Edited by Anne Walker, who used her family name, Anne Marie MacDonald, in #3 and later issues.
Shift #7 and #16 were issued in videocasette format. Shift #7 was shipped in a box with a pillow, to commemorate the 1989 San Francisco earthquake (HMSGRB copy lacks the pillow?). Shift #16, "Artists in the kitchen," is accompanied by a set of 13 laminated recipe cards.
Shift #15 includes a audio disc: (side A) I'll never be worried, I'll never be tired; (side B) Bonnie Parker, Clyde Barrow.
Some of the artists and writers represented include: Kathy Acker; Anthony Aziz; Robert Barone; Dodie Bellamy; Bill Berkson; Johannes Birringer; Nayland Blake; Jack Brand; Kathy Brew; Rosetta Brooks; Eugenie Bruno; Enrique Chagoya; Michele Cone; Dewey Crumpler; Sammy Cucher; John DeFazio; Terrence Dempsey; Ken Dillon; Bob Dix; Mary Dowd; Mark Durant; Suzy Farbman; Bruce Ferguson; Karen Finley; Richard Flood; Philip Gefter; Mitchell Goodman; Wally Goodman; Guillermo Gômez-Peña; Melissa Harris; Glen Helfand; Mona Hatoum; Gary Indiana; James Irwin; Matias Jaramillo; Liz Kotz; Stefan Kürten; Tony Labat; Edward Leffingwell; Mark Levy; James Lewis; Scott MacLeod; Bridget Manoogian; Robert Mapplethorpe; Tom Marioni; Larry McCaffery; John McCarron; Michael O'Brien; David Pagel; Gary Panter; Izhar Patkin; Michael Penhallow; Judy Pfaff; Maria F. Porges; Timothy Porges; David Rimanelli; Lawrence Rinder; Audrey Roberts; Daniela Salvioni; Robert Sánchez; Thomas Schindler; Ingrid Sischy; Holly Solomon; Mary Ann Staniszewski; Carl Stigliano; Alisa Tager; Christine Tamblyn; Rudy Vanderlans; Deborah Wise; David Wojnarowicz; and Jody Zellen.
