Girl Scout Handbook

Aw, when I was trying to decide what college-age zines of mine to repost here, I completely forgot about my Girl Scout Handbook, a sad yet hopeful college freshman's rewrite of an old version of the Girls Scout Handbook, found in a thrift store or belonging to a house mate I think.  I published my version in December 1997.  In case you can't tell, the 2 handsome boys pictured w/in these pages, one blonde and one w/ dark hair, are both me.  xoxo princesa robin

Cooper Edens I also need you

IN addition to the below, there are 2 other books I have been so needy for lately too:

These are beautiful, sort of hippie-ish books that I adored when I was younger.  I was able to track down an affordable copy of each though, and can't WAIT to get them in the mail.  Look at some of this dreamy art:

I want it so bad - The Rainbow Box

Sometimes I get temporarily crazy looking for a thing I had and loved in my childhood.  the past few days it has been this series of books:

This series is called the Rainbow Box.  I luckily still own my favorite book from it, the Rabbit Box, a long poem that I often quote (including in the "about me" statement of my Facebook page for whatever that's worth).  These books are incredibly out of print and expensive if you can manage to find them.  My hope is that someone's hippie mom bequeathed these books to you and you don't have room for them in your book case and want to give/trade or sell them to me.  

Share Bear

Last week I read a beautiful Edith Wharton book called House of Mirth.  I downloaded it on this great website of free downloads of books that have fallen out of copyright, Project Gutenberg. Here is a link to it if you are interested:

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/284/284-h/284-h.htm

Well, while I'm sharing links, can you believe how this kid turned out?:

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01495/harry-melling_1495862c.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/harry-potter/6262567/Harry-Potter-star-My-life-after-Dudley-Dursley.html&h=178&w=284&sz=1&tbnid=CkRR_iy7cWwHbM:&tbnh=125&tbnw=200&zoom=1&usg=__SSG0WcqGU0aWXBwa6iabz3xobUk=&docid=krMCmkj7hhFfwM&itg=1&hl=en&sa=X&ei=jLBcUcqjM4fNigLFz4DIDg&ved=0CJgBEPwdMAo

And aren't these pretty shoes?:  http://www.amazon.com/Ollio-Womens-Loafers-Pattern-Colored/dp/B00BMAO5L2/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_nC?ie=UTF8&colid=72VF5KQ9S9MG&coliid=IGOYWRRW2LHT1&psc=1

And don't you also want to read Sherlock Holmes?:

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1661/1661-h/1661-h.htm

and ponder whether these Miranda July bibs are funny or dumb?:

http://www.cafepress.com/+miranda-july+baby-bibs

And sneak one quick peek at the fine actress Christina Hendricks?:

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://blogs.psychcentral.com/celebrity/files/2012/10/ChristinaHendricksSpecs2012.jpg&imgrefurl=http://blogs.psychcentral.com/celebrity/2012/10/has-mad-men-actress-christina-hendricks-created-a-new-f-bomb/&h=1334&w=997&sz=201&tbnid=M8sEVjIia7tvBM:&tbnh=100&tbnw=75&zoom=1&usg=__tIGLZITwy8mOij2uKwAuvF3vjGI=&docid=RScfktEjImmo_M&sa=X&ei=k7FcUauUEqKdiALf5oH4DA&ved=0CE4Q9QEwBA&dur=394

and look at all the Kurt Vonnegut related tattoos out there?:

https://www.google.com/search?q=kurt+vonnegut+tattoos&hl=en&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=ILJcUdCqDKatiQLKWw&ved=0CDIQsAQ&biw=1132&bih=441

I thought you might.

xoxox robin

Rock N' Roll Suicide

My friend Jocelyn and I did this zine as a collaboration. Here are some of my entries. We wrote some responses to male song lyrics that we'd felt strongly about 💋💋💋💋

 

Healthy Body Zine Excerpts

Hi dolls,

This here is a zine I did when I was a freshman in college, 1998.

KissKiss,
Princess Robin

  

Meat on My Bones

I am tall and flat-chested, and when I was younger I was always too thin.  I didn't mind how it looked, but as a feminist I have always had an issue with the way so many strangers and people I knew were always signaling to me this sense of proprietary approval of my skinniness.  Especially when I finally started dating, I thought it was irritating when someone who liked me complemented my skinniness.  I remember someone saying that he thought huge breasts look disgusting, which I disagree with, but I also didn't like to know that my look of undernourishment was so appealing or that anyone would assume I'd be flattered to have a big-breasted woman maligned on my behalf.  Now I am chubby.  It started when I moved to Philly where people are less conscious of their weight than in L.A. (and where there were so many good restaurants within walking distance).  Then when I got pregnant, obviously, I gained more weight and now, voila, chubbiness.  It feels more natural for me to be a chubby woman, and somehow more in line with my sense of aesthetics and my dislike for normals; there are so many times (A DAY) where the conversation around me at work or wherever turns to long discussions about dieting, and I'd so much rather be talking about Edith Wharton or yarn or Boardwalk Empire.  When I was skinny I feel like I was a sort of success story whenever I was unlucky enough to be included in a dieting conversation but now that I'm chubby it's like a wordless way to say "This is a boring topic to me." The downsides are that I don't really like how it looks and that it's a little unhealthy.  Maybe those downsides sound monumental, they didn't feel like a big deal to me until I just reread them right now.  At the same time, I always feel like a visitor to Earth, and so it's been kind of neat to know how it feels both to be a skinny woman and then a chubby woman, like from a detective-y point of view, like "so this is what this experience feels like."  I would like to be healthier to live a long time, but other than that, I can't really decide if it's better to be to skinny or too chubby, and I never do things in between.