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Let\u2019s review two of the prime directives here at the Secret MICRO-FILM Headquarters<\/strong>. First, we\u2019d rather take longer to do it right<\/em>, and then, we always reappear after we disappear<\/em>. Work factors, personal needs, and a C-U Confidential<\/span><\/strong> issue edging towards completion add up to a lack of blogging, but the floodgates will open soon enough to let content flow more freely than in the last few weeks. We promise it. You believe it. We appreciate you for sticking with us, dearest readers.<\/p>\n There have been fun asides, we\u2019ll admit. Your humble editor was asked by interviewer Andrew J. Rausch<\/strong> to contribute a new essay to the follow-up book to Conversations on Quentin Tarantino<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/a> that is titled My Best Friend\u2019s Birthday: The Making of a Quentin Tarantino Film<\/span><\/strong>. Often excused from QT canon by scholars and fans, the ultra-low budget and unfinished comedy MY BEST FRIEND\u2019S BIRTHDAY<\/strong> was made in the late Eighties by the future auteur<\/em> and his collaborator at the time, Craig Hamann<\/strong>. The latter joins Rausch and several others in providing oral histories and juicy anecdotes about the project in this intriguing volume, while Mr. JaPan<\/strong>\u2019s words will kick off the middle section about its production.<\/p>\n Ye Ed has also submitted a testimonial that will appear in a book called Red Light and Other Tales<\/span><\/strong>. It supports the Champaign<\/strong> screenwriter and B-movie reviewer Colin Gabriel Price<\/strong><\/span><\/a> who makes his debut as a published author with this release. Red Light<\/span> is a collection of short stories on the dark and seamy side of recognizable genres like fantasy and Gothic horror, although \u201cRed Light<\/strong>\u201d itself is a slice of crime fiction about a sociopathic killer and his young female mark who only knows the dark side of good fortune. We’re elated to see Price persevere with his work after recent creative ups and downs in his world.<\/p>\n Stealing away from the keyboard for a bit with our friend, artist and CUZine<\/span> #9<\/strong> cover model Drea Aarons<\/strong>, we shared the Confidential love at this past weekend\u2019s Small Press Fest<\/strong> at the Independent Media Center<\/strong> in Urbana<\/strong>. A solid turnout of professional imprints, \u2018zine makers, alt-media collectives, and crafty types filled the Sun Room of the IMC\u2019s main floor while we teased our next issue by giving out previous issues at a table just inside the Stage Room where speaking activities took place. CUZine<\/span><\/strong> sat alongside two other local mags that did not have representatives at the show: Activator<\/span><\/strong>, a music culture monthly from Springfield<\/strong> that now counts David Gracon<\/span><\/strong> of Hallways Microcinema<\/strong><\/span><\/a> as a contributor, and Comparisons<\/span><\/strong>, a science-as-art \u2018zine created for the University of Illinois\u2019 Institute for Genomic Biology<\/strong> by creative program manager Julia Pollack<\/strong>, once a member of Illini Film & Video<\/strong> while she was a UI undergraduate. Hopefully, this is a solid stepping stone for organizer Sarah Christensen<\/strong> and friends<\/a><\/span> on which to build the event and complement other local efforts like the \u201cLit\u201d arm of the Pygmalion Festival<\/strong>.<\/p>\n While both Red Light<\/span> and My Best Friend\u2019s Birthday<\/span> should be available by this fall through Page Publishing<\/strong> and BearManor Media<\/strong>, respectively, you will be able to pour through C-U Confidential<\/span> #10<\/strong> much sooner! We can announce with certainty that the digest will go to press in the first half of May and appear at our favorite drop points du C-U soon afterwards. We\u2019ll have the traditional cover reveal here on C-U Blogfidential<\/span><\/strong> and, for the first time, bonus articles that directly relate to what you\u2019ll find inside the issue. Enjoy the spoils of our efforts while we return to our version of normal.<\/p>\n ~ Jason Pankoke<\/p>\n ~~~~~<\/p>\n Now that C-U Confidential is guaranteed to return for a tenth round, we simply have to finish it off. 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