I am sitting here at my computer and I have been inspired to write a column. Since the elimination of the Digest, HUNDREDS and I mean hundreds of Digest members have, for lack of a better word, “revolted” against Comedy Central and have almost begged me to do my own Digest. For example, here are two e-mails I got today that were sent to Comedy Central...

Paul McGann dunsolas@yahoo.com Bring back Paul!!!!!

Kris Sedahl kris@hustadcompanies.com Losing Paul Wein is a HUGE disappointment...

Messages like that make me realize just how much that Digest impacted my life and how I will miss it – but I won’t – because this Monday begins THE OFFICIAL PAUL WEIN "F" COMEDY CENTRAL SOUTH PARK DIGEST! (For those of you that are South Park Digest members, SPREAD THIS WORD AROUND! This message is the first time I am mentioning this!)

So anyway, the reason for this e-babble is to tell you that my next Penny will be about how amazed I am that the Digest members revolted as much as they did.

Oh, and I attached a “Penny For The Day” which is about The Flume in Juneau, Alaska – a place I was this time exactly one year ago. The flume is a tall walkway in an Alaskan forest that is so surreal, that your mind is sure to open when you are there – because mine did – I had a vision of publishing a book while up there, and have accomplished that goal less then a year later. So I am sending you Penny # 339 – “A Road To Nowhere That Led To Something”, which I wrote in July 2001, before the world was changed forever – and in that column I talked about publishing my first book. Who knew a year later that I would do just that, at the unfortunate cost of the worst thing this world has ever suffered.

Wow. Guess I got chatty this time. In a way, this is like a column in itself. But now that I have your attention, I would like to take this moment to say the most sincere thank you I possibly could for reading and enjoying my writing. I remember the first time I wrote a column. I was so sure that people would hate it, that I expected the worst, and instead – got an amazing reception from then to now. But you guys, my forty-two die hard hardcore loyal readers on this mailing list, you have been who I feel closest to, and who I feel I am talking to when I write this column. So much in fact – that I just inadvertently wrote a column about all of you when all I wanted to do was send you an e-mail.

Seriously though, thank you for your support, your encouragement, your comments, your suggestions, your requests, your critiques, your corrections – and most importantly – your love. Thank you for listening to the babbles of some guy in Brooklyn who is as normal and ordinary as anyone else – and thank you for becoming such an amazing part of my life – that I care enough about you to turn an ordinary e-mail into Column # 517.

I love you all – and thanks – thanks so much.

Paul