Well following the normal delays that seem to plague the publication of AIM we bring you yet another issue. Its been a busy busy for the folks here but I am sure that the delays will be forgiven with our snazzy new interface and format.
It's been a very long time indeed. AIM missed the elections - prime fodder for commentary. We skipped the holidays - the perfect time to be disgruntled. But we return to you just in time for the coming of the Hale-Bopp comet, the spring season,the departure from this earth of several folks who decided to ride a U.F.O. into the afterlife, and of course the Timothy McVeigh trial.
Why were we gone so long? Well no reason really. Just pretty busy and trying to wrangle up material during the most hectic time of year for most everyone involved at AIM. We were swamped with obligations, contract jobs, new jobs...whew! Oh, Henry (the author of Soldier Talk) and his wife Beth are having a baby. There, that's a good enough excuse isn't it. Actually we don't need excuses. AIM is still ad free, we make no money on it, and I don't even show up to my real job on time.
What does the new AIM interface mean? Let's see. The new snazzy AIM interface means that instead of having to wait a month or two for new material from the folks at AIM you will get it almost as soon as we receive it. For every new piece of material received an old piece will be retired to the AIM archives and the new one will be added to the table of contents. Also watch in the coming months as we are going to offer a downloadable desktop "push tech" player so we can stream the announcements of new material added to AIM directly to your desktop computer. Expect this to be available by June. Neato!
We also welcome aboard several new contributors with this issue and hope you find amusement in their work. We are glad to say we are still pushing the envelope of good taste.
Possibly the oddest of these submission would have to be the abundance of Fabio-based poetry I received one evening via email. Upon reading these submissions I was first amused, then perplexed, and finally very confused and frightened. We are including the submissions in this issue, however, we are not responsible for any mental illnesses triggered or worsened by the reading of any entries within the "Fabio Poetry Repository".
We will also be maintaining the Heaven's Gate achive. We have mirrored their web site in its entirety. This includes the full text of their book in both HTML and downloadable .zip formats. Included are also copies of as many of the newsgroup postings made by Heaven's Gate members we could find. As we find more information and receive more Heaven's Gate related materials we will add it to the archive. Keep in mind that this addition is not due to the fact that we believe in or share the philosophies of these space travelers but simply because we want you to follow along with us and watch as a cult, over the course of time, becomes a real religion. We don't think it will end here.
So, stop reading the editorial - it is always boring and there is not much here you can't figure out for yourself. Dive in ......
If you would like to contribute to AIM feel free. Send us your stuff. No editorial discretion is exercised. The World Wide Web is a forum for the people and AIM plans to help it remain that way. So remember that the next time you are up at 3:00 A.M. and drunk and start to type, there is always someone at AIM that would love to read what you write. This doesn't mean we wont make fun of what you send us but ...well you know.....
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