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It doesn't take a lifetime of living on a diet restricted to refined sugar, saturated fats, red meat, and alcohol for food to be lethal. For when food kills, it is more likely to be startlingly swift, sudden, and often quite dramatic. |
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Tuesday, January 6, 1998
After all the bad stuff I've related about my brother, I should tell you a pleasant memory too.
I was scoping out a website, "the Active Guide," which is done by Byron Hinson who has done a lot of IE4 pages. I saw that he had added a section called the Dark Side, on horror and other dark stuff. "I wonder if Murder Can be Fun is on the web now?" I said on seeing the section on strange deaths.
Sure enough, a quick web search and there it was.
This is a zine that I heard of through FactSheet 5, back in the mid eighties. I still like that magazine! One of the things I did then was to circle the reviews of zines that sounded interesting, then send sample issues to friends, anonymously. I sent "Murder Can be Fun" to my brother, just because I thought he'd enjoy it.
He didn't find out it was me till a while later; maybe he saw me with another issue? We laughed when he told me he'd been wondering who could possibly have sent him such a thing. What one of his friends was secretly a mass murderer fan? He liked the zine, though!
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Doing laundry tonight took up too much of my evening. Did I mention that my Christmas present from my sister was an offer to come over and take my laundry over to her house and do it for me? Pleasing yet humiliating!
I sent out a request for contributions to some other online journalers who have fannish connections, for the print piece I'm doing that will explicate web journals to fanzine fans. I see a connection to the personal zine phenomenon, and there are similarities in the social network that develops. If you know what I'm talking about, send me a few paragraphs! I don't want this to be just me, me, me talking away.
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