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DIY GUIDE TO KILLING OFF ALL BOREDOM
Go outside. Scream your name into The Void. Sit in the sun and feel godlike. Go swim somewhere illegal. Cook a nine-course meal for your friends. Get drunk and cry. Throw up on public property and shout about Tolstoy. Ride a train. Ride a bus. Tell someone off. Smash something important. Climb a tree and read a book. WRITE a book. Be sweet to a baby and let them know that all big people aren’t a) dead inside, b) bored, or c) afraid of adventure. Make your own everything. Stay up all night and walk around the city alone. Learn that you can be a patriot for the land while still hating the government (be a patriot for the deserts, the plains, the mountains, the buffalo, for Woody Guthrie and Frederick Douglass, for 250 years of good books). Find the best genius, which is the genius that speaks plainly. Grow something from a seed. Talk to a dog. Go visit a friend and throw your knife into a river. Sing. Sleep in. Quit your job. Make a zine. Start a war within yourself. Break a law. Destroy all uncandid thought. Open your heart to the sky. Live.

Adam Gnade, from The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Fighting the Big Motherfuckin’ Sad

Do yourself a favor and buy this zine.

(via rustbeltjessie)

Dear friends,

One of the best ways you can help save Pioneers Press is by ordering this zine. It’s our first published title, so it goes directly towards keeping us alive.

Love,

Pioneers Press

8 hours ago

Just got copies of the new Broken Pencil in! Great issue! Available now!

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Coming to you from Toronto, Canada since 1995, Broken Pencil is a magazine devoted exclusively to underground culture and the independent arts. A mix of the Utne Reader, an underground Reader’s Digest, and Factsheet5, Broken Pencil reviews the best zines, books, websites, videos, and artworks from the underground and reprints favorite articles from the alternative press. Also, ground-breaking interviews, original fiction, and commentary on all aspects of the independent arts. From the hilarious to the perverse, Broken Pencil challenges conformity and demands attention. Issue 59 includes: a piece on Seattle’s Zine Project; a feature about first nations, Metis, and Inuit indie artists; a story about comic publisher Annie Koyama; tons of reviews and excerpts; a cut ‘n’ fold page to make your own “hypo-allgergenic kitten,” and much more!

Order the new issue of Broken Pencil here at Pioneers Press

9 hours ago

HELP SAVE PIONEERS PRESS

gnade:

Man, it has been a STRUGGLE this past week trying to save Pioneers Press. If you haven’t heard, after a terrible month and a half for sales, our little publishing house/distro was left on the verge of going out of business. That’s how it rolls with small businesses; just a quick tip of the boat can capsize you. Crushing … and scary. To paraphrase an old commercial, there’s a lot riding on these tires—the financial security of my family (and our farm animal sanctuary) being paramount. We lose this and we lose a lot. It’s been a struggle, yeah, but all of you who’ve helped us out by placing book/zine orders or by spreading the world or sending encouraging notes are what’s keeping us here. Thank you for that. We still have a long way to go (a daunting long way) and a big fight ahead but your help (any kind of help) is pretty damn life-affirming. http://pioneerspress.com/

10 hours ago

We now carry H.B. & Other Stories, Part 1 by Tanner Ballengee!

H.B. stands for “Harsh Barge” and Harsh Barge is the story of Kansas-based zinester/skateboarder Tanner Ballengee’s travels through Asia (a good portion of it on motorbike). This well-written 20-pager is the first installment of Tanner’s ongoing travel memoir. Says Tanner, “Instead of releasing it all at once … I’m going to release Harsh Barge: The Memoir as a series … entitled ‘H.B. & Other Stories: Parts 1-???’ with the question marks because I have no idea how many parts it will be/how long this thing will end up being. I think it will be better to release it this way so that I can get my writing out quicker and so that the Harsh Barge stays relevant.” A good companion to Bart Schaneman’s travel novella, Trans-Siberian, Tanner’s zine is an exciting, mood-infused piece of life-documentation. Street vendors and strange apartments, shambling trains and big plans for the future. We can’t wait to see where this Kansan’s story goes…

Order this zine for $2 from Pioneers Press

11 hours ago

Excited.

Got some great new zines in the mail today. Gonna get them up on the site asap. stay tuned here: http://pioneerspress.com/

21 hours ago
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DIY GUIDE TO KILLING OFF ALL BOREDOM
Go outside. Scream your name into The Void. Sit in the sun and feel godlike. Go swim somewhere illegal. Cook a nine-course meal for your friends. Get drunk and cry. Throw up on public property and shout about Tolstoy. Ride a train. Ride a bus. Tell someone off. Smash something important. Climb a tree and read a book. WRITE a book. Be sweet to a baby and let them know that all big people aren’t a) dead inside, b) bored, or c) afraid of adventure. Make your own everything. Stay up all night and walk around the city alone. Learn that you can be a patriot for the land while still hating the government (be a patriot for the deserts, the plains, the mountains, the buffalo, for Woody Guthrie and Frederick Douglass, for 250 years of good books). Find the best genius, which is the genius that speaks plainly. Grow something from a seed. Talk to a dog. Go visit a friend and throw your knife into a river. Sing. Sleep in. Quit your job. Make a zine. Start a war within yourself. Break a law. Destroy all uncandid thought. Open your heart to the sky. Live.

Adam Gnade, from The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Fighting the Big Motherfuckin’ Sad

Do yourself a favor and buy this zine.

(via rustbeltjessie)

23 hours ago
jessie-duke: Pioneers Press Book of the Day! The Urban Homestead: Your Guide to Self-Sufficient Living in the Heart of the City by Kelly Coyne The Urban Homestead is the essential handbook for a fast-growing new movement: urbanites are becoming gardeners and farmers. By growing their own food and harnessing natural energy, they are planting seeds for the future of our cities. If you would like to harvest your own vegetables, make homemade jam or bread, raise chickens or convert to solar energy, this practical, hands-on book is full of step-by-step projects that will get you started homesteading immediately, whether you live in an apartment or a house. It is also a guidebook to the larger movement and will point you to the best books and Internet resources on self-sufficiency topics. http://pioneerspress.com/catalog/books/3107/

jessie-duke:

Pioneers Press Book of the Day!

The Urban Homestead: Your Guide to Self-Sufficient Living in the Heart of the City

by Kelly Coyne

The Urban Homestead is the essential handbook for a fast-growing new movement: urbanites are becoming gardeners and farmers. By growing their own food and harnessing natural energy, they are planting seeds for the future of our cities.

If you would like to harvest your own vegetables, make homemade jam or bread, raise chickens or convert to solar energy, this practical, hands-on book is full of step-by-step projects that will get you started homesteading immediately, whether you live in an apartment or a house. It is also a guidebook to the larger movement and will point you to the best books and Internet resources on self-sufficiency topics.

http://pioneerspress.com/catalog/books/3107/

1 day ago
Nice endorsement for Julia’s newest zine from Pioneers Press owner Jessie Duke! jessie-duke: Last night I dreamed I was dating Julia Eff - obviously my zine crush has reached the deepest levels of my subconscious! - so today I’m making this the … PIONEERS PRESS ZINE OF THE DAY!  WhatsTheirName: More Adventures without Gender by Julia Eff So it’s 3am and I just got done reading this one but I wanted to type at you real quick (“hot irons” and all) and tell you how important I think this zine is. Another thing I just got done doing was typing at Julia to tell them their zine captures one of my favorite things (in writing, in music, in life, whatever) and that is the ever-winning combination of intelligence and strength (or rather toughness; there’s a difference).  Julia’s 68-page (fully/beautifully-illustrated/collaged/hand-written) follow-up to Every Thug is a Lady is a total fucking smasher. It’s about not having a gender and it’s about not wanting to talk about it anymore, but talking about it regardless because it’s necessary. It’s also about dysphoric meltdowns in the mall and coming out to your straight boy partner and dealing with mislabeled pronouns and massive fucking dickheads on a daily basis. (Also: Special appearances from Oscar Wilde, a lot of screamo dudes, Alice Cooper, Axl Rose, Marilyn Manson, Laura Jane Grace, the grocery store, awful jobs, and Courtney Love). Says Julia near the zine’s intro, “Sorry if this zine isn’t as ‘positive’ as the last one.” This is true but I think it has something better than positivity—a balanced (maybe weathered), toughened perspective (in the middle of the shit-storm of life) and a heart full of fight. There’s a lot of darkness and aching, split-raw vulnerability here, but fuck it, what are we without both? (We’re dolls, statues, bowling pins.) No matter how mean the wind gets (and it gets) Julia stands ready in these pages to flip over tables and kick in shinbones and tell you the truth in a smart, eloquent, funny way. I’m good with this. -AG ($4) http://pioneerspress.com/catalog/zines/4090/

Nice endorsement for Julia’s newest zine from Pioneers Press owner Jessie Duke!

jessie-duke:

Last night I dreamed I was dating Julia Eff - obviously my zine crush has reached the deepest levels of my subconscious! - so today I’m making this the …

PIONEERS PRESS ZINE OF THE DAY! 

WhatsTheirName: More Adventures without Gender

by Julia Eff

So it’s 3am and I just got done reading this one but I wanted to type at you real quick (“hot irons” and all) and tell you how important I think this zine is. Another thing I just got done doing was typing at Julia to tell them their zine captures one of my favorite things (in writing, in music, in life, whatever) and that is the ever-winning combination of intelligence and strength (or rather toughness; there’s a difference). 

Julia’s 68-page (fully/beautifully-illustrated/collaged/hand-written) follow-up to Every Thug is a Lady is a total fucking smasher. It’s about not having a gender and it’s about not wanting to talk about it anymore, but talking about it regardless because it’s necessary. It’s also about dysphoric meltdowns in the mall and coming out to your straight boy partner and dealing with mislabeled pronouns and massive fucking dickheads on a daily basis. (Also: Special appearances from Oscar Wilde, a lot of screamo dudes, Alice Cooper, Axl Rose, Marilyn Manson, Laura Jane Grace, the grocery store, awful jobs, and Courtney Love).

Says Julia near the zine’s intro, “Sorry if this zine isn’t as ‘positive’ as the last one.” This is true but I think it has something better than positivity—a balanced (maybe weathered), toughened perspective (in the middle of the shit-storm of life) and a heart full of fight. There’s a lot of darkness and aching, split-raw vulnerability here, but fuck it, what are we without both? (We’re dolls, statues, bowling pins.) No matter how mean the wind gets (and it gets) Julia stands ready in these pages to flip over tables and kick in shinbones and tell you the truth in a smart, eloquent, funny way. I’m good with this. -AG ($4)

http://pioneerspress.com/catalog/zines/4090/

1 day ago
slovaksouthpaw: Reading!! #cometbus #scam #railroadsemantics #pioneerspress There’s some of our stuff right there! Sweet. You can get all that and more right here.

slovaksouthpaw:

Reading!! #cometbus #scam #railroadsemantics #pioneerspress

There’s some of our stuff right there! Sweet. You can get all that and more right here.

1 day ago