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The Publisher's Statement... is usually a bunch of crap from some pretentious stiffs, so here it comes:

Update: Uggh! This is sooooo old. This site is now dead, but here's what we were thinking at the time. Didn't end up quite like we expected, but here it is, intact anyway. Until the day I die and my domain name expires...

Annoying Co was spawned from ashes of an mid 80's skate zine called "Skate and Annoy". An aborted skateshop (Your Mom's Skateshop) and a failed clothing line (Vision Street Wimp) were casualties of the era. Zine publishing was and still is expensive, no matter how many supplies and services you can steal from your employers. Fortunately, the web makes it cheaper to reach the same 200 people and hopefully a lot more. It's in the spirit of skateboarding and punk rock we hope to carry on. That sounds stupid. Rollerblading is the homogenized version of skateboarding just as "alternative" is to punk. Punk doesn't mean squat. Anybody that's lived for a while knows that they've said a lot of stupid things in the past, and will probably continue to do so. Skate and Annoy made friends and enemies, just as Annoying Co. will. We're older now and our interests have grown. Annoying Co. exists to contradict store-bought, as seen on TV counterculture.

Alternative culture has been co-opted by the mainstream media. Generation X is now a cartoon character found in long distance phone commercials. Fans of the band have already had the displeasure of sitting through the rise of a mediocre novel that stole the title from a previous book published in the sixties*. Who could have predicted a year where a KISS reunion tour would be more punk than the Sex Pistols reunion with all original members? MTV helped launch an army of wonderbread ska bands whose music now sells cars for guys in suits, and I don't mean sharkskin suits with porkpie hats. Robots of the world unite! A million frat boys and Phish fans can't be wrong. How can you blame them when Johnny Rotten sells soda pop, The Buzzcocks sell cars, Devo sells candybars, and the Clash sells pants?

Kilwag

P.S. Yes, I've bought Rancid from Best Buy. Yes I'm a fan of Crash-Site. We'd love to hear from anyone who ever got a copy of Skate and Annoy. I've got a box of Zipatone somewhere with enough left over for everyone who was on our original mailing list. We still have all our original correspondance so don't try any funny stuff.