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Today I'll be sitting at a little table at the Stevens Square Center for the Arts Third Annual Zinefest with multiple copies of my three sweet zines. I've spent weeks clearing paper jams and collating, so if you could stop by and say hey, I would feel less like a lamer. It's at the corner of 3rd Avenue south and 19th Street, above the Third Avenue Market, and it's today from 11-5 and tomorrow 12-4. There's a bookbinding workshop today at 1pm and a lecture at 4pm. Please please check it out.

i am caught in one of Richard Hamilton's early pop art collages--sitting here in a Hong Kong sweatshirt with meaningless words on it, green pumas, drinking vanilla diet coke and eating goddamn corn pops. corn pops are essentially pop art--they're an unnatural shade of yellow, sickeningly sweet, and covered in some plastic-like glaze that makes them shiny.

worse yet, i'm addicted to them.

other than eating corn pops, i've been spending time in coffee shops:

( goodbye blue monday )

the lucky birthday boy surrounded by his friends.

( so much drunken gaiety )

first installment:




( hong kong )

preparing to miss:
- the beijing cafe, especially its special wonton soup
- walks on the boardwalk
- st. vincent de paul's thrift store
- 'the fairly oddparents'
- rarely waking up before noon
- the 'violet days' comic in the ripsaw
- regularly stealing food and beer from mum's refrigerator
- matt
- standing knee-deep in lake superior and watching the horizon disappear

looking forward to:
- all my favorite trees
- so many of the people i love all in one place. erin next door!
- convincing gautham to walk through the snow to get pineapple pizza bagels
- publishing the first issue of the best zine ever made at olaf
- being constantly surrounded by slightly-familiar people (that small-town feeling i crave)
- actually writing regularly because i have a deadline
- having someone else make me a turkey sandwich every day (ah, bag lunch line)

lately, i've been spending most of my time thrifting, reconstructing clothing, and um, uploading photos.