When Closing Down The Magazine You Published...

1. Shuffle the paperwork around and check the bank statements several times. Over and over.

2. Talk to every and any respected or pathetic press outlet that will hear you out. Stay ON MESSAGE, like the youthful cronies that the Republican think tanks spit out: make every question suit your needs.

3. Have a drink. Lie down for a moment.

4. Be sure you read from your work once more before it's all over. Even if it is Saturday at noon and you haven't slept more than an hour and your hungover eyes are burning and wincing at the clarity of the sun on one of the Bay Area's lovliest days.

5. Build a Flickr account so you can be sure of the fact that something amazing really did happen.

6. Don't get all weepy about it, you fucking baby.