Saturday, July 5, 2008




Back in 1974, I came out with 3 issues of a zing-zap mostly poetical stare at the space program. Came up with the name... 'Interplanetary New Paper Witness' while living in San Francisco and attending one of Bay-areas old science fiction clubs, held in Berkeley. The title really had no specific meaning except that it sounded pretty good back then. Stylized logo on the front page and large, LA Times newspaper format, was all a labor of madness. (click on photo to enlarge)

Set all the type on a table top contraption called a Vari-Typer, which was ponderous, made a lot of noise, and you had to type everything twice in order for the type in the columns to be even on the left and right sides. You pressed a single key, it made whirrling, zippy noises, and then you were ready for the second letter. Yowie! The 3 issues were all put together at an abandoned 2nd floor dentist office I rented for $50 across the street from the Colony movie theater, on the southwest side of Chicago. Spent 2 years writing there, and, except for the first issue which I printed myself, had the other two issues printed by a genuine newspaper printer.

So much going on now on the internet and elsewhere it sounds silly to even begin to think of starting it up again, but it's fun to...try! (Should begin with altering the title a wee bit? Sounds so ponderous now, like that Vari-Typer nowadays.)

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At July 6, 2008 at 6:14 AM , Blogger Tamara said...

I remember this! Love your blog! This is very excellent.

 

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