prIz apathy studios the may nineteen ninety-six art thang phear us a lot Apathy the only group ran by seniors capable of getting whiplash from a swivel chair It r3ally hurtZ d0od@!!##$%^** I think i m gonna cry -mt Did i mention its Inside Joke Month well we can all thank trip for that silly little opening paragraph thing (we think he s been smoking some of that local arizona shrubbery) anyway welcome to the may 1996 apathy art thang this is misfit typing (and btw if i m not funny in this info file blame trip he s rushing me to finish it ) and i ve got a poo-load of news to report on but first the smoochy nice stuff thanks a ton to prizm of rival for that kickin font up there it rocks my world man you re the best (aw that was sweet) aight now on to the fun stuff as you may have heard by now either through irc or in stc s hip emag crash n burn apathy is going through a lot of changes right now it all started a few weeks ago when trip & i were have phone se- er discussing impor tant apathy business and we got to talking about how huge apathy was getting and how he and i were killing ourselves to keep it going (do you have any idea how hard it is to keep 40+ art geeks coordinated i d ra- ther lick a stoat) anyway it came down splut to two choices a) kill apathy or b) do some serious rearranging since trip and i plan to be in apathy until we re wrinkled old men with size twenty colostomy bags pleased with the changes going we were a little more keen on option b on in apathy trip plays with l il twiggy as you can imagine we had a little trouble deciding exactly how to size things down we came up with a ton of ideas from kicking everyone out and and then re-inviting a few to holding sort of a raffle (it seemed a sound idea at the time) finally we came up with two lists a list of possibles and a list of doubtfuls the possibles were members who were either good friends they were regular contributers and helped out a lot with the group the second list had like 30 people on it the first a measley 10 (including trip and me) sheesh buy hey these are ten of the coolest people i ve ever met in the scene and i think any group worth shit would be proud to have em (btw -- there are eleven members of apathy now hades returned from his excur- sion to africa right before the pack came out and we re all happy he wasnt cannibalized or gored to death or anything) go check out that hip member list we did for a rundown of who s still with our happy little family now the bad news last month our member list peaked at nearly 40 members and since we now only have eleven obviously we had to let some people go (and this has been the hardest decision we ve ever had to make) to those we passed over it s nothing personal we think you re all cool guys but we simply couldn t afford to have a group that big anymore so without further ado here it is apox caduceus crayon defiant eiht ball ellis dee epidemic fringe fury meep mighty mouse nootropic nosferatu sir death straka sublime shoony spear kamikaze creed fresh lint smokey cephyr tical cidica nero assumed assassin hooch vil lage idiot and b0rys whew keep in mind that many of the above were probables but couldn t deal with some of apathy s newer policies (which i ll explain later) all in all thirty-two apathy members got their walking papers i m glad at least that most of them took this change in stride & were pretty cool about it (and then there are those nameless few who just couldn t handle it they re all dead now) argh that was tough to do ahwell such is life anywho we ve also adopted some misfit weeps over the inevita- new policies meant to help raise the qual- ble loss of so many members ity level in apathy first no same art form dual groupin meaning that you can t be in apathy and another group for say ansi although if you did ansi or something for us you could be in another group for like vga i know it sounds more than a little vague but ohwell deal with it also apathy is now invite only you cannot apply you must be invited by trip or me ack this is shaping up to be sort of a depressing info file sniff as far as sites go we dropped them all poo (602-589-0791) is still the the world headquarters ran by trip the ushq acetone will be going up sometime next month i hope btw it s pronounce a-se-tone do art for it if i m missing anything i sure as hell can t remember it so i guess it s not that important ) it s late i m tired and i wanna get this damn paq out (we re already late) so until next time buh-bye -------------------------------------------------------------------------- written by those two studs misfit & trip illustrated by mizphitzah --------------------------------------------------------------------------