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The Weird Way the 404 Media Zine Was Built https://www.404media.co/the-weird-way-the-404-media-zine-was-built/

Sarah Kirsch Zine Collection at the San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco History Center:
https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8n01fgf

I've been working on a bit of a larger project. It is still very much a work in progress. It's an attempt to combine blog and mastodon posts with other things I've written in the past, along with some original analysis, into a zine. I'm probably about 2/3 of the way through.
It's primarily focused on political theory and critique, which, I think, deviates a bit from how a lot of other folks view the world. It's pretty explicitly anarchist, though I don't think I've actually put the word "anarchism" or referenced the ideology anywhere so explicitly.
I'd love feedback (especially around editing and flow) if anyone would be willing to put eyes on it and tell me what they think:
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/

We did a zine! @… had this awesome idea and pulled a bunch of us together. We present to you Swampgas #1 for winter 2025 - just in time for the solstice. It's got metal, fantasy, art, photography, poetry, stories, plus music reviews and previews.
Free at itch:

happily escaping into this 1980 issue of the UK zine dark star i scored from a street vendor last week. heavy old wave vibes but also a fun intersection of way serious british deadheads with alan moore (who contributes a curt vile page) & the soft boys (with a rapturous underwater moonlight review).

RE: https://social.jvns.ca/@b0rk/115622285573521088
Every zine I’ve bought from @… has been well worth the money at full price, check out the sale

I've used BeautifulSoup a few times for personal projects, but hitting the docs again and by chance re-reading the frontmatter led me to discover I hadn't read the obligatory zine, which is excellent (especially cool to read about the anti-arms-trafficking project it links to):
https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/zine/

404 Media Is Making a Zine https://www.404media.co/404-media-is-making-a-zine/

My 8 year old is now making custom notebooks and zines in her shop!

“He’s the scary bad cop to St. Nicholas’ good cop,
to stoke some fear in the naughty children and get them to behave better.”
https://chicago.suntimes.com/entertain

Here comes Krampus: How the half-goat, half-demon became a cultural phenomenon
While Santa Claus’ dark counterpart was born centuries ago in Europe, Krampus’ recent explosion in the U.S. is all thanks to one Chicagoan who featured the beast in his comic zine 20 years ago.

Recently reminded of Straight to Hell, the 1975—20?? zine featuring porny gay stories that were often real life narratives. Transgressive and important documentation. The Internet Archive has PDF scans of 5 edited book collections!
Harvard man, Harvard man,
blond for no reason. I'd
sure as shit quit the Quad
for him, scratch every dance
from my card for him; kiss
sunshine goodbye to open
his fly; trade clothes
for sheets, miss other meets
for him, for him

It's the end of #BannedBooksWeek, but not the end of book bans. Local involvement with your library is the best way to fight back and defend everyone's access to knowledge. Check out For The People's excellent new Libraries 101 video to learn how!

Now that I'm almost 40 pages in, I've started to accept that I am, in fact, in the process of writing a book and not a zine.

This #BannedBooksWeek it is more important than ever to celebrate the freedom to read and step into roles that continue to fight for one of the last free spaces, libraries. We created a Friends of the Library zine so you can learn how! http://www.

Podcast: Zines Are Back https://www.404media.co/podcast-zines-are-back/

Behind the Blog: Is This Headline 'Clickbait'? https://www.404media.co/behind-the-blog-is-this-headline-clickbait/

So... My college has a zine section in the library, which is already amazing, but this week I decided to check some of them out, and there are a few in a section for fictional and/or true stories. The one I grabbed was "Funwater Awesome" by Zach Mandeville, which turned out to be, indeed, awesome. It contains both real and fictional accounts of small-town Washington state, with both the mysteries of death and the happiness of small absurdities being big themes. Seems like there's at least a #2 and a #3 that were published, so I'll think about trying to get my hands on them. Maybe as instructed I'll mail $3 to Zach's address and see if he's still got any copies kicking around (or if he even still lives there since #1 was published in 2006).
#AmReading #ReadingNow