that rules. Did I recieve credit? It WAS a good quote and Abby should have known better.

Hello Killoggs,

I wanted to let everyone know about the upcoming New Orleans Bookfair that Hot Iron Press (Jenny and I) are organizing. The Bookfair is an annual celebration of independent publishing that draws around 70 or so small presses, university presses, authors, self publishers, zinesters, comic artists and publishers, book artists, etc. So far some of the participants who've signed up include: AK Press, Atomic Books, Booklyn, Clamor Magazine, CrimethInc, Found Magazine, Last Gasp, MIT Press, Soft Skull Press, Verso Books, and more! It's going to be rad! This year the bookfair is on Saturday, Oct. 29th from 10am – 6pm at Barrister’s Gallery, 1724 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd in New Orleans.

If any of you want to reserve a table at the fair, they're $19.95 and you can download the registration form online at http://www.nolabookfair.com. The rest of you should all come and buy lots of books, see people do readings and performances, eat Andy Allen's vegan cajun food, and drink lots of booze! Hooray!

i just secured a ticket to see LIFETIME and 108 at the church in philadelphia tomorrow night. when i first heard this was happening, i sort of blew it off because yesterday i had no money for a ticket and was just generally exhausted from not having been in town AT ALL this summer. but last night i came home and listened to hello bastards and then had a late night dance party to jersey's best dancers in my living room.

i went to 108's last show ever at the princeton arts council in 1996. i went to lifetime's last show at the melody bar in 1997. i was a sophomore and senior in high school for those shows. i was never really a huge 108 fan, and i am surprised there is such a clamor for a reunion. lifetime, however, were an epic part of my adolescence. ari wrote the soundtrack to my first loves and losses and general teen angst. he really captured the life of a teenage punk in central jersey, but apparently from the sound of it, he really captured the life of a mid 90's punk teenager in general. over the years when i've met people from the other side of this country, the ones who liked lifetime and never saw them were always in awe of the fact that i had such easy access to them. i feel lucky, and i am really glad that some people who never got the chance will get to see them now. i can't believe how excited i am about this. it reminds me of how i felt for their last show, standing in the rain in a line outside the melody hoping i'd get in. i was the last person they let into the first set that day. not having to wait was the best part. and now i have to wait 28 hours and it's killing me. i am psyched. i am going to wear a sensefield tshirt to this or some shit.

share your lifetime stories here if you have them.