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Article #829858Re: Playgrounds Magazine / April 2012 issue
From: Michael Pendrago
Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2022 23:00
Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2022 23:00
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On Tuesday, August 2, 2022 at 1:19:14 AM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote: > Michael Pendragon wrote: > > On Monday, August 1, 2022 at 5:53:50 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote: > >> Michael Pendragon wrote: > >> > Will Dockery wrote: > > > >> >> >> >> Again, Playgrounds Magazine had a circulation of 10,000 copies a month for almost twenty years. > >> >> >> >> My monthly column and poetry in every issue for nearly twenty years. > >> >> >> >> Who here can top that? > >> >> >> >> > >> >> >> >> Certainly not Michael Pendragon and his Xeroxed small press zines with their 100 copy print runs. > > > >> >> >> Meanwhile, I published my monthly poems and columns at 10,000 copies a month, so in one month my circulation exceeded yours for your entire publication history. > >> >> >> > >> >> >> And I was published monthly at 10,000 copies for nearly twenty years... stop whining about it and get over it, Pendragon. > >> >> > >> >> > And your column was read by > >> >> As many as 10,000 readers every month for nearly twenty years. > >> >> > >> >> Yes, that's a lot of readers, unlike your small press pamphlets with print runs of maybe fifty copies. > >> >> > >> >> And so it goes. > >> > >> > My magazines had print runs of 500 copies > >> > >> Playgrounds Magazine had a print run of 10,000 copies every month for nearly twenty years. > >> > >> I had more readers in one month than you had in your entire life, Pendragon. > > > No... > Obviously yes, since I doubt you've published 10,000 copies of your poetry in the entire time you've been making your small press pamphlets. Fish wrap. Michael Pendragon "Like sliding into the heart of darkness, man, hot and tight... and bushy." -- Will Dockery on his experiences with "black pussy."
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