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name: ashlee swanson
zine: regeneration

fun fact: i've spent a lot of time recently coloring in coloring books. it's relaxing!

favorite quote: "art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable." cesar cruz

collect anything: books, cds, dvds. it's my life dream to have a fancy home library someday.

favorite childhood book: i don't remember reading much as a child, but i loved the 'scary stories to tell in the dark' books!

afraid of: heights.

Name: Eryca
Zine(s) you write: My Little Friend, Dear High School Boy

Share a fun fact about yourself.
I sort of vaguely remember this, but in early 90's there was a big earth quake in LA, I was like, 3 or 4 at the time, apparently I got out of bed in the morning, forgot what had happened the night before and saw my parents cleaning up broken dishes, pictures, etc, and said "why did you guys make such a mess" 

What is your favorite quote?
It's a Jenny Holzer Truism "You are a victim of the rules you live by" 

Do you collect anything?
Oh just like everything. It started before I can even remember. I guess my parents started a decorative spoon collection for me? and told people to buy me decorative spoons from different states and countries. I only bought one or two myself, I think when I was about 7 or 8 and I visited family in New York and Florida, but I have a decorative spoon collection, somewhere in storage, with like 50+ spoons! What is their purpose? I don't know, it's not like you can eat with them. 

But I think that spawed a collector in me. I collect zines, books, fabric, yarn, stationary, set lists, witty tshirts, vintage children's books, vintage women's magazines, I'm sure there are more things I collect, that was just off the top of my head. 


What is your favorite childhood book?
Oh! tough question! Probably Eloise. Also, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. Also, Judy Blume's lesser known picture book The Pain and The Great One, about a brother and sister who didn't get along. 

What are you afraid of?
The next 10 years of my life. Also, Bears.

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Name: Sage
Zine(s) you write: Tattooed Memoirs, Marked For Life, Hard Knox & editor of FAT-TASTIC!

Share a fun fact about yourself. 
When I was 18-years-old I was filmed for the TBS documentary,Tattoos: Women of the Ink. It was weird to see myself on television.

What is your favorite quote?
“The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.” ― Bob Marley

Do you collect anything? 
Books, zines, & vintage typewriters. I also have some knick knacks with owls, crows, & coffee themed stuff.

What is your favorite childhood book?
My coloring books.
 
What are you afraid of?
Death, snakes, poisonous spiders, terminal illness, and my kids being disappointed in me.

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Name: Melanie L.
Zine(s) you write: Let's see zines I have done include: Slippin' Bananas' Newsletter/ SBN (1994-1995), Rebel in Magenta (1996- 2004), What Comes Around Goes Around (2000- 2002), I Want My Baby [the miscarriage zine] (2004), Hanna's Pink Pajamas (24 hour zine, 2007) & Dirty July (2006- present; issue #2 came out in July!!!!!). I have also made a few one off zines with friends that probably never circulated too!! They are all mainly perzines with the exception of the first zines I have ever done, mainly being "review" zines. Dirty July #2 is the only zine I currently have available. 

Share a fun fact about yourself. 
I work at an amusement park. I suppose that is fun!! I've been there 15 years now. I don't actually work in the park though, so I don't run a ride or work a stand or anything cool like that, but I do work for the housing department and I get to meet people from all over the world!! That part, I love!! I actually still keep in touch with one guy I worked with in 2000 from Slovakia!! 

What is your favorite quote? 
"It can't rain all the time" My #1 stand by quote!! 

Do you collect anything? 
I have an obsession with buying stickers, paper, office supplies. I also collect zines & records (for my own enjoyment, not for value)!!! I used to collect spoons (thanks to my mom!!!) but I haven't bought any new ones in a long long time. 


What is your favorite childhood book? 
The first book that comes to mind is The 12 Days of Christmas!! Maybe I'm in the Christmas spirit!! haha I sure did love that book though. I now share it with my kids! 

What are you afraid of? 
I am afraid of failure. This is something I need to over-come. I haven't done a lot of the things I have wanted to do because of this fear.

I’d like to introduce you all to Kris. She is Sweet Candy’s first intern, and she traveled all the way from Sheffield, England. I am incredibly excited that she is here and will be working alongside me for the next few months. She is funny, sweet, and pumped to be a part of the distro.

Kris was kind enough to bring me goodies from Sheffield. Some zines, Sheffield pencils & bookmarks, and a sugar spoon. You’ll be seeing lots more from Kris in the coming weeks.

Name: Marya Errin Jones
Zine(s) you write:
-Mocha Chocolata Momma Zine—a zine about black women in popular culture, real or imagined. Part history part perzine!
-Voice Inside – a mini zine about my thoughts over the course of a day. . .
-Electric Voyager – a travel zine
-Major Rainy Sneer’s Blue Collar Pornography – the name says it all . . .

Share a fun fact about yourself.
I play the button accordion. I don't profess to be any good, but I am willing to wrestle with the thing. My accordion’s name is Jimmy. I bought Jimmy while hanging out with friends in Sweden, several years ago. I bought him from a guy also named Jimmy (pronounced YEMMIE) who simply had too many accordions. The human Jimmy called the accordion, “The Devil’s Instrument.” If you’ve ever tried to play one, you’d come to that very conclusion.

What is your favorite quote?
"Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy." #1 from Jack Kerouac's Thirty Essentials of Spontaneous Prose. 

Do you collect anything?
Although I haven't done it in a while, I collect rocks, from various places. I have a small collection of stones from a beach off the coast of Scotland, in the Hebrides. Turns out that the monks on that island used stones to mark their years of service by collecting a stone for each year they served. I picked up 21 stones. I also have a habit of not just finding rocks, but actual stone TOOLS-- I have found a rock carved into a whistle that was probably an ax head before it was retired, I've found women's milling stones for making flour, sharpening stones left in the shallow end of creeks, and I've found a large, blunt killing instrument with finger notches carved into it for getting a firm grip before knocking something in the head. I can barely get my hand around it, so I imagine it to be a man's tool. I've found these things just lying on the ground, or just under the surface of a layer of dirt. My nickname in elementary school was, "Eagle Eye"!

What is your favorite childhood book?
Are Your There God, It's Me, Margaret-- written by Judy Blume, the year I was born. It hit upon so many milestones for me-- faith, my first bra, liking boys, the day my period started . . . I remember that classic, Yearling cover of the girl in the print dress in the foreground, her house in the background.

What are you afraid of?
I am pretty afraid of losing my passport. Once I WASHED my passport in a front loader. They’re LOCKED when they’re running, you know. The paper is remarkable, very sturdy. It came out in one piece. Now passports have that GPS tracker shit in them. It looks like I have a John Waters mustache in my current picture, because of the new security features in the paper. Whatever. A passport is your gateway to the WORLD. Get one and stitch it to the inside of your best panties. Always be ready to GO.