22 Feb 2024
Well, I almost missed today, but for good reason...
I did what I said I wasn't going to do this soon and flipped the new foofaraw website on. foofaraw.press now points there instead of Buttondown.
I'm still using Buttondown for the newsletter, but I wanted it to have a more permanant home to be able to showcase the contributor features and interviews.
The new site has an About page (which needs updating), a Contributors page (which will be getting avatars for each person), a Lexicon (which is just other newsletters I subscribe to), and most importantly, a new Submissions page.
I'm opening up submissions again and seeing what happens. I'd really like to find a way to publish fiction and other cool things, so I went ahead and submitted foofaraw to be added as a market to The Submission Grinder (hence today's Grub).
Being able to do all of this will inevitably require some form of income so [+] will be launching soon. My only real goal there is to cover the costs of Buttondown and my first couple contributors. I'm okay paying out of pocket for some, but I really want to bring more people on board and pay more!
I still sort of think of foofaraw as a surreal/punk New Yorker, whether it comes across that way or not. I've got the What's Going On? with my Monday Media guides, I've got the cartoons, in Garrett's The Outer, music reviews in Will's Willful Listening, and some art with Tony's Abstract Tears. Just need some essays, fiction, and poetry to seal the deal 😜.