blog posts and updates

Reviews of the zines “Frightmarish #3”, “Of Restless Wonder”, “Spidertown”, “Horse Horse Magazine”, and “Syringe Nest vol. 2”

We’re just gonna pretend that it isn’t already halfway through August and that I’m not only just now finishing up my International Zine Month posts. I’ve made a bad habit of starting every blog with some sort of apology about the post coming out late (how zinester-y of me!) or waxing poetic about how fast time flies… and I’ve gotta stop that. It’s boring. Let’s be real: I’m shouting into a big internet void on this blog. Time here is flexible, malleable. Any deadlines are self imposed. This post could have premiered at anytime and it really wouldn’t change a thing about it. I’ve noticed that when I hem and haw […]

  This is the view from my kitchen island on Monday: an abundance of parsley, tomatoes, eggplants, cucumbers, and peppers from the Bread and Roses CSA (plus some grocery store fruit.) Over the past 7 weeks, my kitchen island has looked like this: overflowing with produce, flavorful herbs, plentiful greens, glossy eggplants, and resplendent troves of juicy, jewel-hued tomatoes that taste just as great as they look. I’ve encountered both new-to-me foods (sweet potato vines! cutting celery!) and plenty of staples (potatoes! onions!) and I’ve been using each week’s haul in everything from coleslaw, to scrambles, to daily salads. Here is a complete run-down of all the veg that has appeared […]