This is the official souvenir magazine of Plotnikoff’s musical monkey side show. But forget about that. We don’t know who Plotnikoff is, and we don’t know nothing about monkeys. Every page of this zine is a side-show. First stop, the repeated ads for Fart House “a pocket sized do-it- yourself fart capture and storage system ($3 post-paid)”. Just around the corner past the house of mirrors we find an ad requesting that all poltergeists should “consider joining” thousands of the undead in besieging Much Music on December 23. Among the events planned: a re-enactment of the Thriller video. The double-paged Webster spread is where we stop to rest, a comfy place where kids can gather and share reported Webster sightings — they’re all dutifully listed for posterity. Wow. Have another wad of cotton-candy. You could wander for hours through this zine-land of pseudo mail-art projects, pretend happenings and wondrous haunted-house-like fold- outs. This is the Wonderland of zines, the King’s Dominion of weirdness, a Disney Land of Mystery Gift Coupons and ghosts named Boo.
zine / 40 pages, summer 1996 / main creator: Sandy / $3 / PO Box 461, Halifax Central, Nova Scotia, B3J 2P8