About WLBD

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Before there were blogs, there were zines.
In 1998, I went through a bad break-up. So I wrote, and copied, and stapled and distributed. It was both therapy and way to find my place again in the outside world.
I haven’t looked at the zines in years. And some of it is embarrassing now. Really embarrassing. But, I will be true to my 27-year-old self and let them go, with minor blackouts to protect the identities of those who may not have minded appearing in 50 Xerox copies but would be offended by an appearance on the world wide internets.

Apple iTunes
Apple iTunes
Apple iTunes

Eff that, man!

It took a long time to draw all those little squares. I actually remembered this as being dirtier than it is, which just tells me that I drop the f-bomb exponentially more often than I did 10 years ago…

Dirty Laundry

Crushing the crush

Alright, I’m ready to wrap up this crush issue, because it is making me throw up in my mouth a little bit. It was a nice break at the time, and maybe if people burned through the whole issue in a single reading it wasn’t so bad, but day after day of “I’m sad, you [...]

Did I say boy crazy? I meant straight up crazy.

I just wanted to serve him breakfast in bed every day for the rest of his life.

Trapped in a John Hughes movie

Oh my god, I was the Ducky.

Lonesome for naivete

Isn’t that the shit of it? Not losing trust in the other person, but having to completely reassess your own judgement and second guess everything you said or did.

I know what boys like

It was at this point that several guys I knew started to think I was writing about him. We live in narcissistic times.

Vinyl on vinyl

I think I ended most of them with the kind of longing for romance poetry born of listening to the Smiths too early and discovering Bust too late. It was kind of a relief to have the right – a just cause – to be miserable, because once you can admit to and identify the misery, you can sort it out and and seek and find and be happy.