Welcome to 1993! I'm trying to read more zines because big giant monolithic publisher type magazines are so aggravating and expensive (don't even get me started on REAL SIMPLE or we'll be here all night and I finally gave up on BUST because I got sick of paying 6 bucks just to get vaguely annoyed
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BLAIR MAGAZINE is a web zine that is pretty perfect.
it's done done done though but there ARE 7 issues online to read.
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At least they quit at the top of their game--their Fantasy issue is the GREATEST OF ALL TIME.
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I found #3 on Ebay, reasonably priced to boot: http://cgi.ebay.com/Cha-Cha-Charming-Magazine-%233-Chocolat_W0QQitemZ220384598123QQcmdZViewItem
One caveat emptor--volume 3 is almost entirely about modern Japanese pop.
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One thing about a lot of zines that's always bugged me is the irreverence-for-irreverence's-sake tone that so many of them have (and had). Like everything is always so HAHA CHEAP LAFFS. It's this sort of pre-Internet "look how smart and pop-culturally-savvy I am!" snark syndrome.
The flipside of that was either dire earnestness so devoid of any laffs at all that it made me long for the snarky ones (you know -- the Adbusters School of Zinedom?), or those pweciously twee zines that I couldn't relate to because of their CUPCAKES AND RAINBOWS AND UNICORNS ALL THE TIME! features.
I saw a copy of Seth Bogart's (aka "HUNX")'s zine, Puberty Strike, a few years ago and I thought it was pretty hilarious and funny. But it's been a while since I've seen it anywhere.
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What the hell is up with the cupcake obsession, anyway? I love dessert as much as the next person but the whole cupcake thing is out of control.
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