Hallucigenia: we're not illegal│└ August 1998 Infofile─╡┘   In the sweltering heat.. as it radiates off the pavement in searing ripples..   Hallucigenia members slave away in stuffy computer rooms.. wondering at the
cruel, electronic irony that prevents them from working on art while sitting
under the lawn sprinkler..

(and now featuring)
What can I say about this pack? Well, no ansi/ascii.. I have no excuse this
month and can only say, you'll get it when you get it. We do, however,
have an item called Comics That Suck from our own Aylektrique which features
people from around the art scene. No actual scene members were harmed in the
production of this comic and I've been told by Aylektrique that he's already
working on installment #2. Be afraid.. be very afraid..  We also have two
joint hirez pieces from Spire and Shart (Cia), and Silent Knight and Infinite   Madness (Mistigris).

(members come and members go)
Joining our merry band this month would be Amberstat Zero (hirez), FyffeDawg
(lit/hirez), Pv (who applied to all the departments) and Dominion, who had
been doing some internet work for us and now has decided to contribute some
hirez stuff too. And we say goodbye to Spire, as he returns to Mistigris
taking the much sought-after position of hirez coordinator. Best of luck to
him.

(holy faster website, batman!)
After getting so many complaints about Geocities, we finally decided to move
to greener pastures.. or at least a faster server. You can now find us in all   our glory at hallucigenia.home.ml.org

(my apologies)
Despite popular belief, group leaders are not perfect.. let's just stomp that   nasty little myth right now. This goes doubly for rookie group leaders as I
discovered last month when I accidently didn't release some work of Komando
and Spire. The work was available on the website, it just didn't make it
into the pack. For that reason, I'm re-releasing those missed pieces for the
first time here and once again on the website. Sorry about that, guys.

(wonders of reorganization)
As these last few weeks of summer tick away, many of us are preparing to pack   up the sunstop and beach blankets and to unpack the pencils and the books in
preparation for going back to the grind they innocently call 'school'.
Hallucigenia has had it easy these last few releases, since I've had the time   to putter away and essentially run the whole group by myself.. but with
school around the bend--university, in my case--that's something that had to
change.

To that end, we appointed coordinators for the two largest departments,
hirez and "real world" art. Komando, who has been enthusiastic about helping
out the group from the beginning, takes on the role of hirez coordinator and
Silent Knight, with much organizational and "real world" experience from his
work on his comic project Dream Factory, becomes the real world art
coordinator.

We also took the opportunity in this organizational mayhem, to assign a block   of time on IRC for Hallucigenia members to get together and have dubbed it,
HAL:The Gathering. Thus far it's been used to discuss policy, assemble joint
projects between departments--watch for something from hirez and real world
art next month--and make Ivory the Official Soap of Dispensing Justice--err..   don't ask. If you're in the neighbourhood, you'll find us at 7pm (Pacific
Standard Time) Sundays on #hallucigenia, EFnet.

(that's all folks)
Okay, that's enough from me, so go take a look at the pack.. or better yet,
turn off your heat-generating computer, get out of the house and find a
nice cool pond to stick your toes into. It IS summer, after all.

--Etana-
group coordinator of
Hallucigenia

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------ansi by Happyfish