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Yesterday, I went upstairs to see if James had started the novel that we both have to read for our Contemporary Lit class, and he showed me a surprise on his work table.  He had just completed his all art zine!  Then, he asked me if I would help him copy it.  After 4 hours and 40 dollars we produced a little over 50 issues of his zine.  This zine consists of old and new work from the life of James as an artist.  I wondered if he had put it together in one day.  Well, he pretty much did, but it is the work from over 2 years with some drawings straight from his sketchbook, some paintings from a few months ago, pictures that he has been trying to find a use for the past 4 months, and finally, some sketches that he did just for this zine.  These are all meshed into a bright colored cover (if you're lucky!) with professional lettering from the software Microsoft Paint.  If you know him, you can get a special discount for it($2 plus shipping and handling).  If not, you will have to pay full price(like $5 plus shipping and handling). 

To contact James via myspace:  http://www.myspace.com/quadrapedsofearthunite
or send him a postcard
James Lloyd
223 N. 15th Ave
Pocatello, ID 83201

P. S. There will be some pictures to come....   

The whole online presence of my zine has really started to show its advantages.  I have been recieving some submissions and getting some great feedback.  I really haven't strived to put my zine on the map of the world-wide-web but I now see that at least putting an indicator of what legoverleg is, has been quite a good thing.  Not only that, but people have been contacting me through e-mail with requests and submissions after they have seen the website that was done by my pal or after seeing this here blog. 

So I finally decided to give some updates that are proceeding here on my end with the zine and the creative process.  The last issue (issue no #3) was supposed to be a rough draft/literary journal where the reader could participate by editing the works that were there, but it turned out to be a failure.  NO ONE SUBMITTED ANYTHING THAT NEEDED EDITING OR REVISING.  They were all great.  Even the Greggy Peggy puddin and pie poem, especially surrounded by the wonderful designs of James Lloyd, a friend and loyal member of the leg over leg staff.  Well it wasn't too bad of in issue if you ask me, but here comes another out of the brain child of myself:

ISSUE #4:  ALL ART!

so yeah, no more literature, or if you look maybe hard and long enough at this next issue you might start seeing words.  A picture is worth a thousand words, and a thousand words could make many, many poems or a story about sitting on your own pet rabbit under the couch cushion.  (see dead pet stories, another zine)  But here it comes.  Actually it is proceeding about as fast as a herd of sloths, but if any of you people out there would like to submit send:

3 pieces of art( the magazine will be in Black and White) to
legoverleg@gmail.com
or
223 n. 15th Pocatello, ID 83201

I can almost gaurantee you that you won't have much competition, so feel free to express yourself(plus I will send you some free copies of other issues).  Thank you to all the people that have submitted thus far, and if you aren't an artist except with words the regular submissions are thus:

3 poems
or
1 story(1500 word max)
or
3 literary or artistic articles(creative non-fiction/magazine writing)

cool.  That's about it.  Keep those juices pumping.  So long and have a wonderful day

-yours truly,

jeff pearson, poor man, editor-in-chief, exhibitionist (for today)