www.negcap.com everybuddy wants to be a writer!

the truth about bookworms and unrepentant four-eyed winkers

everyone's got a secret dream and it looks like 3 out of 4 redblooded literate types harbor fantasies of publication and adoration. i know my mom does. i know your mom does. hell, even her mom does too. the stuff below is what people have done online. the stuff even further below is what people have done on the slaughtered and slurried cells of trees. go ahead. take a look. send an 18 year old two 32 cents stamps. and tell yourself that you could do much much better.



online

negative capability: one observant pissed man. he also takes the random trivia cake

be there now: a zine of budget travel and beating the rat race

chunk : one amy martin, photoshop, a lot of time...the first jawstopping thing i ran onto online

ben is dead : retro hell 123 and lossa good first-person essays

the fray : not only is it a good word, it's a great site. the writing is uneven, but so's my face

salon : maybe the best commercial one? camille paglia can still shove it. inconsistent weirdo

BUST : women telling you what

sandbox : interviews with niftly people like annie sprinkle and william gibson

brettnews : brett telling you what...the archetypal zine, all personal, all the time, and still somehow hela interesting. did i just write hela?

infiltration : the site for people who can't help breaking into buildings and sneaking up to the roof

chip rowe's electric fun

lexxicon is back, writing without the bells and whistles

pocho: the best political satire ever

babysue : includes an interview with the chainsaw kittens! and lots of miffed babies

inconspicuous consumption : things you never knew



offline

bamboo girl
even tho i was not bowled down by NYU's PDA, bamboo girl is still a hot thing

the last hug (or some such permutation of hug
my correspondent, my fellow chi-town suburbraised crazy
ec@ PO Box 381525, Cambridge, MA 02238 (free, no? or am i special cuz i went to CTD with you)

yello kitty
so i don't have this one yet. but i took a gander and so should you.
PO Box 9770, Oakland CA, 94613

secret asian man
me, all me, all the time! and i'm a man! and secret! and asian! he's got cool mailing supplies too.
SAM, Prince Street Station, PO Box 40, NYC 10012 ($3)

giant robot
not that anyone needs to tell u to read them, them capitalist, trendy and yet somehow still appealing grunt-dogs

pink lady pie digest
uh, my forthcoming one. to be made in korea. like other trinkets of the modern day.