Someone Stranger #5: The Silent Pen Issue
Zippity Zinedra
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Someone Stranger is a black and white perzine that is hard to describe, so I will let Zinedra do it:
The following is my experiment at ‘ghosting’ myself, tongue in cheek style.
Someone Stranger is a zine that seems to be in its own category with strange thought meanderings that encouraged me to stop thinking so much and just enjoy the ride.
Right from the foreword, Zinedra had me thinking of how strange a concept ghostwriting was when put into the context of the zine world only to turn around into Zinedra deciding to ghost themself in this zine.
After ghostwriting came the tumbleweeds.
I know that I have had some very random things in common with the people who write the zines I read, but tumbleweeds have to be the most random. Because, yes, I quite like tumbleweeds. I laughed out loud at:
Tumbleweed is to western movies like chocolate is my mouth: a place to call home.
I quite liked the ‘I am not/I am’ piece that was like stream of consciousness writing but with a solid prompt/direction.
The zine continues on with a collection of interesting – and, honestly, sometimes trippy – pieces that include things like fighting with one’s shadow and an altercation over pancakes. Toward the beginning, I decided to stop thinking about it so hard and, by the end, I had no idea what was going on.
Don’t get me wrong; it was a strange journey but funny as well.
Aesthetically, the pages are mostly white with various pasted images, quotes and the like around the typed words. I may be reading too much into them, but I do like the humour and cheekiness of the images.
I find myself at a little bit of a loss after reading this zine. Not in a bad way but like I’ve just watched a movie, and I’m not quite sure what to make of it. If you’re looking for something different, unexpected, and a bit fantastical, then give this zine a go.
