Inspired by @corlin's latest post on the return of #Print...

We're all old enough to have been in the trenches with 'zine culture, right? 👀 Hand-printed, cut, collaged, block-painted, haphazardly aligned, chaotically edited ziiiiines! (You know what I mean. 🤟)

So! Question for you louts:

If you were to start a 'zine today, in the style of one of those grand old pubs, what would you call it and what would it be about?

@MLClark

Off the top of my head:

Title:
Unplugged
or
AbZurd

Content:
A mixture of solar-punk, hope-punk fiction, and real world how to do stuff. How to build, create, and nurture. Ya know with what you find, left over by the end of consumer capitalism.

@corlin

Oh, I LOVE AbZurd as a name; you could build so much mystique and mythology around that uppercase Z in your content.

And in an era of many tech-optimist-co-opted solar-punk/hope-punk mags, I would be delighted to see your take on related themes.

@MLClark

First edition will feature a future anthropologist discussing if Justin Smith-Ruiu was real or factious. Along with tips on personal hygiene and waste management in the deep forest.

@corlin

HOW could I love this 'zine any more? 😍

@MLClark @corlin

Maybe a regular "Can I Eat This?" section ;)

@ceorl ooooh, a wildcrafting section! @MLClark @corlin

@LaurelGreen

The only thing I am a bit twitchy about is that words like "fundamental" and "survival" keep popping into my head, and then I think of our current day Fundamentalists and Survivalists.

It's not them :)

@MLClark @corlin

@ceorl @LaurelGreen @MLClark

Easy to overcome.
We poke fun at them, with no mercy.

@corlin @LaurelGreen @MLClark

And we should just re-appropriate the terms.

@ceorl @corlin @LaurelGreen

Can we take back "creationists" while we're at it?

@MLClark @corlin @LaurelGreen

Aye! Creation is a lovely word. So is Truth while we're at it :)

@ceorl @corlin @LaurelGreen

Oh, our poetry section is going to be lit. :) So many good ideas here!

@MLClark @corlin @LaurelGreen

Looks like you touched a live wire :)

@ceorl @corlin @LaurelGreen

With thanks to Corlin for flipping the switch!

@ceorl @corlin @LaurelGreen

And I imagine that when @BosmangBeratna comes online again, he'll be on board to provide AMAZING shop talk for us, too.

@MLClark @ceorl @LaurelGreen @BosmangBeratna

@BosmangBeratna
Will have a irregular column called

"Of course you make that out of wood, and it ain't hard to do"

@corlin and a column titled “Yes you can create that with encaustic!” @MLClark @ceorl @BosmangBeratna