Brilliant, Young & Angsty is getting there.
Finally, after nearly a year of talking about it, not creating, the first issue of Brilliant, Young & Angsty is nearing completion. With an all-star staff of writers, editors and artists, the magazine won’t just change your worldview–it will change you.
The fact that you have not yet heard of BY&A is ludicrous. We’ve been talking about it for over a year. We even showed you that quick Word97-based version we were going to print illegally in computer labs across the nation. But times change, and the purpose and style of BY&A has changed.
No longer is it just Nick Gorski writing about random things he couldn’t get published in McSweeney’s. Now it is many people writing about random things they couldn’t get published in McSweeney’s. Do you see the difference?
Actually, it’s not even much of a literary journal at all. Who needs another one in C-Ville, when we already have:
Seven journals published by students, quarterly
One published by MFA students
One published by the English department
Three published by people in their heads
One column about Dave Matthews, even though he doesn’t live here no more.
Two alt. weeklies, neither as good as the old, pre-Hawes departure C-Ville.
6000 Frat boys
400 “indie” kids (that magical 10%!)
Six members of the Seven society
Twenty-six buses
Your mother
Your wife
Your sister
Your chihuaua
Your favorite cup of coffee
Your favorite cup of tea.
Charlottesville’s already got a lot of things, but it certainly doesn’t have a Journal of Pop Culture. This will soon be remedied.
Television! Music! Film! Society!
It’s all going to be covered, and you will be pleased. Oh, man, will you be pleased. We wish we could be you when you open up the magazine for the first time, amazed by what you see. We wish we could be you, sitting underneath the harsh lighting of the Chemistry Auditorium, having picked this magazine up because it all shiny and new and has an interesting photo on the cover. We wish we could be you, flipping through the pages and marveling at the small text that is coherent and funny and relevant, all at the same time (maybe not relevant). We wish we could be you, wishing you were us.
The future as we know it is about to change.
It will be awesome.
It will kick ass.
It will be Brilliant, Young, and Angsty.
(Issue 9 of BY&A comes out 14 October 2002, available at many fine locations in Charlottesville.)