Duck Milk

Volume 2, Issue 1
In all my years involved in `zines (and that's going back to '86), "Duck Milk" is near the top of the bizarre name list. Now I hate to be critical and brutally honest about a riding `zine -- especially these days when so few people do them -- because someone spent (presumably) a lot of time, effort, and money to write it, lay it out, photocopy and assemble, and finally distribute them. (Can you guess why I moved Wire onto the Web?) Constructive criticism will do one of two things: persuade the editor to do a better job (which has happened to me many times over the years), or convince him to give up. (Hopefully the former will happen.)

For a first effort, this `zine might not have been too bad. But I guess I was disappointed to see that Duck Milk has been around for four years; I haven't seen previous issues, but I'd expect better of a four-year-old `zine. The photos are kind of small & muddy -- I realize I may be getting picky here since not everybody has access to a scanner & laser printer, but you can still lighten & enlarge photos with a photocopier to achieve decent results. And the entire interview with MN rider Pat Menton is a run-on paragraph: you can't tell where the question ends and Pat's answer begins.

This issue is a little light on content: 10 pages long and includes the Pat Menton interview, some pictures of a skatepark, some `zine and music reviews, and some other writings and photos. Send a buck or two for a copy:

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