Not 50 Book Challenge Reading

[tenshikurai9]

comic books, not compiled into book form

The Walking Dead #92.  I found it while walking Harvard Square one wet night.  Then went to J.P. Licks and read it with a kiddie cookie dough cone.  The zombie story isn't enough of a draw to actively search for it. 

'zines

Lilt zine #1, February 2012

I honestly don't remember much.  It had a Valentine's theme and instructions for how to color cards with the help of gelatin. 

People of the Hill #1

Yeah, I remember that's from Allston, like Lilt, but not much more and I've already given it to the Papercut Zine Library. 

Sex Chat #2

Which is from Providence, RI and there are some non-sex graphics.  The writers have their phone numbers listed and identified only as male-voice and female-voiced. There's a transcript of a chat with one of the guys and it's a little bit humorous. 

Wanting to Be Indian: When Spiritual Searching Turns Into Cultural Theft by Myke Johnson

About things like how Native American religions are systems of practice and community to live-by and not a set of beliefs so the commodification of practices, like of sweat logdges, are rather destructive to tradition. 

Comments

[achinhibitor.livejournal.com]

I remember someone remarking that white practitioners of sweat lodges (I gather quite popular in some sectors of the Men's Movement) are careful to make very authentic sweat lodges of bent willow and sod. Natives, OTOH, find that black plastic sheeting makes putting up a sweat lodge a lot easier. And since the Natives have a long tradition as to what the sweat lodge ceremony is for, they don't fret about what it is made of.