WOTNWHY TT?
The REAL STORY behind
TABLOID TRASH: THE NAME...
You know the Two Headed Martian Baby Born to Liz rags? Reading that
stuff is my favorite way to flatten the old brain waves after an especially
excruciating migraine or social event (like grocery shopping.)
I got into the habit when I worked as a DJ and we read this stuff on the air
every Tuesday while guffawing insanely. It is just SOOOOO
trashy that you can't help but zone out whilst you gaze in
wonder at the most implausible, ridiculous (and did I
mention implausible?) urban legends in the flesh, and
figments of the drug-addled imaginations of some demented
human beings somewhere not far from here.
A recent personal favorite was COUPLE GIVES UP TODDLER
BECAUSE HER RED HAIR CLASHES WITH HOME DECOR.
(By the way - that one was true - it was me in early stages
of my emotional development. I just KNEW my mother was going
to sell that story to Weekly World News when U.S. News &
World Report rejected it.)
For years now I've been getting 'zines from Pag-Hat the Rat Girl, the Stamp Goddess, Mick
Mather, Rik at Wombat Cutlet, Short Fuse, The Monks, The Lime Green Newswoman and
lots more kindly people, and the subliminal message they keep sending is
that anyone/everyone can jump into the mailstream (e-mailstream). Here I
was getting POUNDS (That's KILOS for you metric folks) of great mailart and eraser
carving info from my buddies in the mailart network and I hated to keep it
all to myself. So I started Tabloid Trash - The Snail Mail Edition a year
ago. I figured that I didn't want anyone to take my 'zine thing too seriously,
so I named it accordingly.
Tabloid Trash - The Web Page was launched on TT's first birthday.
Even if you've never considered making your own rubber stamps from
erasers, maybe after you breeze through Tabloid Trash and see how
easy (and cheap) it is, you'll pick up an X-acto knife and get
started on an eraser carving.
Before you know it - your brain waves will be nice and flat, too.
Just like the Earth.
(Hey, it's true - I read it somewhere recently.)
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