Check out this interview with Tina and me dating back from around 1999 or so. I barely remember doing it, and my responses were definitely a surprise.

Click here to read it.

Tina emailed me this morning to give me the heads up that someone has placed the first issue of the original Restaurant Fuel print ‘zine on ebay. Surprisingly, the “buy it now” price is set at $25.

Tina and I started work on Restaurant Fuel back in 1996 as an outlet for personal writing, band interviews, travel stories, and just about anything else we felt like publishing. We even ran a scientific article about two dangerous diet drugs years before the drugs were taken off the market. As much as I love blogging, doing a ‘zine was so much more fulfilling. The writing had to be sharper, and there was a lot of fun in designing and producing the magazine. We went out of our way to come up with elaborate inserts to enhance the experience. You can’t do that with a blog.

Restaurant Fuel, obviously, is now long out of print. This is really the first time an issue has been available in years. Tina and I have very, very few copies of it ourselves. If you’d like to see a bit of zine history, it may be worth bidding on.