ooh another letter,
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letters!

So what's going to be happening with Jack [we'd said 'summer 'zine experiment and fall is fast approaching]? I think its a fine little read, meself, quite informative with the listings section and entertaining with the ole back 'n forth, (though I could probly stand a bit more politix and a bit less art, frankly, particularly if the two are separated.) Nice tone throughout and the Comrade Sutherland piece in the new one is perfect. And the website is excellent. T'would be a real shame to drop it at the end of summer....

... And (never start a sentence with and) I further thought the little barb about you being so young to be so pessimistic was a bit lame. Everyone knows pessimism has always been the preserve of the young, almost exclusively. It's not exactly the old folk topping themselves in Davis Inlet because their lives suck, is it? Course I never wrote about it, because I thought it would be even lamer, but I did think about it, quite a lot.

And now here's the chip truck guy responding virulently to Alice's pungent gravy critique. What is it? Are peoples' heads actually *growing* out of their navels these days, or I am just too old and cynical (which is very different to pessimistic) to recognise the importance of the issue? Can we not just be entitled to our own personal independent chip opinion without having our entire gastronomy dragged through the mire and ridiculed with posh words no-one understands? Guess not...

Yeah, I think JACK is shaping up to be an excellent local shit stirring vehicle, which Peterborough could certainly do with, and I'd be delighted to be part of it. The stirring, ideally....

Billy D