Yeah, I didn't finish that thought about Factsheet 5. The guy who had
been running it gave up control, they were having financial
difficulties, etc. Some enterprising business student with very little
knowledge of zines, I think, took it over for awhile (as a "business
project"), but then I think someone else took control of it again.
It was such a great resource - I hope it stays alive.
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― geeta, Wednesday, 17 April 2002 00:00(twenty-two years ago)link
Ablaze! wasn't the 80s either.
― Jerry, Wednesday, 17 April 2002 00:00(twenty-two years ago)link
Hi, gygax. The earliest issue of Ugly American that I have is
number seven and that's from 1991 -- I'd assume they didn't publish
six issues in two years (they usually averaged about one issue a
year), so I'd guess they started up some time in the eighties. And,
hey, no one gives props to Pure?! Regardless, I think it's
clear that the greatest zine of the new millennium is Van Halen's
Cancer (wink!).
― Joseph, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00(twenty-two years ago)link
Well, fuck, sorry for underlining everything.
― Joseph, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00(twenty-two years ago)link
thank you joseph, i stand corrected.
van halen's cancer proudly greets any visitors to my water
closet (please accept this as the highest compliment possible).
What ever happened to Karen Ablaze btw (last I heard she was singing
with 'Coping Saw' who I never got to hear). Loved her fanzine,
though. Didn't the late lamented Jamming! start out as a 'zine?
― stevo, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00(twenty-one years ago)link
yo stevo: yes, who knows what happened to karren? ablaze wz grate
― mark s, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00(twenty-one years ago)link
three months pass...
Karren did an album with a band called Wack Cat after Coping Saw,
then became a serious Buddhist...in the N.K.T.
― time please, Tuesday, 13 August 2002 00:00(twenty-one years ago)link
N.K.T. Buddhism...blimey. Thanks Time-Please.
― stevo, Tuesday, 13 August 2002 00:00(twenty-one years ago)link