Hallo,
zine readers past and present. You've stumbled upon an increasingly dusty corner
of the web, my old zine, Cygnals. I moved on from this to do Your
Own Worst Enemy, and have since (without so much as saying so) given up on
the zine thing.
The Web came along and was suddenly almost everything zines should've been, 'cept portable, and I'm sure they're working on that. Check out my newest goodies developing at www.bigasssuperstar.com, and meantime, enjoy the walk thru the past.
Oh, hey, I still have lots of back issues available, and if I get bored, I might put stuff from old old issues online. Email me if you want to order some hard copy, anyhow.
| Publication | Review text ... Good reviews for a good zine, huh? |
|---|---|
| Factsheet 5, #61 |
#8, Summer '96. It's great to see a Canadian zine with so much fune Canadian culture in it. Scott draws a lot from late night oddball television and childhood memories in Ontario to give us a fun glimpse of the North. For the last 16 years Crazy Joe the Orthodox Jew has been hawking his "fabrics by the yard" all over CFMT-TV. In this short piece, Scott gives us a teaser for the full interview up on the web site. Then we get rival salesperson Russell Oliver, the Crazy Joe protege who covers the market for gold jewelry. I also really enjoyed Scott's list of why he isn't cool. Besides never having had cool clothes, computers, bikes, or even a cool zine, he says he never even fit in with the uncool cool crowd. |
| Broken Pencil, Winter 1997 Review of #8 |
After reading the earnest list of reasons why Scott will never be cool - including "When it was cool to be a nerd/geek, I wasn't it. When looking slopping was cool, I couldn't even pull that off..." and especially "I get bad reviews in Broken Pencil and Exclaim" - my bitter, cynical venomous blood just vanished. I reminisced as I read quotes in praise of Mr. Dress Up (who's just retired). I studied the interviews with shlock marketing geniuses Russel Oliver and Crazy Joe, I put my free Pog to one side, and it was only when I got the Ed the Sock part that I came to and realized that if I gave Cygnals a good review, then Scott would even be a loser at being a loser. (Oh ya - don't think of this as part of the review okay? - his cut and paste just doesn't quit.) |
| Broken Pencil, Summer 1996 Review of #6 |
Yeah okay Scott really likes the band Cub. This is the Cub issue. Without ever really telling you a whole lot about Cub, we get a Cub interview, a Cub concert review, Cub record reviews and gratuitous Cub references. Scott also really likes R...... And R....., we think, really likes Scott. There are numerous references to the ups and downs of their relationship. This is cute but annoying. Scott advocates tv education. He seems to think that if everybody understood the intricacies of tv, they would appreciate it more. As if we have nothing else to do. We are busy reading about Cub. |
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