an email from Thomas Vacca to the Editor, July 20, 2000


Dear Mr. daMAN aka whitey

Hmm, I don't know if I fully understand your editing techniques. You took the whole stoned typing bit clean out, and then made me look bad! That stuff is the real art, forget stories and beginings and middles and endings (especially those three things). Don't you see the real art was in the digressions- didn't you "catch my buzz" when ya were reading the "sound poetry?" Tony, I'm a little shocked and somewhat dismayed. I would ask you to restore that vital component, or is "editing" simply another word for........ CENSORSHIP?!! I eagerly await your reply. IT'S NOTES, MAN. NOTES.

who put you up to this? Was it the Census enforcers? or do you simply comply with the whims of the BigMan like a reed in the wind? IT'S ALL JUST NOTES TIL IT'S NOT NOTES NO MORE! LET IT BREATH! GIVE IT ROOM, LET IT ENDURE. CAN'T YOU JUST LET IT LIVE? WHO MADE YOU GOD, EDITOR MAN? FOR THE RECORD, I SOMEWHAT STRENOUSLY OBJECT TO THE SIN OF OMMISSION AS PERPETRATED BY YOU! Really though, to my mind that shit is the funniest and most original. T'other stuff is kidna patsy.

nightynight.

tv

ps you can post this too.

 

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