Hey everybody,
Well there were no letters to respond to this month, but that's fine. I didn't feel like answering your stupid-ass questions anyway. Since I have nothing better to do, let me share some of my thoughts with you.
Since the UCC went online about 9 months ago I have produced about 12 issues with varying degrees of success. Some stories worked, some didn't, hopefully most elicited at least a chuckle. At the very least it was an outlet for foolishness and a way to keep my brain from atrophying completely. At that time I also included a counter to keep track of hits. It currently stands at about 2,560. This number should actually be 1,560 since I added 1,000 to it at first just so the number wouldn't look so pathetic. If you divide the number of hits by the number of issues this is 130 hits per issue. As we all know, these are not 130 different people reading this, since most people check it out more than once in the 3 week or month period between issues, and I myself add 20-30 hits to every issue just during the uploading and maintenance process.
My point is this: This is an awful lot of work for a very small audience. Of course no one's forcing me to do this, I enjoy it - but I'd enjoy it even more if there were more people reading it. So here's what I'm asking everyone to do for me, as a personal favour: send a quick email to everyone in your address book, excluding people you know would hate it, and ask them to check it out. Just say "here's a website you might like" and attach the URL. You don't have to personally endorse it or anything. If you are one of the recipients of one of these emails and are here for the first time, let me know what you think in The Big Question. Also, if you want to be notified of future updates, hit "Subscribe" at the bottom left of the main page.
The only possible downside to a larger audience is that I would have to tone down the personal side of things - i.e., Adventures In Camping in this issue is not interesting to anyone besides people that know the campers. The upside is that maybe some of these people can write better than me and will succeed where my feeble attempts at humour often fail.
I'm going to reset the counter to zero for this issue and we'll see if we can can get a few hundred hits this way.
And if you don't do this, I'm going to up-end you just like I'm doing to this guy in the picture.
Thanks everyone.
The Editor.
P.S. Oh, guess what, there was one late entry:
Hey,
When is there going to be something to read? I'm bored and want to read the UCC. Do you think we are paying you to sit around and do nothing? Just because you had to move and are probably living out of boxes doesn't mean that you can let down your readers who have no lives. Who the hell do you think you are?
Warmest regards,
Stash
Dear Stash,
Here you go, a whole new issue just for you. And also, blow it out your ass.
The Editor.
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