User:Dan10things

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Dan Halligan is a self-important writer and former publisher living in Seattle, WA. He published the now-defunct Northwest punk zine 10 Things Jesus Wants You To Know [1]. Later, he was a contributer to Seattle's short-lived publication Tablet (newspaper), which ceased publication in 2005.

Halligan began writing scene reports in the late 1980s for the punk zine Maximum Rock 'N' Roll before starting his own MRR-clone fanzine in 1991. He has contributed to many other alternative publications and has run or participated in dozens of small press panels, readings and workshops promoting zines and self-publishing, working with Rock the Vote [2], 1996's Kill Zinesters Tour, Seattle's Center On Contemporary Arts, Northwest Bookfest, the Seattle Public Libraries, Bumbershoot, and the Zine Archive and Publishing Project.

The electronic version of 10 Things was one of the earliest Ezines, garnering Halligan a front page feature on early e-zines in The Philadelphia Inquirer [3]. Halligan and 10 Things was featured in Martha Gill’s book E-zines: Explore On-Line Magazine Design [4] and in the New York City's New Museum's alt.youth.media show September 6 - November 5, 1996. [5]. His "Punk Parents" article from 10 Things was selected for the Zine Yearbook Volume 5 [6]. The Zine Yearbook was published by the staff of Clamor magazine and featured articles were nominated and voted on as representing the best in zine writing each year. He's been and advocate for the small press and has been interviewed on the subject for the Seattle Post Intelligencer [7], Punk Planet [8], Fucktooth and many small press magazines and zines.

In October 2000, Halligan joined with friends to launch Tablet (newspaper), a Northwest arts and music alt-weekly paper, that later became a monthly magazine. Halligan was a music editor, though mostly he talked about himself. In the Utne Reader's 2001 Alternative Press Awards, Tablet won the Reader's Choice award for "Best New Title." [9] Tablet folded in September 2005 after its 103rd issue. [10]

In 2003 and 2004 Halligan served on the Bumbershoot Bumberboard Advisory Committee, helping plan, book and promote rock bands for the Northwest's largest annual music and arts festival- widely regarded as the two most low attended years in the history of the festival.

Currently Dan Halligan resides in Seattle, WA, with his doormat of a wife, and spending his weekends unsuccessfully trying to pick up women half his age. He is currently working on a book that he hopes will convince people that he was important to the Seattle scene.

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  1. ^ "10 Things Jesus Wants You To Know serial citation", OCLC WorldCat. 
  2. ^ "Up and Coming: Rock the Vote", The Stranger, August 12, 1999. 
  3. ^ Reid Kanaley. "With a Nod to to Franklin, Electronic Magazines Spring to Life on the Net", The Philadelphia Inquirer, August 2, 1995. 
  4. ^ Gill, Martha (2000). E-zines: Explore On-Line Magazine Design. Rockport Publishers. ISBN 1564965554. 
  5. ^ "alt.youth.media show". 
  6. ^ (2001) Zine Yearbook Volume 5. Become the Media. ISBN 096648293X. 
  7. ^ Regina Hackett. "Zines: Ground Zero for Alternative Publications", Seattle Post Intelligencer, September 7, 2000. 
  8. ^ James Squeaky. "A Prescription to the Underground: Tablet Newspaper", Punk Planet, February 2000, pp. 110-111. 
  9. ^ "2001 Utne Reader Alternative Press Award Winners", Utne Reader, January/February 2001. 
  10. ^ "News Buzz", The Seattle Weekly, August 31, 2005. 

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