Check It Out

Friday night, Missy and I headed out to the OCONEE COUNTY LIBRARY to attend the TEEN ZINE SECTION LAUNCH PARTY. Missy was a SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKER at the event and WEREWOLVES (sans me) played an acoustic set of songs. Before heading out to the library, Missy put together a bunch of GOODY BAGS that were going to be raffled off at the party. Each goody bag had a copy of her book, PERSONAL CHARM, several copies of her zines, a bookmark, and a collection of one inch buttons that she designed...



By the time we got there, the PIZZA AND ZINE-MAKING PARTY was in full swing. We had just enough time to say "hi" to our friends before Missy had to take the stage. Our friend Lonna, who coordinated the event and is also a librarian at the library, interviewed Missy along with our friend Katy, who also makes zines. During the interview, Missy and Katy talked about how they got into making zines, why they love zines so much, and why it's important for teens to have access to zines. They also talked about how teens could go about making zines of their own...









After the interview, Lonna gave us a quick after-hours tour of the library while the band set up and sound checked:















After the tour, we checked out the temporary ZINE READING LOUNGE while everyone else was waiting for Werewolves to perform. It doesn't look like much, but there are actually over 100 TEEN-FRIENDLY ZINES stuffed into that little magazine rack...









Before heading back into the auditorium to see Werewolves play, we checked out drawings that were left on the zine-making table in the lounge...































Lonna and Katy:



Missy and Jay:



Missy and Jean:



Missy and Kamron...Kamron was one of our favorite kids that we saw that night. We really dug his hat! Anyways, we were happy that he won one of Missy's goody bags in the raffle at the end of the night...

Teen Zine Scene

Hey Y'all! Missy will be speaking at the dedication of the brand new TEEN ZINE SECTION at the Oconee County Library in Watkinsville this Friday! She will be talking about her experience as a teen who was heavy into making ZINES in the '90s, and how she has steadfastly continued to create zines ever since, for well over 20 years. There will be free pizza, free zines, and a free performance by WEREWOLVES! This all-ages party starts at 7pm...come one, come all!

Vote Rocker

Missy decided to rock her VINTAGE BICENTENNIAL POLYESTER SHIRT at the polls this election day and fulfill her civic duty in style. In hindsight, the shirt kinda reads as "TEA PARTY FANATIC", which Missy assures she is not...

Weekend Wind-Down #155

This past weekend, Missy decided to make PLUSH CHEESE PUFFS for the up-coming holiday craft fair season. She got a yard of orange fleece and was able to cut out enough patterns to make 24 large cheese doodles...



After sewing darts at the tops and bottoms of each cheese puff half, Missy sewed all the halves together, leaving just a big enough hole in order to turn and stuff each plush Cheeto, adding safety eyes in the process...





By the end of the weekend, we finished about a dozen cheese puffs, with a dozen more to go...



Last weekend, on HALLOWEEN, we met up with our friend Jeremy in Atlanta to go see the DUM DUM GIRLS perform that evening at The Earl. Needless to say, we had an awesome time, bopping the night away...













FAVORITE MOMENT OF THE PAST WEEK?
MISSY - Halloween with Jeremy in Atlanta!
RAOUL - Seeing the Dum Dum Girls at The Earl was pretty cool.

WORST MOMENT OF THE PAST WEEK?
MISSY - Gameday traffic downtown?
RAOUL - Forgot how bad it gets downtown after the game lets out...

FUNNIEST MOMENT OF THE PAST WEEK?
MISSY - Some of the costumes we saw were pretty funny!
RAOUL - Missy saying something about eating pizza.

WORD OR PHRASE OF THE PAST WEEK?
MISSY - "Peanut Hand"
RAOUL - "Treat yo' self" and/or "YOLO"

FAVORITE MEAL OF THE PAST WEEK?
MISSY - Ghose pizza!
RAOUL - That veggie chili dog from Haute Doggery in Atlanta was pretty good...and then that spicy Mexican chocolate ice cream afterwards, mmmmmmmmm.

WORST MEAL OF THE PAST WEEK?
MISSY - The potatoes au gratin from The Grit were really greasy...
RAOUL - Once again, Poptarts from the vending machine at work.

BEST COSTUME YOU SAW THIS PAST HALLOWEEN?
MISSY - Imports Department dressed up as The Addams Family!
RAOUL - I like that photo that Nick texted you of that girl dressed up as Tofu Baby walking around downtown Athens.

THREE THINGS ON YOUR SHOPPING LIST FOR THIS WEEK?
MISSY - Oatmeal, bananas, soap.
RAOUL - Rice, orange juice, green tea extract.

PERSONAL SOUNDTRACK FOR THE PAST WEEK?
MISSY - The Monkees, The Music Tapes, Karen Elson, Buddy Holly, Siouxsie And The Banshees, Fleet Foxes, Vince Guaraldi Trio, Buddy Holly, Lavender Diamond, April March, 4 Jacks and a Jill.
RAOUL - Lavender Diamond, Karen Elson, Siouxsie And The Banshees, Dum Dum Girls, Frankie Rose, The Monkees, Vince Guaraldi Trio, XTC, Suicide, Buddy Holly, Depeche Mode, Orange Juice, Fire Engines.

Dia de los Muertos

Happy Dia de los Muertos, everyone! Here's Day of the Dead Buddy Holly, Johnny Cash, and Elvis to help celebrate...stickers we picked up in LA over the summer...