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2009-06-21T11:07:00.052-04:00

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GoodGoodBonBon #7!
"Imaginative Lifeforce for the Miserabilist Death Machine", this issue's theme: Klezmer radio aie daie daie, seances for Houdini, re: poet interview, sit & break quietly with(out) Marina Abramovic making you cry, also Tehching Hsieh statements. Spirits do return.

HOME IN MONTREAL!
I present my favorite compilation of writings and drawings about living spiritfully in urban settings: Mapmaking for the Wakeful! A zine about derives/situationist city drifts, mapmaking, psychogeography and a good intro to parkour. yes! This zine is the essence of my world...

ICE CUBE TRAY: Fun is Free (Association) 4
Finally, I have collected enough games to put together "Ice Cube Tray"- the 4th zine in my Fun is Free (Association) series of Surrealist writing-drawing-playing games. Guest invented games about Paulina Oliveros, William S Burroughs, and Amy Lockheart. First time chaotic games for the interweb...and more more...14 games in all! Dedicated to Alexander McQueen (RIP).

17 MINI ZINES
for pockets and emergency boredom!
50 cents each, 3 for a buck, 5 bones for all of 'em.

Comics on Dostoevsky's Crime & Punishment and one on Whitney Houston

Madlibs for Franz Kafka and "Art is Cheap!" manifesto
Francis Bacon will help you write a pretty poem
2poems by Paula Belina, I come Visit you Thirsty and Swan Love Juice
Anton Chekhov's short story "Oysters"
Radical Clowning Mini-Fest-Oh! on clown jogging
Emergency Surrealist Poems
How to write a PorteManteau poem
3 poems by Lewis Carroll: Jabberwocky, The song of the Mad Gardener, The Carpenter and the Walrus. Recipe for DIY menstrual pads.

SURREALIST GAMES zines

2009-06-21T11:06:00.009-04:00

These are the distros cherished zines of surrealist game playing funtimes

FUN IS FREE (ASSOCIATION) 1

surrealist writing-drawing-playing games

In this zine, created in 2006, I collected 14 surrealist writing/speaking games. They range from well-known ones such as "The Exquisite Corpse" and "Tristan Tzara's 'How to make a Dadaist poem" to ones Eeep and I invented together.The zine ends with five pages of surrealist S.A.T. Analogies for your enjoyment and homework...such as "The effort to play harmonica is to ringing the 'next stop' bell on a bus as National Geographic is to ______________", as well as 3 Madlibs using the ready-to-be-altered corpses of texts such as a "Kafka death fantasy" or the Bread & Puppet theatre manifesto. This is also the first zine that I carved stamps for, including the cover that you see above as well as the entire alphabet.All this play is to evoke liberating the marvelous, emerging subconscious and uncensored creative impulses!

FUN IS FREE (ASSOCIATION) 2

surrealist writing-drawing-playing games

'Shopping Cart Wheel Bone Marrow" is the second edition of Fun is Free (Association) surrealist writing-drawing-&playing zines. Carried throughout the zine are engravings and woodcuts for the reader to copy for themselves at will; a spirit brought to you by the surrealist collages from Max Ernst's 'Une Semaine De Bonte". This zine has a little group of parlour games, diorama games, and a "Francis Bacon helps you write a pretty poem" game, not to mention many more.Made in time for the 8th Annual Anarchist Bookfair, May 2007.

FUN IS FREE (ASSOCIATION) 3

surrealist writing-drawing-playing games

This issue is particularly connected to drawing games ranging from animation styles to abstract and surreal. Mixed in with the drawing games is a grouping of "non-conceptual awareness practices" as well as games inspired by the always fun "Nog a Dod"book of Canadian Psychodoolia from Cunundrum Press. 13 games in all.

FUN IS FREE (ASSOCIATION) 4
Finally, I have collected enough games to put together "Ice Cube Tray"- the 4th zine in my Fun is Free (Association) series of Surrealist writing-drawing-playing games. Guest invented games about Paulina Oliveros, William S Burroughs, and Amy Lockheart. First time chaotic games for the interweb...and more more...14 games in all! Dedicated to Alexander McQueen (RIP)

PLAYING IS: a zine about improv-comedy

If you've ever tried improv you could testify for how surreal and strange it is. If you haven't, then this zine is a good little intro. Compiled after having taken a weekly improv class for many months in Vancouver, I brought together all my favorite warm-up and skills games as well as writing up certain intrinsic rules for improv and class recipe ideas. The games included are classic improv, invented games, and games found from outside sources (ie. clowning). Surprise yourself by allowing your subconscious to have a forum to play!

BLOCKPRINT zines

2009-06-21T11:05:00.004-04:00

I spent 6 months in the Vancouver public library researching 10 political blockprint artists of past and present. I then turned that project into a workshop called "Block traffic: blockprints and political image making". This zine gives a little overview of six of those artists including big images of their work. Jose Guadalupe Posada, Kathe Kollwitz, Elizabeth Catlett, Eric Drooker, Carlos Cortez and Leopoldo Mendez. Incredibly, unbelievable, brilliant, powerful work and amazing lives. Enjoy! "8 hours for What We Will"

For these zines, I carve blockprints inspired by the works people send me for my various collaborative zine projects.
CREATIVE FLOW (8 contributors)
Shame can be as subtle and unseen as tucking your menstrual pad into your sleeve as you walk out of class to the bathroom. Laugh out your shame with this zine. Hilarious and empowering stamp carvings, both political and anecdotal stories, rants, reflections, deliciously common 'gory' details turned beautiful again.. Read 8 absolutely different perspectives about menstruation in a hand-made, hand-carved art work laden zine! Includes info on 'the keeper' menstrual cup and instructions for home-sewn menstrual pads by Amara-Sparrow.

HOUSE OF CARDS 1 (6 contributors)
I began this project just as my attachment to house was called to scatter. Instead of staying in the house in St-Henri, Montreal which I promised myself to root, I up-rooted, packed what things represented seeds for me to plant, and spun out to Vancouver to find a home. It took 4 months, divided into 5 different temporary-autonomous-homes, before I found a permanent room to unpack; exhausted. Lack of affordable housing in Vancouver was covered often in the newspapers at the time, and two squatter actions took place, not to mention "Homelessness Awareness Week". The topic touched me inside and opened me up to a scope of comprehension. I wanted to understand where I fit into the picture and it brought me to contact a satellite of friends whose stories related to up-roots I had been hearing about for years: friends who had slept or lived in their cars, moved 63 times in their lives, lost their homes to disaster, moved holding "home" as heart's touchstone; seeking. Who do we represent? My proposal was to carve stamps for those who wished to send me a bio and.or writing which spoke of their story. In the end, 6 people donated work and I created original pieces to compliment them. The contributors represent: Olympia, WA, NYC, Sooke, BC, Montreal, QC, Ottawa, ON and Vancouver, BC.

BIRDCAGE zine
Intimate Patriarchy in Relationship

blockprints, rants, guidance, thoughts, drawings about being made powerless, manipulated, violated, controlled, disoriented, sabotaged, tricked, intimidated, insulted, pressured, ridiculed, taken advantage of, disrespected, threatened, taunted, harassed and emotionally tampered with
in relationship 9 contributions from folk in New Orleans, Victoria, BC, London, Toronto and Lindsay Ontario, Montreal, Brooklyn. Blockprints, drawings, rants, poems. amazing cover by Cassandra Witteman. 3-5$ donation, mailed to ya!

COMIX

2009-06-21T11:04:00.003-04:00

new!DELUDING YOURSELF
WITH THOUGHTS OF REVOLUTION
ON ELECTION NIGHT

FOLLOWING A LINE OF ELECTRICITY
This feature length 32 page comic interweaves each feather which made the wings of my flight out into western "Canada" to become an anarchist clown superstar. The cover's quote saying "Um, yeah, my plan was to be much more graceful."

I MISS YOU
These are comix relating to some personal tobacco stories, from low-down void filling to empowered. I cover the great story of how I quit smoking by method of divine intervention- find out how!

GOODGOOD.BONBON zine & SPARKPLUG

2009-06-21T11:02:00.019-04:00

My anarcho-surrealist zine. Mail outs to Denman Island, Hamilton, Brooklyn, New Orleans, Ottawa, Montreal, Powell River, Victoria, Portland and more..subscriptions are by donation. "Imaginative Lifeforce for the Miserablist Death Machine".

GoodGoodBonBon #6

this issue's theme: Alexander McQueen hoof lobster claw heel boots! Interview with master stilt-performer, self-decoration vs. museum window smashing, poetry, radical clowns like make-up too.

GoodGoodBonBon #5
this issue's theme: Montreal: vous etes ici! Site-specific and street level. Derive poster centerfold collectable. Exclusive interview with Lao Tzu through bibliomancy! Adieu unusual stepped cupola, poetry and more.

note: answers for Kyra's crosswords are at the bottom of this section.

GoodGoodBonBon
#4 this issue's theme: poetry, standing like a tree & strange dance, on/off the Rampage, G20 Inquiry compilation mix tape, inertia rises 78%, strange bird helps children resist capitalism.
GOODGOOD.BONBON 3
this issue's theme: poetry, Zen clown HA!HA!, eating dirt vs. steamies, Basic needs food politics, Shoal of Clowns poem by Andrellan, 'Oysters' by Anton Chekhov. and little bits more more.

GOODGOOD.BONBON 2 this issue's theme: poetry about "thriving", radical clowning (jogging swarms), how to write a mini-fest-oh!, art (vision) in/un.still(el)ations interview with La Puce a Lagonie, unraveling the isolation paradigm.

GOODGOOD.BONBON 1 anarcho-surrealist zine

I am very thrilled about this zine, pretty much the zine I have been wanting to make for years. It has a colour insert of photographs of mine, plus articles, interviews with an anarcho-surrealist mandate. The theme for this first issue is: climate change and psychic ability, meditation vs. dressing up, radical mental health and anarcho-surrealist games for celebrity head shaving. Plus an interview about urban farming projects. all for 2 bucks! With

cover by Raphaele Bard

SPARKPLUG zine

ANSWERS for Kyra's crosswords in GoodGoodBonBon.

Issue #6 "Remembering Feminine Mythology": ACROSS: 2. Divas, 3. Gaian, 4. Okame, 5. Erase, 6. Senua, 7. Sulas, 8. Cure. DOWN: 3. Goddesses, 6. Scury, 9. Eaten, 11. Vitula, 12. Deity, 13. Sea.

YES! AND

2009-06-21T11:01:00.003-04:00

REFUEL: vegetarian recipes & food for thought
with Erica Zelfand

This is a mostly vegan zine which includes recipes, comix, poetry, lyrics and blessings. Included are recipes ranging from tofu scramble to chai tea to borscht. Plus the best nooch filled vegepate recipe out there.

THIRSTY THIRSTY: post apocalyptic cyber feminist novella.

ca This action packed novella follows the movements of our half reptilian (but how?) heroine Miriam through the land of post-apocalyptic Toronto while she discovers her extra-sensory skills and encounters crouching & mythic ex-computer programmers, psychic-able trance folk, oracles and more!

ANARCHIST F**KING ANGEL CARDS
You can get a pack of 23 original hand drawn cards with anarchist themes. Ask a question and be inspired by the drawings and words ranging from "smash your ego" to "reclaim all sorts of space" and "no peace without justice". Definitely no-bullshit, though fun-fun, angel cards.

NACHO AVERAGE MACHO: a conversation on men's lives
transcribed audio

I ALSO CARRY

2009-06-21T11:00:00.002-04:00

THE YEAST OF YOUR WORRIES!: Yeast Infection Survival Handbook
by Erica Yosefah Zelfand (also order by contacting: crazylikeacatfish@yahoo.com)

Yeast infections are often treated as pesky, embarrassing inconveniences, yet they are ubiquitous - so ubiqitous that they deserve their own 'zine. Before you run for the Monistat or get a prescription for Diflucan, you may want to pick up a copy of "The Yeast of Your Worries". Not only does it provide you with both alternatives and supplements to the harsh (and in the long run, ineffective) Western treatments, but this 'zine also addresses simple preventative measures and invites the reader to explore the emotional and psychological aspects of dealing with a vaginal infection. Featuring hilarious and empowering photographs, this is a thoroughly researched booklet created by a pre-med student who is really into vaginas, underground publications, and holistic healing. Blessings to you and the vagina(s) in your life!

SEXUALIZATION ZINE issues 1, 2 & 3
editor Kyra Shaughnessy (also available by contacting: kyrasbw@gmail.com)

This zine is a compilation of pieces that arose from some 2007 summertime attempts at conversational mastication and personal reformulation of my own experiences and attitudes towards objectification, flirtation, the power dynamics of beauty, boundaries and distinctions between intimate and sexual touch, gender definitions…From these discussions and reflections I began realizing how much goes un-discussed ( see hidden, silenced, taken for granted) and decided to attempt a “giving voice”, of sorts. I chose to use the term sexualization because I found that everyone I spoke to had something to say about how they had been effected by “it”, which without their definitions remained vague and looming--- What thoughts or images does “sexualization” conjure for you?The zine provides prose, poetry and skit insight into some of the many perspectives and experiences of the term “sexualization”, from the role of touch deprivation in perpetuating violence, to self-image and reflections on inner beauty, to critical examinations of the functions of human sexuality, and more.

STREETEATERS zine

2009-06-21T10:59:00.009-04:00

Following this write-up is the content info for each issue. All 39 are still available to order!
The final 39th issue of Streeteaters, put out September 2006, was affectionately titled the "Do-It-Yourself Therapy" issue. 'Affectionately' because for the 6 years I ran the pretty-much-monthly zine, which featured on average 5 different contributers each issue, and the entire process served as a strengthening personal therapy. Therapy to me refers to the process of doing something which is useful to the psyche (in the actual D.I.Y therapy issue, we covered clowning, mandala making, "praxis therapy") and funding, distributing, laying-out, collecting submissions, and printing the zine in a continuous whirlwind since 2000 has organized my spirit in such a way as to recognize the possibilities of free press, self-publishing, and grassroots organizing and initiatives. That's the kind of therapy I mean. Non-violent living projects promoting positive social change.
For the first few years dozens of live benefit spoken word and music shows were held around the city at venues such as Jailhouse Rock, Cafe Sarajevo, Yesterday's, Griffintown Cafe, Blizzarts, Cafe Esperanza, Casa Del Popolo, and more with the help of a community of writers, including, most importantly and consistently, the writer, Larissa Andrusyshyn. Larissa hosted a weekly open mic in downtown Montreal for all the years Streeteaters was running, an event that truly held together a community of writers who performed there as well as contributed to the zine. Writers such as Phreddy Vatcha, Andrew Zadel, Duckfool, James Irwin, Larissa Diakiw, Ali Naccarato, Virgil Lovitt, David Levine, CT Staples, Kyra Shaughnessy and many more appearing on and off and in and out of our stage and pages.
Only one out of the 39 issues of the zine was created using a computer for anything other than typing. The aesthetic is straight d.i.y collage, cut&paste, found images and surrealist inspired layout and dynamic. We had themes ranging from "Andre Breton's 7 past loves" to the "Russian Issue" where I created a comic out of Crime&Punishment, "the sleep issue" where we solicited people (a thing I enjoy/apply often while bringing together the zine) to write one line descriptions of their strangest dreams, and also the "minimalist issue" which we hosted a fundraiser for which included a haiku slam and breakdancers breaking to no music..just sneaker squeaks.The ripple effects of inspiration that making the zine each month sparked are numerous, I injested and digested each theme, watching as it unfolded intuitively beneath me with the images I found and chose and with the work people sent me or that I discovered by magical coincidence.
I was fortunate enough to have gathered together over 20 subscribers to the zine over the years and along with being mentioned as one-of-the best zines in Montreal for 4 years straight in the Montreal Mirror's Readers Poll, Streeteaters got voted NUMBER ONE best zine in Montreal in the 2003 edition: with only 100 copies circulating per month at the time! There have been numerous articles written about the zine and events in the Mirror along with in the Montreal Gazette and Broken Pencil magazine. In no way has my spirit dwindled from my experiences making zines and connecting with grassroots community, and I continue to support all those similar self-sustaining&self-made endeavors which make the underground what it is.

All of the issues are still available to order at 3 for 5$. There were several installments of special sections in Streeteaters:
The Amoeba: The one paragraph organism constantly changing shape. Had 2 organic stories, the first, taking turns between Paul Berry, then Matt Bain, then Larissa & Paula ran from issue #19-23. The second, taking turns between Isabel, Ethan and Taylor, ran from issue #28-32
Serials: A monthly soap written by Amy Leaman and illustrated by Mark Unterberger, ran from issue #5-16
ShortShortStoriest: poetry&prose written by Jessica Murphy ran from issue #13-31
Resident Poets: Nicolas Cote (#7,8), Matt S. (#19-25), CT Staples (#26-28), Larissa Diakiw (#29-32)
Photograf of the Month: this was a colour sticker insert of contributed photographs with a small write-up below. Ran from issue #22-32
Quotation book: this was a removable section of the zine which contained quotes collected particulary to compliment the theme of the zine. Ran from issue #22-32

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