Sho: Last night when I read his comments I didn’t believe it. It was only the IP address that proved otherwise. (this is a joke. did it come of like that?)

Creating this issue was exhausting, due to the pure volume of back issues we read and were ultimately hugely distracted by. I wish we had done this issue earlier, because it has definitely changed how I see the mag.

Also, I had more help from staff getting this issue out than ever before. The help not only made the issue better, but it exposed our new staffers to “the real OC.” We’ve got a talented, funny, intelligent group of people together now, and I’m excited to get the Hate Issue together, and see what happens next year.

So, imitating me after all.

Olly and Dan: I would have written under your respective names, but it would have taken a lot more work than I was willing to do for this issue to do the pieces justice. Both of your styles of writing are great, which makes them all the more difficult to emulate.

Also, I am a lazy bastard. That might also have something to do with it.

That is to say, I was SO DRUNK when I made pretty much all of the TOCs, I don’t even remember which issue that’s from specifically, but I remember doing it, sort of.

Ah, de lancie, if only you’d been there when we had to stand there before an unofficial court and listen to how this asshole’s puerile sex fantasies had caused actual physical harm to various (presumably highly suggestible) undergraduates. As it was, we had to flee for our lives.

In fact, we came to call that day the Battle of Will Cohen Hill.

(OK, I’ll stop.)

Olly and Dan: It wasn’t that you were passed up. It was that no one dared to emulate the intellectual, vivacious, and puffed-up writing of yours. Also, Will Cohen is just so great.