__ _______ ___________ _______ ______ / | / ____|/ |/ |/ \ | | | __| | . . | . | . | | |____| |____| : : | : | : | | | ::| | ::| : : :| : :| : :| %%% | | :| | :| |___| :| | :| | :| %%% %%% |___| :|___| :|___| % | :|____ :|___| :| %%% %%%%%%%% \___| %% \___| %%%%%% \___| %% \___| %% \___| %ob lem0n issue five: the new conspiracy ::[juke's editorial]:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: well, it's been like a month (or more) since the last issue of lemon and ob and i have done, well, nothing. it's not that we didn't want to do lemon, we just haven't had time. but thanks to good old chris columbus, lemon lives on! since this is an editorial, i think i'll comment on a few items. well, first off, i just wanted to say how much the zine scene seems to be growing and how mature the people seem to stay even though the scene is getting bigger. as most people have noticed, this didn't happen with the art scene. i guess this _should_ be expected because most of the people in the zine scene i would rank in the "intellectual" class. and to me intellectual equals mature. anyways, i keep finding more and more zines as i look around on irc or the web. although they may look like a pez ripoff, that's not all bad. as long as the writing is good, i don't see the problem. plus, this is the easiest way to get your stuff out there. no annoying, time consuming coding to get in your way. just type and your done. if for some reason you only read lem0n (i don't know why, maybe you just love ob and i), call up the zine board closest to you and check out some other ones. check 'em all out, actually. ::[comic books]::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: comic books. yea, you know, those things d00dle boys copy from for 99% of their ANSi's. but juke here actually reads them and enjoys them for their story. but the thing is juke doesn't like the stories anymore. when you get up to 40o and something issues of spiderman and decide to tell juke that you are starting over with a number one issue with a totally differant spiderman, he isn't going to be too happy. wait. i can't take this third person angle anymore. continuing with the story: it seems marvel comics is starting over with issue one with their long run series amazing spider man with a totally differant spiderman that THEY claim to be the _real_ spiderman. now, i know according to spiderman continuity this scarlet spider guy is the real spiderman. but to someone who has read spiderman all of his life, he is not going to be the real spiderman. atleast with the x-men the switching of timelines and characters was just part of a storyline and the books were going to return normal after four issues. oh well, it seems the only good books anymore are not put out by any of the big guys. juke recommends: metaphysique (this *is* my favorite comic. norm breyfogle r0x) bone spawn (ok, not great. i don't think i could drop this even if i wanted to) wildc.a.t.s (no really, better than the x-men) sin city and too-much-coffee man (this is s0o cool!@) ::[issue five value meal]::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: the mcdonalds value meal for issue five is: the 2-sausage mcmuffin meal. this is a *great* deal. for 2.98 plus tax (3.17 total here in illinois) you get: of course the two sausage mcmuffin's but you also get: 1-hashbrown and a medium drink (dr. pepper would be juke's choice) now if you got all of these seperatly the cost would be: about 2.50 for the sausage muffin's 1.00 or so for the drink and like .75 for the hashbrown bring the amount saved to about $1.25 or so. ::[random comments]::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: we now have more issues than blues traveler albums i now am in the possesion of a picture of a really fat guy holding a wheel barrel people who actually pay money for copies of live blues traveler shows are morons one of the few alternative bands i like are coming out with a new album october 24th and i'm about to kill half of my novel's class. thank God college is only 11 months away. oh wait, that's along time. ::[jams]:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: jam session (n): an impromptu performance by musicians there's something about going to a concert and listening to a band play on and on that makes me feel like i got my money's worth. to me, there's a differance between playing songs and jamming. when you go see your basic alternative bands, they stand up there and play their songs straight from the album. but when you go see bands like the black crowes, blues traveler or phish you see the band get into the music. every show will be differant because you know there really isn't a set version of any song. yea, a song may be on a studio album, but when you go to the show, that isn't what you are going to hear. you are going to hear what the band is feeling that night, because these bands actually put their heart behind their music. i'm not saying other bands don't. it's just harder to tell. oh well, maybe it's just me. ::[misc stuff]:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ob should be back. he never was really gone, it's just that i wanted to release a new issue right now, and he wasn't around. if you wanna submit to lemon. actually, you do want to submit to lemon. so go ahead and send that submission to me at: owilliam@ice.net or to ob at: danderson@ice.net or you can call the lemon whq and a dang good zine board: the repented gimcrackery ^ 1.309.452.5639 oP: juke oh yeah, if anything offended anyone (i don't think anything could in this issue, unless you just *LOVE* the new scarlet spider guy), it doesn't matter. i can say anything i want really. greetings to anyone i have chatted with on #zines. carpe diem people issue five released on 10.9.95 ::[eof]:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::