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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

Welcome to Autumn. A time when we all wait for that first brisk morning just around any corner when we realize summer is over and it's time once again to bundle up in sweaters and scarves, or oily rags and angry signage, or even sheets of newspaper and foil candy wrappers that we tell others is debris from aliens who we listen carefully for in the static and buzz between stations on the little transistor radio that we've duct taped or bunjee corded to our football helmet.

A time when somedays, we even choose to skip getting dressed altogether, roaming around the city naked as the day we were born after a long summer spent holed up with hippies who talk about drinking their own urine and living "off the grid". My point is this: it's a season that means many things to many people. And to that end, ReallySmallTalk aims to celebrate it by bringing you plenty of new material from your favorite contributors, as well as some new faces.

How's that possible, you may ask, when there hasn't been anyone new submitting things to the site in months? The truth is, I have no idea. I said it because it sounded good, and I get a kick out of making long-shot promises then bathing in the luxurious melancholy that comes from lofty intentions not coming to fruition. Truth is, it's just as likely that we'll celebrate autumn by bringing you irregular, spasmotic, inconsistent updates of great material from people you're already familiar with.

We might even fold up shop and sell the reallysmalltalk.com domain to a support group for men with tiny penises, if the price were right.

I guess that's really the point: autumn is a season of endless possibilites.

-- Dan Kennedy

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