Bitchfest

Due to the explicit nature of these documents I must warn you before you continue. In clicking "continue" you agree to the following... if your offended easily it's your fault if you take these things to heart cause this is my warning... and parental digression is advised and these documents contain explicit language and are very opinionated and so please please please press the back button for your own safety if you wish not to hear theses things etc. etc..and all names in this zine have been changed for their and my safety.
Oh and p.s. if you hate what's in this section don't complain cause its here for those who want to read it not for those who don't. Thanks nimrev!--Bitchfest disclaimer.

Bitchfest is a zine that presents the opinions and complaints of the contributing writers. One might question why anyone would want to read the complaints of others but commiseration often finds its way into many forms of artwork and can even work as a hook in many cases. Complaining often promotes a sarcastic and witty style of writing that is often very intriguing and entertaining. As a whole, this zine can be viewed much in the same way as a work of net.art fiction. The title page presents a simple hypertext interface to various writings and rantings from the contributing authors dealing with concerns and issues about things both on and offline. The line between life on and offline is becoming less and less clear as it is becoming commonplace for people to spend more time communicating on-line than off. The issues that concern online communication such as spam, intermittent ISP service, computer viruses, slow web pages, denial of service, etc. are starting to command the same level of priority as traffic, housing, job, and social concerns. Many artists and writers are using the net as a way of reaching out to the greater Internet consciousness even if the reception of their thoughts and ideas can only be assumed. Certainly there are those, especially in the advertising industry, that try to track where surfers go on the net, but it is impossible to gauge what is really taken in as a surfer clicks around. Nevertheless, many of the original motivations for printing an offline zine in the first place was to simply have the satisfaction of the possibility of reaching others with ones thoughts. Print zines might even be viewed as a precursor to on-line publishing as anyone could print a publication similar to posting a page on the net. Zine ideology clearly carries over to the Internet and is a natural transition for many amateur writers to publish online. In fact, the entire notion and definition of what it means to be an amateur or professional writer is becoming less clear. There are many ‘professional’ writers (that is, those that make a living from writing) that are writing long and important bodies of work for the net and cannot ever expect to ever make any money from these efforts. Conversely, there are many amateur writers that have never received any monetary compensation for their works who are also contributing bodies of text that are just as important as those submitted by professionals. The same can be said for amateur and professional artists, scholars, poets, musicians, etc. The net has become a great equalizer in a sense as well as an entity that has confused many issues concerning the work of writers and the position of readers (especially when readers send in a response and so become writers). Appropriation, text manipulation, and linking confuses these issues even further. Although most writers wish to be credited for their work, it may be best for readers to simply view the net as a combined entity of all that contribute. It may be considered a stretch of the imagination to consider that the text that you are reading right now has been written by the Internet, but in fact, that maybe not a bad way of putting it.