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11.13.00, 12:21 p.m. [edited 8:14 p.m.]

I'm thinking of a Chumbawamba song: "Never mind the ballot, here's the bullet." Not that I mean anything by it. Er.

So I was in the Sunday edition of the SF Chronicle/Examiner in an article about the "zine scene" among Bay Area Asian Americans. The most exciting part was getting a photograph of my cat in the paper. Plus you can see a Pander sticker on my file cabinet right under a great big PRO CHOICE one. For some reason it was on the front page of the business section, which creeped me out. I don't say much in the actual article but, "I like paper zines better 'cause I'm an HTML first-grader." Or something like that, even though I answered a trillion questions at studied (and political) length.

There's probably something strategic (i.e., placement in the business section) in that. Being the business section, it would have hardly helped to have, er, me discuss the anti-corporate aspect of zine history or disparage the "professionalism" seeping into self-publishing ventures (as resume-builders). By placing the article there, zines are framed differently -- as entrepreneurial works, for instance. Um, gross.