GIVEAWAY CONTEST

Today's contest is for a purse, scarf or set of coasters (your choice) handmade by me, and all you have to do to enter is guess at which age I lost my virginity.  JUST KIDDING!  I find the subject of virginity loss totally repulsive.  REALLY what you have to do if you would like a chance to win a homemade gift is to submit a beautiful line or paragraph from a novel or poem (make sure to credit the writer in your submission, which you should put in the"Comments").    The most beautiful one wins.
Good luck!

(oh, just to clarify, virginity itself isn't a gross topic to me, just society's prurient obsession w/ virginity loss as well as some of the sexist myths that go along w/ it, like the idea that if a woman doesn't bleed the first time, she's lying about her virginity, etc).

Gross! - Virginity Scene

Purse

Coasters

Scarf

Let me List Stuff for Fun

I keep mentioning how I'm too embarrassed to read over most of what I wrote as a teen that's been in these old zines I'm posting.  Well one thing I do think is fun to read is my lists of things.  For instance I had a friend who was really into heavy metal and had pictures from magazines covering every square inch of her wall, and I cataloged who all the pictures were of and put that list in an issue, and later when she turned punk I cataloged and published the list of who all the new magazine pages were of (from Kiss to L7, etc.).  I have a bunch of DVD's, and tonight I began to catalog them, only making it thru 2 double-shelved shelves so far.  I still have another bookcase to go, another night.  Some of these dvd's were mine or my husband's before we met each other, some were bought impulsively while "on" something on a sadness shopping spree at Target, some were like Secret Santa gifts from work Xmas parties in Conference Rooms, some are my favorites, some are burned dvd's from a cat-lady friend of my mom's with indiscriminate film taste, and some are guilty pleasures.  I'll leave you to guess which is which. 

My Movies

Where the Wild Things Are…And 5 More Stories by Maurice Sendak (not the Spike Jonze thing)

Goonies

Halloween 4

50 First Dates

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

This is Spinal Tap

Sixteen Candles

Watchmen

Edward Scissorhands

Bob’s burgers Season 1

4 disc set of the Lethal Weapon movies

Season one of Girls

Trio of Terror (some Vincent Price movie, Night of the Living Dead and something else)

Wedding Singer

Pick of Destiny

Raising Arizona & Fargo 2 disc set

Coraline

Sylvia

The Lost Boys

The 4 Ocean’s 11 movies

The Office seasons 1 – 4

Ghostbusters 1 & 2

All of the It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’s

Yo Gabba Gabba “Music Makes Me Move” & “Dancey Dance Bunch”

Pee Wee’s Big Adventure

All 3 Lord of the Rings

All of the Harry Potters

Miami Vice (the movie)

Parks and Recreation Seasons 1 and 2

Billy Madison

Georgy Girl

Adventures in Babysitting

Men who Stare at Goats

The Red Balloon

The Graduate

Dirty Work

Wings of Desire

The 1^st and 3^rd Pirates of the Caribbean

Ozzie and Harriett

Sympathy for the Devil

Dodgeball

Wedding Crashers

Snatch

Human Nature

Marihuana

Clash:  Westway to the World

3 Dukes of Hazard episodes

Amelie

About a Boy

Shaun of the Dead

Last Waltz

Mommy Dearest

Napoleon Dynamite

Army of Darkness

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

New York Doll

Muppets in Space and Muppets Take Manhattan

Baby Mama

Big Lebowski

30 Rock Season 1

Happy Gilmore

Knocked up

Vice Guide to Travel

Lock, Stock and 2 Smoking Barrels

She’s so Lovely

I heart Huckabees

Warriors

Sweetheart #10

Originally published in August 1996, this is the penultimate Sweetheart zine, my middle school and high school zine.