John R. Davis
@jrdarchivist.bsky.social
Archivist, musician, curator, writer, DJ on WOWD
My book, "Keep Your Ear to the Ground: A History of Punk Fanzines in Washington, D.C.", is out now:
https://press.georgetown.edu/Book/Keep-Your-Ear-to-the-Ground
My book, "Keep Your Ear to the Ground: A History of Punk Fanzines in Washington, D.C.", is out now:
https://press.georgetown.edu/Book/Keep-Your-Ear-to-the-Ground
For D.C. punk fanzine archives in person, visit us at the University of Maryland or see our friends at @dcpubliclibrary.bsky.social for their great D.C. punk archive.
Online, at UMD, we have an exhibit of our digitized DC punk materials, including many zines: exhibitions.lib.umd.edu/dc-punk
Online, at UMD, we have an exhibit of our digitized DC punk materials, including many zines: exhibitions.lib.umd.edu/dc-punk
Persistent Vision: The DC Punk Collections at UMD
an in depth exploration of the D.C. punk collections at the University of Maryland (UMD)
exhibitions.lib.umd.edu
October 31, 2025 at 3:08 PM
For D.C. punk fanzine archives in person, visit us at the University of Maryland or see our friends at @dcpubliclibrary.bsky.social for their great D.C. punk archive.
Online, at UMD, we have an exhibit of our digitized DC punk materials, including many zines: exhibitions.lib.umd.edu/dc-punk
Online, at UMD, we have an exhibit of our digitized DC punk materials, including many zines: exhibitions.lib.umd.edu/dc-punk
Ah, good question! Favorite zines = Vintage Violence or Infiltrator (both from the late 70s), Truly Needy or Thrillseeker (early to mid 80s), Turn Around or Greed (mid to late 80s), Fake, Who Cares, Uno Mas, or Teenage Gang Debs from the early 90s ... ok, sorry, it's too hard to narrow it down!
October 31, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Ah, good question! Favorite zines = Vintage Violence or Infiltrator (both from the late 70s), Truly Needy or Thrillseeker (early to mid 80s), Turn Around or Greed (mid to late 80s), Fake, Who Cares, Uno Mas, or Teenage Gang Debs from the early 90s ... ok, sorry, it's too hard to narrow it down!
Yes, I'll definitely ask. I've seen these types of events posted by the bookstore online, so hopefully they'll do the same with this one?
October 28, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Yes, I'll definitely ask. I've seen these types of events posted by the bookstore online, so hopefully they'll do the same with this one?
"Stranger Things" offers several threads that I think could be untangled over a semester, both in the creative aspects of the show and in how it's marketed (and what that says about tastes, demographics, and expectations of viewers today). Nostalgia, marketing, repackaged Boomer paranoia, etc.
September 12, 2025 at 7:49 PM
"Stranger Things" offers several threads that I think could be untangled over a semester, both in the creative aspects of the show and in how it's marketed (and what that says about tastes, demographics, and expectations of viewers today). Nostalgia, marketing, repackaged Boomer paranoia, etc.