I am pleased as punch that today BLT 25: Black Leather Times Punk Humor and Social Critique from the Zine Revolution is ranking on two Amazon top 100 bestsellers lists! The book is #54 in Punk, right between Blondie and American Hardcore. And it is #12 in Magazine Collectibles, between Vanity...
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I am pleased as punch that today BLT 25: Black Leather Times Punk Humor and Social Critique from the Zine Revolution is ranking on two Amazon top 100 bestsellers lists! The book is #54 in Punk, right between Blondie and American Hardcore. And it is #12 in Magazine Collectibles, between Vanity...
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When I was around five-years-old, my father took me to the Easter Egg Hunt at the Harvard Club. Everything was colorful and I loved the puzzle of looking for all the hidden things. It was like hide-and-seek only better. When my father pointed out that I could find more foil-wrapped candies by...
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Guess whose living room is filled with cartons of books! I have a whole lot of copies of BLT 25: Black Leather Times Punk Humor and Social Critique from the Zine Revolution in my living room right now. All the backers of the BLT Kickstarter have BLT in their living rooms (or more debauched...
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Guess whose living room is filled with cartons of books! I have a whole lot of copies of BLT 25: Black Leather Times Punk Humor and Social Critique from the Zine Revolution in my living room right now. All the backers of the BLT Kickstarter have BLT in their living rooms (or more debauched...
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Students at University of Arizona are reading about BLT for class. This is definitely one of the more amusing things I found while doing research on Black Leather Times for the BLT Kickstarter (less than 48 hours left, eep!) For one of his courses, Professor Malcolm Alan Compitello at University...
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Yay! We’ve got a whole bunch of potential T-shirt designs ready to go. BLT‘s wonderful kind backers will be the ones to decide which ones we actually produce. The plan is to make a minimum of 3 of these designs, although I kind of want them all, now that I am looking at them. Old...
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Forrest Black and I are so happy with how the California Deathrock party at La Luz went. Blue Blood funded the production of the book via Kickstarter, so it was initially only available to backers of the Kickstarter and people actually in the book. To celebrate the launch of the book to the...
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Wow. Hadn't seen Hot Topic since they went private. Not at all gothic or punk or alt now. Mostly like $6 Shirts, only for kids, and with less selection. Why did they bother to destroy the counterculture ecosystem, if this sterile mediocrity was their endgame? #goth #gothic #punk #hottopic #lame but
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Miss Monster in t-shirt from CaliforniaDeathrock.com fir BlueBlood.com #blueblood #californiadeathrock #california #deathrock #punk #tattoogirl #mohawk #monstersneverdie
Fetus de Milo from BlueBlood.com shoot. Another image from this shoot is also in California Deathrock #blueblood #fetusdemilo #goth #gothic #punk #tongue #girl
Kickass Malice McMunn! See more from this shoot at CaliforniaDeathrock.com and BlueBlood.com #blueblood #californiadeathrock #california #deathrock #malice #malicemcmunn #mohawk #punk
@23blackcats and I just got the flyers in for our California Deathrock coffee table book! See CaliforniaDeathrock.com #california #deathrock #goth #gothic #punk #tattoo