VENEER
http://www.veneermagazine.com
Paris, Anacortes, Portland, Billings, New York, London, San Francisco, Los Angeles
About
Founded in 1992 as an anti-Dukakis pamphlet--troubling both in its rich, personal scorn, perhaps trumped in the unexplainably anachronistic timing--Veneer has been in the third or fifth tier of shoestring DIY publications for two decades: twenty years of unabashed, almost humiliating neo-conservatism and a bizarrely vigilant push for an all out repeal of the nineteenth amendment. I'm not entirely sure what contempt for Woman's suffrage has to do with the San Jose Sharks, but by '96 coverage extended largely to the NHL. What's funny is that most of the listed statistics and scores were often just wrong. At the time of this writing, and the best of my admittedly limited--but still pretty good--knowledge, I'm not sure a team called [the] Redding Spiderdudes has ever existed, let alone won the Stanley Cup three hundred times. That doesn't even make sense.
Now entering the second half of these 2000s, the all but ignored rag--edited solely by Erin "Yes, the yutz who got court marshaled for pretending to be a marine in an almost accurately 'retarded' attempt to get free Sting tickets" Jamminson--has attempted an image makeover of sorts, trading brazen "life begins at conception" moxie for a more serene--and ironically enough, somewhat creepier--form of hard right politics. Remember, this is the guy who wrote a 7800-word essay for Parade Magazine on changing New Hampshire's motto to "Live Free and Kill." Then he suggested the same for Maryland. Then Honduras. You get the point.
