We have the dates for the 11th annual Portland Zine Symposium. It will be held at Refuge on August 6-7, 2011. More details soon! Please spread the word!

What would you like to see at this year's event?

http://www.refugepdx.com/
http://pdxzines.com/
http://www.facebook.com/PortlandZineSymposium
http://twitter.com/pdxzines

I'm sure some of you have seen this before. Pepsi gives a bunch of projects that people vote on money every month. Tonawanda Skate Park is trying to get one of the $50,000 funding to help get the project off the ground. If you have 30 seconds, please go here http://www.refresheverything.com/tonawandaskatepark and vote for it. It's super easy, you can use facebook connect to login. You can vote once a day, every day in June so please vote as often as you can. I'd really appreciate it.

more info on the skate park can be found here: http://tonawandaskatepark.com/

I started a new blog, all about my zines, DIY, being creative, etc...
http://allthingsordinary.wordpress.com/

All Things Ordinary #1 is out now! This is a personal zine about the last month i spent in Buffalo, NY (where i have lived all 27 years of my life) before i moved to Portland, OR (where i've been living for the past 4 months). It mostly consists of reflections on my time in Buffalo, thoughts about what lies ahead of me in Portland (i had never visited Portland before i moved here), and things that happened to me during my last month living in Buffalo. It is 24 pages and quarter sized.

  ( here are a couple sample pagesCollapse )

I love trading zines and would prefer that, but if you don't want to/can't trade it is $3.00ppd. My paypal address is derekneuland@gmail.com.

send zine trades or $3.00 well hidden cash/money order to:
Derek Neuland
p.o. box 42182
Portland, OR 97242

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• 05:09 just watched the 924 Gilman documentary. now i want to run a venue #
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• 19:01 on the MAX en route to see David Sedaris at Powells!! #
• 20:15 just got to Powell's, barely standing room left. i found a spot behind the last row of chairs. 45 minutes until he starts #
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