I’m not entirely sure when I became aware of the eloquent Lovely Bicycle blog, but I have admired it for some time. To my pleasure, its pseudonymous author (who turns out to be, as she says, a friend of a long-ago friend who I’ve fallen out of touch with; she’s also contributed some well-informed comments […]
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Ways to read Taking the Lane
Posted onThis is a very quick note about how to get upcoming Taking the Lane zines (what are these?) as well as some blog business. I’m testing out a new online storefront. It’s easy to use and I’m happy with the way it looks. Better photography coming up the next sunny, dry day. [Update: The new […]
Our Bodies, Our Bikes
Posted onIf you’re coming to this blog for the first time looking to learn more about my Our Bodies, Our Bikes, zine, welcome! You can get a copy of the zine – they’re only three bucks! – right here. Or you can learn more about it, as well as checking out my other publications (and subscriptions!) […]
How I make these zines
Posted onPeople ask occasionally how I make my zines, so I thought I’d write about that process. First, why publish a zine? I do it because I want to get my and others’ writing out there in the world, and now. A zine is quicker and cheaper to create than a book or magazine, and slower […]
Sharing the road with Bitch
Posted onThe first issue of Taking the Lane zine is out of print. If you want to read it but didn’t get one of those 500 copies I underprinted, you’re in luck – you can now read a big old excerpt in the current issue of Bitch Magazine. My copy just got here and they made […]
Bikenomics zine -- new edition
Posted onThings got a little hectic in the lead-up to tour this September. I forget exactly how it happened, but I ended up sitting on a comfy couch in Provo, Utah, while our friendly hosts and their 3 year old daughter helped me hand-number and mail out an impromptu, photocopied edition of 160 of the Bikenomics […]
Let's talk about labia
Posted onA sample page from the zine. Click to read! I’m particularly excited about one of the essays in my forthcoming zine, Our Bodies, Our Bikes. It’s a friendly, approachable, no-nonsense guide to crotch comfort and health for women who ride bikes, co-written with my friend Caroline, a nurse, seamstress, and hardcore mountain biker. (Word to […]
Our bodies, our bikes -- what's inside
Posted onOur Bodies, Our Bikes is at the printer. Copies should be available at the beginning of December. You can pre-order the zine via Kickstarter or directly from me and I might have a few copies available at BikeCraft on December 2nd and 3rd. This will be the fifth volume of Taking the Lane’s printed counterpart […]
Kickstarting the zine engine again
Posted onWant the upcoming Our Bodies, Our Bikes issue of Taking the Lane? Or thinking about picking up a bunch of back issues for yourself or as a gift? Want to renew your subscription? Or nab one of the last copies of the elusive and out of print Volume 1? My current Kickstarter campaign is a […]
Going to the bike craft fair
Posted onBikeCraft – an annual bicycle-oriented craft fair now in its umpteenth year – is definitely a niche event. But bicycling is a major niche around these parts, and this has almost always been a stupendously good event for vendors, attendees, and organizers alike. I’ve been to all of the BikeCrafts, and even had a hand […]
Our bodies, our bikes
Posted onThe fifth issue of Taking the Lane is in the works, and should be out in mid-December. You can pre-order it here. Writing submissions have been rolling in, ranging from a short, sweet, hilarious paragraph to a touching and fierce personal essay to pointed thoughts that I transcribed during a conversation with a friend too […]
Bikenomics zine cover
Posted onMy house is full of friends cooking and eating. There’s an amazing pie, an adorable baby, and good conversation to be had. But I’m sitting here at the computer writing about how to internalize the externalities. I took a break to show you the front cover that Joe designed today. Wait til you see the […]
Taking the Lane #4
Posted onA quick post because I really am too busy to blog. But wanted to show you all that one of the new zines went to press on Thursday. Joe sat down before breakfast and made the cover: You can go ahead and pre-order this one.
Real books are just hotter
Posted onJust came across this sweet article by someone who works at one of the last big independent bookstores standing about the need to counter the seductive advertising of e-book readers and remind the world that real books are really freaking rad. His advice: Publishers should tantalize consumers by evoking books’ sensory pleasures: the smell; the […]