Ben Wilkinson
@culturecringe.bsky.social
Culture Cringe Zine maker and producer of the official Bettie Page Podcast. Coming soon: the Culture Cringe zine archive!
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Most of the old Culture Cringe zines have been scanned and uploaded! Also, the Zine Archive (at the same link below) is a work in progress that will consist of scans of hundreds of self published zines from the early 90s to the early 2000s. www.culturecringe.org
The zine about the story of the Bettie historical marker is out! After taking them around town I noticed a huge typo on the cover so I had to go back and manually fix each one on location. It was a rush! If you grabbed one before I fixed it, you have a collector’s item 😆
March 1, 2025 at 12:46 PM
The zine about the story of the Bettie historical marker is out! After taking them around town I noticed a huge typo on the cover so I had to go back and manually fix each one on location. It was a rush! If you grabbed one before I fixed it, you have a collector’s item 😆
The current zine is now available to view at www.culturecringe.org - The Bettie Page issue will be uploaded there soon as well!
February 27, 2025 at 1:54 PM
The current zine is now available to view at www.culturecringe.org - The Bettie Page issue will be uploaded there soon as well!
I’ve scanned and uploaded some more zines to the internet archive! At the rate I’m going (around 20 a week) this will definitely take a while, but it’s a lot of fun to do! Link here: archive.org/details/@ben...
#zine #zinearchive #selfpublished #diy #cutandpaste #culturecringe
#zine #zinearchive #selfpublished #diy #cutandpaste #culturecringe
February 25, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I’ve scanned and uploaded some more zines to the internet archive! At the rate I’m going (around 20 a week) this will definitely take a while, but it’s a lot of fun to do! Link here: archive.org/details/@ben...
#zine #zinearchive #selfpublished #diy #cutandpaste #culturecringe
#zine #zinearchive #selfpublished #diy #cutandpaste #culturecringe
I’ve added around 50 zines to the Zine Archive in the past week, including this issue of a neat one called Street Ratbag. It’s one of the biggest zines I’ve ever seen - at over 150 pages! Link here: archive.org/details/stre... #zine #selfpublished #zinearchive #culturecringe
February 15, 2025 at 1:17 PM
I’ve added around 50 zines to the Zine Archive in the past week, including this issue of a neat one called Street Ratbag. It’s one of the biggest zines I’ve ever seen - at over 150 pages! Link here: archive.org/details/stre... #zine #selfpublished #zinearchive #culturecringe
For fun I uploaded a full scan of the 1931 Oakland Aegis yearbook. The significance is that the graduating class had Carroll Borland (Luna from Mark of the Vampire) and Dudley Manlove (Eros from Plan 9 From Outer Space). Link here: archive.org/details/1931...
February 10, 2025 at 1:05 AM
For fun I uploaded a full scan of the 1931 Oakland Aegis yearbook. The significance is that the graduating class had Carroll Borland (Luna from Mark of the Vampire) and Dudley Manlove (Eros from Plan 9 From Outer Space). Link here: archive.org/details/1931...
New zine is out NOW! Includes interview with Palomino Blond and a Michael Bolton valentine you can give to the love of your life. Available in Murfreesboro at all the regular locales. Printable online version coming soon. #zine #murfreesboro #palominoblond #diy #culturecringe
February 8, 2025 at 11:00 PM
New zine is out NOW! Includes interview with Palomino Blond and a Michael Bolton valentine you can give to the love of your life. Available in Murfreesboro at all the regular locales. Printable online version coming soon. #zine #murfreesboro #palominoblond #diy #culturecringe
I’ve decided that CD box sets are my favorite form of media ever. They just LOOK cool, and tend to have so much stuff packed in. Here are some of my current faves (bottom one is REM at the BBC.)
February 7, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I’ve decided that CD box sets are my favorite form of media ever. They just LOOK cool, and tend to have so much stuff packed in. Here are some of my current faves (bottom one is REM at the BBC.)
Let’s DIY: Tips On Organizing Zine Workshops has been uploaded to the zine archive! Cool zine from 2006 from GRRRL ZINES A-GO-GO. Link here: archive.org/details/lets...
February 7, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Let’s DIY: Tips On Organizing Zine Workshops has been uploaded to the zine archive! Cool zine from 2006 from GRRRL ZINES A-GO-GO. Link here: archive.org/details/lets...
Most of the old Culture Cringe zines have been scanned and uploaded! Also, the Zine Archive (at the same link below) is a work in progress that will consist of scans of hundreds of self published zines from the early 90s to the early 2000s. www.culturecringe.org
February 6, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Most of the old Culture Cringe zines have been scanned and uploaded! Also, the Zine Archive (at the same link below) is a work in progress that will consist of scans of hundreds of self published zines from the early 90s to the early 2000s. www.culturecringe.org
I have uploaded a full scan of the 1940 Hume Fogg yearbook, which has many pictures of the star graduate - Bettie Page. This has never been archived anywhere online so I’m glad I was able to do it, as there aren’t many copies out there! Link here: archive.org/details/hume... #bettiepage #humefogg
February 5, 2025 at 8:25 PM
I have uploaded a full scan of the 1940 Hume Fogg yearbook, which has many pictures of the star graduate - Bettie Page. This has never been archived anywhere online so I’m glad I was able to do it, as there aren’t many copies out there! Link here: archive.org/details/hume... #bettiepage #humefogg
I uploaded the 2007 Southern Girls Rock and Roll Camp handbook onto my zine archive. It’s a fun blast from the past for those who helped out that year or attended! Link here: archive.org/details/sgrr... #murfreesboro #zine #sgrrc #zinearchive
February 4, 2025 at 8:41 PM
I uploaded the 2007 Southern Girls Rock and Roll Camp handbook onto my zine archive. It’s a fun blast from the past for those who helped out that year or attended! Link here: archive.org/details/sgrr... #murfreesboro #zine #sgrrc #zinearchive
I’ve added an issue of a rare mid 90s zine - Exploitation Retrospect - to Internet Archive. It includes a cool Vampira interview! Link here: archive.org/details/expl... #vampira #mailanurmi #zine #punk #mid90s #plan9fromouterspace
February 3, 2025 at 5:02 PM
I’ve added an issue of a rare mid 90s zine - Exploitation Retrospect - to Internet Archive. It includes a cool Vampira interview! Link here: archive.org/details/expl... #vampira #mailanurmi #zine #punk #mid90s #plan9fromouterspace
The summer of ‘24 zine featured an interview with Martin Newell of The Cleaners From Venus. I was incredibly excited to talk with Martin! Scans continued in comment. #martinnewell #cleanersfromvenus #zine #murfreesboro #cutandpaste #collageart #diy #lofi
February 2, 2025 at 11:44 PM
The summer of ‘24 zine featured an interview with Martin Newell of The Cleaners From Venus. I was incredibly excited to talk with Martin! Scans continued in comment. #martinnewell #cleanersfromvenus #zine #murfreesboro #cutandpaste #collageart #diy #lofi
I made a fanzine for the new Cure album last fall - it was given out at a release party in Murfreesboro on Nov 1, 2024. This was a fun one to make for sure. I’ll be making more one-off fanzines in the future!! Pics continue in comments #thecure #murfreesboro #zine #cutandpaste #collageart
February 2, 2025 at 6:15 PM
I made a fanzine for the new Cure album last fall - it was given out at a release party in Murfreesboro on Nov 1, 2024. This was a fun one to make for sure. I’ll be making more one-off fanzines in the future!! Pics continue in comments #thecure #murfreesboro #zine #cutandpaste #collageart
I’m going to start uploading scans of Culture Cringe zines on here. Pics continued in comments. Here’s Fall of 2024! Interview with Kelli Ali of Sneaker Pimps 💥💥 #zine #kelliali #sneakerpimps #murfreesboro #culturecringe #collageart #cutandpaste
February 1, 2025 at 9:54 PM
I’m going to start uploading scans of Culture Cringe zines on here. Pics continued in comments. Here’s Fall of 2024! Interview with Kelli Ali of Sneaker Pimps 💥💥 #zine #kelliali #sneakerpimps #murfreesboro #culturecringe #collageart #cutandpaste
I recently received this autographed pic from Julie Dawson of NewDad - by far one of my fave new bands. It looked so cool I just had to frame it. Her new solo album is amazing as well! #newdad #juliedawson
January 26, 2025 at 11:02 PM
I recently received this autographed pic from Julie Dawson of NewDad - by far one of my fave new bands. It looked so cool I just had to frame it. Her new solo album is amazing as well! #newdad #juliedawson
I’ve been collecting Vampira stuff (especially magazines) for over 20 years and I had never seen this one until recently. Excited to find it! Not much can be found online about this magazine - Nightlife. This came out in fall of 2000. She says some interesting things in the interview! #vampira
January 26, 2025 at 10:23 PM
I’ve been collecting Vampira stuff (especially magazines) for over 20 years and I had never seen this one until recently. Excited to find it! Not much can be found online about this magazine - Nightlife. This came out in fall of 2000. She says some interesting things in the interview! #vampira
Jonathan Frakes appeared in episode 8 of Highway to Heaven on Nov 7, 1984.
January 24, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Jonathan Frakes appeared in episode 8 of Highway to Heaven on Nov 7, 1984.
I just set my phone to where every time I type “nin” it autocorrects it to NIИ
January 24, 2025 at 2:19 PM
I just set my phone to where every time I type “nin” it autocorrects it to NIИ
So I have around 300-400 old zines from the 90s and early 2000s. I want to start scanning them and documenting them one at a time on a blog platform. It’ll be a huge project. Any recommendations on an old school style blog site that would be good to use for something like this?
January 22, 2025 at 5:52 PM
So I have around 300-400 old zines from the 90s and early 2000s. I want to start scanning them and documenting them one at a time on a blog platform. It’ll be a huge project. Any recommendations on an old school style blog site that would be good to use for something like this?
The latest episode of the Official Bettie Page Podcast is now up - wherever you get your podcasts! We had fun talking with Jane Garrett, author of a new book on John Willie. Bettie fans will most definitely want to check her book out - it’s called John Willie: A Bizarre Life.
#bettiepage #johnwillie
#bettiepage #johnwillie
January 15, 2025 at 10:02 AM
The latest episode of the Official Bettie Page Podcast is now up - wherever you get your podcasts! We had fun talking with Jane Garrett, author of a new book on John Willie. Bettie fans will most definitely want to check her book out - it’s called John Willie: A Bizarre Life.
#bettiepage #johnwillie
#bettiepage #johnwillie