For those of you who don't know me, my name is Sierra Soleil, and I am a lazy, lazy man. See, I had the first issue of this newsletter ready to go in August for newcommer orientation, but right before I left for the Sado Island World Music festival, my email account stopped working and I didn't get the thing put on the web as I was supposed to. When I came back from Sado it was still broken, and to this day it does not work and I have done almost nothing about it. It's not entirely my fault. The account was set up by a friend, so I have no idea who actually runs the thing. Their web page is a bunch of ads for trailer homes somewhere in the vicinity of Inawashiro. So while I languish in email isolation, I've been discovering all kinds of cool stuff to put in the magazine. Hopefully you will all get to see it someday.
For those of you who remember last year's newsletter . . . wait, does anyone remember? That's probably just as well, since I will try to do nothing like what they did.
My approach to this newsletter is simple. I hope to make this an open forum for anything JETs wish to share within the limits of the electronic format. That means I'll take anything that can be typed, photographed, or crammed into a scanner. Offensive, lewd, or slanderous material must have some overriding artistic merit to be accepted. The precise definition of "overriding" will be determined by me.
The most significant difference between this year and previous years is that Jetsam will be all electronic. For those of you who cannot or do not want to read this online, I will mail you hard copies for a nominal postage and handling fee. Just email me and we'll work out the details.
In the end, the newsletter will take shape best through feedback from readers. The only way I'll know what you like or don't like will be for you to tell me. And I'll be just as excited to read and publish your hate mail as your letters of praise.
