Matilda

Let me just start off by apologizing in regards to how long it took for BP to review this issue of Matilda. My goodness! The issue was dutifully dropped in our review box at Canzine 2003 and now here we are exactly a year later and a review has finally been written. Phew! It’s not that we’ve been lazy (far from it!); it’s that we started to receive so many zines that it is becoming quite the challenge to review them all in a timely fashion. For this we apologize. Anyway, on to the business at hand. This is an interesting little perzine that follows the life of the titular Matilda: a zine creator, a daycare owner, a music maker, and an admirer of badass boys. Written in a fairly conversational style, it’s mostly made up of short passages describing Matilda’s thoughts and the personal events that have taken place since the last issue. There is some sad news about Matilda’s dog Jake (unfortunately Jake passed away due to cancer), but apart from that, the zine’s content is fairly upbeat. Favourites in here include Matilda’s take on the 2003 blackout, and a great little piece on the panic she feels at the thought of Canadian icons like Gordon Lightfoot and Ron McLean dropping dead. “I worry” writes Matilda, “that the good ones are going to die off and leave us with Celine Dion and her ilk.” Now there’s a thought to shudder about. (Audrey Gagnon)

perzine, fall 2003, 20 pgs, $2, Matilda, 12 Spruce Street, Ottawa, ON, K1R 6N7, www.jellyfish.ca/matilda, [email protected]

 

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