Housekeeping!

– I don’t know why you’d be browsing my site at 11pm on a Saturday night, but if you are? Remember that Daylight Savings Time is all stupid this year (it’s actually pretty stupid most of the time), and that it actually takes place at 2am Sunday morning (about three hours from right now). So, you lose an hour of sleep, but you gain… darkness when you get out of work? Sigh. Remember, spring forward!

– I haven’t forgotten about the Casanova Reviews. The problem, aside from my schedule sort of falling apart, was that the text piece in the back of issue 7 is pretty intense, and has forced me to reconsider the last few issues of the first series. So, I’m gonna read the whole thing again, start-to-finish, and give it another go this week.

– Chris Mautner of the Panels and Pixels blog interviewed me a little while back for an article he was writing on yaoi for The Patriot News in Pennsylvania. You can find it online now, and it’s called “Brokeback Manga”. For better or worse, I seem to be the pre-eminent retail representative of yaoi in North America, or at least the only one willing to go on record to discuss it, and so I offer the surprising retail views that a) Yaoi is selling well, and b) it can’t stay out of the harsh, disapproving glare of the public forever. Chris is a great guy and I was happy to be a part of the article (which turned out great, actually), but my complete lack of interest in revisiting stupid yaoi controversy will see me avoiding follow-up on some of the more questionable assertions on the part of Yaoi fans in the article…

– Speaking of me, and Media, I don’t think I linked to it but Mangacast has a podcast of the first panel I was on at the New York Comic Con, “The buyers panel”. Apparently, I’m very funny in it, and there’s a bunch of great info in it anyway. Go check it out.

– I think I’m going to write about it more in a little while, but for the time being check out Brigid’s interview with Fanfare/Ponent-Mon publisher Stephen Robson at Mangablog.

– Aside from some review writing, I’m blissfully free of obligations for the next little while, so I should be able to keep the blog posts coming with some regularity. It’s pretty depressing to go a day or two without blogging, let alone a week or whatever. Oh, speaking of which, I’m about half-done a complete wrap-up of the New York Comic Con. Does anyone have any interest in seeing it at this point, or no?

Thanks,

– Christopher