We thought we’d take a moment to sum up the many and various creative endeavors being undertaken by Shpotzirists at the moment or in the near future. Most of you probably already know about most of these, but perhaps you don’t know about all of them. (Of course, it’s entirely possible that we here at Shpotz HQ are not completely in the loop either. Please feel free to add anything we leave out).

West Coast Shpotzirist G. Ehrlich is currently self-publishing a collection of his early Shpotzir comics, which you can buy here. We’re a little unclear on how he’s undertaking this project, and whether or not said collection is an actual bound book or a set of color Xeroxes (is that the plural for Xerox?). We are sure that the comics themselves are fiendishly clever and gigantically funny—so much so we had planned to ask him about posting them on this sight, to accompany our projected Newsletter archive. We’d still like to do this, but not by any means if it entails cutting into our brother’s profit margin.

The Chairman, Brother Wilcha, recently sent out an email regarding his latest project, “Second Hand Stories,” which premiers tonight on your local PBS station at 9:00 (EST). He also mentions a party:

Please join me at Kili, 81 Hoyt Street (bet. State Street and Atlantic Avenue) in Brooklyn, this coming Tuesday evening.  We'll watch the broadcast from 9 to 9:30 pm and then DJ Chappy will be spinning for the rest of the evening.

While we won’t, regretfully, be able to make the party, but we do look forward to watching the show and basking in the electric-blue aura of the Chairman’s championship-grade wit.

Finally, Shpotzirists D. Ehrlich and Bones Moskowitz will be taking part in the Happy Ending Reading Series next Wednesday, Oct. 22. You can read about it here.  This series has attracted some pretty heavy hitters in the past, a fact that distills our two comrades almost to jelly with anxiety. This could be the big time: white-wine publishing parties, column inches in the Times Book Review, perhaps even invites to the Conde Nast cafeteria. We hope you can join us there.