The Paper Blog and an Unpleasant Discovery

The other day I was downtown at Reading Frenzy buying all these zines to send to Princess Leia Orgasma who had to go under the lazer recently, when I realized that paper is pretty damn cool. My next thought was that I should totally start a paper blog that could be collated into a monthly zine and disseminated throughout Portland in some sort of underground and anonymous fashion like leaving them on the bus. Then I realized that paper blogs are just journals and I’ve already got one of those which isn’t that interesting. Further, as I’ve been neglecting my online blog perhaps now isn’t the time to start this sort of project. Or maybe it is.

The Peepertons moved into the big coop this afternoon and weren’t even pecked to death by the Pinkertons. Unfortunately they managed to squeeze under the chickenwire in one spot and I was only able to apprehend two of them. The third has elected to spend the night hiding in the ivy. As dark settled in I asked Snowpea to crawl back there making “chicken scaring” noises because I would really prefer this peep to go back in the coop, and instead of rousting a live peep she found the grisly remains of the missing Pinkerton. Bummer. I wonder why we never smelled it? Tomorrow I’ll get that carcass out of there and perhaps pick up a little “sorry you touched an old gross chicken corpse” gift for Snowpea, like some hand sanitizer. Just kidding, it’ll be better than that.


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B Rabbit [Visitor] Email
Wow. What a senseless tragedy. Two months ago, do you remember when Peanut's sister, Little J, lost Stickey? Well, just last week, after two months, she found Stickey in the far corner of her yard sitting on two dozen eggs. Alive, though. Little J doesn't get out much.
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coriander [Member] Email
Wow, Sticky's story has a much happier ending than the poor red Pinkerton's. It seems like Little J would have seen Sticky when she went outside to feed the chickens.
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camille [Visitor] Email
eww! poor snowpea!
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coriander [Member] Email
Hey, I've got a parcel for you. I MUST go to the post office today. I must.
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Caitlin [Visitor] Email · http://www.bookgoblin.org
I remain intensely jealous of your peepertons.

Does Portland still have that public-access/membership printing press place? Yeah, that's real specific, I know! When we visited there, we knew someone who volunteered there. It was an old-style printing press that did one sheet at a time, and you had to actually set all of the type - it was incredibly cool, and anyone could use it. People printed show flyers, zines, all kinds of stuff.

Hmmm. I could start one of those here in my little town. If I could afford a press.
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coriander [Member] Email
Yes! The IPRC (Independent Publishers Resource Center) is upstairs from Reading Frenzy. Teen Angst is a board member there. It is a really cool thing to have access to.
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I'm tired of that waxy shiny stuff that's all over apples and tomatoes in grocery stores. I've heard it's edible but it doesn't seem like food.

You know what's not edible? Pesticides. Spraying poison on food that people are going to be eating seems pretty fucked up and unlike corporate farms, my yard is free of such shenanigans.

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