Casey - Congratulations!  

I'm sure I'm not alone in saying this, but THANK YOU for your hard work with Fufkin.  Every month I look forward to the e-mail announcing that the new issue is ready.  I really enjoy the site and wanted to thank you and all of your writers for the great work!

Thanks, Michael
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> I just published Fufkin's 48th monthly issue, and I want to thank everyone 
> on this list for the support we have received from all of you. We average 
> over 50,000 unique visitors a month from all over the world, and a core from 
> the 
> Audities list is what we built the site on. It has been very gratifying for 
> me to give a forum for a lot of great writers to write about music and 
> artists that otherwise might not receive the type of notice that they deserve, 
> even in the alternative media and new media outlets that are out there. It is 
> hard to believe it has been 4 years since I approached Mike Bennett at IPO in 
> August of 2000 to ask him if he was interested. 
> 
> My special thanks to my good friends Mike Bennett, Gary Glauber, Gary Pig 
> Gold, Alan Haber, Kurt Hernon, Dawn Eden, John Borack, Bill Klutho, Michael 
> Lynch, Kevin Mathews, Robert Pally, Kurt Sampsel, Eric Sorensen, Eliot Wilder, 
> Shona Winfrey and Nick A. Zaino, III who are the writers who made Fufkin what 
> it is and why we were recognized by SXSW as having some of the finest music 
> criticism on the internet. I want to thank past writers who have contributed 
> excellent work over the past four years, Jon Bard, James Baumann, Rick 
> Bilous, Anna Borg, Ken Burke, Lane Campbell, Katherine Kim, Kerry Chicoine, Ben 
> Collins, Jason Thompson, Michael Potter, Mark Sanders, Julia Scott, Richard 
> Scroggs, Andrew Tarsy, Jason Thompson and Mike Stax. I want to thank my great 
> friend Bruce Brodeen, Michael Roux and everyone at Parasol, Rainbow Quartz, 
> Call Girl PR, Mint Records and all of the other labels, publicists and artists 
> who send boxes and boxes of promos for us to listen to. As we go into our 
> 4th year, we're looking for some new blood and we have some new features that 
> I hope we can implement by early next year, like a blog and some other ideas 
> that I have. I hope we can continue to publish forever. I think that will 
> depend on if we can find some additional writers with some time, good taste 
> and some writing skills. Please contact me at _fundaro@aol.com_ 
> (mailto:fundaro@aol.com) if you know anyone with enthusiasm, good taste in any 
> genre of 
> music and some writing talent. Thanks again. 
> 
> Casey Fundaro