. . . is that it saves me all kinds of legwork. Fingerwork. Whatevah.
From the [Venus Zine Announcements] spring venus:
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS"AIN'T NO SHAME"
You met, you loved, you parted ways in record-breaking time. Don't hang your head in shame! Dust off those skeletons in your closet and dish on your one-night stands for the summer issue of Venus. Whether your tryst was sizzling, hilarious, or embarrassing, we want to hear about it. Please submit stories of 250 words or less to jen@venuszine.com by March 15.
And they mention that the Spring issue (No. 19, for those of you keeping track) is available at "indie record stores, Borders, Tower, Barnes & Noble, and select Hastings and Books A Million stores." Along with Women and Children First, I'm guessing, since that's where I got the previous one.
Or, if you have an aversion to that whole dead-tree thing, there's always the web site, linked above. Features a DVD review of Plaster Caster:
A winner at the 2001 Chicago Underground Film Festival, the film Plaster Caster, is now being released for the first time on DVD. The 91-minute documentary is extremely entertaining and informative, even if you have no prior interest in or knowledge of Plaster Caster’s work.
If you have no prior knowledge of her work, you're bloody well not getting it here. Go read.
And not speaking of Borders (which link takes you to Amazon, which I'd forgotten, as I have a degenerative brain disease), stopped by the local one at lunch to pick up Fiona Apple's When the Pawn. . .. Their Title Sleuth system listed it on MiniDisc, mentioning that you'd have to order it at the Info desk.
Which I did.
Costs a few bucks more than the cd, but a) saves me the trouble of copying/recording it, b) confused the hell out of the poor guy working the Info desk and c) should continue to confuse the hell out of people as the request works its way through the corporate chain.
Just the look on the guy's face when he checked the computer to make sure I wasn't just talking crazy asking for it. . . makes it worth the extra bucks.
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