I have somehow managed to find an unsecured wi-fi network that is giving me The Internet in my very own home. I do not know how long this lucky bit of joy will last, so will keep this post brief. My posts are going to be quite intermittent until I figure out an affordable way of piping many zigabytes of Internet bandwidth into the new place… I am thinking of writing a revision on Virginia Woolf’s famous essay, updated for contemporary times and entitled ‘Broadband of one’s own.’<\/p>\n
In the meantime, let us focus on Zinefest and on the essay<\/a> by Sophie Peck<\/a> that I picked up in Pickle Grief <\/em>therein. The essay concerns Sex And The City: The Movie and expresses many of the concerns that I voiced myself<\/a> after watching the film, plus some additional criticisms. Where my review tiptoes diplomatically around some of the issues I took with the film, Peck’s essay is more directly defamatory about All That Is Pernicious And Evil In SATC: The Movie. I have been enjoying reading (and re-reading) her intelligent dismantling of the film’s subtexts, along with the artfully arranged words of Anna-Marie and Phoebe in Pamflet<\/a>.<\/p>\n I hope that Pickle Grief and Pamflet comprise the beginning of a decent Zine collection. I have been extremely energised and inspired by properly reading these two publications. The central thing that leapt out at me at Zinefest was the vitality of confident, shameless writing. I love the lack of apology exhibited by the Zines I checked out at Zinefest and the fearless style of many Zines that I perused; it was inspiring. I don’t think it’s inspiring when people just yaw off about any old thing that is on their mind, but there is a certain way of concisely and specifically making a point – in an unorthodox way – that can be very energising to read. I found a lot of this at Zinefest and it made me want to make loads of cartoons about Monkl and loads of ranty little articles about various this and that things that I haven’t found the guts to write about yet.<\/p>\n Tomorrow, I start work on my repairs basket. It is a good time to mend things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have somehow managed to find an unsecured wi-fi network that is giving me The Internet in my very own home. I do not know how long this lucky bit of joy will last, so will keep this post brief. My posts are going to be quite intermittent until I figure out an affordable way […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[640,636],"tags":[881,810,1186,927,1181,1185,1184,1182,1180,1183],"class_list":["post-358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random","category-valuing-reality","tag-feminism","tag-mending","tag-new","tag-oddments","tag-pamflet","tag-reviews","tag-sex-and-the-city","tag-sophie-peck","tag-zinefest","tag-zines"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pmise-5M","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":360,"href":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions\/360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}