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Appeal for Zine Articles

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Mr Tricks

09:18 / 14.07.01

TOM...

I've got 2 articles comming together.

one on the Chinese lunar Calendar
another on Qigong

not sure where they would appear... the Magik? you decide. I'd like to suply some images for them as well.

stats? image sizes... preferance jpeg, png, gif?

also how would you want the articles... .txt, html, word?

let me know...

Tom Coates

10:20 / 14.07.01

I like them to be plain text or rtf - ideally not full of line breaks at the end of every line. I'm thinking of adding a submissions form to barbelith.com to handle the transition and to get everything in the right format.

If you want to send images, try to make one of them AS STRONG AND WITTY OR INSIGHTFUL as possible - and make that one 238x187 px - sometimes I'll choose another image anyway so don't kill yourself over it, or send me the original and I'll resize it. At the moment, I also use two images of 110x110 px for the articles themselves, but don't know if that's going to stay like that...

Please send articles as soon as you can. I'm trying to make sure that there is new content on the site every other day at least, but it's proving difficult to maintain at the moment...

Rollo Kim, on location

10:31 / 14.07.01

I've just sent you something as a word document - I'll send it again in rtf. Soz!

Jack The Bodiless

11:02 / 14.07.01

Hey, TC (the indisputable leader of the gang) - you still after submissions for Music? 'Cause I can do you an article on why Marillion are really good and I'm just going to shut the fuck up now.

FinderWolf

12:28 / 14.07.01

Tom, I wrote an article on a singer/songwriter named Rufus Wainwright sometime last week, and emailed it to you -- did you never get it???

Cat Chant

10:05 / 19.07.01

Do you want something on why fanfiction is (a) really good, (b) serving the cause of the revolution, and (c) the condition of possibility of writing in the first place?

Tom Coates

10:43 / 19.07.01

Sounds great. And yes - I got the Rufus piece and will be running it shortly. MORE PLEASE! EVER MORE!

Jack Fear

11:57 / 19.07.01

Interesting, Deva... I'm writing a piece on fanfic as well, though from a very different angle... not anti-fanfic, exactly, but more from a writer's viewpoint, with the central question being Why play with somebody else's toys, when you can create your own?

Might make an interesting pairing, run back-to-back... Care to compare notes? E-mail me, maybe...

Cat Chant

07:01 / 21.07.01

Ooh, yes, that does sound interesting - I'll e-mail you about it.

Rollo Kim, on location

12:18 / 21.07.01

I've got an article entitled 'Quit Your Job' if you want it?

The Puck

00:53 / 22.07.01

how about short fiction or am i missing the point?

Tom Coates

11:01 / 22.07.01

I don't think short-fiction really fits with the site as is. But I'm well up for the 'Quit your job' piece.

Mazarine

00:16 / 23.07.01

Currently researching energy drinks. What's in 'em, how they taste, unscientific experiments in how well they work. Article potential?

Tom Coates

00:16 / 23.07.01

Soundslike prime article potential to me. And at the moment, i would even take a piece on Marillion - even though that old lady on Banzai systematically beats poor old fish at everything...

Wyrd

13:38 / 23.07.01

Tom, I should have that Runes article to you next week. I'm in the throes of "quitting my job" at the moment (interesting topic to come up now), so that's taking over all my perspective at the moment. I'll have plenty of time to do this soon!

rizla mission

17:54 / 23.07.01

quote:Originally posted by Tom Coates:
Soundslike prime article potential to me. And at the moment, i would even take a piece on Marillion - even though that old lady on Banzai systematically beats poor old fish at everything...

Prepare to slap your forehead in frustration as I reveal that the only article-like thing I've felt the urge to write of recent is 'Grunge and why it is good'. Which is about as high-minded as it sounds.

Tom Coates

09:35 / 24.07.01

Don't be absurd. Write the thing. Something will emerge out of it. You're never going to know if you don't put finger to keyboard. And more to the point, I'm not prepared to run a site for BIG GIRLY WUSSES WHO CAN'T PULL THEIR FINGERS OUT! So COME ON YOU GIRLY GIRLS, GET ME YOUR BLOODY ARTICLES...

Margin Walker

09:35 / 24.07.01

I bet that someone more magically minded than me could do a piece on the (ahem) "New Age" spirituality in Anime (e.g.: the Gaia lifeforce in "Final Fantasy", the Guardians in "Princess Mononke", the Tree of Life & Angels in "Neon Genesis Evangelion", etc.).

A "Sabotage in the Workplace" article seems like a pretty cool idea. The guy who does the zine Temp Slave! lives in my hometown, although I've never met the guy. The zine was also put together as a musical recently.

I'd also like to see an article on how companies & websites track what you see via cookies. I fuckin' hate those damn things.

Anybody up for article of stuff like Howard Zinn, Lenny Bruce, Scott McCloud, Negativeland/Fair Use, Abbie Hoffman, Umberto Eco, the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, Larry Gonick, & Noam Chomsky? I'd certainly like to read more, but only have a limited knowledge of said stuff. Actually, I could probably do a Lenny Bruce piece.

Mazarine

09:35 / 24.07.01

quote:I bet that someone more magically minded than me could do a piece on the (ahem) "New Age" spirituality in Anime (e.g.: the Gaia lifeforce in "Final Fantasy", the Guardians in "Princess Mononke", the Tree of Life & Angels in "Neon Genesis Evangelion", etc.).

ooooohhhh....

mondo a-go-go

14:13 / 25.07.01

i will write something when i get more regular access to a computer. i promise

Tom Coates

14:50 / 25.07.01

I am going to win the lottery tonight as well, so then we can afford to get some real investment in this stuff. In the meantime, I need cheap content - er, I mean, intelligent well-written critical articles of a subcultural disposition ASAP...

Jack Fear

16:18 / 25.07.01

quote:Originally posted by Tom Coates:
...intelligent well-written critical articles of a subcultural disposition...Hope you get something better than that piece of shite you ran today. I mean, Gormenghast?!? Phew. Somebody crack a window--somethin' stinks in here!

Rollo Kim, on location

17:57 / 25.07.01

I can only do quick and silly I'm afraid. I'm trying though!

Tom Coates

18:56 / 25.07.01

Yeah - it is a bit shit isn't it. It's up as filler... (you play dangerous games)

Jack Fear

12:08 / 27.07.01

AUTOCRITIQUEGO!

No danger in hearing the truth: I of all people know how shallow, overwritten, hasty, florid, and poorly-researched the fucker is. No theory to speak of, staggeringly obvious "insights"--a few cute lines, but really no substance.

I'm capable of much better. At least, I'd like to think so.

Still, every zine needs filler now & then, eh? Glad I could oblige.

Cat Chant

10:49 / 28.07.01

Currently writing the Why Fanfic Is So Great article.* Jack, are you still up for a public fight about this? Go on. I dare ya.

*okay, currently posting here, but, y'know...

Tom Coates

14:10 / 29.07.01

PLEASE write something guys... PLEASE!?

autopsy of a rockstar

17:49 / 29.07.01

Heh, how desperate are ye? I mean, I guess I could bring Mister Whisper out of the mothballs if you're really needing something and if you're cool with some half-ass Dennis Miller flinging the stereotypical e-zine rants about American politics. I just figured people were tired of that stuff.

Tom Coates

08:23 / 30.07.01

Well I'm not DESPERATE as such... I'll just publish any old shit that people give me to fill up the space. That's not the same thing AT ALL...

Eloi Tsabaoth

17:22 / 30.07.01

Talking about any old shit, I saw 'Swordfish' at the weekend and would like to write an article about action films that think they are thought provoking/have artistic merit/are cool. Kind of like a mid-life crisis for the genre.
Wannit?

mondo a-go-go

17:42 / 30.07.01

whisper! shit, that's where you'd got to! nice to see you, man.

Mazarine

00:06 / 31.07.01

Seriously, a Whisper by any other name is just as darlin'. And I miss the political rants.

Tom Coates

00:06 / 31.07.01

quote:Talking about any old shit, I saw 'Swordfish' at the weekend and would like to write an article about action films that think they are thought provoking/have artistic merit/are cool. Kind of like a mid-life crisis for the genre.
Wannit?

Well yes, frankly.

Jack The Bodiless

22:20 / 31.07.01

Look.

quote:Originally posted by Tom Coates:
...I would even take a piece on Marillion...

He'll take anything.

And when I get hold of a computer, I'll write you something decent, Fearless Leader.

z3r0

17:41 / 01.08.01

hey, an article about how's the music scene right now in Brazil would be interesting enough?
If someone can proof-read it, of course...

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