Shank claims to be a “publication with flaccid performance and mental vertigo”. Well, how’s this for flaccid? Page 1; “Enjoy this issue and don’t forget to insert your thumb in your arse while reading it”. Page 2; “Shit”, reads the headline, “a craze that has taken the world by storm” (apparently “it’s great eating”). The flaccidity ends in severe impotence on page 5, with an article entitled Chopped Egg In My Pants. What about the mental vertigo, you may ask? Well, there’s the article on “GREY Biology”, reprinted from the Net. There is also a rant against that brute, Anthony Robbins; “No I don’t resent him for making bags of money or having mega-fame but I do hate the fact that he preys upon the public with false hopes and dreams of fortitude”. Oh, and part two of a three part fiction piece, entitled Round Grey Stones. This one page installment offers up Jeremy the seven year old boy/hero who saves a woman from being raped and encounters aliens moments later. (Since I haven’t read part one, and part three hasn’t been published yet, I may be taking this out of context.) I won’t go on, since by now you must be dizzy and unsatisfied. Just like you were promised.
zine / #2, sept. ’96 / main creator: D. M. Lowes / publisher: shank publications / $2, $10 for 6 / 5879 Bathurst St., Suite #208 Willowdale, Ont. M2R 1Y7