Charlie Williams, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA

cwilliams@icx.net

I kinda like the FM version of your zine. Easier to read, prettier graphics, and I can share my copy with many others. Can't take it to the john, stacked in the magazine rack gathering lint and toilet-paper dust. Gotta log on and select the bookmarked site, and scroll down. A different kind of read, so modern. It's inevitable, like when rock'n'roll was on tinny AM, making the transition to broadcast stereo on FM and all. It hit me when a friend called up the latest Chall on his handheld computer, like a character from Mote in God's Eye ... The published zine is like the mimeograph, like the 12-cent comic book.

Or the six-ounce Coca-Cola, which you can still get, and which is still best, but which now costs too much for the amount you get. Ah, we're old men, Charlie. Time to lay us down and fertilize the Earth ...