----- Original Message ----- From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> To: lbo-talk <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 12:03 PM Subject: Fwd: Feed, Suck, and Altculture Present Plastic
> Dear Feed, Suck, and Altculture subscribers,
>
> Your days of clammy palms, paranoid nightmares, and baited breath are
over.
> Today marks the day when we reveal to the world the hulking frankenstein's
> monster we've been cobbling together in the basement of Automatic Media
for all
> these months: Plastic.
>
> In case you hadn't yet caught word of what we're up to with Plastic,
here's the
> simple explanation: Plastic is a pop-culture version of Slashdot, serving
the
> audiences of and edited by some of the best culture, entertainment,
> and politics
> sites online (specifically: Spin, Movieline.com, The New Republic, Wired
News,
> TeeVee, Nerve, NetSlaves, Modern Humorist, Gamers.com, and Inside.) Put in
less
> cryptic terms, Plastic is a place designed to make it easy to swap
> the smartest,
> funniest, and stupidest things on the Web: union-busting at Amazon,
> ghettoscooter.com, bootleg Orrin Hatch MP3s, amigothornot.com, and so
forth.
> Sure, Plastic's got other neat features, like filterable discussion
threads,
> flexible sorting tools, customizable newsfeeds and so on -- but to mention
any
> of these would only confuse the issue. Just think of Plastic as an
information
> laxative, your best bet for getting at the Internet's richest waste.
>
> Did that help? It doesn't really matter, since you're about a minute away
from
> seeing Plastic in its full glory, ready for you to slap around,
> puzzle over, and
> with any luck, ultimately turn into your Web site of choice for
time-wasting,
> goldbricking, and all-purpose procrastination.
>
> Before you get seized by tremors and night fright again, allow us to
assure you
> that neither Suck, Feed, nor Altculture will be altering their publishing
> schedules or scaling back on their almost incomprehensibly hi-fi editorial
> quality in any way. Plastic isn't about content-hatin', it's about
> content-participatin'.
>
> See for yourself: <http://www.plastic.com>
>
> Enjoy.
>
> -Joey Anuff
> Editor-in-Chief, Plastic
>
> Automatic Media
> 225 Lafayette Street, Suite 606
> New York, NY 10012
> 1-866-PLASTIC
> 212-343-0475 fax
>