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Cricket Bread – Trace Ramsey
What is Cricket Bread?
Bread made from crickets is a survival food in many places, a staple in others and a disgusting concoction in the "civilized" world. The discussion presented here details how I jump in between each of those cultures, destroying certain pieces as needed.
This is also a discussion about starting a farm, the do-it-yourself lifestyle, being an anarchist and how the interactions I engage in promote community, friendship and mutual aid.
I am a small drip of New Blood in the Old Body...
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Category Archives: Quitter
Quitter #6 – “Two Stories” available now
It has been a few years since I did something under the Quitter name, but those wild hairs just come out of nowhere sometimes and get me to put something together. The text for Quitter #6 has been sitting in … Continue reading
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New Quitter book review and news
The Quitter book received a new review in the latest issue of Zine World (#27). Quitter: Good Luck Not Dying: Compendium of the first five issues of Quitter zine, in a nice hand-sewn hardback, with dust jacket and stickers. Trace’s … Continue reading
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A very Quitter new year
Since the June 2008 release of my book Quitter: Good Luck Not Dying, I failed to reach my goal of one-hundred books sold by the end of the year. I sold a little over sixty, which isn’t bad for a … Continue reading
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New Quitter #4 review
From Zine World #26 – quitter #4: Every once in awhile you read a zine written in beautiful prose. It’s great, you don’t have to commit to read beautiful and complex descriptions for a whole book; instead you get a … Continue reading
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Quitter book review by Gianni Simone
Gianni Simone, a mail artist residing in Japan, writes zine reviews for Xerography Debt as well as their own blog Gloomy Sundays. Gianni recently reviewed my Quitter: Good Luck Not Dying book. He (Trace) has been putting out his zine … Continue reading
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Quitter book ready to go!
I am happy to finally announce that – after seven months of writing and rewriting, working with Josh on the illustrations, Nathaniel on the cover, and going back and forth on using a formal publisher – Quitter: Good Luck Not … Continue reading
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Bookbinding – Quitter book prototype
The first two attempts at making a hardcover book were miserable and complete failures. For the first attempt, I used some really simple looking instructions from DadCanDo.com. The instructions were so simple that when I followed the steps and completed … Continue reading
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Quitter – DIY or Die
Due to budget issues, the Quitter book project kind of stalled out in the last few months. I cannot afford to publish the book as originally planned. I will instead take an entirely different route. This new route will require … Continue reading
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Quitter book update
The Quitter book is moving along, mostly as planned. I have been spending a lot of time learning how to use Adobe InDesign CS3. I have been figuring out how to do the Quitter book layout on my own, … Continue reading
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Quitter – The Book
The subtitle of this blog is “Thoughts on a local diet and other things in Wilmington, NC…” I have the local diet thing down, but in the past week or so I have become engaged in some “other things”. This … Continue reading
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