Read an old issue of "Stay Gold Jessie, Stay Gold" fanzine tonight. Not much to it, about 40 pages, 1/4 size, with a few stories of trying to hop trains and some crudely drawn comics. This kid used to write tome and send me new coies of his 'zine whenever they came out. Nice guy...
Paid off my library debts and borrowed a few books last week! Excellent, because we have one of the most beautiful libraries in Ypsilanti, MI. with a plethora of religious / spiritual books. I'm gonna be busy all summer!
Currently reading or thinking about reading or read:
"A New Reformation" by Matthew Fox
"Visions & Longings: Medieval Women Mystics" by Monica Furlong
"Great Christian Thinkers" by Hans Kung
"Mary: A Catholic / Evangelical Debate" by D. Longnecker & D. Gustafson
"The Collar" by Jonathan Englert
"Jesus in Egypt: Discovering the Secrets of Christ's Childhood Years" by Paul Perry
"Galileo Goes to Jail" by Ron Numbers
"Selecting the Pope: Uncovering the Mysteries of Papal Elections" by Greg Tobin
"The Conclave" by M. Walsh
"The Cloud of Unknowing" by anonymous (I finally got a copy of this! I've been looking for two years and didn't even know it was readily available!)
"Is the Bible Intolerant? Sexist? Oppressive? Homophobic? etc" by Amy Orr-Ewing
"The Mountain of Silence: A Search for Orthodox Spirituality" by Kyriacos Markides (I've been on a big Orthodoxy kick or quest lately. Started a couple years ago. Then I read a great little book called "The Orthodox Church" by who I can't remember. Then finding all the old copies of "Death To The World" fanzine from 1996 and making contact with that zinester. And a few more things that have kinda' popped up into my life. God's telling me something and fortunately I'm sober enough to listen!)
"The Inner Journey: Views from the Christian Tradition" by L. Kisly
"Cracking the DaVinci Code" by Simon Cox
"Beyond Illusion & Doubt" by A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
"Beyond Illusion & Doubt" by A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
"The Art of Happiness" by The Dalai Lama
"Dalai Lama: Man, Mystic, Monk, an Authorized Biography" by Mayank Chhaya
"The Dream World of H.P. Lovecraft" by Donald Tyson
"Secret Societies & the Hermetic Code" by Ernesto (cool name!) Frers
.......................and there's some fanzines I want to mention: "Between Hope & Hopelessness" a little 1/4 sized zine, "That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore" another little (in size) zine and only a few pages long. Issue #1 is eight pages, and #2 is sixteen pages. Total SMITHS & Morrissey worship. Pictures of them on every page with mini rants about hardcore, heartbreak, and head trips. This is the epitome of the mid 90's "emo-zine' or "per zine." Stories all about the author being a "23 year old trapped in constant confusion" and wanting someone to love. Cut & paste, b & w and it looks simple but good. The guy probably made 50 copies of this thing to pass out at hardcore shows in 1994 and certainly no ones cares about this sixteen years later. Except me. "Chumpire," which I may have mentioned before, and a one-off thingy called "Race Traitor."
There are many more books I've read and/or acquired in the past few months that I will write about soon. Plus, I've got several journal entries that need to go up here soon, as well as some rants and raves that I've been writing in my journals. Story ideas, pictures of some collaging I've done recently, and some black pen & ink drawings my brother and I have been working on. Oh, that reminds me...I found a scanner/copier/fax/printer all in one machine in the garbage of my communal laundry room. Sadly, it's not working when it get's hooked up because there's no ink cartridge in it. Like, it won't even let me scan stuff into the computer or respond to any commands. We think since there's not even an empty ink cartridge in the machine that it just won't do anything. I'm gonna email HP and see if they can tell me how to get it working. ...............More tomorrow.
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