Finally! the highly anticipated Jaded Review issue 2 has arrived and is ready to ship. This issue is set up as a grandiose version of what we envisioned the first issue to be – a 24 page guidebook set up like a bird-watchers guide – to assist outsiders in understanding and navigating this crazy hippie culture. Currently there are 15 hippie archetypes with illustrations, saftey guides, festival guides and a reprint of the much lauded guidebook to euphemistic star-childe terminology.

Due to the nature of the magazine and the fact that there is zero distribution and not available anywhere but here -  it tends to inspire people to “borrow” them and never return them so I recommend buying a couple to share with your friends and to keep one for yourself – It also makes shipping more economical.

I will post a few pages from this as soon as I have a free moment but for now enjoy a few of the illustrations. There is also a page about the creation of this zine. To be kept in the loop about upcoming issues join the newsletter at the bottom of the page

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Illustration of “The Baller” spotted in the wild in Tuscon Arizona

“A featherhat”

Illustration of a “wook” spotted in a parking lot

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User Reviews (mostly from Facebook)

Natalia Price:
it was all the talk at earthdance festival. It rips on us so hard….hilarious…..really makes us laugh at ourselves and the absurdity of defining ourselves through fashion and ego

Robert Gordon:
this is no joke one of the greatest things i’ve read! sooo funny!!

Vanessa Harlan: HILARIOUS!! This truly made me laugh out loud! I need more copies! Soooooo funny! (great job Kris!!!)

Chelsea Ross: The jaded review arrived today and made us laugh the whole line thru at the city pound. we were glared at. it’s friggin brilliant and hilarious. it should be filed in every respectable library in the land. Hats off to yous!

Tim Donlou: heck yeah, this thing had me in stitches out there. thx fer postin’

Elizabeth Cahill: funniest sh*t I’ve read in my life- so true!!

David Jerome:that shit was HIGHlarious! I never got a copy so hit me up!

Amanda Lilikoi: massive hysteria was induced at sunrise with the discovery of this zine, and to learn YOU were the responsible party just makes it all the better!

Andrea Campbell:So freakin’ funny mister!! Thanks again for your hilarious mastery on the hippie perspective!

Arun Once Was ZyGoat: I am SO GRATEFUL that the jaded review has moonifestivalled onto our coffee table! deep breath, everyone! I am galactivating all over myself just thinking of it!

Hey People it’s been a long time since a group of friends and I whipped out that pathetic excuse for a zine – The Jaded Review and passed it out at the 2006 emerg-n-see and then posted later. Totally surprising to us its become a bit of a phenomenon being reprinted by friends and the demand for a new issue has been highly requested so I’ve let it sit on the back burner for over a year as I slowly worked on parts of it. Now at the end of the festival season Ive finally got off my ass and finished it… its like waiting until spring to buy your winter coat – oh well. Issue two was more of a serious endeavor – a 24 page guide to hippie watching in america – the different types with illustrations, blatant generalizations, and all manners of subtle snarkiness. I took a few photos of the progress as I was working on it. If you wish to order it check this page. (coming in a second)

Wook, Baller, & ShirtCocker illustration pre-inking

The Dj & The Hater page spread

The test run – full of incomplete sentences, bad grammar and errors. Now a collectors item like 3 legged buffalo nickels.

No jadedness here! Our first ecstatic customer

there are also the PDF files if you want to print your own and spread the love

Front Inside Comic

Some friends of mine and I wrote this earlier this summer to pass out at festivals. Our dedication, abundance of time, and financial support allowed us to put out a first and final print run of a staggering 19 copies, yet despite the minimal print run hundreds of my friends seemed to have read it. So I’ve decided to offer it to the internet for the rest of you.

The zine wasn’t really finished as I wanted to have at least 8 pages, but I was busy with work and after awhile it didn’t really seem worth the effort… err i mean I offended myself so deeply while writing it that I had to stop. The original idea was a travel guide for newbies entering the festival circuit (doesnt matter if its the burningman-neo-pagan or the hippie jam band circuit theres a little something for everyone)

We started with the Guide to Euphamistic starchild terminology, explaining what these terms really mean. Theres a Astral Chakra Matrix (check out the online version) to help you create your own playa-name, tribe.net name, or the name of your fire-spinning troupe … whatever really.

Astral Chakra Matrix

Here is an online version of the astral chakra matrix. Now you can now magically manifest your prayerformance troupe name, playa-name or next cd name with ease. Simply refresh the page to ‘imagineer it”

And lastly theres a comic which you can fill in with your own adventures.
If you take offense to this be sure to write some angry letters!