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Pif Magazine
ISSN: 1094-2726
Published by:
Pif, LLC
PMB 248
4820 Yelm Hwy SE
Suite B
Lacey, WA 98503-4903
Praise? Gripes? Comments? Suggestions?
Write to us at talkback@pifmagazine.com
Subject: Diabolical
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000
From: Jim Rosenberg
I really hate having animated gifs play when I'm trying to read -- unless the piece is visual poetry where the words are "in" the animated gifs. If I had a preference in my browser to turn off animated gifs permanently, I would set it on.
Your magazine takes this to a new low. At least normally I can press the stop button to turn the animated gifs off. Your HTML has something *DIABOLICAL* in it that restarts the animated gifs. DisGUSTing! The only way I was able to read the Michael Joyce interview was to copy into a text editor.
This practice of restarting animated gifs is truly revolting. I appeal to you with all my intensity to PLEASE CUT THIS OUT!!!
-Thanks, Jim
Subject: Review
of New River by Ingrid Woodrow
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000
From: Fr. Gregory J. Lockwood
oh, thank you. your review made my day. after reading it, i was intrigued by the potential horrendousness of this site, so i went to visit it. particularly, i must confess, to find the editor's daughter's Blakean masterpiece.
"the peace bird is many many colors and not all of them are pretty: but that's what makes it a peace bird.
AND THEN her father goes on to state, "Probably it's just because I'm her father that Blake so readily comes to mind."
deliver us all, sweet God. perhaps before delving into the complex and potentially beautiful world of hypertext, the editor ought to read a little poem called, "The Strangler," by one Mr. Kenneth Koch.
Oh Strangler the Strangler! I'm sure that the Strangler would expand his repetoire, at least in this one special case, to include wreaking his awful vengeance on the editors of terrible hypertext magazines as well as bad poets.
Subject: Cover
Art for Pif Magazine.
Date: 6 Jan 2000
From: dc
Hello?
I've never been disappointed with Pif. I am, however, let down this month. I'm sorry, but five minutes is too long to wait to see the cover, just so that you may demonstrate expertise in hypertext etc.
My disappointment, though, lies in the fact that I never could get from the front page to a short story. A shame; I give up.
Editor's Note: You win some ... you lose some ... and then you win again ....
Subject: Poetry
by Fontaine Roberson
Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2000
From: JosephMcL
The linked hypertext is a wonderful medium for contemporary readers whose restless minds are conditioned to viewing 20 to 40 new images per minute on television or video games.
For me, it worked better with the poem, "Autumn in Milan"; the story is quite overwritten and seems to exist merely to display the technology. I understand that this is the future, and I'm wrestling with it. Give me some time. I may come around.
--Joseph McLaughlin
Subject: Many Thanks Date:
Sun, 12 Dec 1999
From: Mimi Carmen
... In May 1998, I wrote The Cardinal, sent it off to you, and though my credentials were small, you helped me over the rough spots and published it. That gave me confidence. Since then I've gone on with prints in Vietnam, England, and won some prizes in competitions, also short-listings. But I say this sincerely, both of you and Pif magazine made me believe I could write. I don't believe I'd have gone on without your belief in me and words of encouragement ...
... All I can say is, from the bottom of my heart I thank you. So many of my writing friends say, "Boy, if I could only be published in Pif." I think to myself, "Yeah, it's a pretty swell place." Wishing you and Pif all kinds of luck and success in Pif's growth as a periodical.
Best wishes
Mimi Carmen