Little Miss Popular
Issue 4. Summer of 1998
Stewart’s first encounter with publishing software, featuring an interview with Redneck Zombies star Lisa DeHaven. Just prior to printing Tweed receives several letters from an obsessed fan.
On the eve of
Tweed’s one-year anniversary Stewart obtained a summer office job at Dictaphone’s northeast headquarters. Dictaphone, a recent partner of Hewlett-Packard, was stocked with the latest
HP photocopiers. Showing up at 6:00am meant one full hour of unrestricted copier access and subsequently many free printings of
Tweed.
Seth managed to track down Lisa DeHaven, star of the cult classic
Redneck Zombies, through her America Online profile. Seth conducted an interview through Instant Messenger, a relatively new form of communication, in his kitchen while Stewart, Josh, and Bill chimed in.
Embracing new technology was the underlying theme of
Little Miss Popular, the first issue to be constructed on a computer. This fixation extended to adding secret codes in the back of the issue which could be decrypted using special forms on the website. There was a lot of anxiety over the new direction. Bill was very concerned with
Tweed becoming “less punk.”
Shortly after the release of
Little Miss Popular Stewart got in touch with Marisa from the Brooklyn-based zine
Poor Children: Killing Misleading Gods via email. It would be a full year before Stewart and Apirat met the five members of
Poor Children in person, in the process getting a crash-course in the New York City subway system.
Issue Contents- Edification
- Decoding Tweed’s Opinions
- Interesting Facts
- El Nombre
- There is Hope for Hydrogen
- The Case Against Psychic Networks
- Did You Know?
- Behavior to Change Behavior
- Interview w/ Redneck Zombie’s Lisa DeHaven
- An Introduction to Pranic Healing
- The Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Ashton (Comic)
- The Brief God Talk
- Casper’s Hacking Page
- Tweed’s Mad Secret Phrase
- The Future of Telecommunication
- Credits / The Final Say
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