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Comments for Blurt #2: Picking Scabs
Lew makes reading about Kutztown much more interesting than living there for three and a half years. cRAFTY dANAn utterly engaging pocket sized piece of sheer perfection! Tip top cut and paste layout, super black print on bright white paper with a few graphics for flavor. Journey through the college years of one young punk in Kutztown, PA. Experience the mad crushes, love lost and found and then lost again, the cutest punk girl on campus, all night trips to the local diner, a faithful rusted pink bicycle, getting drunk and learning about life. These are just bits culled out of the core topic (or so it seemed to me anyway) which is all about nostalgia and moving through the ghosts of your past. How a town can keep a tight grip on your heart even though all the main characters have scattered to the four corners of the world and all you've got left are incredibly vivid memories that keep playing through your mind like a slide show. Of course this is also mainly about one girl in particular, but it all happened in Kutztown and sometimes you just have to keep picking at that scab or poking at that purple yellow bruise. It reminds you that you're alive and every day is a new adventure. No matter how much some of it hurts. Fanfuckingtastic. Crucial (karoline, Slug and Lettuce) lewI had the priviledge of reading this just after lew got back from the copy shop with a backpack full of scammed copies. Lew writes about a love story that isnt out-of-this-world insane, or full of wacky situations. he writes about a love story that is exactly how it really happens. The nervous, the wonderful, the nauseous parts of falling in love. Its a zine thats embarrassingly honest, and unbelievably good. ray suburbia
