THE ZEEN MOVEMENT!!!                                      by King Wenclas                              (A Note on the ULA's use of Websites) Postmodernists are the affliction of on-line sites. They come on to pose, to posture, to lie. The key difference between postmodernists and zine writers is that postmodernists love to lie and afflict on-line sites with their meaningless word games, their insane nonsense, and their made-up names. They'll steal other persons' identities. The truth has no meaning to them---while the essence of what the true zine movement is about, as embodied by core practitioners like Fred Woodworth, Violet Jones, Anthony Rayson and others, is telling the truth. Our movement is a river that will last and has value. It's conflicting, against present modes of thought, with a differing mindset; the difference between truth and illusion, sanity and insanity. The point Michael Jackman gets, that I've been losing sight of, is that this fan site is not our underground lit movement; it's only a symbol of that movement. The movement is the printed zines themselves, those simple artifacts, products of our dedication and labors. Being on-line largely is for poseurs. Writing on-line takes less commitment than producing and distributing an actual zine, which is a tangible piece of reality. There is nothing real on this computer screen, nothing lasting. It's a collection of phosphorescent dots with no stability or permanence. Everything said will quickly enough vanish. The technology will move on; saved disks will become useless, as those from decades past already are. Web sites come and go, none staying for long. (Has SALON gone bankrupt yet?) Reality here, on this screen, is in a state of flux, as postmodern writing is in a state of flux, the words and sentences all over the place, as are its practitioners' brains.  We're using this fan site to announce our movement, but the movement itself is elsewhere.