Sudden Death opened a joint networked PabloDraw session, that’s the important part – on intermittently on a regular basis (from now on?) at stolen-archives.us port 9600. Could I resist popping in? Don’t be daft! And who do I see there but none other than wi of Mist, who had popped in of his own volition without the heavy-handed invitation usually required of largely-retired historical ANSI-ists… well, maybe I had put him in the mood earlier in the day with my late-‘90s Al’s House of Meats ANSI art quilt Tweet:

@icicle I already made a quilt, back in 1999! It, uh, was made of ANSI art. Sorry, what were we discussing again? pic.twitter.com/geEGn80eLd

— Rowan Lipkovits (@UnwashedMass) December 31, 2015

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Anyhow, despite his friendliness with us, Sudden Death was never really part of the Mist crew; co-founder of CiA, at present he opportunistically just tries to light textmode sparks wherever a chance of a flame is present. So this wasn’t explicitly intended as a Mistigris joint (unlike the last one) and indeed it did contain other material by Mist-unrelated artists that I cropped out after following up on a suggestion in the PabloDraw chatroom and coming up with a bit of spontaneous lit rhapsodizing on the occasion of Hogmanay, laid out according to certain concrete poetry conventions last explored in ANSI back in an improvised illustrated poem from the 1999 installment of the (still-running!) Evoke demoparty in Germany. With wi and Cthulu of Mistigris both representing, we had a real Mistigris production together, and so here we share it with you. Will it end up in an artpack? Who cares! Happy New Year!

(And to enhance your fresh start, don’t forget the 1995 New Year tune – and its remix – we blogged about here a year ago. They’re not getting any older, just more and more classic!)