I want to exist in a constant state of rest and yet I’m driven to create something of value. I’ve found working on POUAH! is a great way to fail at both.

- MacIntyre Plunkett shortly before receiving a 25-year sentence for tax evasion.

POUAH! was founded in the ashes of 1997 Toronto by Dick Rudd, John Lee and MacIntyre Plunkett. It was a humour newsletter devoted to being philosophically irrelevant and politically incomprehensible. The newsletter quickly folded after the historic stamp price hike of 1997.

John Lee and MacIntyre Plunkett, the two surviving founders, attempted to revitalize POUAH! as a tabletop roleplaying game in 2003. Players would generate their own Italian Futurist motorcycle racers and fight through 1970s Italy in search of Nikita Khrushchev’s missing gold. The game did very poorly.

Thanks to the predatory practices of free blogging platforms, POUAH! has returned to what it once was: a humour newsletter that is philosophically incomprehensible and politically irrelevant.

Honestly, it’s probably best you don’t contact me. Nothing personal, I just don’t think you have anything worthwhile or valuable to say. If I wanted to hear your dumb little comments I’d turn on ‘Comments’ for posts.

On the other hand, if you’re a beautiful woman from Random House or FSG and you want to offer me a cool million-dollar book deal, then I can be reached at john@pouah.ca