Elizabeth Badurina is a writer and sometimes-artist who recently escaped from the desert to shack up with a kindred spirit in the green and rainy wilds of Seattle. Though she hasn't yet encountered much of the post-1990s grunge culture, she's still trying to keep her finger on the youth pulse by reading and reviewing zines for Rambles and writing a few of her own. Her first book, which has been in progress for nearly all of her adult life, is within minutes of being finished, if she could just find the time to do so. Her ambition in life is to live with her pug-dog in a convertible 1965 Mustang with a satellite hookup, so she could travel the country in search of stories while still remaining tied to her email. In the meantime, she handles the 'zines page and has provided much help with the design and programming of Rambles.

Reviews by Elizabeth include:


MUSIC

Michel Camilo, One More Once

Deep Forest, Boheme

Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong, Best

Dominique Gizelle, Deep Down

Dennis Gomo, Nippising

John McCutcheon, Storied Ground

Brendan O'Loughlin, Only For the Music

Niamh Parsons, Blackbirds & Thrushes

Chandrakant Sardeshmukh, Pure Joy

Sheryl Skye, Ripple

Judy Small, Never Turning Back

Tonio K. & N.Y.M. Co., Yugoslavia: Love Songs & War Dances from Croatia, Serbia, Macedonia, Dalmatia, Bosnia, Slovenia

various artists
Africa North
African Odyssey
Congo to Cuba
Hot Java Jazz
Latin Playground
Music from the Coffee Lands II
The Rough Guide to Afro-Cuba


BOOKS

Christina Baldwin, Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest

Christina Bartolomeo, Cupid & Diana

Elizabeth Berg, Open House: A Novel

Francesca Lia Block & Hillary Carlip, Zine Scene: The Do It Yourself Guide to Zines

Cara Bruce, editor, Viscera

Julia Cameron, Vein of Gold: A Journey to Your Creative Heart

Ian Carr, Digby Fairweather & Brian Priestley, The Rough Guide to Jazz

Lisa Carver, Dancing Queen: The Lusty Adventures of Lisa Crystal Carver

Marilyn Chin, The Phoenix Gone, The Terrace Empty

Pearl Cleage, What Looks Like Crazy (on an ordinary day)

Joe Coomer, Beachcombing for a Shipwrecked God

Joe Coomer, The Loop

Kathleen Cox, Vastu Living: Creating a Home for the Soul

Noreen Crone-Findlay, Soul Mate Dolls: Dollmaking as a Healing Art

Kiran Desai, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard

Sue Doggett, Bookworks

Dan Eldon, The Journey is the Destination: The Journals of Dan Eldon

Laura Esquivel, The Law of Love

Patricia Evans, The Verbally Abusive Relationship

Louise Fitzhugh, Harriet the Spy

Lynne Franks, The SEED Handbook: The Feminine Way to Create Business

Tess Gallagher, At the Owl Woman Saloon

Michael J. Gelb, How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci

Mike George, Learn to Relax: A Practical Guide to Easing Tension & Conquering Stress

Natalie Goldberg, Living Color: A Writer Paints Her World

Hannah Hinchman, A Trail Through Leaves: The Journal as a Path to Place

Siri Hustvedt, The Blindfold

Beth Jacobs, Lizards in Sturgis

Stephan Jaramillo, Going Postal

Stephan Jaramillo, The Scoundrel

Kelee Katillac, House of Belief: Creating Your Own Personal Style

Shawna Kenney, I Was a Teenage Dominatrix

Erika Lopez, Flaming Iguanas

Julie Moir Messervy, The Magic Land: Designing Your Own Enchanted Garden

June Park, The Bingo Queens of Paradise

Willie Perdomo, Where a Nickel Costs a Dime

Karl Petzke, Lessley Berry & Sara Slavin, Tea: The Essence of the Leaf

Lynn Powers, Killer Art

Dan Price, How to Make a Journal of Your Life

Sue Reidy, The Visitation

Loretta Roome, Mehndi: The Timeless Art of Henna Painting

May Sarton, At Seventy

Sophia, Fortune in a Coffee Cup: Divination with Coffee Grounds

Paul Tiffany & Steven Peterson, Business Plans for Dummies

Lillian Too, Easy To Use Feng Shui

Cameron Tuttle, The Bad Girl's Guide to the Open Road

Honey van Campe, The Drag Queen's Cookbook

David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays & Ruminations

Robin Williams, The Non-Designer's Design Book

Abbie Zabar, A Growing Gardener

FILMS

Committed

Crazy/Beautiful

Est/Ouest (East/West)

Holy Smoke

Life is Beautiful

Mission to Mars

Outside Providence

Shanghai Noon

Tarka the Otter


'ZINES

Altered Alice

Belle Papier #1

Brainscan #15

BUG #1

Candles for Girls #4

Cathexis #2

Copycat #3

Deliciosa #5

East Village Inky #5

Elements & Seasons #1

Fabric #1

Frustration #1

Girl Swirl Fanzine #3

A Green Day

GRRLzine #8: In Wonderland

Guide du Plotz #14: PARIS

Hello Out There! #3

herbthecar #2

inbetween

I Think I Am #1

Kurt Cobain was Lactose Intolerant Conspiracy Zine

Laugh Clown Laugh #1/a>

Limousine #7

Limousine #8

Limousine #9

The Man Who Lived Inside His Camera

Memory & Dream #4

MultiKid #1

New Year Zine #4

One Fine Mess (summer 2001)

Only Hooligans Write on Desks #1

Out of Order #6

Peaches #1

Pink Tea #4

Pisces Rising #0

Pomegranate #3

remorsecodeblues #18

Revolution Pink #1

Skatedork #4

Stamp Stories #23

Stamp Stories #24

Sunburn #14

Textwrap #3

That Girl #10

t h o u g h t s #1

Trail of the Shadows

20 Bus #9

The Urban Hermit #12

Velvet Grass #34

Waiting to Sleep #3

Way Down Low #9

We're So F*cking Brilliant #1

While a Lucid Ease #1

WillZine #5

Wishing Well

Your Attention, Please! #1


RAMBLINGS

The arts & social responsibility.