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1.   Yes, folks, we're  still in  the scene and  still producing  eye candy to
make you  dizzy.  Remember to check  the box labeled  "Lord Soth/iCE" for
the Republican  primaries in a state  near you!   If he doesn't appear on
your ballot, it was only  because of a  bureaucratic  error,  please give
him a write-in vote.  Seriously!

2.   Numerous  changes to the  memberlist this  month.   We'd like  to welcome
Kabal 13  to the fold,  an excellent  artist  whose  pictures will  speak
for themselves.   Kamikazee  comes back with an  ANSI that will  make you
shiver twice.  Isosceles and  Maestro also return from  places beyond the
horizon.  We would also like to welcome Snake Grunger, whose ansi talents
are outstanding.  On a sad note,  Chromatik has left  the scene,  and The
Green Hornet rejoined DARK.  In this  pack we are releasing  CK's Goodbye
ansi, entitled "Hello" :)  He did not mean for this to be released in the
iCE Pack, but we're doing it  as a (sadly) last favor to him.  We want to
quickly restate  that iCE  does not  wish to alienate  any members of the
group or discourage any group of people from applying, and that all ideas
expressed in the pack are the views of the individual artists, and do not
represent group policy.  Regardless,  we wish both CK and TGH well in all
their future endeavors.  Finally, due to a violent fever, Magnetic M left
for Legend, but  once he awoke and  noticed the new  tatoo he returned to
iCE.  A  cry  of "Who  likes  a  sailor  then?"  went  up  as  the  group
spontaneously felt bashful.

2a.  The staff  would like to  apologize to  Apox for  forgetting  his name in
the past pack.  Apox, you have one 'kick Syntax in the head' certificate,
void in 40  states as well as  where prohibited,  except in the case of a
healthy traumatization.

2b.  The staff would  also like to apologize  to Slothy for not announcing his
official "coming out"  day, on December 22,  1995.  He  proudly wears his
pink  triangle  in  support  of  ankle  grabbers  around  the world.   We
sincerely  regret not making light of  this most important  announcement.

3.   Defective  Mind's board,  Black Sunshine,  has  retired.   Apparently the
software  left a note  on the keyboard  about having  found a  good woman
in a Waffle House  and leaving for  Tahiti.   Go figure.   In other news,
nobody else  retired that anyone can think of.   What this has to do with
iCE  News  has  yet  to  be  seen,   however,  Greater  Evil  was  caught
"red-handed" as it were during a routine yak molestation.  His court date
is at noon  on February  17th in the  4th room on  the  left at  the town
Court.  Everyone  is invited  to Attend.   Oh,  silly me...  he  lives in
Georgia.   Sheesh,  we   almost  forgot  to  tell   you  where   it  was.

4.   iCE is  back on  FTP,  finally.  The folks at wit.com noticed our defunct
site during a  reorganization  and contacted  us about  bringing  it back
online.  While we're  a little slow  doing the  reorganization,  you will
begin  seeing  the  archives  on  ftp://harmony.wit.com/ice  in the  near
future.   Bear with  us for a few  weeks while we get  everything running
smoothly  again and oil all  the gears and  water the plants and blow the
old air out of the lungs of all the dead bodies.  I think.

5.   Just a note  about Surreal Logic's  Web magazine,  NetherwOrld.   This is
a non-iCE  Affiliated  magazine,  and  we just  wanted to  give him  some
extra publicity.  The URL for NetherwOrld will be:
http://deadbaby.res.wpi.edu/nworld/
It will be  up in about  a week.   Anyone  wanting  to write  an article/
review packs/do  artwork for the online  magazine should  contact Surreal
Logic or  his mother,  as she gets  lonely with  nothing to  do except go
surfing  on the  Baywatch  beach,  although this  requires her  to have a
weekly disaster  whilst  swimming,  which her  doctor  told her  to watch
out for.

6.   That  damn  Squidgalator ][.   He gets  almost  as  many  awards  as  our
musicians.  Heretics,  his demo  group,  won  first  place  at  the  OZ96
demo competition.  Their demo  can be found,  like most  everything else,
at ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/demos/incoming/OZ96/demo/htc-gunk.zip

7.   Tran,  our   favorite  unaffiliated  demo   coder,  has  created  another
spectacular dose of  what has  made him  famous.   The music  was done by
Basehead. You can get this one at, you guessed it,
ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/demos/alpha/1996/l/luminati.zip
This  is  a  definate  MUST-SEE.   You  should  have  a  decent  computer
(dx2-66 or  better to  really  enjoy it),  and a soundcard  helps to hear
some of Basehead's  amazing tuneage.   But make time to  get this one, as
it's just absolutely amazing.

8.   iCE would like to announce their birthday present for the now 27-year old
Tired Fuck, err... Friar Tuck.  We're all getting together and buying him
grammar lessons!  We figure someone who can pull down as much $$$ as Tuck
can should at least know  that you put two spaces after  a period.  We're
fairly sure he knew about the fact that you're supposed to wait a certain
amount after every  period before  starting  up again,  but maybe we were
wrong.  If you are a demented person after reading this then you have the
undying  respect  of  all  the  little  people  of  America  and  beyond.

9.   Just a quick sad note.  Squidgalator ][  had a huge hard drive crash, and
as a  result,  our OZ  HQ is  now only  a memory.   We are  not currently
looking for a new one, so please  don't email us asking for the position.

10.  Kudos goes out to all the iCE  artists for another wonderful month of fun
and good times.   As other groups find themselves  missing monthly packs,
dying due to lack  of interest, or forming  just for the  hell of it, iCE
has maintained a leadership role in  innovation and breakthrough artwork.
We enjoy  each and every  one of you members  of iCE, and look forward to
many  continuing  months  of  s uccess  and  enjoyment   in  the  future.

Sincerely,
Richard M. Nixon