s$ .d""b. impulse reality press no. 286 [-- $$ $$ $$ -- ------------------------------------------------------ --] $$ $$ "textfile recommendations" $$ $$ written by linear $$ $$ released 11/31/04 [-- $$ $$ ------ ------------------------------------------------------ --] november is world ascii month! NOVEMEBER IS AWESEOME. I turned twentyone on the third, I went to Vegas for the first time on the sixth (not really, but the first time when i'm OF AGE) Anti-Creative Records has it's first release on the fifteenth I get to eat Tofurkey for my group of friends' Anti-Thanksgiving on the twentyfifth! etc etc etc BUT BEST OF ALL, IT'S OFFICIAL TEXT FILE MONTH! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! in celebration, we have a lot in store! for example, the LEGENDARY iR file #300 will be released later this month! HOOOOORAY! in this file, just to GENERATE SOME INTEREST in text files (besides impulse reality, since you obviously read us), i decided to list some of my favorites and regular reads. CHECK THESE OUT OR PERISH, FRIENDS. i'm sorry, i don't make the rules, that's how it works. ACTIVE ZINES RECOMMENDED BY ME~!@!@#$ (ALPHABETICAL, BECAUSE I CARE ABOUT YOU) ----------------------------------------- o Activist Time, Inc http://flag.blackened.net/ati/zine/infomaniack.html a very long-running zine put out by Prime Anarchist. Insightful and humorous political enlightenment o confusions http://www.hoe.nu/confusions they haven't released an issue in a few months, so maybe this should be in the inactive zine list, but i hope not, because trilobyte is awesome. o Cult of the Dead Cow http://www.cultdeadcow.com cDc does a lot more besides producing text, but they've been doing it for the longest and they're responsible for influencing numerous other text zines, past and present. o Neo-Comintern, The http://www.neo-comintern.com anyone who reads iR should be fully aware of n-com by now, brainchild of BMC (who occasionally blesses iR with submissions!) and if you're not aware, then you're a worthless gutter tramp. NON-ACTIVE (OR AS SOME WOULD CALL IT, INACTIVE) ZINES RECOMMENDED BY ME!#!$#$ (STILL ALPHABETICAL, !!! ) ------------------------------------------------ o Hogs of Entropy (HOE) http://www.hoe.nu with 1112 text releases, HOE is the most prolific zine to date. without hoe's influence, iR would not exist. mogel was a great editor and a great friend, and wrote some of the best textfiles ever (he also wrote for iR on several occasions!) o I Bleed For This? http://www.textscene.com/archive/IBFT this zine also payed a huge role in my interest in the text scene. long before i was writing my own textfiles, or really understood the nature of text files, i was reading IBFT? i'm not sure what it is about their 'hate-everything-especially- you' attitude that makes us all love them, but we all -do- love them. o Long Dark Tunnel http://web.textfiles.com/ezines/LDT LDT just sort of fell off the face of the internet a year or two ago, and a hole in my heart has remained ever since. i actually started actively reading the zine shortly before they disappeared, so it was a real bummer when they suddenly up and left. okay, i am at work, and this is all i got right now. these should keep you busy. now go start your own fucking zine, and send all information to... TEXTSCENE.COM! [-------------------------------------------------------------------------] http://www.impulsereality.com [-------------------------------------------------------------------------] permission is granted to spread material within this text document freely. we kindly ask that you properly credit it's author(s) for their hard work! all rights are retained by the author(s), respectively .-------------------------------------------------------------------------. | | | FOR IMPORTANT, UP-TO-DATE TEXT SCENE NEWS, VISIT... | | http://www.textscene.com | | | | THE OLD WORLD IS BEHIND YOU. | | | `-------------------------------------------------------------------------'