G21 INSIDER

Our Gala Anniversary Celebration

Publisher's Note

New York - 23 March, 1999: Three years. Wow!

I guess that means this is the first Edition of our fourth year here on the World Wide Wait.... Let me catch my breath, it's been a busy week.

Don't expect any profound statements from me on our longevity. I save all the profundity for my editorials these days. I believe it has something to do with the California Gene. After you live in Cali for ten years, you are required to ration the profundity you're capable of producing. Don't want to give the state a bad name.

So now I have been pumping out this 'Zine, then E-Zine, then full-blown Web Magazine for nine years. Nine years. That's like twenty percent of my entire life!

Wha' happened? The goal was to get published, not be a publisher! Sheesh!

I certainly had no plans to be resource for writers from around the globe. Didn't ever think of myself as growing up to be a journalist. No way I was going to spend most of my days answering electronic mail.

Hell, if you had told me ten years ago that I would grow up to live on some ephemeral thing called "the Internet" (invented by Al Gore,) I might have slugged you.

But there have been lots of Grace Notes, as you'll read below.

I, personally, have been truly amazed by some of the fabulous stuff that our team of regular and "irregular" writers had to submit for this Anniversary Edition. MARK OSTROWSKI sent us a wonderful piece from Argentinean writer JORGE ZENTNER which you'll find gracing G21 WORDS.... JEFF WINBUSH always seems like he's trying to test the limits of my commitment to the First Amendment Pledge I took two years ago. Take a look at his premiere piece for BLACK INK and you'll see what I mean... Meanwhile, the Muse of our magazine, FLISS USSHER wrote to let me know that she would be in San Francisco, my old stomping grounds. (Fliss, if you are reading this telephone me! I have a couple friends back on the Est Coast I'm sure you'd enjoy meeting.)

As you read this, The World's Magazine, Harry Houdini and I are another year longer in the tooth.

What I have learned this weekend/week is that I have had a reputation which preceded me. Some people --- among them some of my closest friends --- told their friends, before meeting me, that I was something of a "Wild Man."

Wild Man? Me? I don't get this....

I was the guy who most usually used to be found at a corporate job --- which is why I feel I'm an expert at raging against the corporate mentality.

Well, yes, I threw regular Fool Moon parties while working for Cox News.

And, yes, I took LOTS of people skinny-dipping at waterfalls --- but that was my ex-wife's fault.

Yes, I've lived all over the planet, spoken more languages than most Americans would care to, and had my share of the women I could charm.

And, yes, I did get one close friend's older sister to get naked in a hot tub. She needed to loosen up and get into the '80s....

That whole thing about me ONLY dating bimbos is a lie.

Yes, I've taken people out and regaled them with wild stories about escapades which no man still living should have experienced.

Yes, my first love started a telephone conversation with me last year with the phrase: "I was sure you'd be dead by now.."

BUT F. Scott Fitzgerald I was not. I never made people ride on the top of a limousine. And I'm too old to do that now.

AND bottom-line: I've always been Mr. Dependable. The guy you could count on in a pinch. Mr. Follow-through.

How "Wild" is that?

Work like you don't need the money,
Love like you've never been hurt,
Dance like no one is watching,
Rod

Rod is a columnist for the Andover News Network, where he writes on web design and development issues every Thursday. He is principle writer and Editor for IT Manager's Journal, where he reviews technology issues five days a week. His opinions on the Info Age begin appearing on MethodFive's HYPER technology newsletter this month.

When not busy with his publishing chores at this site, and answering sixty -to- one hundred e-mails a day, he likes to throw darts; seek female companionship; and listen to Tupac, Beethoven, Philip Glass, Joni Mitchell, James Carter, Eric Clapton, Snoop Dogg, Etta James, Miles Davis, Handel, Portishead, Toots & the Maytals, Bob Marley, Sinead O'Connor, techno, house, jazz....

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