HIGGANUM, CT - 17 October, 1998: It is not the practice here to write the Publisher's Note early in producing a new edition. Yet, every blue moon, I find myself doing so. This issue I'm doing it because I also have a DAY ONE contribution to make.
I had planned to be in New York City today, talking to a rental brokerage agency, maybe going over to Jersey City to look at an apartment. But then I realized that I had ten new features to edit for this first issue of our "Soft and Hard"(or is that "Soft but Hard") edition. For those of you who are new here, the drill goes this way: weekly editions, which contain more than one issue, each with new features.
AND I asked myself this week why I had become so fixated with moving to Brooklyn. Now that I have begun serious scouting, there are great deals along my lines in Tribeca, the Bronx, even Manhattan, believe it or not. So now I'm casting my net more broadly. But Jersey City? view of the Statue of Liberty or not: I don't think so. How could I move myself and G21 World Headquarters to Jersey City and still state we come to you from New York?
You're sending your e-mail to the wrong guy, folks. Why don't you write Robin instead?
The irony is, our readership is up this month. We're making inroads in Europe. I get more queries from writers to contribute here than in over a year.
And still my personal Fun-quotient is at an all-time low ebb.... Let's hope this is just a "phase" I am going through...
ABOUT THIS ISSUE: I'm totally trashing the record thang. We have ten new features in this first issue of the "Soft but Hard" edition.
If you didn't check contributor WOLF DE VOON's DAY ONE submission last week, it's still linkable from our MAIN EVENT page. Go take a look.
This could almost be called the POWERS issue. Not only do we have both POWERSBOOKS and POWERSSOUND updates in this issue, but BOB POWERS also contributed the great jokes in HOUSE OF CARDS. There's more: in case Loyal Readers have not figured it out yet, yes, BRYAN POWERS our THE AISLE SEAT Film Critic is the son of the inimitable Bob. (It's another coup taking place before our very eyes!)
Meanwhile, PHIL MARTIN, our QUEER PLANET columnist speaks out about the murder of college student Matthew Shepard in Wyoming. Phil is usually of good humor, but even he called this piece a rant. We're proud to publish his indictment of our national hypocrisy vis-a-vis homosexuality.
CORRECTION: I mistakenly identified my godson's major as Computer Science; he switched it to Multimedia Studies while I wasn't looking. I apologize for the misunderstanding.
Thanks for coming back this week.
WHY?
Because we like you....
Be Good to Each Other,
I have been in a very ornery and disgruntled mood lately. Just ask the writers. Part of the source of my irritability has had to do with this move. Confusion has reigned, in terms of communications in "meat space" between my publishers and I. For some reason, all of my notifications of Change of Address seemed to fall on death ears. All the snail mail kept going to California, even though I went to great lengths to let everybody and his brother know I am now in Connecticut. If experience is any teacher, therefore, I can expect the same types of SNAFUs when I move to New York City next month.
What I fail to understand is, now that the whole world knows that Robin Miller is King of the USA, why people keep sending their petitions for attention to me. I get mail almost every day with some issue the G21 should champion.
The other influence affecting my mood(s) is that I am not having the FUN at this that I used to.... When you publish as frequently as we do, the Fun-quotient becomes an important part of the process.
We're glad you're here. We have a lot to offer this(and EVERY) week. Stick around. More importantly: TELL EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOUR FRIENDS. We want you here EVERY DAY.
Rod
ROD AMIS is a Contributing Editor at Suite101.com, where he writes the " 'Net Publishing" feature.
Rod is also a columnist for the Andover News Network, where he writes on web design and development issues every Thursday; and a contributing writer for Faulkner Information Services.
And when not busy with publishing chores at this site, and answering sixty -to- one hundred e-mails a day, he likes to throw darts; seek female companionship; and listen to Tupac, Beethoven, Philip Glass, Joni Mitchell, James Carter, Eric Clapton, Snoop Dogg, Etta James, Miles Davis, Handel, Portishead, Toots & the Maytals, Bob Marley, Sinead O'Connor, techno, house, jazz.... You get the idea.
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