THE GOBLIN NEWSLETTER 01

I'm starting a new project, making my daily email from GOBLINKO (sign up if you're not) more involved & working on my writing more. The only way to get better at something is to do it more often & be more deliberate!

Okay, people overwhelmingly wanted more writing so here we are. I'm concentrating more on my writing & this daily email seemed like an obvious vehicle for it. I realized the other day that I've taken countless art classes but haven't taken ANY writing classes. Not a one! But i’ve been writing as long as I’ve been drawing. I just don’t call myself a writer. So, I'll be taking some writing classes soonl. There are an enormous piles of newsletters devoted to the actual day to day happenings & commentary designed to mold & shape your opinion about it, but this GOBLIN NEWSLETTER is written with the intention of building up the GOBLINKO audience into a better people, with a more profound understanding of themselves & reality & also talking about some of the ideas & actions that have gone into GOBLINKO projects over the years. It’s the only GOBLIN NEWLETTER. I got the name GOBLIN NEWSLETTER from back in the day (the nineties) when I used to run copies of my zine GOBLIN'S ARMPIT in Berkeley at the Krishna Copy on Telegraph & one of the employees would ask me if I was making my "Goblin Newsletter" in his thick Indian accent. He was a tall, skinny guy with a mildly perverted feel to him, he looked like he ate rocks, but watcged them from the bushes first. Later he was more overtly needy for money & would give us a discount for & we'd pay in cash & I imagine he would pocket some (or all) of the cash for his need, whatever that happened to be. Me & Katie printed our other zines & comics there for a while before that particular incarnation on University closed. There's still an incarnation of Krishna Copy in Berkeley. Krishna Copy was founded in 1974, so it's two years older than me!