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Anyways... lookit here folks, its nineteen ninety six! ° woopty friggin' doo. Welcome to another fun f illed edition of the blade ± epic. We're filled with joy as we bring you t he latest installment of ² shockinly beautiful artwork from the outstand ing members of blade productions. oh, and did I mention that we love you? YES, all of you! ÛÜ Ü °Ü ° ( 2?) in an unprecidented move, i'm goi ng to bring you the bad news first this month. there's not a whole hell of a lot of it, but hell, there's got to be some, for without bad news, there would be no good. aft er deciding that he'd bug us all one more time by changing his handle (this time BACK to his previous handle) scribble decided that  he'd throw in the towel and part ways with blade. we'll miss his antics and art, but I assure you that we haven't been lucky enough to actually g et rid of him for good.. oh yes, he'll be back in the scene soon enough.  Anyways, joking aside, we wish him the best of luck with all that t he future has ° in store for him. we here at blade really hat e goodbye's, so everyone ± else who said they wanted to leave this month  was chained to belial's ² leg and told to bark like a dog. I assure you  that belial has these Û fools under control and they won't be causing  any further disturbances in the force. ÛÜ Ü °Ü ° ( 3!) and now, the good news. yes indee d, new members. following in the recent trend, we got a pretty good lot of new members this  month. let us get right down to it. coming back from the land of non-blade members are former followers veediot!, the ato mic brain, and riptide. welcome back guys, we knew you'd see the light. in the wor ld of brand spanking new members comes a few really rad ansi guys who have decided to give blade a chance (all we are sayin', is give blade a  chance. fewl.)  zork, kiwi, and crimson ice all decided that blade was the smoothest group out there and they are currently gracing us all with  their awesome talent. welcome folks. also rejoining blade after a pretty  long hiatus is the one and only colored ascii fewl, cable. thi s time, however, we're going to have to call him stud^one, because he's s uch a studly fella. and last, yet in no way, shape, or form least, blade produ ctions is proud to present its first official female member. vir ago joins us this ° month to showcase her incredible literary tal ents and add to the amazing ± blade literature department. we welcome all n ew members, and know that ² they will help blade productions strive to be come the best it can in 1996. ÛÜ Ü °Ü ° ( 5^) in blade publication news, be yond the horizon is expanding its ... er.. horizons... (doh)... starting with issue number three, bth will become ° a wholy owned subsidiary of blade productions , yielding seperate releases  ± from the blade epics. Look for b th#3 in filebases everywhere on January ² 15th (or somewhere thereabouts). Issue three features some great interviews and articles that you won't want to miss! ÛÜ Ü °Ü ° ( 6@) and now, the part that we throw i n, but you never read anyway, so why ° should we even bother, but some people think its kinda cool, so we put ± it in nonetheless. this month, dr. kevork ian lends us his mind so that ² we may further explore the world of that lite rary great. do i sense a trend here? All the writers of this segment have been lit guys.. time  for me to find an ansi guy... ( 7%)Well, first off I'd like to say s omething about some work I did in the December Blade pack. It seems a certain someon e doesn't approve of my little header I used. I guess it looked  too much like theirs. So I apologize to that person, it was me ant as a joke, you know, funny, ha ha, nothing more. Okay, now that that's over, I'll talk about something else. Originally I was going to talk about the scene, but th en I thought to myself, "Why? everyone, in every single mag talks a bout that." Then I decided to ask my good buddy errant angel, "Wha t should I talk about?" oh yeah, he's the guy I sort of ripped th e header from, anyway. He said to me, "Talk about anything, yo urself, your history, anything. It's not like a college exam where you get graded on it." I really wouldn't know what a coll ege exam is like for I am not currently enrolled in a college.  Nor, with my gpa as low as it is, am I considering applying to a ny colleges at this time. But then I began thinking, "I sort of a m getting graded on this." I mean, if I said something stupid a ll of you would probably think I'm a complete and total idiot. But I'm not in Blade to boost my rep, I'm in it to do my art. So your probably thinking, "How did this guy, with thi s un-original handle, get into Blade?" Well, about my handle, about  four years ago, when I was young and stupid, and started bbsing, I needed a handle,  well Jack Kevorkian was sort of mainstream a t the time and in my "Mad" magazine there was one of those little com ics about him. And the name stuck. I always figured I'd change my ha ndle, soon I started to get well known, and people knew who I was.  And seeing as how "Kevorkian" is a tad long, people started referrin g to me as "Dr. K." So if you see me anywhere, be it on the net or whatever, just call me "Dr. K," it's a lot easier. As for getti ng into Blade. I used to run a bbs named Incantation, and ea was on t here, I was talking to him and the topic came up about getting a B lade affiliation, he told me the only way to get an affiliation was to b e a Blade member, thus getting a Blade Member Board affilitation. Now d on't think that I'm in Blade just to get an affilitation, my board has  been down for months, and I've always liked Blade. It seemed like a  good group for lit writers. Anyway, He asked me what I did, and I to ld him that I wrote literature in my spare time, he told me to apply . And being the self-conscious person that I am, I was too afraid that  my work was either not good enough, or that people would laugh at my work. So he told me when I was ready, I should apply, and give him  the application and he'd send it to Mindcrime with a nice letter telli ng him "how cool I was." So then around October or September, I  was finally confident enough to apply. Luckily I got in, otherwis e I would have been rather pissy about it, and my confidence would ha ve been shot to hell. So whatever you said in that letter ea, thanks. Although, I promised not to talk about the scene, ther e is one little thing I would like to say that really pisses me off, L IT IS ART!!$@! I remember this one time, while on the net, this guy , I won't say who, was starting this group, I offered to help out in the lit section. His reply was what pissed me off, he told me that he wante d an "only art group." I mean, can you believe that? I mean, are so ngs art? I think so, if it was not for lit, there would not be any lyri cs in the songs. And what about some of the greatest plays, movies, etc . of all time? Are those not art? I just want you all to think about  that for a bit. And realize that literature is art in every way that a nsi, vga, music etc. is. Art is what you think it is, and if you thin k that literature is not art, then I have pity for you. And finally, I'd like to thank some people. First off , I'd like to thank Errant Angel, I mean, I sort of owe my getting i nto Blade to him. If not for him boosting my ego up enough to get me to finally apply, I'd probably still be looking at the packs going, "gee , I wish my work was in there." And even though, I'm sure that I get s ort of annoying with me calling you, I'd just like to say thanks man.  Second, I'd like to thank Dragon for making me those 6,000,000 ascii ev ery time I want one. You shoulda joi ned Blade instead of starting your own group you potato farming dork! he he.. And last, I'd  also like to thank Mindcrime, for giving me a  chance, I mean theres a lot  of close minded people out there who look at your work and turn you down  without even giving you time to improve. So thanks Mindcrime, for giving  yet another lit writer a chance. Sorry for any of the grammar or spelling errors, hey, I'm a lit writer not an english teacher. So Mindcrime, buddy... how bo ut a senior position, eh? ( 8+)hi. me again. just wanted to send  a shout out to wilco of cia for being such a keen sport and fixing my board name on hi s site listing. thanks nAppY! ------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------ -#@!the edge is published monthly as an in formation text on blade productions#%$ ?------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------- - SAUCE00the edge! - volume 2, issue 11 staff blade productions 19960110O9P