Guess it’s true that wasabi is amenable to the Pacific Northwest climate: mine sure hit a growth spurt in the past month and has been going like gangbusters.  Some of the leaves are downright massive!

I also didn’t realize they flowered — UNTIL IT DID!

So i may have fallen a little behind in cataloging my incoming zines.  What pushed me over the edge into organizing everything so that the cataloger (aka the_andy) can get to cataloging was finding my stack of zines from Portland Zine Symposium … 2011.  [facepalm]  OOPS.  Most of which i’d already read because i’ve usually read all my new zines by the time the train gets back into Seattle post-Symposium.  BUT STILL.  These things need to be cataloged so that (a) they can be neatly shelved instead of floating around the apartment, and (b) i don’t keep buying duplicates, which i tend to do if my zine database isn’t updated.

Also!  Once my zines are cataloged and duplicates (inevitably) pruned, then i can send a stack up to ZAPP and contribute to their cataloging backlog.  Maniacal laugh, maniacal laugh.

Hooray!!  The big ol’ zine on gender that littlebutfierce and i have been working on for the past month is finally ready.  It’s debuting right dang now  at the Crabby Media table at the Portland Zine Symposium.  I am so proud of this zine — it really came together well, writing/thinking-wise and even layout/printing-wise.  Please buy a copy!  Yes, if you’re not in Portland this weekend it will be for sale at the Crabby Media website by the time i go to bed wednesday (8/15) night.  Just $2 for 38 pages!

Stylin' in the Crabby Media display (suit)case.

Um….  Also there may be a new Cipher?

Cipher 3-pack!

I was home with a headache one afternoon, and waiting for edits on “Null & Void” to come back from j., so i decided to just write something else entirely.  Andy called it “the nostalgia issue”, but it’s probably more accurate to call it a memory box.  You’ll see why.  It, too, can be yours via the Crabby Media website (later this week), for a slim $1.50.

I like paper.  I’ve always liked paper and creating things with paper.  When i unpacked a moving box the other year, i found a little kid’s briefcase i had when i was, well, a little kid.  When i opened it, there was still some papercraft project inside.  It’s probably older than my spouse.

The other year, it became obvious that the disarray of my paper and rubber stamps was threatening to overwhelm the study, so we bought a nice 6-drawer rolling organizer from Ikea.  Everything fit!  Hooray, perfect organization achieved!!

Until i brought home a box of discarded paper from the office a few months later.  Stage failed.

That was about 2-&-a-1/2 years ago.  Today, however, i scored the perfect paper organizer at the local Goodwill.  Only $20!

paper drawers (closed)

Nice!!  Perfect organization achieved again!

paper drawers (open)

Well, except for those 3 reams sitting on top.  Why on earth did i think i needed 3 reams of pastel legal-sized paper???

Y’know what Seattle(/i) need(s)?  A zine-maker & DIY crafter’s swap meet, that’s what.  Hmmm……

Friends, i’m desperately seeking some zine-related stuff to do in Paris.  This … isn’t what i’m going for:

I’ve checked Zine World’s website under both libraries/infoshops and stores/distros, and there’s nothing listed.  Any suggestions?  I’m here thru’ the evening of monday, july 2nd.

Glitch robot friend!

I did the fuel quest the other week and made the acquaintance of a subway robot friend!