The first mutterings of MONUMENT were heard around the spring of '04. It has since ballooned into a vast and poorly understood conspiracy, whose members identify themselves only through a complicated series of facial gestures and hand movements.
MONUMENT was a shortly lived literary magazine. Dan Masiel was involved. He notes that:
Monument was a lot of talk and very little action. Or should I say very slow action. It is actually fully laid out, I've screen printed 140 really nice covers and I still haven't gotten around to printing the insides of the damned thing. I am just too lazy to jack photocopies from somewhere and too cheap to pay to have it printed. But you know what, I'm willing to bet that someday it will be released and whole lot of people that I ranted at long ago will be very surprised. I'm keeping my fingers crossed...
If cost is the 'issue', you could take up a voluntary collection, or have people buy them pre-sale (i.e. $2 pre-printing, $5 afterwards). Sell them as rare, unique art objects instead of cheap 'zines and you should be able to more than 'cover' the cost.
It should be noted that an issue of Monument has, in fact, been published and distributed. If you did not receive a copy it's because you've been deemed dangerous to the Monumentalist Movement; so we can't have you getting your hands on the zine, deciphering the carefully encoded messages, and fouling up our plans.
