. What was remarkable was that it was 6 teenage girls in a two-bedroom hotel room and we didn’t kill each other. Sadly, I don’t think any of us do zines anymore. I should try to track them all down.

When I first heard about the zine fest again, my immediate reaction was “Shit! I need to make a zine quick!” But seeing that it’s in two weeks, and I don’t feel like I have anything interesting I’ve written recently, I don’t think that’s going happen. I do have a button machine, though, so I might try to come up with some stuff to trade.

At the first Minneapolis Zine Fest, apparently Ericka of Pander Zine Distro (RIP!) liked one of the photographs I was selling and bought it, which I thought was pretty cool.

One of my zines was called “Anurachy!” and it was about deformed frogs.

]]> By: chuck http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/12687#comment-176016 chuck Mon, 30 Jun 2008 06:42:54 +0000 #comment-176016 That's actually kind of exciting.<br /> I'm sure I have a <em>Hit it or quit it</em> somewhere in a box with my rock posters. That’s actually kind of exciting.
I’m sure I have a Hit it or quit it somewhere in a box with my rock posters.

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