I have just made a new zine about an octopus. I took a few copies of my zine about an octopus in to the the pub the other day to give to some friends. What I hadn't been counting on was the fact that two out of three of the friends were editors. The following conversation ensued:
E: (Opening up the zine, reading the first two pages) Hmmm, octopi.
TIM: Oh, did I get the plural wrong? ... I'd just like to point out in advance that there's a stray apostrophe in the back half.
E: (Turning over the pages) There's also a split infinitive.
TIM: (Squints at the pages and tries to look as if he knows exactly what that means.) Er, yeah.
E: Also, aren't octopuses molluscs, not crustaceans?
TIM: You're probably right. But 'mollusc' doesn't rhyme with 'sensational'. 'Crustacean-al' does, though!
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7 comments:
Oh! This sounds very adult.
Well it's not just any publication that will let a split infinitive through.
I read your zine to my mother.
She is now very confused. Sh eworks for a magazine publication company.
She has been calling them "mags" for short.
Now she's been wondering if the proper abbreviation should be "zine".
She has been thrown into a state of confusion about this and needs resolution.
Funnily enough she had not a lot to say about octopuses, octopodes, or octopi.
Just mags and zines.
Please help.
By the way when I was in Canberra last year I wrote a book about a penguin.
There was a table in the Canberra Art Gallery that had a children's book on it and said read this book on it (so I did) and then had some coloured pencils and paper on it and said "Write your own bird book!"
So I did.
It onlytook me a few minutes as there was not a lot of paper provided.
Your octopus zine has inspired me. Perhaps I should be publishing a Penguin zine.
Oh and animalia and animalia zines shall abound!
We start with the octopus and then the penguin and from then ... well ANY ZINE IS POSSIBLE
you called a cephalopod mollusc a crustacean just for the rhyme? that's genius. Ogden Nash would be proud. ;-)
heh.
That's exactly my argument Cam. Not sure how many people would agree with it, but.
Maria, I think 'zine' describes publications that are a) underground or b) personal or c) a combination of both. 'Mag' applies to commercially-sold/professionally produced material. But the boundaries are endlessly porous, and the definitions subject to endless clarification...
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