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In article <1993Jan25.200642.1@fnalf.fnal.gov> higgins@fnalf.fnal.gov (Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey) writes:
>In article <1993Jan25.000414.25673@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> bobc@pyramid.unr.edu (Bob Conrad) writes:
>>the other thing about all this zine
>>talk that's pissing me off is evident in an announcement i got in the mail
>>for an upcoming zine show.  it said "fanzines=artzines, homozines, litzines,
>>femzines, musiczines, personalzines, punkzines, comiczines" or something
>>to that effect.  to read it you'd get the impression on "punkzines" are
>>some little bastard faction of fanzines, when in reality fanzines have been
>>nurtured and hyped almost exclusively by the punk scene for the last
>>15 years!  sure, they word "fanzine" originally came from sci-fi rags
>>in the early 70s but it's been punk culture that kept the word alive
>>and then pushed it to its presnt possibilities.  
>
>As the editor of a science fiction fanzine, I'd like to thank you for
>your condescending sneer.

you're welcome, i don't care.

>For your information, Buster, the first SF fanzine was published in
>NINEteenTHIRTY.  And SF people have kept up a steady stream of
>eccentric publications ever since.
>
>>it's been the punk
>>culture that nurtured and revitalized the small underground press the same
>>way it nurtured and revitalized vinyl and cassette tapes and film and
>>fashion and rock-n-roll and, to some extent, radical art and radical
>>politics....END  (there's more but you get the point)
>
>This may well be.  I wish you well in your ongoing efforts to conduct
>a cultural revolution.

well tell it to aaron cometbus, he wrote the thing.  now, go back
and read it, it says:  

	"from cometbus #29...."

clue = look into it