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Friday, June 1–Despair not, faithful readers. We are not dead. See yon banner, up above? Note the date – it is today’s! The Post Office has papers for every one of our dear subscribers scattered across the country, lovingly prepared by our labeling crew. Our downtown distribution volunteers have (we’re pretty sure) completed their rounds. In a hundred and fifty locations around the Piscataqua basin, people of all stripes and inclinations are picking up copies. This is what we live for. And here’s a new wrinkle: everyone atttending the 4th Annual DemocracyFest, to be held at the Wayfarer Inn in Bedford this coming weekend, will …

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Friday, May 11–Readers, or would-be readers, who have been faithfully dropping in since last Wednesday to see if the alleged editor had followed up yet on last week’s threat to further defend the innocent noun “chickenhawk,” will be disappointed. He has been attempting instead, with what little time could be spared from the preparation of the May 18 paper, to make our online subscription system function. So far he has failed. Rather than take the same route as the Tourmaline’s Chief Engineer, or abandon online sales altogether, he has cooked up an alternative: a downloadable .pdf file of the Subscription Form that runs in the …

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Friday, April 20–We don’t even have the IRS excuse for our online silence this time. But, once again, we do have a fresh paper. It’s in the mail to our subscribers all over the country, and it’s available for free at more than 150 locations in Portsmouth and the surrounding towns.

Friday, April 6—Has it really been two whole weeks since we posted here? Yup, guess so. Time sure flies when you’re shoveling your way through heaps of old newspapers, trying to find small piles of tax documents, and putting out a fresh paper at the same time. Well, we may not have accomplished anything online this past fortnight — but we did get the paper out.

Well, we did it. Again. Despite spending much of the last fortnight tinkering with this new digital dingbat, somehow we put together another issue of the Gazette, and got it printed, distributed, and mailed. The new banner just above, bearing today’s date, should squelch any doubters. Thanks once again to our mostly-volunteer writers, our volunteer proofreaders, mailing crew, and downtown distribution gang, and our one paid distribution guy, over the course of the next two weeks somewhere between ten and fifteen thousand people — perhaps as many as twenty thousand — living in or passing through the area shown in this map will be reading …

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If Wikipedia is to be believed, Spring began today at seven minutes after midnight. And, as always, not a moment too soon. Granted, winter seemed not to begin this year until we were well into January. But, as we knew it would, things averaged out with a prolonged spell of fairly brutal weather. The only reason the human race continues to reproduce is that women’s memories are faulty. The only reason New England remains occupied is that men’s memories are faulty, too. But Spring is here! Spring is here, a-suh-puh-ring is here. Life is skittles and life is beer. I think the loveliest time of …

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