“Spring Break”
It was nice to catch up with Poseidon III. I wanted to show how far he’d come from the slovenly drunk who gave Carl Pursor the powers of Darior. And I wanted to set the stage for the big two-part final battle I was planning…
Playmid
This was also The Playmid Issue – perhaps the crowning achievement of The Log’s Executive Triumverate (myself, Chuck Martini, and Editor-in-Chief Andrew Gallotta). Not the notorious banned-and-destroyed 1989 Playmid that would be The Log’s undoing; ours was planned with guidance from our Officer Rep, and we tried to make it as classy as we could. We worked with our (new) printer to emulate the look of the real Playboy Magazine, down to font choices, column layouts, department names, and associated artwork. We even worked with our advertisers to create new, classier ads for the issue (most of which they kept using).
Looking back, there’s still some immature, sexist stuff in there – I mean, it was the 1980s, and we were, like, 22 years old. Still, we wanted to provide some balance. Because about 10 percent of the Brigade was female, we turned 6 of our 54 pages over to a select group of female mids to do as they pleased. We provided only technical advice; beyond that they had free rein, total editorial and artistic control.
They only used 5 pages, but man, was it glorious: hilarious stuff, which did not go at all where we expected it to. And it was far too short; I wanted more.
We wished those talented women had felt more comfortable contributing to The Log before then. And they didn’t contribute much after that issue, either. It’s a shame, cuz they were really good.
Rebekah Barrish
Gina DiNicolo
Chris Grobek
Mary Helinski
Kathleen Murray