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A quick apology and an update

If I could find a camera, I would take a picture of my office, and maybe that would be sufficient.

But I wanted to write a note to every publicist and band and songwriter who has sent me a CD these last four or five months. Almost certainly I haven't played them, and I haven't answered your e-mail.

I just...can't.

I hope you'll understand, and, perhaps later, when I'm not hiding from this last deadline, I'll be able to explain why.

I will listen to all of it, once the madness settles and I've had enough sleep and the futility of things quits eating at me. And some of it I'll write happily about in this space, the good bits, and no matter that it's late, because I'll be writing for the pleasure of writing then, and nothing else.

But for now, I just can't.

The update is this: Our advertisers have been extraordinarily kind to us for this last issue, and it's a big one. We think you'll like it. (That is, if I don't mess it up.) Or, at least, it'll give you something to talk about.

The other updates, the ones we'd like to be able to post about the website's future and all the rest...we're still working on it. We don't want to over-promise, and we don't want to rush hastily into things which do not work. But there are kinds of hope afoot.

Meanwhile, please know -- everybody -- that I am deeply touched by your many kindnesses. That we are. All of us.

P.S. Before I forget...I didn't go to see President Clinton. It seemed more important to try to get the magazine done, and I didn't fancy standing in line all afternoon.

Posted by grant on March 28, 2008 10:42 AM | Permalink

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