October 1998
s m u g
feature
by Leslie Harpold

Ch-ch-changes

Recently, we've been using the "Feature" space for actual features, amazing bits of news and weather and important lifestyle pieces about things like Gaming Junkets and proactive littering. Which means it's been a while since I did a state of Smug address. It seems like it's about time, since a lot of little things have changed. If you're new here, go ahead and jump right in, there's plenty to read, but if you're trying to figure out just what's different around here, I'm about to start explaining.

Hello, I'm Leslie Harpold and you're reading Smug.com

If you've been with us since the beginning and so many of you have, (thanks!) you'll notice some minor changes have already begun. We added an explanations page for first timers (see the little ??? at the bottom of the page that outlines what the columns are all about. Last month we saw the last installment of "bumping uglies" our sex column, but writer Todd Levin will be back and badder than ever next month. Mysterydate has it's final celebrity author Alexis Massie, this month (but attention celebrities, we have special places for you so send those articles in!).

I also don't often have opportunity to publicly thank the writers. Jack and Todd have been with me since day one, and Joe is a long timer. Brian and Mike have done a great job keeping Feed Hollywood alive and newest staffer Josh is not only a great writer, but a lifesaver. The other last minute wonderboy is Gregory Alkaitis-Carafelli. How many people have geniuses standing by for their readers like we do? None, because no one is sexier than You , so you deserve it. We still miss Willie, but he's promised to come back this winter with a feature. Frequent contributor Dan Reines has been a wealth of ideas and has become part of the family. Carl Steadman, twice a mysterydate has been a great FOS (friend of Smug) as has the enthusiasm and follow through of Bob Van Pelt.

Hey, you're making a face! Stop that! You think EZines have academy awards where I get to put on some evening gown and thank the whole crew before the big hook comes to drag me off stage? No, we don't bucko, so smile and nod, I'm almost done.

Here's what we're not going to do: redesign, start publishing poetry, stop making fun of the media, talk about Star Trek, join the Society for Creative Anachronism and do a special issue in middle English, or turn into a Tiger Beat Style Fanzine. We're going to continue to bring you issue after issue of content even after they say content is dead. We will not offer personal home pages, email or become a portal. We won't sell your address if you're in the fanclub, we won't even loan it out. We're selfish with you that way.

Lastly, I'd like to say thanks to the readers for sticking by us. I know I've said it a hundred times, but no one is sexier than You, and I really mean that. Now enough from me, time for you to jump on the action packed issue we've got for you this month. Next month the feature will return to it's regularly scheduled madness.

leslie@smug.com

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