Greetings, yo.

Hi Kari, :) Thank you for your participation and for your wonderful contribution to Zineshow!

Keri, I thank you for your work. It would be so lonely without the paper you send out into the world. I have kept in mind sending you zines for soldiers....and have even thought of sending you the new slingshot to send to them. The plan I have so far is 10 copies of issue 48 and about the equivalant of issue 49. Then any amount of slingshot really since we print 20.000.

Hi Keri . . . I was out tomcattin' last night and got home in the wee hours to find an issue of Shards!  I wasn't feelin' so good when I woke up and had the blues . . .and then I saw my copy of Shards!  Oh! Something to chase the blues away!  I came right on down here to the hippy coffee shop to read it!  I'm gonna be happy.  I got to study too . . . but I can put that off.

Thank you for the wonderful pins.  I put them on my cool leather punk rocker jacket with all the other pins. 

Sumo? well . . . hmm . . . that seems reasonable.  I mean all you do is push each other around with your tummys right?  That beats being kicked in the head if you were taking the kung fu class down the hall.

OK . . . I'm gonna get to Shards.  I gotta tell ya . . . your story of the mania kicking in and stealing all the pens them college kids write them messages with is absolute genius!  I love that story.  I've read it a half dozen times.  I also sure love the story with you and your car and all the . . . .uh . . . bumps you get into in it.  I do that too!!!!   I had two in a day too!  But you still hold the record since you got into two . . . uh . . . bumps in a 10 minute span.  You Hollywood people are all nuts!  That's kinda why I get a kick out of you.

OK . . . I gotta get to this Shards!  I'll be sending you some stuff as soon as I recover from my night of tom cattin'.  It's hard on an old fellow to keep up that sort of thing.

I adore you and your goddamned masterpiece of a zine.

Fishspit out.

P.S.S. Keri . . . sigh . . . I just finished the Shards #4 and #5 . . . what do I do now?  You are a genius. That's all . . . nothing more to tell you.

Fishspit out.

P.S. Keri . . . at the moment I'm trying your homeopathic cure for stupidity. . . . I think this one might work!!  But if you don't hear from me again . . . well . . . I . . . a . . . things are getting hazy . . . I . . . .

Huminy huminy huminy! I got my "sex sells" issue of Shards today! Wait! I just opened it! Hey! Wait! There's no nekkid people in here! Even the cat's got a bell! 

But no here we go . . . i'm gonna kick back on the couch, but on a rekkid and laugh until I cry.

Fishspit out!

the newspaper went to the printer on  tuesday. it  will get back to us on friday--when im out of town. we do the mailing party on sunday. the  papers should get to you in about two  weeks. 

I  return to the bay around the 23rd--so i  can check then what issues you sent me and then work on sending you some  zippos

today i went searching thru trash and found a pink dow comforter and lots of GMO        junk food, a couple of shot glasses and a half of bottle of Saki. A couple of days ago while hunting i found a hooka and a keg. guess which one i carried off...

hey thanks of thinking of me...i saw your project to get zines in the hands of the needy while cruising this site last week and i'm glad you invited me. It's been a hell week of tasks--including wrapping up Slingshot#113. I got together a review of Shards but since i turned it in late i made it rather abbreviated so my apologies if it reads a little generic.

So my head will still be spinning well into May 25th with travel and wrapping up projects and most importantly---fishing for useful shit from the student trash. I can oblige you in small ways. I will go over my originals on hand to find my zines that are readable (only about 3-4 issues). I can also look into having slingshot send you a small pile of the new issue.

like i said i will be a little scrambled (egg) until about the 25th. please send word and puns to me around that time, especially regarding how many copies of zines you want...

and i can ask other zine people if they wanna send shiot

Right on Kari!  I just enveloped up my stack of wisebloods to post to you for the troops.  Will post it tomorrow.  I can't wait for more shards!  woo hoo!

Thanks for doing this "zines to troops project.

Fishspit out.