In My Mailbox 6-3-08
The Inner Swine
I actually made it to my PO Box some unspecified time in the recent
past, but I can't remember when, actually. I just opened a desk drawer
and found all this stuff waiting for comment but forgotten. I think I
may be senile.
Anyways...
- Inscape (The Ursuline College Fine Arts Annual 2009, 2550 Lander Rd,
Pepper Pike, OH 44124) contains a short story by zine personage and
full-on-no-kidding professor Wred Fright. Not sure how to get yer mitts
on one if you're interested, but thought I'd note it, even though it is
not a zine.
- Tenebrous Thaumaturgy #2 (Andrew Conde, GCDC, 2120 East B Street,
Torrington MY 82240). Another interestin' issue filled with dense,
tightly-packed words by inmates, former inmates, relatives and friends,
different, it seems, from other prison zines I've seen.
- The Ken Chronicles #11 ($2, Ken Bausert, 2140 Erma Drive, East Meadow,
NY 11554-1120; passs...@aol.com). Centered around marking the 50th
anniversary of Ken buying his first car, this is another great-looking
and packed issue. Plus, he mentions TIS in here--what more can I want?
And that's it, sad to say, aside from some correspondence and a returned
issue of my zine, marked return to sender, from someone I used to work
with. It's odd to me that people I knew 15 years ago, who have been on
my mailing list for that long, suddenly deicde to not bother any more,
whether they're simply not updating me after they move or purposefully
rejecting it. I can totally understand not wanting the zine any more,
but after so long it just seems. . .unexpected. I dunno.
L
J
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Heath
> my mailing list for that long, suddenly deicde to not bother any more,
> whether they're simply not updating me after they move or purposefully
> rejecting it. I can totally understand not wanting the zine any more,
> but after so long it just seems. . .unexpected. I dunno.
In the past, I've had a P.O. Box, so I could move within a city
(within reason) and still maintain a stable mailbase. Lately, I've
just been using my home address, and when I move, I don't really
inform everyone in my papernet. I figure that (a) I'll inform them of
the pending move in item exchanges if we're particularly active
correspondents, (b) I'll announce changes in the zines I trade, (c)
mail forwarding orders will take care of most items most of the time,
(d) I'm not hard to track down online so if folks need a reminder or
don't know where I've gone, they can ask.
That might not be the best approach, but I'm not sure I'd think to
proactively let everyone in my papernet know that I'm moving... just
that I've moved. There might be some stagger step there.
Heath
The Inner Swine
Possible, sure, but these are mostly people I've otherwise lost touch
with. Which of course may be a contributing factor, it's just odd to me
that it takes them 15 years to decide to cut me off.
Oh well.