Why the Underground is Cool (or am i just explaining the obvious?)                                       by the Urban Hermitt                                                the spirit of the underground press is like being on crack if crack were actually good for you like a big ol heaping pot of chamoille tea. but chamoille tea doesn't sound all that excited so i'll just stick to drinking a shitload of coffee, which produces similar effects as crack, like any other uber-hyper young writer like I. then once i am wired on the coffee i will prance thru all the urban streets of mother earth praising the underground press. why? i mean why in the hell do i say that the spirit of the underground press is like a feel good drug? well, it's like this...., with the underground press, i can write whatever the fuck i want, and then i can photocopy and print it any ol' way i want, and then i can mail it and give it to whoever i want. i can hand out my writings to lonely people on the bus. .i can mail my zines to politcal prisoners....people whom i'd never ever relate to on a physical level could be reading my words (or even your words) right as you read this! but maybe i'll stop talking about me...and humbly suggest what you can do with the underground press: you can make write cookbooks on obscuro subject matter such as roadkill fish....you can write another damn wanna bee beatnik travel logue...you can do an interview zine about breakdancing goths....you can even write a poetry book entirely devoted to joan jett.... see, what i am trying to say is that you really do have the power and ability to put out anything you want. you may not make tons of money or be "famous" maybe you parental units will "disapprove" maybe the "universities" will shrug at your underground press lifestyle...but is their approval as important is DOING WHATEVER THE FUCK YOU WANT?