Liz Mason of Caboose zine has compiled this zine of bad lyrics. And we mean baaaaad lyrics. All your favorite classic rock bands are represented: Styx, Foreigner, Kiss...The 80's stars Dokken, Poison, Men at Work, and even contemporary hit-maker Britney Spears' duet with Madonna isn't spared. I could type out all the best bad lyrics, but seriously, this entry would be pages long. Phrases like 'love action' and Bryan Adam's 'when you really love a woman' are particularly heinous. Liz is a karaoke superstar, and she knows her bad lyrics. This zine will make you laugh.

Once a strong Los Angeles kid boxer headed to the Olympics, now in Maximum Security Prison - Joey Torrey was pressured to collaborate with the FBI to "clean up boxing" and paid back with empty promises and a forseeable future in prison - or murdered for being a snitch! Joey discovered zines in prison and decided that this was how he wanted to publish his memoir - and boy does he have stories to tell! He grew up on the streets of Compton where he learned to box. Now he lives in the pen between Sirhan Sirhan and Charles Manson (whom he answers mail for). Told in his own words to the few people that he trusted, his story is finally broadcast.

A strangely addictive perzine, with a "Big-Hands"-y feel. Not as misanthropic or over-analytical, but more upbeat and "making punk culture into mythology"-like. It's got that "we dance to anthemic records and moon people" feel to it...because the author does both of those things. Honestly, it had been a while since we got a perzine about traveling and rocking out (other than "Next Stop Adventure" #2) and felt like we just had to have it. You know how it is. Author Dave goes to Dublin and Stratford, (yes, in Europe) but spends most of his time traveling around the south, specifically South Carolina where he makes his home. Posi-core is making a comeback.

This 280 page tome collects the entirity of Avow zine issues #11 through 16 and selected entries from the first ten issues as well. Avow is a collection of artwork and stories. Keith owes a few nods graphically to Aaron Cometbus but does a lot of his own ink drawings to develop more on creating his own style. He has done unique artwork for Microcosm, Submission Hold, Against Me!, HeartattaCk zine, and plenty more. His stories cut into the darker side of life growing up in a small coastal fishing town and the mischief that ensues. He reminisces about the days when demo tapes were commonplace and CD-Rs were non-existent, puts a good spin on his tales of figuring out how to obtain his next meal, and learns a lot from society, the hardcore community, and college that he employs into the analysis in his writing. Keith is a great storyteller and does a good job of deeply probing his brain to share these stories. ISBN 0-9726967-4-1

Shawn Granton writes the long-running and consistently awesome Ten Foot Rule zine!

Top Ten Things to Know About This Zine:

1.Shawn is a talented illustrator

2.Shawn used to have an exciting mustache

3.There's a whole lotta bike trips

4.There's a whole lotta biking in general

5.There's a glowing tent that cures seasonal affective disorder

6.There are multiple appearances by "the man"

7.This is my favorite daily comic zine, ever

8.Shawn is not a hippie! No more long hair/mustache!

9."Special cookies" are bad news

10.This zine really is better looking than a blog

Beyond Gallery Walls is a new classic, originally appearing in 2003, and thankfully still around! The editors were inspired by the book "Quiet Rumours: An Anarcha-Feminist Reader" and wanted to continue the conversation about what it means to be an Anarchist and a Feminist. They ask a wide range of participants about their history with Anarchism and Feminism, and whether or not they're out as Anarchists in every aspect of their lives. How do each of them deal with their privilege? What forms does their Anarchism take? This is a hefty one!

"The magazine for kids and their parents", created by a father and daughter team that is stealing many hearts in Portland. You may remember them from "$100 & A T-Shirt" as the wise 9 year old and her stapling dad, who named the zine after a deceased family dog.

Writing together we hear both of their voices echoing loud and clear, sharp with personality. Somewhere between Highlights, Dishwasher, and Mother Jones, we hear about some local neighbors who collect things, baseball curses, a woman who owns a hat shop, guesses as to the early history of their house, the "Black Peppercorns" (very young PDX rockers), and more. Always a treat.

For some strange reason we never carried Big Hands #3 before...but now we do!! #3 is a bunch of Aaron's comics about working overnight in a donut shop. Cresent Donut is a local Bloomington 24 donut shop who's donuts may or may not be vegetarian. Is "Cresent"spelled wrong on purpose or is it a family name? We may never know. Anyway Aaron writes about the drunks and weirdos who frequent his job in the night time, as well as his boss busting him for reading on the clock. It's charming in a non-dismissive way. Like I really seriously think it charms. Also I mean it's about donuts dude. C'mon, they are one of punk subculture's most defining foods. (for better or worse)

Where has this zinester been all my life? Aaron is a little cynical about life... and yet he seems to really appreciate humanity. I'm tired of holier than thou hipsters writing about how stupid people are. Only over confident egotists and family members get a slashing in this zine.

Aaron, like so many of us, is lost in life, traveling because there's no where to stop. Wanting to stop but yet when you do you get so uncomfortable you need to move again. Hoping one day you will find a place, a life that will embrace you.

Aaron leaves Portland and eventually ends up at a family reunion in Mississippi. He hangs out with other family outcasts, contemplating the fact that his life has been even more unfulfilling than his fucked up cousin's.

Great writing, it's both sad and humorous. I want to get past issues...

A new issue of Big Hands, finds our author just as frustrated and perceptive as ever. Back in North Carolina, Aaron flashes back to not-quite-romances gone sour and old teenage routines of free movies and food samples. There's aimless driving in beat-up cars, a single chat line rendezvous gone wrong, and a walk through the night mist with a girl from a party. The stories in this zine are achingly nostalgic and yet still intelligently reflective. Big Hands epitomizes that hopeful stagnation of knowing what we want, and knowing this isn't it.

Big Hands 5.5 is something special and a little different. Aaron, in his first piece of rock criticism, chronicles the history of the band Chumbawamba. From their infamy as the "I get knocked down, but I get up again band," to their more overtly subversive material...but then again, what's more subversive than infiltrating the Billboard top 40 with a song that seems to be from an average joe like you and I? You're wearing your hat backwards, pumping the keg when, Surprise! They're Anarchists! This issue is the usual witty introspection, but with more of a focus. There's a version of this zine with a bootleg Chumbawamba tape. This version comes with a cassette!!! Because Aaron dubbed some more!!!!

Big Hands #6 is more of the consistent, thoughtful writing we've come to expect from Aaron. The Moravians were a group of Protestants that settled in what is now Piedmont, North Carolina in the 1700's. Aaron compares his own penchant for self-destructiveness to that of the Morvarians, and postulates that perhaps it's all a matter a geography. We're also treated to Thanksgiving memories, and another boring party, gone to out of obligation, so that it seems Aaron's life is more a matter of tradition than anything else, even if they're traditions he despises.

Dave Taco wrote issue #12 of his zine about growing up Jewish. He decided not to practice anymore as a teenage punk rocker, but has since in his adulthood changed his mind. This zine is about why he decided to subscribe to Judaism again and the steps he's taken to lessen the guilt he feels for abandoning it for so long. Dave also talks about being GLBT and Jewish, and well as his theories on how Judaism is perceived in the punk community.

In this zine, a rising journalist and punk from Columbus, OH compiles stories from his early contributions to The Ohio State's "The Lantern" student newspaper, The Columbus Alternative Weekly Paper "The Alive", and New York Press. Stories include activists who conserve by eating roadkill, low-life lovers attending costume parties, a man's quest to visit 1,000 bars in one year, underground designer denim dealing, etc. Always hilarious and gripping, Bret Liebendorfer's writing never fails to be entertaining. Pick it up and look for more!

Sentence fragment structure embellished by the same spot-on graphic design and quality we've come to expect from Lew Houston. A good window into Lew's view of the rock and roll lifestyle. There's a lot of drinking and touring involved, but also heartbreak and wandering. He's a romantic. He walks around aimlessly, hangs out in diners, knows people wherever he goes, and explores the neglected parts of town. Lew knows how to throw a few good literary devices into each paragraph and make the most mundane and painful experiences into stories worth telling. The gut wrenching moments of this issue are accidentally decapitating a bird as a small child, running out of beer at his going away party, and discovering that discount herbals can't help you remember forgotten memories. This is some microcosmic shit!

A really great biographical zine about Sarah's time spent working in a Chicago book bindery. From the get-go, she dispels any of our illusions of book-making fantasy, "It's a glorified Kinko's.." and gives us a guided tour of her work and co-workers. It's pretty funny, especially the snippets of dialog, and it's full of remarkably legible photos of the bindery. At times, the humor is at the expense of her co-workers, or revolves around inaccurate stereotypes, but if you like stories about how quirky employees interact, or stories about killing time on the clock, then this zine is for you.

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BFF: Brainfag Forever! collects nearly a decade of Nate Beaty's self-published comics. Brainfag is a medical term for "brain fatigue," culled from a turn-of-the-century Grape-Nuts ad. Nate uses comics to explore self-expression, love and love lost, urban existence versus living off the grid, balancing art and coding on the computer, and generally maintaining sanity in a world gone mad. Featuring extensive new material explaining each issue, including the first 25 years of his life in five pages! Climb inside the head of a cartoonist using comics as cheap therapy.

Dang, this is funny! Buzz #2 is a collection of clever comics about killing time, dolphins dying of cancer, (much to the chagrin of Lisa Frank), and most importantly, saying hello. This last comics deduces, "Maybe war is just a failure to mingle well." There's other stuff too..comics about germs, superpowers, and jealous letters of the alphabet. It's quirky without being annoying which is a pretty delicate balance, not to mention it's drawn really well. See what all the buzz is about!

Liz of Quimby's Queerstore fame writes this perzine about dealing with chronic pain. She recounts her tales of unsympathetic doctors and inconclusive medical tests. She spent a year trying to solve the riddle of her pain and was eventually diagnosed with fibromyalgia, a real and often misunderstood condition. This is the story of an energetic hard-working woman who was forced to come to terms with her limitations until the answer could be found, many allergy tests and sleep studies later. Herbal remedies, acupuncture, and conventional medications for fibromyalgia are discussed as well as the author's unfaltering love of karaoke.

Crafty and absurdist in nature, Kerry Ann Lee brings us a zine in the old style of the classics of yesteryear, like Murder Can Be Fun, Thrift Score, or Temp Slave. A smorgasboard of mock-pop culture with things like surfing the Ouija-net, Rorschach Time, weird foods and ads, a dream diary and dictionary, Italio Calvino's fantasy story, an interview with a man who builds horror movie props and makes films, and more. Graphically fun and gripping, this is a bit of entertainment including some fun Halloween themed crafts (the howly bag! and shrunken apple head!). So funny it'll have you pissing your pants!

The 10th Anniversary issue of Carbusters covers Brazilian transportation hub Curitiba, Brighton's Big Lemon bus company featuring buses that run entirely on recycled veggie oil, and Portland Oregon's "Filmed By Bike festival." It profiles bike repair group Bicycology, and gives a reflection on Carbusters 10 years as a car-culture fighting magazine. There's also hype for the Toward Carfree Cities conference, this year being held in Portland Oregon!

Somewhere around ten years ago Damien (of Shutdown/End of a Perfect Day zines) worked at a carwash in Portland. He put together this zine about his time there and it covers all the essentials - asshole customers, stealing change and trinkets out of people's cars, character profiles of management, how to scam a car wash, and, of course, the racist carwash of Seaside, OR. Damien maintains a good sense of humor, distaste for management, and brains to create beneficial schemes throughout this teenage zine.

Joshua Ploeg is a touring post-punk vegan chef and these are his harried tales of travelling the greyhound with sex crazed teenagers, shaving cactus with dull knives, being drugged by his hosts, eating at shitty restaurants, cooking for "artists", bad sexual experiences, a fellow bus passenger that stole a gatorade and delayed the whole bus, and much more. Joshua deals with the most unpredictable of circumstances in his touring - navigating new towns, acquiring groceries, unknown kitchen appliances and utensils, and unpromoted shows. Far more wide reaching variables than any other kind of touring apparatus that I can think of.

Chunk 666 is a bicycle gang from Portland, OR who partake in activities like building choppers and tall bikes, fireworks, and creating theatrics on their bicycles as well as other antics that you'll have to read these pages to go into. Some people call it a cult, some people call it a lifestyle, and some just stand there with their mouth open. This zine is the documentation of that thing it is that they do that no one can really describe in words.

Clutch is back! And this issues is subtitled "House of the damned" We follow Clutch McBastard back to the year 2003 as he reminds us that the second Iraq war had just begun, he was busy with friends, being a librarian and running a small record label. Then, he got the illfated idea to buy a house. Follow Clutch through adventures and misadventures, his bike getting stolen, Blazers games, out of context quotes and and non sequiturs by the usual suspects from Clutch comics, a suspiciously Snakepit looking party, and more!