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Written by Scott Meadow
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Monday, 25 July 2005 (read 1964 times) |
Every now and then, as we crank out issue after issue for your unpaid
glee, I ask myself, "Why, why oh why, bro, do you keep publishing
IRREVERENT?" Sometimes one of the readers asks me. Sometimes a
writer. Truth is, I have no idea, but as near as I can tell we're
essentially an exercise in First Amendment protection. Barring that,
we're something more fun to do on the internet than watch the same
Jenna Jameson clips over, and over, and
over. Okay we don't actually contribute anything
(at all) to the Gross Domestic Product but we're not out there writing
"how-to" manuals for sheep fucking either. See what I mean about the
First Amendment? You can just tell that IRREVERENT is
exactly what Tommy Jefferson had floating around
his cerebellum back when men wore white wigs and were proud of it.
Also, if it wasn't for this rag we'd all have to shape up our prose to
go write for real zines, which is way too much effort. You want
slackers, I'll show you slacking. Throw a
dufus in the White House (funny, that's not been hard to come by since
1993) along with 3 parts global socio-political and economic change,
and you've got more material than we can be sarcastic about in four
lifetimes. Damn we're good.
So are we policy wonks or sardonic Gen X slackers with a penchant for
anarchy? I'd have to say yes, yes we
are.
If this is your first time at our fabulous little rag here, bear with
us because we've recently changed formats and are still adding stuff to
our archives going back to 1999. There's quite a bit of stuff to
add yet (except for the stuff that's going to see the short-end of a
Trash icon), but we've also got the more recent pieces recoded and out
there for your immeasurable gratification, more than enough to decide
that we're all fucking nuts, too pathological to deal with, or so
fucking weird you can't wait to come back for more.
C'est la vie.
I also need to make an ernest and sincere pitch at buying stuff,
especially after reviewing how much the site change has cost us.
Your consumption funds this rag, and we've got some quality merch on
display here, including the very cool "IMPERIALISM 2005" T-shirts and
tote bag on sale now at the IRREVERENT
Shop. All transactions are secure and guaranteed by
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make sure that our partner ID (28804) gets the credit. Danke.
That's it. Enjoy.
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