<A>HUMOR</A>

A Day Late And A Dollar Short Vol 1 Issue 3 September '95: A combination of historical satire and tongue-in-cheek essays laid out in mock newspaper fashion.
This time, "news reports" come in from as far away as Nineveh and Florence. My favorite was the breaking story of Shakespeare's buyout of the Guttenberg Press. Since the end of the Age of Enlightenment, the Press has been hard hit. No one seems to be buying the Bible since Luther, so the merger is coming at a good time.
Fun reading that takes a number of stabs at society.
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A Day Late And A Dollar Short Vol 1 Issue 2 July '95
The Addictionary Issue 4
The Analytical Engine: The Electrostatic Precipitator Vol 2 Issue 2 April, 1995: Mystie zine in Hawaii???? Gah! OK, _The Analytical Engine_ isn't entirely MST3K, in fact it's often only referentially mystie, but so are most of them, so bite me.
This issue is an artifact from the evil parallel universe where Spock has a cool goatee, Dr. Forrester & Frank are stuck in the SOL, and Mystic Mindy is the editor of _The Electrostatic Precipitator_. It is a world where butts rule, where the horoscopes are still being evaluated, and the hotest collecting card game is "Hollywood Evil: The Gathering."
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Austin Duckweed Issue 2: A nutty collection of comics and stories that gets pretty silly at times.
I enjoyed the "Attoms Family" strips that used all the words from high school chemistry in their jokes. In one, Poppa Attoms tells his kids to "do what their Matrix says" and in another, comes down with China Syndrome. When he asks how much time he's got, the doc says "About a half-life."
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Bellows Of Self Issue 11 Summer '95
Bitch Issue 1 September '95: Spoof newspaper stories that traverse the depths of bad taste. But I still couldn't help laughing in parts.
Here's an article about all the movies Christopher Reeve is now eligible for (Action Traction, My Horsie Took a Digger, Oklacoma); a piece on "The Naughty Smith Boys" who were sent "to a watery grave without any supper" by their mother; and an excellent work tale of passing the Blockbuster drug test just to end up with a full frontal view of retail culture.
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Bovine Gazette July '95
The Comedy Magazine Vol 2 Issue 6 May '95
Deal with it Issue 3
Demand Issue 1 October '95: This zine reminds me of some of the Mensan humor publications I've seen. There are no jokes about Kant, or riddles in Latin, just a sophisticated sense of satire.
Mia was pissed because not only do men make more money than she does, but they get to beat off in a cup and sell their sperm too. Then she found out about gamete donation. She doesn't get to have an orgasm in the process, but she'll get something even better -- two thousand dollars. We also get a lesson in economic cycles using an analogy from *Beavis and Butthead*.
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Echolalia Publications Vol 21 Issue 4 April '95
The Emory Spoke Vol 19 Issue 53 April '95
Fishwrap: A Monthly Round-up of Things that go Bump on the Newsstand Vol 1 Issue 9 October '95: If you're too busy to read *Rolling Stone, Premier, Spin,* and *Movieline* then just to check out *Fishwrap*. Each issue features highlights culled from the trashiest mainstream magazines.
They dug up the dirtiest bits from *Esquire,* like John Goodman complaining about his lack of sex; trashed *Newsweek* for printing the definition of "bisexuality" for their clueless conservative readership; and reviewed the reviewers.
Since *Fishwrap* doesn't get much of their own mail they decided to print and answer letters sent to other magazines. If you like media-culture reviews, you'll like this. Really fun stuff.
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Fishwrap: A Monthly Round-up of Things that go Bump on the Newsstand Vol 1 Issue 8 July '95
Fredian Slip: The Leonard Zelig of Zines Issue 6: This zine takes a whack at the most deserving people in the country -- the politicians.
We get some funky hip hop verse from the Republicans, all too real mistakes that Fred caught in print, and a great fill-in-the-blank that shows how trite the news media really is.
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Funny Pages Issue 68 July '95: A zine of rude and tasteless jokes -- some of them quite funny.
"What's the difference between Katao Kalien and Christopher Reeve? Reeves is numb from the neck down." "What's the difference between a sheep and a Yugo? It's less embarrassing to be seen coming in a sheep."
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Funny Pages Issue 65 April '95
Gnu Snoose News: All the Gnus Are Fit to Spit Vol 5 Issue 6
Gorilla Cookies Issue 4 July '95: A big full-sized humor zine that features plenty of crass juvenile humor but puts it together with enough style so that it's really quite enjoyable.
The comics are quite fun but I like how they push the envelope of humor by reprinting the silly sheet music from 1958 of a song about dogs called "Mister Woof."
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Half Truth: Only Half the Lies of the Other Magazines Issue 21 December, 1995: One of the funniest zines around, funny like _National Lampoon_ used to be. Funny like repeated blows to the head with a cracked ball-peen hammer. Of course that's funny you wussy motherfucker!
Back after hiding out from the O.J. thugs, _Half Truth_ delivers, and delivers but good. My years-long jonsing for more "Confessions of an Ambulance Man" has been sastified, and that sick little monkey on my back has been satiated. Then learn about how the Injuns discovered nuclear fission, The Wesley Willis Fiasco, and eye-destroying Swollen Record Reviews.
"Would you like to try one of my pickled gonads?"
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Have You seen the Dog Lately? Vol 2 Issue 4 October '95: Lighthearted and loose with a little of everything under the sun.
The highlight this issue is the hilarious reprint that ranks each state by motto and nickname. It's all done up *Consumer Reports* style with the mottos rated on comprehensibiliby, irony, and socialist tendency. You've got to love Kentucky's nickname "Dark and Bloody Ground" or Virginia's cryptic motto "Thus Ever to Tyrants."
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Idiot Wind Vol 11 Issue 2 Winter '95
Jesus Sings Issue 2 Fall '95: A spoof zine that simultaneously mocks The Big Cheese and those silly K-Tel TV ads.
Each page is a fake album cover from Jesus's career as a smash pop star. The collection "Eat This!" features such hits as "Host Krispies," "Knead Me Gently," and "Don't Swim For an Hour."
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Lake/Land Issue 1 May '95
Lost Armadillos In Heat: The Zine for Current and Former Texans and Wild Potatoes Vol 1 Issue 12: The zine for Austin-ites is quite funny with stories about living in Texas and lot of sillyness.
I like the short overview exploring the mutitutde uses for the word "fuck," the summary of "Austin music geeks," Adrienne strange-but-true masturbation stories, Robert Howington's distrubing details of his bizarre life and Christina's handy decoder of "guy talk."
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Manic Moms: A Humorous Newsletter for Crazed Mothers Vol 3 Issue 4 September '95: Mothers will love this supportive and funny look at raising children. Caring for kids offers lots of choice material for anecdotes and essays and this zine prints some of the best.
Barbara Holmes explains the Deja Vu of Mothers Curse where she realizes that all the things she put her own mother through have come back to haunt her via her own daughter. Certainly many mothers and grandmothers will relate to the threat "I hope you have a daughter someday just like you!"
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Neat-O Vol 1 Issue 3 July '95
News of the Weird Issue 38 August '95: It really is a weird world. But in case we ever forget, Chuck publishes a report of the most bizarre (and downright stupid) activities that humankind has ever engaged in.
I loved hearing about all the frivolous lawsuits that prisoners are filing these days. Three inmates are suing the government for $10.7 million because jail guards do not provide late night snacks. And here's a report about Prague taxi drivers who wire their rear seats in order to shock passengers into paying. Oddities by the bucketfull.
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News of the Weird Issue 36 May '95
Office Number One Vol 7 Issue 20
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Pinch Point Issue 7
Poop God: Where Every Issue is Numer Two Vol 1 Issue 2: A silly zine that was probably created just so they could write the word "poop" all the time.
There's a surprisingly serious piece in here (well *almost* serious) about the problems with Social Security and how it's doomed for bankruptcy by the year 2000.
"We aren't a scat zine, we're just immaturely fixated."
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Post Modern Toad Issue 1 October '95: Christine was zining with friends back in 1979 when she was still in 5th grade. Of course, they didn't call it a zine, but the fun of self-publishing stayed with Christine all those years.
Her new zine still has the mischievous edge of elementary school, but features a wonderful sophistication. I got a kick out of "Goldilocks and the Three Psychoanalysts." Goldilocks ends up at the cottage of Freud, Yung, and Adler and is faced with a funny barage of psychobabble. When she leaves abruptly, the three are shocked. "Nobody lived happily ever after, but they all went for years and years of analysis to deal with this."
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Pustules Issue 1 November '95: Fluffy little bits of horoscope satire, fake letters, and scatological rhymes.
Wanda ponders the fact that some natives in Brazil put frogs in their mouth to absorb the hullucinogenic secretions from the frog's skin. This begs the question who would think of putting a frog in their mouth to begin with and how many species did they go through before they found one that made them high?
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The Realist Issue 130 Summer '95
Rubber Ducky Magazine Issue 14 Summer '95: A fun zine with puzzles and games and satirical articles attacking pop culture icons.
They reveal what really happened in Oklahoma City. I give you a hint -- it involved someone called Fart Boy. In other news we get 80 reasons sheep are better than women.
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The Schit Lizt Issue 2: Well-produced zine of personal humor and light political satire.
There's an expose of nursery rhymes as being the real cause of crime in the U.S. (The author cites the murder of Humpty Dumpty as being a subliminal cue leading our toddlers to crime). I liked the longer features like this one, but the short tongue-in-cheek jokes have seen better days.
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Single Guy Zine s Vol 1 Issue 6 April '95
Snicker Issue 21 Summer '95: A prize collection of cartoons from all over the country. A number of big names and personal favorites were here like S. Fievet, Blair Wilson, Kevin Pope, and Yes! even Greg Fiering with his Migraine Boy strips.
Richard Kolkman's "Big Flat City" had some funny bits. In one strip, a guy finds black squares all over the city that mark a long trail. He finally catches up to the person who's leaving the odd marks and realizes it's Jeffy from Family Circus.
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Spleen Zine Issue 4 July '95: Messy comix and other assorted weirdness, much of it having to do with
I like how they broke down movie titles into synonmys for penis and vagina. The choices for penis includes *Free Willy, Sophies Choice, Eraserhead, The Firm, Cabin Boy,* and *Fat Albert* The picks for vagina include *Mystic Pizza, Scent of a Woman, Blackhole, The Secret Garden,* and *Field of Dreams.*
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The Stake: Humor & Horror for a Dying Planet Issue 7: A satirical horror magazine from III Publishing, publishers of several modern horror books. This is the last issue of _The Stake_. Bill promises a new, non-fiction zine in the near future.
Not too much horror or SF in this issue, but special notice must be made of the story "Skink" by Mike Stickel, as it touches upon my current favorite obsession - the cult of $cientology. In "Skink" an insane Scientologist (oooh, what a redundancy) metermaid named Skink searches out a flasher. It's filled with plenty of Scientologist references, terminology and in-jokes. The other stories are fairly amusing.
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Thank God I'm Insane Issue 4
Tripe Issue 4 June '95: Lots of publishers who work in offices squeeze in some time to work on thier zines. Usually this involves the office computer desktop publishing equipment. Thom is employed in a Portland hotel making that sort of scam not really practical. Lucky his interests lie in weird news, turning the hotel wastebaskets into a treasure trove of newspapers, perfect for finding just what he's looking for.
Each page of his zine features a short clip from a newspaer reporting on the perverse underbelly of reality.
Nice package too.
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UBTRiPPiN' May '95: Houston's comedy magazine that supports today's Black comics.
Rodney Bigham talks about the in-fighting that happens in a lot of comedian circles. Jokes get stolen, people become resentful, and then trying to be funny on stage is that much more of a problem. We also get the skinny on the new CD from Jamie Foxx of Living Color.
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Vietnam Never Happened Issue 7 Summer '95
Vision? Nary!: A journal that espouses nothing and therefore espouses something Vol 2 Issue 1 Spring '95
Weekly World Cruz Issue 2 May '95
The Weird News: The Word About An Absurd World Issue 26 Summer '95
Yale Record April '95: A very humorous compilation of articles from the *Record*'s past. Even though it's designed for Yale students, anyone familiar with college life will enjoy this.
Funniest of all were the excerpts from rejected entrance essays. Some of them are really funny, but I'm wondering if a couple weren't made up. Can you imagine writing "My big toe, Bubba, is my powerhouse" on your entrace paper? Then again, anything that weird *has* to be real. We also get a great sendup of that bastion of learning, Harvard University.
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Zimmerframepileup Issue 11: Pithy British humor zine with a quiet, slightly skewed approach and the occasional serious thought. Lots of enjoyable regular features like the "Interviews with Normal People," reviews of things often taken for granted, readers dreams, and their comics with an odd humor edge that's hard to describe.
I like the "mindless art" section where you "create a piece of art in 30 seconds using the Windows Paintbrush system and then assign a title which accurately conveys the meaning of said picture." On the review block this time is numbers -- 2, 6, 41, and 0, "More than any other digit, zero speaks plainly, displaying its quantity as an empty basket."
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