Welcome To This Magazine!!

I am not embarrassed to say that we here at Welcome To This Magazine, the brand new weblog on the block!!, hired a marketing company to assist us with our first foray into "online zine-making". With the print zine market shrinking, and so many of these magazines folding or turning into "weblogs," the time seemed right to make a high-risk investment and see if we couldn't become the big fish in a small pond, "as it were." While we may lose a great deal of credibility by admitting that we had to hire consultants instead of going "balls-forward" (as marketing parlance would have it) into this unfamiliar, dogmatic "online zine-scene," I believe, as do our consultants, that honesty is the first requirement that must be met for a burgeoning publication such as this. I hope we have satisfied that requirement, so that we can continue in our own direction with the coming issues.

Our consultants also instructed us to come straight out of the gate with controversial topics. For example, an "online zine" without a drawn or photographed penis is basically dead in the water, as per their fabulous pie-charts; suchly, you shall see at least several examples of the male phallus before this blog has run its (long and illustrious) course. Another "online zine-trend" is the concept of finding "found" things, which, as any good print zine-reader should know, is the idea of a thing being found, and using the content for financial gain after a xeroxing or three (to give it character).

We, along with our marketing team, have come up with an innovative, fresh concept: Cut out the xeroxing, and exhibit our content in a virtual space, instead! Tell me where you've heard that before and I'll send you ten bucks (I'm aware there are similar ideas, as the internet is very broad, so I will only send ten dollars if I have the means -- don't hold me to it, dear reader!).

In fact, some of the penis drawings and photographs that you will soon see gracing this gorgeous page on the web, were "found," which thankfully satisfies both requirements with only one item taking up otherwise worthwhile space. Again, we hope that in our next issue, we will have gained the trust of our readership enough to jettison these silly marketing needs, although we should note that there was a distinct pleasure discovered in finding, drawing, repeatedly xeroxing, and printing phalli.

With the needs of the zine market in mind, we were not able to produce as many articles immediately as we expected relating to our original vision. However, I am proud to say that Blogging From Jail did not lose its integrity as a closed forum for political opinion in the process. We're happy to have you with us, and we hope you'll enjoy the ride!

Undoubtedly yours,

Agustin R. Mojica
Editor-In-Chief,
Editor Emeritus,
Assistant Editor,
Author,
Political Correspondent,
Executive Editor