Hip Static’s new motto is “Tenderness Guaranteed! Or double your money back!” and this is the 100\% anonymous issue. Kate promises that “anonymity is basically a licence to say anything you want, and this puppy is juice-ay.” There is some juice inside the pages of Hip Static. The self-proclaimed asexual who calls herself Cherry Red tells us all about going to a bathhouse called “Pussy Palace.” An anon writer rants about his/her breaking point when it comes to betrayals committed by his/her lover–and it’s not where you might expect it to be. Another writer pitifully confesses “When I’m not thinking about doing my laundry or calling my mother or wondering which day of the week I’m going to die, I’m thinking about you… In my weaker moments, I’m a Lisa Loeb song.” Although I will admit there was some juice in this issue of Hip Static, I was hoping for a little more. Maybe something that shakes up everyday convention and then scatters the pieces around. (EPW)
zine, #14, 12 pgs, Kate Zieman, $?, 1100 Gorham St, Suite 11B-140, Newmarket, ON, L3Y 7V1,