was released over a month with 4 variant covers and is regarded by many as "the naughty issue". It had been six months, and shows a pull in full ska direction with Berthold Script (1977). The retro craze of sixties mod fashion was big again on catwalks allowing sexy collectible covers with relevance. It works well conceptually, mostly when considering the DM Danhauser Syracuse Full Moon Scooter Club exposé in centerfold. We found out about the ska fans at neighboring Syracuse University via Tammi Szatowski's skagroup.pitt.edu listserv, so they contributed that article. When #3 delivered on 12/5/96, Zopies crew were "surprised it was even going to happen."

HP3 specifically didn't have a set price for flexibility to sell at shows, proportionate to our mood and audience (but more than just a dollar), and it got around.

I met Zoë through the WITR radio show after calling in to get a carpool to a mid-week Hepcat/ Bosstones concert in Buffalo. Little Davie said he never did this sort of ride-board thing, but luckily it worked out in my favor. Since mine was a dorm number I didn't mind him giving it out on air. When the phone rang, she was this cool 26 year old anarcho-rude girl-activist slash cutie doing data entry at a bank. Lady luck living in Irondequoit with a brand new car, she'd trek the 6 hours to NYC for ska and subversion nearly every other weekend. Besides going to Buffalo, we carpooled a couple times to Ithaca in blizzardy conditions that February, or take the Greyhound. Eric so muchly wanted a date – last we knew she's living on a commune somewhere in VT.

Dear Abby...
Ethics were called into question when the infamous Abby Conspiracy editorial gained both wide criticism and support. The troublemakers involved had previously been arrested their senior year for attempting SHARP graffiti on an already racially-tense Greenwich High football field June '95 – Newsweek reported it. Shortly after this issue came out, Zoë (of her own will, and also of a similar experience) for some reason personally delivered one to the Moon store and Abby's face. Weekend of Hepcat w/ Toots & the Maytals at Wetlands. I guess that day this also took place. If anyone has an old CT 'zine Agent 86, we'd very much like to have a look.

In-depth interviews from Johnny Too Bad & The Strikeouts, Venice Shoreline Chris, and New England favorites Allstonians; regulars at the RITskeller taco bar. Live reviews of Buffalo Mephiskapheles, Suicide Machines and SlushFund shows by Mearns. We make it a point that all interviews be conducted in person by our 'zine: cookie-cutter, impersonal form letter questionnaires lack personality and kinda suck. The music review pages here are short, silly and uninformative. Contains a clipping of National Geographic's Jimmy Cliff interview January 1985 though.

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NUMBER CRUNCH 8 leaves = 32 pages halved. Initial press run between 300-375? We're disorganized. Previous issue won us $20 cash grant from Joe Hendrick, noted art prof at MCC. Like good graphic designers, the first things made are business cards, followed by pads of letterhead. The Gang [MCC-based punx / ARA Rochester] put on shows and a weekly punk dj night at Vertex. Dan used the high speed copiers in his printing class for the bulk of the run until we ran out of reams (we had to provide those ourselves). He was working at Barnes & Noble then, plus Jav also ran some off at his best girl's evening job managing a youth center in the same plaza. She tutors a PMHS senior named Liz Allen who is nervous about upcoming exams. We'd shuttle the originals back and forth across the parking lot. It was a bunch of risky dodging large November puddles.