Nicotine Scars #1
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I love Kelly's writing style. This issue includes *great* articles on friendship, and the levels you can go up to become friends with someone, plastic surgery, "beauty" facts, her now ex-boyfriend, Mumia Abu-Jamal, love, school grades, and a few other little things. I didn't want this zine to end. It's a way neat first issue.
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Nicotine Scars #2
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This issue has more stuff on her boyfriend, and what their relationship was built on (sex) and what it wasn't built on (her own political and personal views). Kelly is very smart and intelligent and you can so see it in her zines. This issue also includes: some awesome poetry, information on Brian Deneke, her views on what "freedom" really means, some zine reviews, and a really great writing on why memories are important to her.
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Nicotine Scars #3
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Kelly is moving from Illinois to California, and she expresses her anger/sadness/frustration throughout the zine...lots of inspiring poetry, some writings on her new boyfriend, a really great things on what she thinks of cops, and another of Dr. Laura (if anyone would like to find out where she lives and happens to own some bombs, lemme know), a few journal-entryish things on her friend running away and contacting Kelly, and cops badgering her about it, and a little bit on her old boyfriend.
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Nicotine Scars #4
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This is a favorite issue of mine. It has an awesome article on pro-choice. This is also the first issue made in her new move to California. There's some really fabulous poetry, what happens when relationships grow/fade, true love, debating whether or not to break up with her boyfriend (she breaks up with him later on in the zine), how her relationship with her boyfriend was almost all based on weed, society and how it's based on wealth/money, "perfection" and the government/etc., and a train ship she had with some friends while drunk and the day after (a helluva hangover as well).
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Nicotine Scars #5
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This issue includes some really awe-inspiring poetry. And deep thoughts that Kelly thinks of as "mindless babble," a really understandable article on thinking that she was really going crazy, that nothing is really important and meaningful. Other things included in this issue: Emails from Jesse, her current boyfriend who she is in love with and his confusion because wants to be with her so much, and pretty much a lot of great stuff on her and Jesse's relationship, a great article on "sex and morals," entries from her LiveJournal, and a few little miscellaneous (sp?) things.
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Restoring Harmony #8
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It's hard to find good political zines written by girls. Not because the bad ones are by girls, but because sometimes there's not enough feminism in them. This one include all of the above. Kerri gives her personal story on birth control pills, which taught me a lot because I originally knew nothing about them other than they prevent pregnancy. She gives info on grrrl zines/distros/books/etc. And her little peice on size was something I really enjoyed reading as well. She explains that you can be a feminist and a wife, she gives great advice on good business etiquette, and she also explains how there is more than one "type" of feminism. This is a great feminist zine, and I really enjoyed it.
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Restoring Harmony #9
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This is a wonderful issue. It includes a great interview with Amy Richards, who was the co-author of the book Manifesta. Kerri also includes a super in-depth review of the book, and I'm looking forward to reading it. Kerri also talks about her trip to Bean Town Zine Town in Boston, and it sounded so incredibly fun. And then there's interviews with Margarita Gaines of Magickal Teen magazine, and Jennifer Perkins of Naughty Secretary Club, an interpretation of fear article, which was really understandibly hard to read, info on dandelions and their uses, a few reviews, and a super neat crossword puzzle.
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The Pleiades #2
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This zine is an awesome personal zine. Miranda puts her words into a dreamy flow, and just the name turns me on because I'm an ancient Greek freak. The backgrounds are really cut and paste, and since it's a per-zine, it kind of makes you want to think of some kind of deeper knowledge that's hidden in the pictures. Her zine is very metaphorical, and I think it's what a good per-zine should be: personal and thought-provoking.
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The Pleiades #3
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Brief Review:This zine is sort of in a poem-like format. It includes a few really beautiful photographs, and has a mysterious touch to it. More of a review later.
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Tight Pants #8
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Intelligent humor. Those are the first words to come out of my mouth. Madeleine is totally punk rock, and totally cute. And totally, hilariously funny. This particular issue includes a lot on her recent job history; she's worked as a waitress who tries to serve food that stoned chefs refuse to cook, a weird bagel shop server with a pedaphile (sp?) -ish boss, a census-worker, and for a temp agency. Of course, there's DIY porn at the end, punk rock trading cards, "more cereal science," and some other funny stuff, such as: "Tales of an Ivy League Punk," Mad's first make-out session/boyfriend with a grodey, dirty, grungey bra, a sort-of road trip with her "criminal" boyfriend (*laughs*), and a bunch of other funny articles and adventures. I can't read this zine without laughing no matter how many times I read it.
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Tight Pants #9
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This issue is just as funny (or maybe even funnier) as the last issue. In fact, I think I want to believe some of these "absurd" opinions, just for the sake of thinking the same as Madleine and her co-punk rocker, E. Nebulous Neezer! This issue includes the usuals: DIY porn, cereal facts and fun, punk rock trading cards!, and the music versus cereal reviews! And there's also: Mad's knowledge and facts supporting the idea that Emo was in on the September 11th tragedies!!; being in a grammar-correcting club on a college campus--trying to help people write and talk correctly, but they end up getting dissed instead; the history of tight pants; Mad's own personal, funny long-trip bus story; easy, awesome, stealing-quality jobs!; a job interview for The Limited (desperation, obviously); the coolest, most rockin'est teacher ever at a private, uniform-wearing school; getting and keeping the coolest, neatest, most punk-rock job ever!!--working at Cereal Adventure; pro-masturbation!, and E. Nebulous's own story--anti-water. A hilarious zine that I will read over and over until my face is about to split open, and my sides are abouts to burst from laughing...
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