Trying to explain something new is never easy. It’s even harder when you don’t know where it’s headed. When I was young, I discovered zines. It changed my life. It connected me with people, places, ideas, music, art, and culture that I would have never discovered in my small-town world. I have friends of 30 years or more from this time. We connected through the mail by way of Xerox and an independent energy. This project is an effort to rekindle that spirit. The tools, medium, and distribution have changed–but the core idea of personal expression remains. We’ll see how this goes.
I met an ambitious snail
Books that I’m currently reading…
- They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib
- NPR’s Podcast Start Up Guide by Glen Weldon
- The Most Fun Thing by Kyle Beachy
- Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut
Books I just finished…
- I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Hartman
- On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything by Nate Silver
- The Personal MBA by Josh Kaufman
- In a Flight of Starlings: The Wonders of Complex Systems by Giorgio Parisi
- The Great Transition by Nick Fuller Googins
- Notes on Complexity: A Scientific Theory of Connection, Consciousness, and Being by Neil Theise
- Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
Random stuff I thought was worth capturing…
“You can put a murderer in a suit,
and he’s still a murderer.”
– Allen Iverson
I’m fiddling with gouche again…
I still like pixels…
So this is the end of the new beginning.
Don’t overestimate it.
Don’t expect it to last.
Keep the bar low and the effort consistent.
I’d also like to credit Russell Etchen for motivating this new effort. His monthly ‘Waygoods’ is the model.