Angry Russians

[thebitterguy]

Apparently, they hated the '90s.

A lot.

Courtesy the power source that is jwz.

In case of dead link: 90 reasons to hate the '90s. Amusing, if needing a bit of editing (seriously; in Russia, do you not have to finish off sentences in published work?).

This line, from Zines, is cute: Back before Live Journal gave every bored office worker in America a soap box, zines were the only outlet for folks who wanted to write something that nobody but friends would ever read.

Zing!

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[madmanofprague.livejournal.com]

But... that was the point of zines, man.

[thebitterguy]

Well, mission was accomplished. I guess the Russians just didn't agree.

[madmanofprague.livejournal.com]

35. Hating the Clintons/Hating the UN

The Sham:What do you do if you live in a period of the greatest prosperity and geopolitical power that your country - and indeed just about any country in history - ever experienced?

It's funny 'cause they're jealous.

[doc-mystery.livejournal.com]

This line, from Zines, is cute: Back before Live Journal gave every bored office worker in America a soap box, zines were the only outlet for folks who wanted to write something that nobody but friends would ever read.

Back in the 90's I used to read Mike Gunderloy's (an ex A&Er) comprehensive zine review, "Factsheet Five" religiously. It was never quite the same after FF5 changed hands, and while towards the end it went on-line, it ended rather on a fizzle, but during its heydey you could read little thumbnails in FF5 on any subject you could imagine, and then some. If the zines themelf comprised an early 'postal internet', FF5 acted as its 'Google'.

Steering things over to gaming, back in the 80's when I was in highschool, I sent away for a bunch of UK RPG fanzines, things like "The Beholder", "Red Gian", "Alien Star", "Thunderstruck" and the like. Receiving these in the mail and reading them opened my eyes to just how disparate the gaming hobby was even during its golden age.

I still collect these UK RPG zines when I can (I'm still looking for Aslan #1), and even now in 2005 I still sporadically write for another gaming APA-zine, "Alarums & Excursions" (A&E) which I started doing in 1992, with issue #85 completed only last month.

::B::

[thebitterguy]

Oh, yeah, never finding a good APA was always something I kinda regretted. Especially not going to A&E like someone recommended.

[cargoweasel.livejournal.com]

Heading up the "where are they now?" file are 90s White Militia Groups, the Spinal Tap of the Next Big Threat World. Despite all the alarmist-TV reports featuring sca-a-ry armed white militia parades blustering about their anti-government fight, in reality these bearded pussies with their trucker hats and TV dinner guts were little more than grown-up versions of middle school karate geeks - the ones who always got the shit kicked out of them no matter what color belt they reached.

They all voted for, and passionately love big government when it's headed by a Godly man like George W. Bush. So today those angry white militia groups have turned their attention to pinging off Mexicans instead of Federal agents and they call themselves Minutemen.

When a Democrat is elected to the White House again they will turn en masse back to hating the federal government.

[jadasc.livejournal.com]

Man. I still love or have an unreasoning fondness for about half that list. Maybe more.

[thebitterguy]

The Goatee line made me cry. Because I think it makes me look sexy.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

an anyone give us one reason why they shouldn't have been shot, gassed and burned with white phosphorus? ...Folks, it's time to come clean here: Janet Reno should have killed many, many thousands more of them.

When a Russian says that, you're in a biiiig trouble. :)

[princeofcairo.livejournal.com]

"In Soviet Russia, sentences in published work finish off you!"