Pick Your Poison #4 / :45 / $2.00 / 60M / Nate Gangelhoff, PO Box 8995, Minneapolis, MN 55408 / http:/www.pickyourpoison.net /
Nate is the edtior of You Idiot!, which is easily one of the best zines to be in its current run. I came into Pick Your Poison with a very positive outlook, and I was not disappointed in any way. This issue, Nate talks about 28 specific things, about 20 of these different horrible jobs that ey happened to walk into. First cracking into the issue during my Dante and Virgil class, I cracked up about three or four time – Nate is royalty when it comes to the quick witticisms or utterly-bizarre one liners, including “Dave, you see, had spent the majority of his shift using the Windows Paint program to draw elaborate portraits of his company’s mascot, the Pillsbury Doughboy, in obscene positions, word bubbles exclaiming things like “Nothing spells loving like my hot butter biscuitsâ€. I guess also Nate was my first real introduction to what a temp[ agency did – when I used to search for jobs each summer I wanted to try one of the companies, but my mom just really painted them as pretty horrible things. Nate just illustrates why that is – some of the jobs seemed only too happy to put eir in moral quandaries (at the law firms) or be ready to snipe eir for any possible breaking of work policy (the shampoo factory). The entire issue of Pick Your Poison is pretty much a repetition of the same set of things – smoke weed, go to temp agency, get job, job ends, and smoke weed/get drunk again and only Nate is talented enough of a writer to write about it for 60 pages without it getting stale.
Rating: 7.5/10
