Radical thought groping for the velocity of creative expression seems to be a prescription for potency if not exactitude. Minus Times is a huge zine of high-strung fictions, and heart-felt essays including a gem on the complicity of failed hippies who join forces with hemp industrialists to exploit third world workers by taking the high out of hemp. There’s also a well- written pamphlet stapled into the margins that takes on New Age types who adopt cultural imperatives like accessories. In this case, the victims are the indigenous people of North America whose culture, according to the pamphlet, is being consumed and regurgitated by white-boy gift- shop spiritualists. (HN)