While this space isn’t usually for mentioning upcoming events, we would be remiss not to mention Boston’s Papercut Zine Library’s 7th anniversary. Over on its blog, the Papercut Zine Library notes that over the last seven years it has signed up 1500 members and collected 15,000 zines. Tomorrow, the library is holding a party featuring live music and zine releases.
The people at Pure Fun Skate Zine have posted a nostalgic news reel looking back at the late 1980s in Lockport, NY and the early days of skateboarding bans by local governments. Pure Fun Skate Zine will be holding a zine release party in July.
Speaking of nostalgia, The Chicago Reader remembers the ways young punks discovered new music before the Internet, feeling bad for those who didn’t have access to zines and who had to choose what bands to listen to via music videos and random guesses. This link is worth the click if only for the laughably bad punk compilation infomercial, complete with actors wearing rocker wigs pretending to be punks.
And this final link is totally not literary or ziney, but it is of particular interest to our editor, Lindsay, because she has recently developed a strange obsession with Nicolas Cage. Therefore, she’s pretty excited about this guy who is watching one Nicolas Cage film per week and is reviewing each film on his blog, declaring 2012 the “Year of the Cage.”