We have great news! The Winter issue is actually out during Winter! We have more great news! The Winter Oblivion is four pages longer than any Oblivion to date! Yippee!

We’ve noticed that more articles and feedback come in when school is in session. Perhaps school triggers that angry youth switch. Another possibility for increased submissions is the fact that we are finally giving out email accounts at oblivion.net as promised. If you submit an article, poem, cover art or graphics, and they are used, you qualify for an account. A big thank you to Olympia Networking Services for helping put Oblivion online. If you live in the Olympia, Washington area, get your Internet access through them (753-3636) because they are the fastest, kewlest, phattest, and one of their users has one of the few pages I’ve ever seen that actually uses that huge ass (like 5 gigabytes I believe) Microsft ActiveX Genie Control. It pops up on your screen and says something like "hi, I’m the genie. If you want something click on me or talk into the mic." Then you say "go away!" and the genie replies "if you need me, I’ll be down in the corner," and POOF, he’s gone. Talk about digressing.

The accounts are POP3, not shell, so you need to be able to check a POP3 mailbox (if you have PPP Internet access, you can easily). A note to you hax0rs out there: oblivion.net is virtual, so don’t use your mad hacking skills on it so you can jump on IRC and impress your friends, it won’t work...using your mad skills that is...I’m sure if you could jump on IRC from oblivion.net, your friends would be impressed. But anyway, I’m digressing again. Where was I?

If you want to obtain a paper copy of Oblivion, send two stamps to us (120 State Ave. NE #76, Olympia, WA 98501-8212). If you are looking to trade ‘zines, please be aware that we are relatively selective. If you have a ‘zine about youth issues, we’ll probably love it, but please don’t send us you "punk as hell" rag containing interviews with thirty hardcore bands.

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