btw did you know Seattle now has a zine store
...b/c it totally does & it whips
some of my fave pickups from opening weekend:
94 feet and a peach basket by jeremiah wistrom: did a DOUBLE TAKE when i opened this one & was like holy shit i know that basketball court!!! i've BEEN IN THAT NEIGHBORHOOD!!! and the accompanying writeup was like "yeah i was eating a sandwich in boston's north end & did a double take when i turned a corner and there was a basketball court shoved right up in there?" and i'm like I KNOW THE SANDWICH YOU ATE haha
but yeah—beyond that initial shock of startled & delighted recognition, it turns out this whole book is a photomemoir of sorts, in which the author's taken all these (cool/interesting/from-unusual-angles/etc) photographs of random basketball courts in all these places he's visited, all across the country, and written up a little bit about the history/context/etc of each one, what it was like to shoot some hoops there, what brought them there, etc, and... just a lot of love & interest & local color in it, i really adored reading through the thing
it reminded me a lot of what i love about birding: like birding, i guess you can in fact do basketball Everywhere and just by doing it you learn a little bit about Everywhere in the process.
weird tigers by kiriska: AS ADVERTISED. 10/10 delightful. i love every weird-ass tiger in these pages
what horse are you? by aya borucki: i'm a friesian :)
ἄγχω (ankhō) by s. barnes: i love it when things are claustrophobic & paranoid & bad! spend the Night Before Battle inside the trojan horse with Odysseus, in glorious black & orange :)))))
i picked up a bunch of other zines too and spent too much money ahlgiehalgie... no time to photograph them all, but, there's unsettlingly-illustrated toxic fish! there's traumatized geese! there's surprisingly-affecting poetry! it's all good shit
so yeah!!! go check out the Paper Pusher's Print Shop if you're in the area, it's a cool spot
I met one of the organizers this past weekend at the Seattle Art Book Fair, so i want to add a little more info about this cool shop! It's a pop-up shop as part of a Seattle vacant storefront project.
Address
1200 5th Avenue Seattle, WA 98101
Hours
Monday: Closed
Tuesday: Closed
Wednesday: 11 am – 6 pm
Thursday: 11 am – 6 pm
Friday: 11 am – 6 pm
Saturday: 11 am – 5 pm
Sunday: 11 am – 5 pm
Because it's a pop-up shop, sadly this cute little store has an end date. 😥 Visit it before...
September 15, 2026
