Editor's Letter

Welcome To Whatever- the Web version. We hope all our work will pay off, and you'll enjoy our zine. If not, tough. We don't care. If you do like what you read, and would like a full paper version on Whatever, then send $2.00 to Whatever, 140 Medway Box 157, Providence, RI 02906. The paper version has more photos and articles, and is much cooler to show your friends.

If you're a new Whatever reader there are some things you might want to know. First, we don't care how your job sucks, just that it sucks. We know everybody's job sucks somehow, and we want to report as much suckage as possible. What co ncerns us is making sure others understand your pain and getting them to treat you better. Money doesn't matter to us either; if you make $50,000/year but still get shit on and treated like dirt, we'd like to know.

Second, we feel that political involvement is essential if we are going to get our generation any kind of a decent world to live in. Most of us don't vote. We'd like to change that, but while we're waiting all we ask of you is to make a phone call or send a letter. Hopefully soon we'll get some e-mail stuff set up so you can pester Rush and Newt with lots of messages, since cut and paste is a little harder to do with web pages.

And lastly, try to have a good time. We realize this is almost impossible with the bill collectors on your back and all the time you spend bagging groceries at Shaw's, so we offer columns and reviews of things that you might find amusing or rela xing. If you'd like for us to review other stuff, or have ethical questions that need answering feel free to write us at Whatever, 140 Medway Box 157, Providence, RI 02906.

This issue we've paid special attention to music groups that Bob Dole and William Bennett DON'T WANT YOU TO HEAR. If they had their way we wouldn't be able to buy CD's from bands like Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson. Musical freedom i s important to us, and we don't want some ass-hole politicians telling us what we can and can't listen to.

Again thanks for checking us out. Relax, take some time to read us over. Then go buy Charles Manson's CD, write a letter to a politician, and try to have some fun.

See ya next issue- hopefully in early March, with web updates available before that.