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4/7/2006
The First Amendment to the Constitution guarantees us a free
press, and that ’s exactly what you get with Degenerate Press – free.
And freedom is what I get from it. Degenerate GN puts it well:
Hahahahahah. April Fool's on you. <grin> You expect me to believe for even one
second that you'd give up the Dgen forum in which, clearly, you can say whatever
you want, however you want, and for as LONG as you want, and that you'd chuck it
all so you could whore yourself out for pennies a word to tyrannical editors who
castrate and mutilate your text so severely that it no longer says anything
remotely like it did when you turned it in -- and who do this to you only after
making you sign an exclusivity-laden freelance agreement which gives them not
only total ownership of your work, but also the right to republish it in any
collection or anthology of their own devising?
I think not.
--Degenerate G.N.
P.S. Always check the fine print...and keep your handguns fully loaded.
Every April 1st I get to pretend it’s not worth the ISP and web hosting fees and
throw it all away for something else and every year a few of you believe I’d
give it up. Sure, long-time subscribers have come to expect it. About February I
get people asking me what this year’s April Foolery will bring, as if I’d give
it away. But for every person that expects, or at least gets, the joke, another
person passes me on the street and bemoans the loss of my little effort.
No, Electric Degeneration is not yet dead. One of these April 1sts I WILL kill
it, then nobody will believe it, sort of like when Andy Kaufman died.
Heck, maybe next year will be the year since I’m running out of ideas on why I’d
give this up. I’ve sold out to Jeff Clark, left for a job in Italy, been shut
down by the FBI, shut it down myself to run for public office, I’ve killed
Degenerate Press for every reason I can think of but, appropriate to the Easter
season, rises anew shortly thereafter.
Not only is the E.D. still alive, but we’re kickin’ – New York City style:
www.degeneratepress.com/travel/nyc_2006/
I’ve neglected some emails from subscribers lately. Sorry, been swamped with the
Loafing gig on top of NYC reviews and such! Here’s one that got lost in the
fray:
Dear Groucho,
Or now that you are older is that Grouchy ?
I stopped reading the "Loafer" after 9/11 basically for the same reasons you
quit reading Stomp And Stammer.
But it was because of all the left wing ranting that was driving me to pull my
hair out.
And from the emails and content of DP, I am sure I am one of only a few
subscribers that lean towards conservative/libertarian here.
However, I can't do without my Degenerate Press.
Hell, I may even have to end my silly CL boycott that went unnoticed anyway and
pick one up now that you are in it.
Degenerate DD
For those of you new to the subscriber list, or rejoining after an absence,
welcome! Sorry you came in mid-joke, but at least you came.
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