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Michael Pendragon wrote:

> On Tuesday, August 2, 2022 at 1:20:47 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
>> On Wednesday, July 31, 2019 at 11:16:47 PM UTC-4, General Zod wrote:
>> > On Wednesday, July 31, 2019 at 5:48:15 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
>
>> > > > > > Playgrounds Magazine / December 2014
>> > > > > > Published on Nov 30, 2014
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > https://issuu.com/willdockery/docs/122014playgroundsall
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > Playgrounds Magazine / December 2014 issue.
>> > > > >
>> > > > > Fish Wrap.
>> > > >
>> > > > Circulation: 10,000 copies per month, every month, for nearly twenty
>> > > > years.
>> > > >
>> > > > left in piles in various stores, bars and coffee shops around town
>> > >
>> > > That's the distribution method for such an arts paper, yes.
>> > Creative Loafing seems to be one of the mo9dels for such a publication.....
>>
>> Definitely was.

> That's how all of the local listings papers are distributed: laundry mats, grocery stores, hotel lobbies, bars, etc.

No shit, Sherlock.

> Visitors pick them up, leaf through them looking for restaurant/bar ads, make their dinner plans, then toss the papers aside.

> Businessmen looking for restaurants/bars have no interest in Will Donkey's rambling reminiscences about "Shadowville," Kathy, Barfield and Dark Queen, nor in your equally rambling (and even less coherent) monthly poem.

I had a few thousand readers a month, easily, which is more in one month than you've /ever/ had, Pendragon, I know that must sting.

An archive of several issues of Playgrounds, found of the Facebook page:

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There's a good archive of the last few issues of Playgrounds Magazine there, scans of each page:

My "To The Magic Store" column, and one of my poems, from December 2014:
https://www.facebook.com/playgroundsmagazine/photos/a.895462147153998/895462827153930

My "To The Magic Store" column, and one of my poems, from January 2015:
https://www.facebook.com/playgroundsmagazine/photos/a.915652778468268/915653305134882

My "To The Magic Store" column, and one of my poems, from February 2015:
https://www.facebook.com/playgroundsmagazine/photos/a.929698260397053/929699180396961

My "To The Magic Store" column, and one of my poems, from March 2015:
https://www.facebook.com/playgroundsmagazine/photos/a.945550128811866/945550718811807

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> You provided filler to a local ad circular for twenty years.  Whoop-de-damn-do.

You're expected to tear down anything I achieve, Pendragon, that's what makes you a malicious enemy of mine.

HTH and HAND.

:)