Free For Those Who Can Afford It
- Becca Klaver (via hysteriarama)
someone understands me
Excerpt from my new thrift store book Clotheswise: Successful dressing for your lifestyle by Alice Meyer and Clara Pierre (Dutton, 1982). In Philly a fashion “mistake” will attract a few chuckles at the bus stop but I hold my head high.
It’s a collection of eerie short stories, somewhere between horror and literary fiction. I liked it pretty well.
put a ring on it
put a bird on it
When I hear that silly Drake song where he goes “I swear this life is like the sweetest thing I’ve ever known” I guess he’s talking about being successful and rich and everything, but whenever I hear that line come through my headphones my stomach does a little flip, cuz on its own it’s like the prettiest thing a person could say.
Sometimes I design things for myself: business-card-sized notecards to send a little hello out with my zine orders.
seriously, you guys, I CANNOT STAND IT when i order a zine from someone & they send it to me without a note. my thought process when opening the envelope is kind of like this: new zine! so pumped! wait, where’s the note? it’s gotta be in here somewhere! did they seriously not send a note? they didn’t! i don’t even want to read this stupid zine anymore! this is why i’ll always small talk you when you order from stranger danger. because you were kind enough to order zines from me, & that matters.
ps, my friend marissa falco is responsible for creating the notecards above. she is the awesomest.
I like what you are saying here. I even blog-griped about this same thing once. Honestly, it’s just good manners to say thank you to someone who’s ordered something from you, but how about saying HELLO? I’m a human beeeeing. Anybody know the animated gif I’m referencing here? Help. I need help with my internet problem.
I just discovered Marissa Falco’s work in the last week and I find it very charming. Ordered one of her zines in fact and am looking forward to reading it!
This is me working at the Philly Soapbox yesterday, photo credit Charlene Kwon. I spent a truly lovely afternoon there learning to use a Signmaker letterpress machine. We did a pressure print first (I think that’s what Mary called it) to put down the images we’d drawn, and then we set type and printed words over the pictures.
I am so proud of Mary (Tasillo) and Charlene for making this space where people can learn to do printing and binding. You can buy a membership there and have access to these cool machines, wood type, binding equipment and more, and they also have a growing zine library of a few hundred titles. Anyway I made two postcards, one with a bird and one with a dinosaur and they both say the word dinosaur on them. GET IT
This week’s Boston Phoenix features a look the emergence of Boston’s new generation of ‘nontraditional, cooperative work places’ attempting to redefine the notion of community space. We’re proud to have been featured as one of many organizations that have attempted to create a greater, reconfigured sense of community in the greater Boston area. Seeing so many collaborators past and present, sharing print on one page makes it hard to ignore the rising tide of innovative organizations and creative individuals that are swiftly reshaping Boston’s sense of local community.
In Phoenix boxes and newsstands this week, be sure to check it out!
@thelalatheory, I was in Lorem Ipsum this evening (which is where The Papercut Zine Library lives) and I mentioned your name and the girl who was working at PZL said, “Hey, I know that zine!”
You’re famous. You should come up to Boston and read at Lorem Ipsum. It would be swell. But also? You should come to Boston anyway just because.
Hey! Thanks. That’s cool. I’d love to come visit you, and Lorem Ipsum too. I tabled at a zine fair in Boston one year but it wasn’t held there, it was at an art college. I didn’t get a chance to visit the PZL, which I’d heard good things about. Anyway let’s discuss this further.
You know how you learn a new word and then suddenly it’s everywhere? I heard this word “ship” a few days ago, meaning “relationship” and having something to do with fandom I think, and now I have seen it like three times on the blogs I follow. Weird when that happens. I think ship can be used as a noun and a verb. I ship you guys! (eh I don’t think I did it right…)
