The PERP aspires to be an unpredictable forum for humor and opinion where contributors like you can be satirical, serious or droll, using words, images, or whatever combination thereof gets your juices flowing.

Address the issues simmering inside you. Step on toes if need be. Ideally, if you make somebody mad, they'll respond with vivid counter-arguments of their own.

The PERP offers itself in the spirit of the cheaply produced, frequently punkish amateur ‘zines that proliferated in the 1970s and ‘80s. It'll be a free 'zine for the foreseeable future. I personally paid for last summer's very limited print run of the first issue just to see what would happen. Response among local readers, I'm happy to say, was enthusiastic, and ever since then people have been asking me, "So when is another issue of the PERP gonna come out?"

Not being flush enough to continue paying all the costs myself, I've dodged that question for months. But since learning that the Cultural Council of Northern Berkshire will be providing financial support for a second and possibly third issue, no further dilly-dallying is required. Let's get this sequel on the road!

With no retailers or national distributors hounding me, the PERP's publication schedule will remain somewhat unpredictable. The sooner stuff begins being submitted to me that strikes me as PERP-worthy, the sooner a new issue will be able to go to press. Unlike last year I won't have to pay for everything out of my own pocket, so this time a lot will depends on how creative my fellow Berkshire denizens feel like being.

So if you've got something cooking
that might be right for the PERP?
Let me have a look at it!
The door is open for new contributors!

Email me if you've got questions.