From my great friend and girl crush, Miss Traci Jean Burns — the English teacher we all wish we’d had in college. Pony up if you are able, my pretties, as it’s a very worthy cause — and do tell her that Madame Muffy sent you (hey, it might help me make-out with her someday!):
Hey all you fine and foxy people.
My English 1101 classes are doing a zine-making project and I was wondering if maybe I could get some help from all of YOU. The help I would like to get is: Do any of you have any zines sitting around your house that you would like to donate to my worthy cause? They don’t have to be zines that YOU wrote, y’know – could be any old zines. I would offer to pay for them, but I can’t afford it right now, so this is truly a request for donations. I want my students to be able to revel in the format a little bit, to see what is possible. Most of them have no idea what in the hell a zine is (crazy to my early-90s coming-of-age self!) and I would like to show them. I have some stuff but not a lot.
Anyway. If you think you can help, mail ’em to:
Traci Burns
2554 Huntington Dr
Macon GA 31204
Thank you and spank you!
About muffybolding
Muffy Bolding is a mother/writer/actor/knitter/feminist/withered debutante who likes the smell of asparagus pee, and remains obsessed with the bathroom hygiene of her three children -- despite the fact that they are 23, 19, and 16. She is blissfully married to a cute Jewish boy who looks like Willie Wonka, but remains tragically in love with the dead poet, Ted Hughes. She has the mouth of a Teamster, and her patron saint is Rocco (pestilence relief.) Ms. Bolding lives in Southern California, where she enjoys typing words, making movies, and plucking the rings from the fingers of the dead. She was the co-creator and Editor-in-Chief of the award winning satire zine, Fresno Lampoon, and in between writing screenplays, carnival barking, and savagely threatening her trio of darling larvae with a wooden spoon, she currently publishes the zine, "Withered Debutante." More of her work can also be found in the anthology, "Mamaphonic: Balancing Motherhood and Other Creative Acts", the compilation zine, "Mamaphiles III: Coming Home", as well as in The Cortland Review and hipmama.com. She is currently writing and producing for film and television, and working on a book of essays entitled, "Inside A Chinese Dragon." She has slept around, but not nearly as much as she would have liked.
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