Cherokee Vision of Elohi, $9.95 plus $1.75 postage, 40pp.
Dr. Howard Meredith & Virginia Sobral, editors.

The perfect gift for you and all your loved ones!!! Order a dozen today! The Elohi is the worldview of the Cherokee people and this book retells oral traditions of migration, warfare, cultural decline, and the future. It's translated into English and Cherokee, printed in the Sequoyah syllabary, and contains an essay about the role of the Cherokee language. Winner of the Westerner's International Coke Wood Award for best treatise on a single subject. And it was typeset and illustrated by yours truly, yippie! Noksi Press, 3700 N. Classen Blvd., Suite C12, OKC OK 73118.

Dead Air #6, Dec. 1997, 32pp.

Official `zine of the Windy City BMA. Reports from Barcelona, a column talking seriously about messenger drug abuse - brave! loads of pics, poems, comics, news, even a crossword puzzle (the pinnacle of `zine materials). Good, solid effort, handwritten, very personal, but of course, Dead Air would be more interesting to those involved in the Chicago scene. Jack @ 1800 S. Jefferson St., Chicago IL 60616.

Hideouswhitenoise #33, free.

33 issues?! Holy frijoles!! I can't wait to meet these guys so I can shake their hands! damn! Anyway, mess zine from Toronto. Cyclists killed by cars this summer in TO have sparked a lot of controversy. Joe Hendry explains the government's genius solution in his article, "Courier Licensing," but Derek Chadbourne points out in his column that "the ones who seem to die are the ones that obey the rules of the road put there by men who have never been on a bike in their adult life." Toronto's messengers' reaction to NYC, other rants w/ a very violent flare. I liked the photo of Taw's Gun and Cycle Sporting Goods store: "One stop shopping for cyclists." 291 Ossington St., #6 M6J 3A1, Ontario, or e-mail: hwn@lglobal.com.

Q: What kind of blood do `zine editors have?

A: Type O.

Pager Power, $4.95 by Ted Strauss, 10 Speed Press, PO Box 7123, Berkeley CA 94707.

...Even if you have an alphanumeric pager, I'm sure you'll want this book of codes to enable you to send secret messages to your comrades also raging on the pager. If you were previously unaware, insert a hyphen between each codes by pressing "*." Some handy samples of Strauss' codes include:

084 - client is unhappy
101 - do the laundry
214 - I can't think straight now
237 - I hate everything
409 - Is the Pope Catholic ?
412 - Is your pager on ?

Tail Spins , #29, $3, 94pp.

Huge slick punk rock `zine w/ rioting bikers rampaging through a burning city on the cover. Tons of reviews and some esoteric, but actually quite interesting, articles ranging from "The Wild Boy of Aveyron" and Blaxpoitation to Los Straitjackets. I'll take this over MRR any day of the week. POB 1860, Evanston IL 60204, tailspin@interaccess.com

Tubular Times #14, free.

Critical mass views, pro and con; BAC is trying to get bike lanes on Polk St.; review of Asphalt Nation: How the Automobile Took Over America and How We Can Take It Back which sounds killer, advice on touring up to Napa Valley. Bikes for Bosnia is collecting old bikes, parts, and money . Contact them through Dave Krzysik @ 273.1545 or wenet .net/~squidink. brainwash.htm. San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, 1095 Market Street, Suite 215, SF CA 94103

Western News #18, free.

In this issue we find out that Paulette is running in the Honolulu Marathon (yay), Sean Heskett is an avid gospel singer (my butt), real licorice candy can invigorate adrenals (woo hoo), and that being a transvestite is okay---remember that when dressing for work! Aw, Wendy, we know you can pull more entertaining things off the internettry the spam haiku website. Wendy Van Dusen, Western Messenger, 75 Columbia, SF CA 94103.