 Yesterday I received my copy of "The Revised Boy Scout Manual" by William S. Burroughs, newly-published by The Ohio State University Press. I pre-ordered it several months ago when I first learned about the book from fellow Electronic Cottage Community member John M. Bennett. John edited the book with Geoffrey D. Smith and wrote one of the forewords of the book. I do not want to say too much about the book yet, because I do not want to spoil the experience for any of you who might be interested in the book. I also need time to read, savor, and absorb the book. I will say, however, that the main source text of this now authoritative version of "The Revised Boy Scout Manual" was a performance of the text recorded onto cassette tapes by Burroughs. Also, John Bennett's foreword offers a plan or scheme for understanding the themes of the book, which could well be applied to any or at least many works by WSB.
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Hal McGee
between coincidence and augury 1. flight patterns of birds 25:33 2. signs of things that happened 25:49 recorded August 2018 in Gainesville, Florida with three Sony ICD-PX470 stereo digital dictaphones Yamaha Reface CS and Korg Monotron synthesizers Minimoog Model D and Noisemusick iPhone apps plus circuit bent Casio SK1 and sounds of every day life artwork details from Custer's Last Stand 1967 download at Bandcamp ($1 minimum) includes PDF of CD cover so that you can print your own CD cover also available on CDR by request, for $8 postage paid worldwide 
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and much more.
EC draws inspiration from the Cassette Culture Revolution of the 1980s, 90s and beyond; Mail Art, Small Press and Zines, Dada, Fluxus, Punk Rock, Hacking, Circuit Bending, Anarchy, and Noise.
EC values inclusion, democracy, experimentation, independence and freedom of thought and expression, open-minded exchange, and Community.
From this moment forward the Electronic Cottage website will primarily be an online magazine for the publication of lengthy and in-depth articles, essays, and interviews.
For those of you who use Facebook I have created an Electronic Cottage Group, which will be a casual social gathering place of the EC Community, where EC people can meet, share artwork and news of current projects and releases.
The EC website will continue as before, and I encourage those of you who do not use Facebook to use the FORUM page here at the EC website to post miscellaneous thoughts and personal updates.
The website and this EC Facebook Group are two separate but connected entities of the greater EC Community.