December 1, 2006 @ 12:11 am
Download this month’s Axes & Alleys today and feel free to ogle all of our previous issues in the archive.
As you’ll read in this month’s letters section, Paul David Hewson wrote in to ask us why we always hire celebrities to appear as our cover models. As he so rightly points out, some of the most attractive people happen to not be celebrities. Thanks for the suggestion Paul David Hewson. You are no doubt pleased to know that we’ve taken your advice.
This month we present our latest cover model, Irene Baras. Ms. Baras is a casual acquaintance of the Axes & Alleys editorial board. We’ve gotten to know her over the past four years, usually over beer, ground beef, pasta, flour tortillas and sundry other products common to the grocerial arts. You’ll no doubt agree she’s an attractive dame.
Now we would like everyone to offer a moment of silence in memory of the Scythians, who disappeared from this earth so many years ago. They are sorely missed and will live on in us through each passing generation (due to mitochondrial DNA).
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December 3, 2006 @ 12:00 am
Axes & Alleys: Our Last Best Hope for Peace!
Last issue we bid a fond adieu to several writers who have passed out of our lives or passed on with their own. While we know the vast majority of our readers care not a whit about the people who make the magazine, we are quite aware of the importance of our articles, columns and features to them. Many of you have noted certain of these disappearing from our pages. Instead of introducing you to the exciting and, dare we say, new entrants upon these pages, we will show you a little of how the publishing of a magazine works by listing a few rejected candidates for inclusion in these pages.
The Snowman Report
Bob King, agriculture specialist of the Cornell Cooperative Extension of Monroe County, would write a monthly report on snowman infestations across America, control and extermination, as well as hobbyist breeding tips. As this feature would be largely seasonal, we rejected it out of hand.
Butane 12 Step Program
A resource for those addicted to the storage of butane, collection of butane products, and physical abuse against butane. While the concept did have widespread appeal, we were searching for new columns with staying power and this one would necessarily last only one year.
Yo-Yo Instructional Video Transcripts
Transcripts of various instructional yo-yo videos provided in partnership with www.yo-yo.org. Initially we felt this was a great concept and did attempt to insert such a feature in the last issue. Unfortunately it was unwieldy, took up over twelve pages, and featured not a single scantily-clad woman.
We hope you appreciate this peek into the backroom dealings and thought processes of Axes & Alleys. Also, we hope you appreciate the fact that we did not subject you to the above, quality-lowering concepts and their brethren in future issues of the magazine.
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December 6, 2006 @ 12:01 am
Written correspondences from good natured gentlemen who have read our previous installments and wish to comment on some aspects thereof.
Dear A&A,
Your advertisement for the Mohorovicic Discontinuity (Caliguly 2006) would also be great for a t-shirt. Unfortunately the molten rock contained within the Earth is called magma, not lava. This really bugs me.
Sabine
Corpus Christi, TX
Dear Editors,
I take issue with Sticker Page in your Clauduary issue (Sticker Page, Clauduary 2006). At the very top of the page you feature a sticker which says “I Dig Dugout Dug.” Dugout Dug is a thoroughly despicable human being. He is unable to wash or clothe himself and his only claim to fame before your infamous lionizing of him on Sticker Page was being kicked out of the Rocklynde, Montsylvania Lentil Soakers AAA baseball team dugout before every game.
Melvin Merkson
Rocklynde, MV
To the Axes & Alleys editors, in regards to Not Even
Wrong review, Springtober 2006:
Thanks for sending this, although I think you guys should lighten up…You have been smart enough to notice what lots of reviewers didn’t, that the book wasn’t especially written for a popular audience, but that significant parts of it were really written mainly for other physicists and mathematicians, although this is cleverly hidden through the avoidance of equations. My publishers also didn’t much notice this, although they perhaps just have unshakeable faith in the public’s willingness to buy something they won’t be able to understand. Anyway, so far I’ve been extremely pleased and surprised at how much attention the book has gotten and how well it has been selling. It really was intended originally for a university press and much more limited distribution. String theorists put a stop to that, now they’re not very happy with the fact that the book’s point of view is reaching a rather wide audience.
Anyway, best wishes!
Dr. Peter Woit
New York, NY
Dear Axes & Alleys,
I am incensed by the latest rash of bestiality reports in the media. Persons engaging in interspecies rape with pit bulls, pomeranians, schnauzers, basset hounds, doberman pinschers, chihuahuas, bluetick coonhounds, corgis, pekingese, otterhounds, and spitzes is just disgusting. Humans should only rape size-appropriate canines such as Irish wolfhounds, borzois, St. Bernards, Rhodesian ridgebacks, and mongrels more than two feet tall. I am constantly amazed at the true depths of depravity to which society plummets; more so the incomprehension of size differences.
Mike Gamble
Sordid Rakehook, WD
Dear Axes & Alleys,
Your classified ads are not actually classified at all. They are randomly arranged. Please fix this or I will cancel my subscription. Also, when are you gonna publish some more Rango and Lem comics? It’s not like they’re that hard or produce, so c’mon lets see the boy and the alien and lets see some actual classifieds some time.
Jennifer Martasko
Seaford, NY
To the Editors,
How come all the ladies on your covers are famous celebrities like actors, singers or models? Why not put an ordinary girl on your cover? Maybe someone who’s just a college student or check out girl at the supermarket? Ordinary, normal girls are hot. It’d be cool to see one on your cover.
Paul David Hewson
Dublin, Ireland
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