RIP megazine

Ha, 'hat-rack'. *steals*

To be honest, I think 'Zine is probably better off gone now. It's only got worse over the last year or so, and it'll most probably continue in that vein.

However, it would be a shame for it to go, and I'd happily sign the petition to keep it going.

It'd be good if we could rescue it from extinction and then turn it into something amusing again, though.

If people can fight to preserve 'Zine, VRers can fight for WLW to be less sh*t, maybe.

Trying to bring back 'Zine now would be a bit like trying to bring back Happy Days, as in the fonzey and ginger guy who writes Arrested Development happy days

t'as jumped the shark!

Anyone remember when they first came across 'Zine...i'm talking late nineties early noughties and it was so incredibly mystical i mean the mythology of Zine was so intact... I remember wondering about the beginnings of 'Zine, seeing the pictures of the 'Ziners who preceded my knowledge of it like Enfant Terrible, Snaz, Jacobean Skate Punk, Savage Cabbage seem to spring to mind.

It's important to remember that everyone was a newbie at one point. I've seen recent 'zine letters which refer to 'zine legends who are people i've never even heard of, must have only been writing over the past couple of years and I think how such a letter would have been very different five years ago when I wrote regularly, but of course ten years ago would be different still. It seems the nature of 'zine is everyone has their little time in the limelight, like waves coming and going.

It is all our fault, as a group consciousness of 'ziners that it has gone the way it has, it is the way with good things, more people get wind of them and eventually it all gets somewhat diluted and as we're seeing now collapses on itself. No snowflake in an avalanche ever felt responsible...not particularly relevant but a good quotings

Well anyway the time for 'zine is up, it's not necessary anymore, we've all learned all we can from it and it's time to move on. I'm sure we've all made some wonderful friends and met some great people thanks to it, even if a tree is chopped down it lives on forever in it's saplings.

Anyway ta-ra and universal cosmick love to the house party, chaps
1929

p.s. think it's a good idea to send a letter to WLW asking for something of a 'zine history...maybe a revealing of the secrets? Even an invitation to come on here and just set the 'zine record straight. It should not be a case of a missing last page

Digital teletext takes an age to load, and whats the big bloody deal about digital anyway, theres always a lag and for some reason the voices sometimes go out of sinc with the people on the screen!

Hang on a minute! Am I reading what I read right? JSP is a member of VR? There are pics of him? Where?! I wanna see.

1929 is totally right. It had such a vast mystical quality too it. But that is gone. The whole enimga, the curiosity has died. I mean when I had that whole 'Zine War with Parsley Possum that just snowballed. It engrosed so many 'Ziners (although I could be wrong lol) just like proir 'Zine Wars. It worked cause it felt so real. It felt so vibrant. It had a magic that has dissapated into nothing now. It doesn't feel real anymore. It has lost all those amazing qualities that kept me transfixed when I was at school. It was like every 'Ziner almost was the name if you get what I mean. That just doesn't work anymore though. You became so engrosed by the name, by who this person could really be. But not anymore. It is time for Megazines funeral people. We have to let it go.

Anyway, I've rambled on long enough lol.

Y'know, I'd actually buy some sort of megazine memerabelia if it was on sale.

Yes, that did warrent a double post.

As long as they leave Bamboozle well alone, I'm quite happy to let Zine die whilst it still has a teeny shred of credibility...

This thread no longer applies, so I'm locking it. People know where to find me if they'd like it unlocked.