New York - 13 January, 1999: Let's recap. During the last seven months I have written this Publisher's Note to you from San Francisco and Santa Rosa, CA.; Westminster, MD; Higganum, CT; Montclair, NJ; and the supposed Ultimate Destination of this hejira, New York, NY. ("So nice they had to name it twice!")
I've managed to edit and publish this magazine every week, like clockwork; also produce the requisite Monday-Friday "IT Manager's Journal" and "Working the Web" columns for Andover News Network; and write my technological white papers for Faulkner Information Services.
And people say Hercules, of legend, had to go through labors.
If you read the last installment of this Note, you are aware that my hejira is not over. I'm still looking for the "right" apartment in New York. Me and 2 million other fools....
An hejira is ultimately a journey toward ones destiny.
I spoke at length on Monday night with "my" astrologer, our own JENNIFER BLUE about the next part of this journey.
She advised that I put off any decisions until the 25th of this month. That I follow my adventurous Aries intuition and just "roll the dice."
(I have one problem with Jen being my astrologer: she's an Aries, too. It's like talking to the mirror.
I know, I know! You would think that we're nothing alike from our writing. Guess again.)
She intimated that nothing would be resolved until the end of February.
Wonderful news!
I have said before that my work is my life. This latest episode should provide the definitive truth of that statement.
ABOUT THIS EDITION:
Oh-oh! There I go again. (Thanks, Ronald Reagan.) Why I have this abiding need to understand and reiterate the lessons of history I do not know. Maybe I took to heart the axiom about "...being doomed to repeat it."
One thing is for sure: I remain an unrepentant radical.
With that in mind, I would direct you to this week's DAY ONE. Yours Unruly makes Martin Luther King, Jr.'s mistake this time out and dares to talk about U.S. foreign policy. It seems like your votes were right. That's the place where the heavy lifting at The World's Magazine goes on.
On the lighter side, FAX NIKITA is back with some wonderful Strange but True law enforcement stories from Santa Rosa's TERRY LEE TERRIAN, and HOUSE OF CARDS has Jokes of the Day from three Loyal Rooters. Movie reviews? BRYAN POWERS gives us four more in THE AISLE SEAT. There are eight new features in all this edition. We think you'll love them.
And, oh yeah! my snappy new design...
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.
WHY?
Because we like you...
Be Good to Each Other,
It's not unlikely that you will read next week that I have taken another plane or train. The road can be both a refuge (Thanks, Joni Mitchell) and an ordeal....
What other life do I have?
End kvetch.
"Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences." -- Susan B. Anthony, 1860
Thanks for coming back this week.
Rod
ROD AMIS has published this magazine since 1990. It first appeared as a hardcopy 'Zine. In March, 1996, he launched it here on the Internet. Rod is a Contributing Editor at Suite101.com, where he writes the " 'Net Publishing" feature. His work has been featured in the San Francisco Bay Guardian Online,NRV8, and at WebLab's new Reality Check site.
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. He is principle writer and Editor for IT Manager's Journal, where he reviews technology issues five days a week.
When not busy with his 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....
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