The Internet is truly an amazing resource. One of the myriad benefits of this international network, for the end-user, is the cost/benefit acquisition of data. But some of us forget that -- when publishing a literary journal, for example -- there are significant costs to putting that data on a web site.

To be more precise, I spent $2100-$2600 each quarter to publish The Feathered Flounder. And I spent it out of my own pocket. Joyfully, yes, but at the end of year one, I had spent about $10,000 to publish the journal.

That's a lot of dough for a guy who lives in an assisted living facility. Wouldn't you agree? Mind you, I'm not complaining, I'm just saying "Goodbye" and “Godspeed.”

PS I humbly bow at the feet of Paul Soderberg, and Kermit Woodall.

PPS I've included some stuff I feel passionate about.

Peace,

Martin Bayne

Paul Soderberg has been promoted to Editor for Special Projects and Editor-in-Chief of Aging Boomer Books, The Feathered Flounder’s new book division, and Mindy Aloff is the new Editor of The Feathered Flounder.

Mindy brings to The Feathered Flounder the considerable expertise she has gained from a diverse and extensive background in writing, editing, and publishing. Her chief interest since the 1970s has been the performing arts. She has been Editor of Dance Critics Association News, a quarterly newsletter, and is Editor of a forthcoming book, Anthology of Dance Writing by and about Americans. She also wrote Hippo in a Tutu: Dancing in Disney Animation, Disney Editions, February 2008.

A sexagenarian living in New York, Mindy has also been a columnist for The New Republic, The New Yorker (350 columns, plus 45 “Talk of the Town” stories), and The Nation. As a freelance writer, she has contributed pieces to scores of periodicals ranging from The New York Times to The Los Angeles Times Book Review to The Atlantic Monthly, Vogue, Vanity Fair, The Village Voice, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and Millennium Film Journal.