Well, another year has passed, and the Cud continues to keep on keeping on thanks to you, dear readers!

Two years since our launch at the Hollywood Hotel in Surry Hills, Sydney in November of 2004 we’ve managed to expand our readership well beyond Australia and into the United States, Europe and beyond. Our contributors from far and wide continue to amaze us with their enthusiasm and commitment towards creating challenging, original work, and your feedback and words of support have been genuinely encouraging.

To help celebrate our second birthday we asked you to take a dive into the archives and vote on your favourite articles and columns from the past two years and twenty-four issues of the Cud so as to create something of a ‘best of’ issue.

The result of your efforts is a diverse collection of pieces that cover the spectrum from politics to arts and culture, technology and beyond. Your choices and the issue we’ve drawn together as a result are confirmation of the kind of diversity of subject matter we’d hoped to consistently provide when we began, and invite you to continue for many more months to come to stick to our mantra and ‘entertain a new perspective: Chew the Cud!’.

Thanks for your continued support and happy reading,

Evan Kanarakis & Oli Pennington,
Editors, The Cud.
November, 2006.