  A word to the wise; don't let your friends make paint images of you. Just, don't. -------------------------------------------------------------------- My family owns two computers. One sits in the basement, the other upstairs. Upstairs, if you are desperate, you can wait ten or tweleve mineuts for each page to load. The basement is where the goods are at.
Many a heated fued have risen from the Southern and Northern versions of computing. My computer is like an IV, one which I must connect myself to several times a day in order to sustain life. And such is the life of a suburban teenager without her driver's liscene. Sigh (overdramatic, of course). ------------------------------------------------------ You know you're a nerd when seeing a local edition of the Inlander excites you. Sarah Vowell was on the cover, along with the other writers coming to town for the Get Lit tour.
I am. so. excited. Sarah Vowell is the height of writing. She makes brillant, beautiful, inciteful observations about what it means to be American. I love her with the same version of nerdy adoration I have for Catherine the Great (although she is a murderer, whatever).
She has yet to write a single essay that does not make me laugh. I highly recommend investing in ethier The Partly Cloudy Patriot (it's in paperback now) or Take the Canoli . Both are amazing. ----------------------------------------------------- Zine news! Since I live in the presence of lazies who refuse to make up their minds, the final title is (dun da-dun-dun dunnn) UNDER THE GLASS. (After the Bright Eyes song, of course.
) I really did not expect writing for a zine to be so hard. It's easy to write cute little snipits of commentary in my blog, but full length articles? Hard . I think we are going to do something about gay marriage, but that's about as political as we may get. As far as I can tell, the first issue is simply going to be a test drive. Adrienne will do most of the artwork, I'll toss in some photography.
Because I'm deeply narcisstic, I really want to put in mini-bios about our lives in Spokane. Annica will probably do some poetry, I (yikes) might sneak some in as well. I want to get a short story in, but my writing skills are temporarily on hiatus. If anyone wants to submit their work, that would be great. We're looking for poetry and short stories right now, if you're interested. Your payment is a free copy of the zine.
(I'll pay for shipping, only because I am so very wealthy). Affectionately... Anna 
