Zine Scene

The Requisite Fish Story When my friend Tom and I went backpacking on Isle Royale we didn't bring a lot of food and even planned to catch fish for a few meals. We brought a lot of lures but didn't have leaders and we hooked a lot of northern pike but they broke free because of their sharp teeth. So we were fishing one of the inland lakes on the island, and I cast my lure and it wasn't a very good cast, it went more up in the air than out on the lake, and it made a really big splash, and I already had hooked a pike but when I got it near shore it broke free. My friend Tom had come over to help me land the fish since he had already lost a couple near shore. So I said "Wow, that was a big one, like 3 feet long". Tom said,  "No, more like 26 inches, maybe, at most." So we argued about that briefly, and I was muttering "at least 3 feet", after I had tied on a new lure and made another cast, which was also a poor cast that went more up that out, an...

The kidz today are a lot nicer to us old folks than we were back in the day. We were all "don't trust anyone over 30", and also behaved in that way. Occasionally we were nice to some old hippie or a veteran for peace. Nowadays I dropped in on a public art project class where I was supposed to list "8 albums that changed my life" and for one album cover I printed out a picture of Ozzie Osborne who looks nothing like he does now, and asked if anyone knew who he was, Half of these young kidz knew the answer. Occasionally when I go to some geezer rock show, there are a lot of young people in attendance; we didn't care to go see Perry Como or any other bands my parents liked back in the 60s.

My favorite music Choice channel if Soundscapes. But unlike all the other Music choice channels it doesn't have artist information, it has quotes from "famous" people, who I don't give a damn about. Who cares what Einstein has to say about happiness, he was an abusive husband, and Gandhi was a child molester, and Winston Churchill was a drunk.  Oh well I just hit the Pic Off button on my remote and stare at the black screen. I wonder if people buy things which are advertised on TV, because they feel they owe it to the sponsors of their favorite shows. Like they don't even like orange vanilla coke, but they buy some at the store anyway. They don't drink it, but just store it in the pantry. I use to like Facebook and used it to post events, and "like" other people's content and even shared my opinions occasionally. Now I just use it to store my photos. I post everything to Only Me at first, and then after a week I change it to Public. I realize...

Maybe I or you should think about doing this as  a stand up comedy routine. Making people laugh is really hard, only professional comedians get real laughs, so instead of some boring routine, I have a comedy idea I'd like to share. It is an actual conspiracy, unlike all the ridiculous absurd conspiracies. I think the best part of being a comedian, which I am not, would be the camaraderie. Theoretically it would be nice to be one of those comedy writer guys who meet at an outdoor cafe and share coffee and jokes, and lies. So some of us should do that, but mainly we should conspire to crash open mikes as a group, and be wildly supportive of each other, laugh like hyenas no matter if we were particularly funny or not. We could try any materiel out without fear of bombing or dying. Also we could be wildly politically incorrect, like a band of Daniel Toshes, except we would be Tosh 5.0 So I'm an old hippie and God hates me, so now of course Marijuana is legal, but I'm not inte...