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Editor's Column
Issue January, 1997

Dear Readers,

If the whole month is about this editorial, I don’t know how come I always leave it to the last minute. It is 5 am, haven’t slept for 3 days and 3 nights, all I want to do is get it done, and over with, go to sleep, and forget that I even have a magazine. But this is the most important part of the magazine, so I sit down, and I hope that I can still hold it together long enough to write something that is worth reading.

I watched a videotaped “lecture” of an entrepreneur this past week, where she shares that her father told her to say “Business is wonderful”, when things don’t go well, and say it’s terrible, when in fact it’s good, not to give the idea to every wannabee to open a shop across the street and become competition. Unfortunately my father didn’t teach me business, so no matter what I do, someone opens a competing magazine, sucks money out of the industry, and then goes out of business, leaving me with the disillusioned bar owners. I must not know how to say “business is terrible,” because everyone thinks it is easy to make money publishing Mentertainment. I wish.

In the past nine years almost everything changed, including myself. When I started, the girls danced, the guys even clapped to show their appreciation of a good show. Today there is not even the pretense of a show, just collecting one’s tips, exchange of a dollar for a touch. Quick fix. Massage parlors and escort services pop up, like mushrooms after the rain, magazines are printed in full color, no design, no content, no knowledge of what makes advertising work... people fall for it like crack cocaine. Quick fix. I remember from my studies: this is how it was at the decline of the Roman Empire... what a privilege to be part of a declining culture.

This reminds me of something of great importance. Bear with me, after the story part there is going to be “meat” to this “story”. I saw a documentary about the Inka cultures some time ago. It mentions that all great cultures are born and die around the time they reach their 2,000th year. I always wondered why that was, how they must know it is time to go. A book I read recently, “Rare Earth, Forbidden Cures” sheds light to the mystery: it takes approximately two thousand years to deplete the mineral content of the top soil thus render it unsuited for growing food that nourishes. Except, that our intensive cultivation has accelerated the depletion of the soil, and for over 60 years humanity hasn’t been provided with what is necessary for healthy living by the food it consumes. The bingeing, the craving, the fitness craze, the diet craze, the fast food industry, the snacking craze is all a result of the lack of minerals in our food, the deficiency causes craving, pica, in all of us. I have been taking supplemental minerals for a few months, but at times of deadline I still crave pickles and ice cream, like before, but on a normal week I stopped craving anything.

Another important observation of the author of the “Forbidden Cures” book, Dr. Wallach, is that the oxygen content of the air we breath is lower every year, due to the decreasing quantity of foliage. At the same time new diseases, all striving on lack of oxygen, emerge, AIDS, Herpes, Tuberculosis are rampant. What would it take to “reforest the Earth, that there can be at least a next culture, if not a next generation as we know it?

In this issue you’ll see that the reader contributions have become more risky, more candid, more outspoken, more truthful. Some delightful people have crossed path with me, Deb, Dallas, or Subsonic.

Dallas, the pornstar and her husband Wren, who call me Ms. Monopoly. I think they forgot to tell my competition and my advertisers, that’s why they don’t know.

Our web site is doing fantastic, and it is fun to design it. After architecture, then magazines, I can now proudly say, I am also a web-designer. Let’s see if the competition follows me there too.

God bless you all,

Sophie

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