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best zine since Answer Me!?

I have alll three but haven't splurged on the book yet - anybody check it out? Has anyone sent anything in? Wifey and I did, for issue #4 - hope they use it!

Do you think that over time, people will get too hip to this and start sending in fake stuff and / or being a lot more careful with their trash? You know, ruin it? Like what happened to Ali G in the UK?

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Saturday, 31 July 2004 00:10 (twenty-one years ago)

The book is amazing. Some repeated stuff, but mostly new material that is incredible. I don't think Found will ever register on the cultural radar significantly enough to spark the sort of phenomenon. I have sent stuff in for #4 too! Some good gems that I had collected over the last 10 years...

― Softly Weeping at the Oki Dog (Ben Boyer), Saturday, 31 July 2004 00:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I too love Found. There have been a couple of times that I've found something and planned to send it in, but lost it again before I did. I've been contemplating sending in an old photo of my grandpa in blackface in a school play. That's cheating I guess since I didn't find it on the street.

What happened to Ali G in the UK? You mean they caught on to his act?

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Saturday, 31 July 2004 00:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Yep, Found rulz. I was thinking about sending them the copy of Wind & Wuthering by Genesis I found in the alley today. Maybe it's still there...

Love the angry broken hearted letters that teenagers write to each other and then, apparently, throw on the ground. The random party flyers.

Did you see the stuff from the collapse of the WTC. Chilling.

― nonthings (nonthings), Saturday, 31 July 2004 00:44 (twenty-one years ago)

i saw the dude when he came to town to do his found roadshow thing, he was cool

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 31 July 2004 02:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Never seen it in print, but it's one of my favourite places on the web EVAH.

Especially:

http://www.foundmagazine.com/notes/thereareoptions.html

...which is heartbreaking, and:

http://www.foundmagazine.com/notes/ilovesex.html

"I have a stick!"...and:

http://www.foundmagazine.com/fotw/090102.html

...which is probably the face of god, and best of all:

http://www.foundmagazine.com/fotw/062903.html

― JimD (JimD), Saturday, 31 July 2004 02:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I didn't know about the book though. I've just ordered it. Two copies, in fact.

― JimD (JimD), Saturday, 31 July 2004 02:30 (twenty-one years ago)

just got the book last week.. love what i've read so far.

― Jack Battery-Pack (Jack Battery-Pack), Saturday, 31 July 2004 07:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw "This American Life" do a live show in Chicago, and the founder (ha) Davy Rothbart read his favorite found items. The thing that made it amazing was how excited and amazed he became while telling the crowd stories of pieces that he'd thought of a million times.

― Camtron (Cameron), Saturday, 31 July 2004 08:04 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

I just "found" this in a bookshop in Richmond. What a great idea? Dirty Found is hysterical. Fun for ages.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 23:24 (twenty years ago)

the last go-round of the found roadshow was bad. readings from his book of short stories and acoustic jamz from his brother. just sayin.

― geoff (gcannon), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 23:32 (twenty years ago)

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 23:40 (twenty years ago)

They played a bit of him reading on "This American Life" recently... not much funneh.

― truck-patch pixel farmer (my crop froze in the field) (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 02:09 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

I found these in a red photo album marked "Darlene" at a swap meet in Huntington Beach, California. I didn't know these photos were in there until I got in the car and really looked at the photos. Then I was like, "Whoa! People doing drugs."

http://www.flickr.com/photos/foundphotoslj/sets/72157603534045253/

― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 28 March 2008 19:55 (eighteen years ago)

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