Calumny & Art, edited by R. Gathman, art editor David Mackie Issue #4, ESCAPE FROM THE WORLD OF WORK

In this issue, I'm going to try to be doing a few things differently. For one thing, I've noticed over the past couple of months that even my friends, and even when I bother them, don't read this magazine. Is it, I have to ask myself, because of the quality of the writing? Or is it the wierdness of asking anybody nowadays to read something? I mean read, not watch it on tv. Not ingest it, not smoke it, not drive it, not fill it up with gasoline and help pollute our atmosphere, not fuck it, not pull some skier after it or dump tons of oil in some unoffending lake and make an ungodly noise with it, not shoot with it or follow some slack clues and a decrepit plot and stupid special effects to get through it, not do anything but gaze at it with your eyes and take in some dumb meaning, some dumbshow of meaning. That's all.