As part of International Zine Month, we’ll be posting a zine review a day on our blog in July. Today’s review is from Issue 10.
zine, #9, $2, Diane Lum, 93 Farnham Dr. SE, Calgary, AB, T2H 1C7
Much nastiness can be found in the austerely designed Banned Thoughts. Lead article by Mark Spitzer, entitled “Looking for a Whore to Fuck”, gives you a pretty good idea of the kind of material we’re about to encounter. Needless to say, Spitzer’s search ends in self-disgust, and failure. Still, he tells a good story, remarkable for its self-deprecating honesty. The rest of this zine is a knock-off, lame advice column, boring essay about an encounter with a bad doctor, and, to top it all off, an interview with heavy-metal has beens Megadeth. Only one more piece caught my attention, Lyn Lifshin’s “Woman Tells of Attack By Crossbow Rapist”, which is a harrowing story told in a dead-pan poem-prose style that is so blase it seems somehow more awful then the account itself. Not quite sure what to make of it. (HN)