Castration
Rite #3 was written mostly during December of 2003, but extending a month or
so on either side. It dealt with the happiness I was feeling over a good
summer gone by, one full of dignity and late-night biking. It was also about
friends gone by, especially my long-lost sweetest friend Christina who moved
back home and out of my day-to-day life. It was a retrospective of the previous
winter where I had felt trapped by my inability to speak to her completely openly,
sometimes troubled as I was by the fact that she was to move away.
I have included some selections which didn't make the final cut into the zine; these are marked with a little unseen logo.
Not to get into too much detail, but I felt that this zine was at once more serious and more whimsical than my other ones. I just tried to write from the heart rather than trying to be a loud boyo, hence the difference in style. It's all aspects of Dan!
1. Ostensible
Intro. 
2. Sometimes the softest notes soothe..
3. Biking in the rain to meet a boy in troubled woods.
4. Clit Hill.
6. Biking in the rain just from a film with Adam H.
7. Sweetheart Naomi saves the day.
8. Biking the rain just from a place of kindly love.
10. Glimpses of photos.
11. I
wrote a zine that I never published.
12. Jewel of my summer.
14. Said a character in a restaurant.
15. Helmets
for safety.
16. Snow Train.
17. Comforts of tea.
19. Madness of Brian.
20. Greatest obstacle to plan.
21.
Cruelties of the Sweater of Misery.
22. Dream
bus sequence.
23. I
once loved a girl named Levine.
24. My
greatest secrets.
26. Winter.