There is a lot of material crammed into this litzine; poetry, short-stories and a comic starring a creature named Morb all canvass for the reader’s attention. This strikes me as a particularly Toronto-esque zine, maybe because of Kim Kutner’s poem about going to the Eaton Centre. At any rate, a lot of this work seems to be about the city. It exhibits a frustrated sense of urban charm of the kind I always associate with Canada’s biggest metropolis. There also seem to be frequent and perhaps gratuitous references to sperm. Besides that, Julia Steinecke does a good job evoking an Easter day in Mexico, and her ensuing mushroom-high. I read Grovero’s autobiographical story about having been a big drunk asshole at a party the night before with morbid sympathy. David Gunn’s investigation into the Snufflupugus cover-up is also worth a mention. I don’t want to give away the details, but that big snouted Sesame Street creature is not what he(?) seems.
litzine / No known publisher / main creator: David Gunn / $2 / c/o David Gunn 502 Huron St. Toronto, Ontario M5R 2R3