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staff:

Yesterday we did a historic thing. We generated 87,834 phone calls to U.S. Representatives in a concerted effort to protect the Internet. Extraordinary. There’s no doubt that we’ve been heard.

So just to keep you updated: The well-intentioned, but immensely flawed “Stop Online Piracy Act” is still in the House Judiciary Committee. The hearing was yesterday and now members will debate and bring amendments to the bill. The Committee will reconvene in a few weeks — the date has yet to be scheduled. Nothing has been brought to a final vote. Everything is still very much in play. We’ll keep you posted on what’s going on and what you can do to help. But for now, we want to thank you.

One encouraging thing we heard yesterday:

I don’t believe this bill has any chance on the House floor. I think it’s way too extreme, it infringes on too many areas that our leadership will know is simply too dangerous to do in its current form.

— Representative Darrell Issa

We also want to express our tremendous gratitude to our friends at Mobile Commons who, on 30 minutes notice, hooked us up with their amazing platform (and provided their expertise) to automatically connect callers with their Representatives.

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Thank god for refrigerators.

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I’m putting out a zine! The contributors are as follows:

Dylan Baldi is the sole songwriter and recording member in the band Cloud Nothings.

Rostam Batmanglij is a musician and songwriter in the bands Vampire Weekend and Discovery.

Pete Berkman is the lead songwriter in the band Anamanaguchi.

Joe Coscarelli is an assistant editor at New York Magazine’s Daily Intel blog.

Lena Dunham is a filmmaker.

jj is a Swedish pop group.

Tao Lin is a novelist.

Ryan O’Connell is an editor at Thought Catalog.

Maureen O’Connor is a staff writer at Gawker.

Choire Sicha is the editor of The Awl.

Himanshu Suri is a rapper in the band Das Racist.

Bucky Turco is the editor of Animal New York.

Victor Vazquez is a rapper in the band Das Racist.

Mike Vilensky is a staff writer at The Wall Street Journal.

Jenna Wortham is a staff writer at The New York Times.

You can order it online here

The zine will also have a small, private, password-protected Tumblr of supplemental content (zine-related photos, interviews, stories) which you can get the password to by ordering the zine online (I’ll email it to you) or finding the answer to this riddle, which is the password:

What is the first name of the girlfriend of the director in the only 9-minute official music video (presently unavailable in the United States due to copyright issues) by the band whose original guitarist’s older brother was previously in a band whose two other members went on to form a band whose most recent album’s first single prominently features a sample from a song by a now-defunct band whose percussionist is named John Braddock, nicknamed “Dutch”?

Hey! So the password-protected zine supplement Tumblr’s address is http://perfectzine.tumblr.com/. If you already bought a copy online or will buy copy by 11:00 EST tonight, you’ll get an email by around 11:00 EST tonight with the password. After that you’ll get the password right around the time you order, via email. And if you solved the riddle, well, the supplemental content won’t be as much fun without the zine itself, so it’s worth getting a copy I think!

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What is creepy gay rob doing today? Taking his dog to the dog park, buying a new TV, talking yo his lawyer about his used to be friend about some on going drama. His asshole friend from New York says “The Coffman Performing Arts Center” put the Midwest on the map. If it was in the “Times” its a big deal.
He just asked me what I was doing. If I was texting sleezy pics to him. I said sure. Joking of course.
Now he says he’s moving back to Lawrence because he’s done farting around Topeka.
He says “city market” in Kansas City is getting kinda tired and asked what clubs I went to. He’s always interested in new and up coming gay bars. Anything to make Kansas more like New York. Supposedly that’s where hes from but who knows. Every conversation starts or ends with “what clubs did you go to?” or New York this and that.
Watch this. “ROB!! YOUR GAY???”
“That’s beyond the point. Were talking about money now. Smart ass.”
Rob is awesome. Keep it real Creepy Gay Rob. #Respect.

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