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M C S W E E N E Y ' S N E W S This page will be updated occasionally, notifying readers of developments, special offers, etc. from McSweeney's. All offers are real, unless they are obviously not real. - - - - APRIL 18 Many thanks to all who came to the McSweeney's Event, to all who performed or otherwise helped. In particular, we owe much gratitude to the patient and talented Diane Vadino, who was, you might say, the glue that held the whole night together (if, of all adhesives that might serve as bonding for days or portions of days, it was glue that held together night, as is perfectly possible). Again, thank you to all. 20 copies of McSweeney's Issue No. 1 just returned from a distributor in the Northwest. Their loss is your gain. These copies are in near-mint condition, and are available to you for $8 per at St Marks Bookstore in Manhattan or through the mail. Send checks to the usual place. Orders will be fulfilled in May. Speaking of May, the site will continue to be on semi-hiatus until that time. But once May rolls around, oh man we're going to have some fun then. - - - - APRIL 8 In April, McSweeney's will be on semi-haitus. Subscriptions will be fulfilled at a slower rate, email answered (much) slower, and we will not be able to receive perishables that do not fit through the mail slot. Speaking of which, yesterday we received a whole cantaloupe from Portland. Thank you, Dan Frazier. - - - - MARCH 26 - A week or so ago, McSweeney's posted a notice requesting help in our efforts to continue to do these things that we do here. We expected one or two offers of help, from orphans and recent widowers, or students at overpriced schools. We did not, please note, expect about 100 responses in under two days. Or even 50, which is about what we received. Deluged as we were, we have been truant in getting back to all you good people. But we will. Anyone who wants to work will be given work to do, just like they do in that one country. - Many subscribers, upon receiving McSweeney's Issue No. 2, have complained that, contrary to (what they have read as) our promise to inscribe each and every copy of McSweeney's, their copy of No. 2 has come blank, uninscribed. To clarify: the inscription-promise was made only on copies of McSweeney's Issue No. 1, because when it was published, the world was new and the subscriptions came at a pace that was keep-up-with-able. No longer. Because we had to mail so very many hundreds of copies of No. 2 all at once, there was of course no time to doodle in each, no matter how much (how very, very much) we wanted to. We are sorry for any inconvenience or sadness this may have caused. - The McSweeney's Representative is so far delighted with the results of his request for subscription trades with those working at or publishing their own provocative and essential trade magazine. We have so far made arrangements to receive the following:
Modern Tire Dealer (The Industry's Leading Publication) Auto Trim and Restyling News (Ideas and Solutions for Professionals) Plastics Technology: The ONLY Magazine for Plastics Processors ID: The Voice of Foodservice Distribution ChemicalWeek and a magazine called Toast, which we are told is about yeast. Please keep them coming. - STYLE NOTE: the phrase "snail-mail" will not be tolerated in any contexts, including letters from readers. For the McSweeney's Representative (M.R.), seeing that expression is like getting kicked in the head with a bloody, steel-tipped boot. Do not make us sad by using this expression. Do not say you are sending something via "snail-mail." Do not say you are sending something via "snailmail :)." These sorts of things make us sad. we want to be happy, not sad. - McSweeney's has thus far received no melons, as per our offer below. By now we expected to have received melons. - - - -
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