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(Speaking of jumping into unpleasant things, ask me sometime about my experience at the turn-of-the-century April Fool's Parade, when some costumed merry pranksters managed to convince passers-by into jumping into a dumpster filled with mud and manure because it also contained a small amount of real money. But it's a real and wholly unwarranted digression here, so I really can't get into it right now even though the story is well worth telling.) Those of you keeping up with us in our home audience will be well aware that we already covered this territory last year, but only with children's TV. Now we hold to the sacred axiom of advertising, and offer a product that, though similar, can be described as NEW AND IMPROVED! This time around we look at the entire broadcast schedule, Saturday morning to daytime soaps to prime time to late night, all to everyone's mutual ruination. Furthermore, no longer limited to celebrating cartoons for kiddies, we've expanded our genre scope to include such fellow travellers as episodic anime series and short programs hosted on streaming services. OK, that's great, but do I have anything to say about television? It's an old faithful punching bag from the '90s, but let's be fair -- when's the last time that I even watched it? Perhaps I should have kept it under scrutiny, as apparently since it was last under my supervision it has metastasized and begun actively dismantling liberal democracy. We don't offer any criticism here pointed enough to engage that dimension of the medium (ahem, not that YouTube is any better on that front) -- there is no Videodrome angle, no matter how warranted... instead, this collection is instead a celebration of the unique culture found on the boob tube from our wayback youths long ago (some nostalgias are longer ago than others, as Horsenburger demonstrates with his deep cuts from the '70s and '60s) to our second childhoods (or midlife crises if you will) airing new episodes as we speak. TV has always been an excellent option for escapism, and the world right now is a place well worth escaping. Anyhow, despite my best efforts, I hope that you enjoy this collection. With over 300 pieces of art, surely it has something for everyone (... especially if that someone is a fan of the Simpsons.) It was a major undertaking! We have been keeping tabs on some of these contributions for a very long time, and are glad to finally be discharging them into the world where they can be appreciated, however briefly. Now for a spot of housekeeping. We'd like to give a warm Mistigris welcome (which can, from the outside, look like a tepid acknowledgement, I know) to the dynamic duo of Nikki and Bunty, at least one of whom has taken up the peculiar British passtime of teletext illustration, getting their artpack debut right here this month! Also for the first time we present Ozunaga, who I can assure you is just getting warmed up here. Going forward, you need to know that there's an open call for submissions for our August artpack, which will again be unthemed, and for our September collection, which will be explicitly video game-themed. (It's about time!) As for October, marking the 5th anniversary of our revival, you know what to expect. That said, we'll be celebrating the Mistigris computer arts collective's 25th (!?) anniversary outright in November, so if you only make one guest appearance all year, that's the one to shoot for. Before those, we hope to issue a new issue of the Kithe e-mag before the next artpack drops, the first in 22 years. Its timely subject? Why, naturally the summer '99 demoparty report! Our long-overdue observations will no doubt be found to be acutely on the nose. (Which reminds me, the Spoon magazine's ongoing Procrastination study must have some new results to report, I ought to check in on them.) As well, though we have no formal affiliation with them, I do like to make announcements here on behalf of the Vancouver Chipmusic Society, who have another instalment of their Overload concert series upcoming, Wed Aug 28th at the Fox, featuring sets by Azuria Sky, Bit.Umen, Dos Boot, and Don'tBlinkOrYou'llDie, as well as visuals by DR!P. And... as it's after midnight, I'm too late to plug Raquel Meyers' performance at Toronto's Vector Festival, though I understand she'll have a PETSCII installation set up there for another month. Never a lack of compelling cultural options, Toronto! Before I wrap completely, I'd just like to extend a very special thanks to Smooth for once again icing our cake with another fabulous FILE_ID.DIZ design (as seen above), realizing a Cthulu cocktail napkin sketch in crayon, while finalizing his work in the amazing Fuel #30 artpack that just beat us out of the gate, go check it out now! Go, close this newsletter, it's done, and load it up. This concludes our broadcast. Thank you for joining us. Mistigris 2019 - the revolution will not be livestreamed SAUCE00MIST0719 infofile Cthulu / Smooth Mistigris / Fuel 20190712CPoIBM VGA