June 1998

1. There aren't too many commercially-funded webzines I respect. Often a perfectly good author will become intimidated and creatively stunted when writing for a webzine with "a business model," and will begin churning out dull, ironic, high-handed musings about the effects of Monica Lewinsky and Ginger Spice on American culture, instead of anything original or interesting.

But a couple -- not many, but a couple -- of these zines have a clue.