What do you get when you take women with names like ‘Varla Vendetta’ and ‘Amber Waves of Pain’ and squeeze them into tight shorts and a pair of skates? Roller Derby of course―a sport in which the contestants proudly display their injuries and fight like wild valkyries...

It is impossible to read the zine and not feel as though you are drawn into the mind of the author, seeing every event unfold in front of you in vivid color.  This is the power of the Fickle Little Machine.

Ideology substitutes conscious reflection and careful consideration with easily supplied axioms that are supposed to apply to all situations.  To an ideologue, ‘X’ will always supply an answer or explanation for every problem.