Me and @caboosezine.bsky.social have a thing brewing that I'm excited about

After 2 and a half decades today is my last day at Quimby's Bookstore! Tune in at 11:30am at instagram.com/quimbysbookstore for my final farewell!

Props to Ali for her donation to my @chirpradio.org Fall 2025 fundraiser! chirpradio.app.neoncrm.com/LizMasonFall...

A hearty shout out to Naomi Walker Naomi Walker for her donation to my Fall 2025 @chirpradio.org fundraiser! chirpradio.app.neoncrm.com/LizMasonFall...

📣 Heyo! Huge thank you to repeat donating superstar Steven Svymbersky for his donation to my Fall 2025 @chirpradio.org 107.1FM fundraiser! chirpradio.app.neoncrm.com/LizMasonFall...

Props to Christopher Kramme for an excellent donation to my Fall 2025 CHIRP Radio 107.1FM fundraiser! chirpradio.app.neoncrm.com/LizMasonFall...

Hey hey hey! Many thanks to comics artist and publisher Jon Westhoff @parttimecomix.bsky.social mecomix for the most excellent donation to my Fall 2025 @CHIRPRadio fundraiser! chirpradio.app.neoncrm.com/LizMasonFall...

Tonight at 7! I'm DJing for @zineclubchicago.bsky.social on Marz Zinemaking Hangout: PERMANENT RECORD! zineclubchicago.com/2025/09/06/z...

Oh snap! A hearty thanks to the Ms. Pac-Man-high scoring Glen Torbert for the most excellent donation to my Fall 2025 @chirpradio fundraiser! chirpradio.app.neoncrm.com/LizMasonFall...

My interview with Mac Sabbath on the @CHIRPRadio podcast just dropped. chirpradio.org/podcasts/mac...

All hail DJ MAXIMUMLIZNROLL + community radio! 📻 You can also catch @caboosezine.bsky.social DJing at our Zine Club Chicago on Marz events every month! Next one is this Wednesday, Sept. 17. Info at zineclubchicago.com #zines #communityradio #DIY

DJ MAXIMUM LIZNROLL @caboosezine.bsky.social will be spinning a set of rules-flouting tracks during the set! Join us for Zine Club Chicago on Marz Zinemaking Hangout: Permanent Record, 7-9 pm Wed., Sept. 17 at Life on Marz Community Club, 1950 N. Western Ave. Free! More info: zineclubchicago.com

Meow! Meow! Thanks to fellow instigator, @zineclubchicago.bsky.social producer, and hi jinx co- collaborator Cynthia E. Hanifin @exilefromguyville for a hearty donation to my Fall 2025 @chirpradio.org fundraiser! Help me get to $500! chirpradio.app.neoncrm.com/LizMasonFall...

🥳Wahooooo! Thanks to writer, publisher, kpop fan, heavy metal enthusiast and person who indulges me with enlightening discussions Keidra Chaney @kdc.bsky.social for a rockin’ donation to my Fall 2025 @chirpradio.org fundraiser! Help me get to $500! chirpradio.app.neoncrm.com/LizMasonFall...

Woot! Woot! 🤘 Thanks to artist, performer, and stylishly bespectacled cat lover Jackie Wolk for a rockin’ donation to my Fall 2025 @CHIRPRadio fundraiser! Help me get to $500! chirpradio.app.neoncrm.com/LizMasonFall...

👏 Wahoo! Thanks to librarian, podcaster, musician, film critic/writer @directorsclub.substack.com for a most excellent donation to my Fall 2025 @chirpradio.org fundraiser! Help me get to $500! chirpradio.app.neoncrm.com/LizMasonFall...

🙌 Bravo! Thanks to punk rock librarian, podcaster, writer and overall swell dude Jeremy Kitchen for his generous donation to my Fall 2025 @chirpradio.org fundraiser! Help me get to $500! Could I get 3 $15 donations by midnight? chirpradio.app.neoncrm.com/LizMasonFall...

Had a great time goofin’ at the @busybeaverbuttonco.bsky.social party, indulging in ice cream, double ditching with @eelobrien.bsky.social and button-making ridiculousness

Help my Fall 2025 @chirpradio.org fundraiser get to $500! chirpradio.app.neoncrm.com/LizMasonFall...

⚡️ NEW ZINE ALERT! ⚡️ Caboose #15 I Was There! Geddit at Quimby’s or from me on Sunday at Zinemercado or at my online store www.etsy.com/listing/4360...

Miss my 20x2 Chicago performance where I barked things like, "Sweat is just fat crying!" to the audience through a microphone and led everybody in a writing exercise? Here's your chance to watch it on the 20x2 YouTube channel! www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgdI...

A review is a eulogy for something you've consumed.

I'm tabling with my zines Sun Aug 24th at the @CHIRPRadio craft market at Chicago Independents' Day! Come say hellooooooooo ❤️✂️🖤✂️🖤 ✂️ www.eventbrite.com/e/chicago-in...

I got cleaned out y'all!! Thank you to #SSZF, @zineclubchicago.bsky.social and Daley Branch Library for organizing a resplendent fest, to all the folks who came by to buy zines and chat and to @caboosezine.bsky.social for a FUN FUN panel talk! Can't wait for next year!

Features contributor Liz Mason(@caboosezine.bsky.social) speaks with Chicago-based hip hop artist Amanu, aka Spiderface on the podcast. Check it out: chirpradio.org/podcasts/spi...

Woot! Woot! ✂️ 🖨️ 🤘 Props to to the @chicagoreader.com for a great preview of South Side Zine Fest, & a shout out for my panel with and Keidra Chaney @wildramppublishing.bsky.social at the fest! You can check it out in the print edition or read the article at chicagoreader.com/city-life/fe...

South Side Zine Fest week is here!! Your team behind the scenes - Jamie Kadas, Cynthia E. Hanifin, Liz Mason @caboosezine.bsky.social, and Katie Armentrout - spent the day glue-sticking, folding, and button-making in preparation for our inaugural fest. #zines #DIY #SouthSide #Chicago

Keidra Chaney @kdc.bsky.social of Wild Ramp Publishing will join Liz Mason @caboosezine.bsky.social in conversation about Fandom and Zines on our SSZF panel! Don’t miss their lively discussion at 2 p.m. Saturday, July 26 at Tangible Books, 3326 S. Halsted St. in #Bridgeport. Free!

MEET OUR #SSZF2025 ZINEMAKERS: LIZ MASON! Liz Mason (she/her) @caboosezine.bsky.social publishes #zines with names like Caboose and Cul-de-sac, works at @quimbysbookstore.bsky.social and is getting a Masters in Library Science. Her work has been in places like Punk Planet, The Zine Yearbook ...

MEET OUR #SSZF2025 COMMUNITY PARTNERS: TANGIBLE BOOKS! Tangible Books, Bridgeport’s family-owned bookstore, will host our panel, Fandom and Zines: A Conversation Between Liz Mason @caboosezine.bsky.social and Keidra Chaney @wildramppublishing.bsky.social at 2 p.m. Saturday, July 26! #zines #DIY

Check out my interview with Spiderface on the @chirpradio.org Podcast! Get it where u get yr podcasts or at chirpradio.org/podcasts/spi...

Wednesday! See you at Life on Marz!

This is gonna rule so hard!

Tonight! A few tickets left I think! I’m so excited to perform at this and even more excited to see the First Time 3’s cover of the song I selected to accompany my reading! 🤘

Thrilled to be performing at my favorite reading series in Chicago on Wednesday!

This is my struggle for everything I write: how do you know what to take out when the piece is 3 times as long as it should be?

Watch “Let’s Take a Moment” wherein me & K Ratticus & Billy McCall enthuse about Missy Kulik’s zine Secret Picnic Spot at the ILoveZines YouTube channel! P.S. My new gaming head mic set up looks insane. youtu.be/FZwh1Wf92CM?...

Yo check it! Longtime QZAP friend and fellow Wisconsin zinester @johnporcellino.bsky.social is on the cover of Razorcake, interviewed by the incomparable @caboosezine.bsky.social ! razorcake.org/razorcake-14...

We're so exited to announce that we were interviewed by the amazing @caboosezine.bsky.social for the current issue of Razorcake! It's issue no. 146, and it's sliding scale $3–$6+ USD from their website. razorcake.org/razorcake-14...

Hey-o! @chrisqzap.bsky.social and I sound almost intelligible in this interview with @caboosezine.bsky.social for the new issue of @razorcake.bsky.social. Pick up a copy and read our blather about zines, history, queer community building, and the world we'd like to live in. 🖤🩷🖤

Cool to be interviewed in this month’s Razorcake! Great conversation with Liz Mason @caboosezine.bsky.social

Tune in to me now on @chirpradio.org til 9am 107.1fm CT Chicago 📻 Or politely ask your robot overlord smart speaker to “Play CHIRP Radio”

Stoked about this interview I did with comics legend John Porcellino @johnporcellino.bsky.social in the new issue of Razorcake @razorcake.bsky.social 🤘 Out now! Geddit: razorcake.org/razorcake-14...

Proud to have a piece in Booksellers Reflect on Self-Publishing, published by Half Letter Press, based on my two and half decades selling this kind of thing. Also featured: other smarty smart people that I am honored to be included alongside. www.etsy.com/listing/1885...

Proud to have a piece in this super helpful periodical that should be mandatory reading for anybody who self-publishes!

This week in CHIRP Podcasts, Liz Mason @caboosezine.bsky.social‬ speaks with Chicago-raised Latina DJ and Producer Christine Gutierrez and E of Dark Chisme, a Seattle-based dark wave band. https://buff.ly/42YbN99

It’s my Spring 2025 @chirpradio 107.1FM fundraiser! Help me meet my goal of $500 to keep CHIRP being an awesome community radio station that’s live, local and commercial-free. chirpradio.app.neoncrm.com/LizMasonSpri... And don't miss my shows Wednesdays 6-9am CT. 📻

Check it out! Here's another episode of the CHIRP Radio Podcast @chirpradio.bsky.social where I interviewed Dark Chisme, one of my faves. This is a podcast, BY THE WAY that got voted (ahem!) Best Music Podcast in the Chicago Reader @chicagoreader.com Best of 2024! 🖤 shorturl.at/tvqDs

Missed my show this morning on @CHIRPRadio? Listen to it at my DJ archive chirpradio.org/dj/13237 + here's a few tunes i played: tinyurl.com/3jju547d