Spyplane Year One: "D*mn, what a Year"

Plus: What's next!

Close yr eyes and project yrself into a past world so distant it verges on unimaginable … Yes, we are talking about one year ago this week, a pivotal juncture in the history of art and philosophy when Blackbird Spyplane didn’t exist … then all of a sudden it existed — and everything changed.

For ~365 days, this 100% reader-supported newsletter achieved millions of beautiful things… saluted millions of beautiful jawns and the beautiful souls who devise, produce & love them… and blessed millions of beautiful readers’ mindsets along the way.

All while notching a grand total of ZERO wack accomplishments… Wow.

Blackbird Spyplane “blasted off the mf-ing runway” at a moment of profound global uncertainty — politically, ecologically, economically, pandemically. Real talk, that global uncertainty preceded Covid-19 by decades, in lots of ways, and it’s something we are in no way clear of — even if a lot of ppl want you to pretend that we are “back to normal.” (The crises in India and Africa, worsened thanks to the perniciousness of pharmaceutical I.P. profiteers / the Gates F*undation, are one grim illustration.)

Against this tumult, Blackbird Spyplane posed two radical & intertwined questions: Could a fantastic electronic-mail magazine combine Mach 3+ taste while championing values such as human fellowship, interspecies interconnectedness, and democratized control over the wealth that we as workers create with our labor?? And could this sick newsletter help readers get off sublime & idiosyncratic fits while espousing blessed, big-brained tenets such as F**k Amazon and Tuck All Tops ??

You, the Blackbird SpyFriends, answered with a resounding “O YES” on all counts. “So,” you’re understandably asking now, “what comes next?”

Our fail-safe, 100% guaranteed predictions for Spyplane Year Two include …