"random tantrums & tarantula banter" is the Spring 2007 edition of the 'zine, with an introduction by Dr. André Narbonne: "Welcome to random tantrums & tarantula banter, the fifth edition of the University of Windsor English Undergrad Student Association’s Zine, a publication that reverberates with creative energy and imaginative surprises.  As the title suggests, the work in this collection is edgy, ironic, playful, angry.  It mixes the meditative and the immediate, the fantastic and the real (to use a too much maligned word).  In other words, rt&tb is consistently challenging and fresh.  It includes the work of fourteen writers whose styles run the gamut from visceral twister to pessimist prose, comic script to English sonnet.  But just as the individual words in rt&tb’s title are linked by shared letters and sounds, the stories and poems in this collection are also linked by a shared sound:  the voice of the present.  It might seem obvious to say that the voices in a university Zine belong to a future generation of writers, but there is something obviously wrong with this idea.  Voices are ephemeral.  They belong to the living, and the writers collected in rt&tb are speaking to us today and must therefore be speaking with the accent of the present.  Their strength, in my opinion, is in what they make of us.  I’m not alone in my belief that a writer’s muse is, in part, the audience.  That’s us.  And I like what rt&tb assumes.  It assumes that we are intelligent, with an intelligent sense of humour, that we have not taken refuge from the storms of present-day life in shallowness, that we can hear a plurality of expressions—that we don’t close ourselves to difference.  So welcome to random tantrums & tarantula banter, the fifth edition of EUSA’s Zine.  And thank you Aaron, Megan, Ryan, James, Hollie, Lindsey, Magda, Matthew, Cristina, Jason, Kate, Hannah, Sarah and William for making us matter. Dr. André Narbonne"   The Editroial Board/EUSA Exec Kate Hargreaves, Matthew Terry, Aaron Feldman, Dave Feil Purchase your copy of the zine! Email us at eusa.windsor@gmail.com or come to one of our meetings to get your copy! Past Editions: Filth-- Spring 2006 go on, kill me-- Fall 2006 Photo copyright by Zine contributer Megan Kearney.