


Shazam requires a few hours to sit down, search around, catch the sentiments and emotions that are stirring your soul, spread them on a lab table, and thoroughly investigate each one before properly putting it on display for the world (you guys) to see. Before I continue with an introduction that quickly become an apology and now finds itself transforming into an excuse, let me announce that while we always knew a 12 issue plan was theoretically possible, we found it physically impossible. Plus, we are being evicted from the building in which we built every issue, leaving us without a home base (yes, we are terribly late with utility bills too…). Though the original plan was to produce 12 newsletters corresponding to the 12 months of SM’s anticipated existence, the workload become to troublesome and there doesn’t seem to be any signs of a break in the action any time soon. This will most likely be the penultimate issue of Shazam Monthly. So, as has become tradition here at our most beloved newsletter, let me greet you all with a vehement apology! The we hate to set anything in advance (like, really, really hate to do anything in advance…clearly), our lawyers mentioned that it might be ‘prudent’ to inform you all, our most cherished readers, of the (anticipated) little time we have left together. In one world, I am elated at the prospect of delivering to you all another edition of Shazam Monthly! In the other world, shame leaks from every orifice of my body as I overflow with embarrassment from the mortifyingly tardy production schedule that has come to embody Shazam Monthly. I currently write to you in between worlds of opposite extremes.
