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Eric Francis Coppolino's avatar

Don't forget -- I lost your submission twice, and thought it admirable that you gave me the copy three times. This was summer 1984 -- it was rather nuts, with reach and the lawsuit happening...persistence pays....

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Andrew Galarneau's avatar

Well, you were the first one not to say no, which was encouraging under the circumstances.

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Eric Francis Coppolino's avatar

It was obviously good writing. And then as now, I am willing to give people a chance to do something they want to do, if I can. However, it was a perfect fit for Generation and spoke to my prankster spirit...did the name come from The Who's "Bitter and Twisted"?

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Eric Francis Coppolino's avatar

also I am pretty sure you handed me dot matrix printing -- which is how you could show up with it again :-)

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Elizabeth Licata's avatar

I was an editor at the Spectrum up 9/84. I am sure this would have been a great fit for Prodigal Sun, which was a separate paper then.

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Eric Francis Coppolino's avatar

I am still in touch with Grasshopper -- I forget his name -- excellent musician, was Prodigal Sun editor in 1984-85 or so.

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Scott Nourse's avatar

I started at UB Spring ‘85 and graduated in ‘88- I always looked forward to the Bitter Twisted columns. I appreciated how they cut through the BS of college life in such a biting and hilarious way. Thank you so much. I wish I would have kept a copies of Generation so I could look through them- it’s a shame they haven’t been digitized and made publicly available (at least, not from what I’ve been able to find.)

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Robert Brucato's avatar

I was undergrad at UB from 83-87 so I was there for those days!

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Kilissa Cissoko's avatar

Do you remember the night you and me and Greg stayed up a million hours to put out the ads for the paper?

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Andrew Galarneau's avatar

Yes. It was not the last. Testing the limits of sleep deprivation since 1984 ✊

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Kilissa Cissoko's avatar

Hence the motto: “We Never Sleep “

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Kilissa Cissoko's avatar

Those were the days!!!!

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