Not a front for a secret organization.
Written by Rob Schultz (human).
This month we make up for last month’s dreadful dearth of words with a double-long edition. Incidentally, part three in the not-connected-in-any-discernible-way-as-of-yet Company Town series.
In another series first, this is the only issue in the first 21 of the series to be written in the second person. You think it’s great! You click the link and subscribe today!
Because March Madness is overrated.
Perfect for the would-be zine collector in your life who just hates to read. Useful in a variety of situations calling for a pointy thing, a plastic bag, or a bulletproof disc. (CAUTION: Due to budget concerns these discs will only stop hand-thrown bullets.) Available now to subscribers, and in fine Los Angeles-area comedy theaters.
Continuing our summer of experimental zine content, Issue 19 is hot off the presses, featuring the booking puzzles of the Gangbusters! Comedy Enjoyment Program. Why, there’s practically a puzzle on every page. Solve our historical puzzles, solve the new puzzles constructed for this issue, spot puzzles that don’t exist and solve those too!
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I’ve noticed days sneaking by where I get nothing done. Nothing at all! And it’s not that I have nothing to do. In fact, I decided to see what exactly I have going on at the moment, and I made a big weird chart that keeps growing new tentacles whenever I leave it alone for a few minutes.
I think about this panel all the time.
I suspect that the real problem is that I’m spoiled for choice and I’ve started playing the Netflix game with my tasks. You know the one. It’s the game where you spend a show or movie’s-worth of time just browsing around the menu instead of picking something? It’s because you know you can’t do or watch everything you want to watch and do, so now you’ve added the task of ‘look at and rank everything.’
I did the same thing in school – I don’t want to work on the project for the fun class because I’ll feel guilty about neglecting the boring class, but I don’t want to work on the project for the boring class because it’s boring.
The thing is, you’ve only got time to do one or two or three things in a day anyhow, so you can’t spend one of your actions on wondering what you should do with your turn. You need to spend your time chopping the arms off of that monster!
And what do you mean you only get to chop off two or three tentacles a day? Over a year that’s hundreds! The monster doesn’t stand a chance!
Anyway, today I made my cuts by releasing a new zine, mailing it out to my subscribers, and adding a discount reprint of issue two to the shop!
So it turns out our time-to-crate in this story was about 6 months. That's not too bad. Plus, not to give anything away, but nobody in this issue steals 40 pies. That would be terrible.
What does happen this month? You'll have to get your hands on an issue to find out, and the best way to do that is by having it mailed right to your home. You know, like subscribers do. However, I have a growing contingent of 'newsstand' customers, who like receiving their regular issues in person. 1/5th of each newly printed issue is already spoken for. Get yours today!
