The Retro Issue is done. Please enjoy it responsibly.
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After reading “Sexytime” I get the creeping feeling that will be read aloud in a shrill voice by somebody with a black armband at next year’s budget hearing. The additional layers of irony and satire are no insulation. Oh well.
Well then we did include Olly after all! Oh brilliant.
Sho: Last night when I read his comments I didn’t believe it. It was only the IP address that proved otherwise. (this is a joke. did it come of like that?)
I agree with Tyler, guys, good issue. I’m also excited to see what you guys do with HATE. But if you don’t understand the brilliance of Ian Crosswhite Height Watch, there’s no saving you. That was Olly’s idea, by the by, because he’s a genius.
Creating this issue was exhausting, due to the pure volume of back issues we read and were ultimately hugely distracted by. I wish we had done this issue earlier, because it has definitely changed how I see the mag.
Also, I had more help from staff getting this issue out than ever before. The help not only made the issue better, but it exposed our new staffers to “the real OC.” We’ve got a talented, funny, intelligent group of people together now, and I’m excited to get the Hate Issue together, and see what happens next year.
After reading the issue, I honestly think this is the best one of the year. There’s something very comforting about seeing the old-school layout come back. And the writing is generally pretty solid. Kudos, fellas.
Yeah, I wanted to mock my layout ideas from the Summer Issue, and have random dotted red lines going everywhere. Honestly, I was just glad to get the motherfucker finished. On to the HATE!
Tim: That TOC is classic minimalism combined with heavy alcohol use.
Olly and Dan: I would have written under your respective names, but it would have taken a lot more work than I was willing to do for this issue to do the pieces justice. Both of your styles of writing are great, which makes them all the more difficult to emulate.
Also, I am a lazy bastard. That might also have something to do with it.
Yes, being passed up for a Will Cohen tribute does sting a little…at least they reused one of my really ugly TOC’s. I was SO DRUNK when I made that one.
That is to say, I was SO DRUNK when I made pretty much all of the TOCs, I don’t even remember which issue that’s from specifically, but I remember doing it, sort of.
Ah, de lancie, if only you’d been there when we had to stand there before an unofficial court and listen to how this asshole’s puerile sex fantasies had caused actual physical harm to various (presumably highly suggestible) undergraduates. As it was, we had to flee for our lives.
Tyler: stop being such a child. Let’s keep conversation germane to the topic.
Olly and Dan: It wasn’t that you were passed up. It was that no one dared to emulate the intellectual, vivacious, and puffed-up writing of yours. Also, Will Cohen is just so great.
I didn’t mind being dissed in the Almanac in favo(u)r of Dan Atkinson – who would? – but I must admit that being passed over for Will Cohen does kind of sting.
Nope. Which just makes it all funnier.
Danimal: Are they ever?
After reading “Sexytime” I get the creeping feeling that will be read aloud in a shrill voice by somebody with a black armband at next year’s budget hearing. The additional layers of irony and satire are no insulation. Oh well.
Well then we did include Olly after all! Oh brilliant.
Sho: Last night when I read his comments I didn’t believe it. It was only the IP address that proved otherwise. (this is a joke. did it come of like that?)
I agree with Tyler, guys, good issue. I’m also excited to see what you guys do with HATE. But if you don’t understand the brilliance of Ian Crosswhite Height Watch, there’s no saving you. That was Olly’s idea, by the by, because he’s a genius.
Thank you!
Creating this issue was exhausting, due to the pure volume of back issues we read and were ultimately hugely distracted by. I wish we had done this issue earlier, because it has definitely changed how I see the mag.
Also, I had more help from staff getting this issue out than ever before. The help not only made the issue better, but it exposed our new staffers to “the real OC.” We’ve got a talented, funny, intelligent group of people together now, and I’m excited to get the Hate Issue together, and see what happens next year.
Tyler: I think your positive comments have either stunned everyone into a stupefied silence, or they’re all hungover.
Seriously, really good job, guys. I saw some real sparks here, and I hope this continues. I can’t wait until Hate.
Yes, yes, I think I qualified my statement sufficiently. I’m sure the Hate Issue will be even better, yet it doesn’t exist yet.
Fine issue, but definetely not one of the best. The best is yet to come, from what I understand.
After reading the issue, I honestly think this is the best one of the year. There’s something very comforting about seeing the old-school layout come back. And the writing is generally pretty solid. Kudos, fellas.
“Also, I am a lazy bastard. That might also have something to do with it.”
So, imitating me after all.
Yeah, I wanted to mock my layout ideas from the Summer Issue, and have random dotted red lines going everywhere. Honestly, I was just glad to get the motherfucker finished. On to the HATE!
Tim: That TOC is classic minimalism combined with heavy alcohol use.
Olly and Dan: I would have written under your respective names, but it would have taken a lot more work than I was willing to do for this issue to do the pieces justice. Both of your styles of writing are great, which makes them all the more difficult to emulate.
Also, I am a lazy bastard. That might also have something to do with it.
Yes, being passed up for a Will Cohen tribute does sting a little…at least they reused one of my really ugly TOC’s. I was SO DRUNK when I made that one.
That is to say, I was SO DRUNK when I made pretty much all of the TOCs, I don’t even remember which issue that’s from specifically, but I remember doing it, sort of.
Well you made me laugh…
“Also, Will Cohen is just so great.”
Ah, de lancie, if only you’d been there when we had to stand there before an unofficial court and listen to how this asshole’s puerile sex fantasies had caused actual physical harm to various (presumably highly suggestible) undergraduates. As it was, we had to flee for our lives.
In fact, we came to call that day the Battle of Will Cohen Hill.
(OK, I’ll stop.)
Tyler: stop being such a child. Let’s keep conversation germane to the topic.
Olly and Dan: It wasn’t that you were passed up. It was that no one dared to emulate the intellectual, vivacious, and puffed-up writing of yours. Also, Will Cohen is just so great.
Plus, I have AIDS.
STOP RUINING MY ORGANIZATION, BITCHES!!!!@?$ …. or something
Having commanded an entire Anti-Douchebaggery Regiment, I reckon you have a long road ahead, Niedermeyer.
Godspeed.
I can’t wait to not be hung up on my former glory!
Don’t cry, Olly — we were both passed over for Will Cohen.
Maybe it’s time to quit being hung up on our former glory.
I didn’t mind being dissed in the Almanac in favo(u)r of Dan Atkinson – who would? – but I must admit that being passed over for Will Cohen does kind of sting.