Touch me. Touch me like you didn't touch me last night.

Quote of the Moment from the manga I'm currently editing, Chinese Hero: Legend of the Blood Sword, v.3:

"Suddenly, the corpse explodes!"

Right, I'm partially dehydrated and my skin hurts from THE DAYSTAR IT BURNS!

Time to drink a lot of water and chase it with Pabst.

b

FUCK!

Fell asleep on the couch--c.f. this--now have ONE night instead of TWO to edit v.23 of Iron Wok Jan. Which is 200 pages long.

Balls.

b

While riding the bus back from my New Comic Book Day trip to G-Mart, I sat behind a guy that I often see at the shop when I'm there.

He was reading this:



which I edited for DrMaster.

That was a pretty damned kick-ass feeling.

b

aves_ives!!!!!!!!!

I hid a secret homage to you and your work in the latest volume of The King of Fighters 2003, a book I edited for DrMaster!!!

SEE IF YOUR CLEVER EYES CAN SPOT IT!!!



I am an utter geek.

benjamin
PS -- There is a Rival Schools team in the book. COINCIDENTALISMS!!!</ strong></ strong>

         Taking a page from man_size; here's what's on my plate, after I watch a movie with my wife and before I edit more of Rahxephon: The Novel: 4 for DrMaster:

IN PROGRESS:

         In the basement of his secret laboratory, Professor Masatsune’s three children pace wildly, occasionally pausing to let out horrible mechanical parodies of sobs. The tallest one, Umaji, has become angry. Tiny rockets pop out from his fist, ready to provide thrust for a ThunderPunch to the concrete wall, but Hideki raises all six of his spindly arms in a desperate bid to stop his older brother. Hideki knows how much the Professor hates to see them express anger in unproductive ways.
        On the stairs, Tomoko checks her abdomen for the eighteenth time this hour, a mechanoid OCD compelling her to confirm that she is still not leaking fissible material...

b

It's been a long time since I've actually felt a New Year like this.

In theory, my first published article (non-fiction, famous female pirates) will be in the issue of Shonen Jump that comes out this week...February cover date. Plus, based on its ass-rockingnessosity, I have another one finished, potentially for the March issue.

I've kept it hush from lots of people, but at midnight tonight, I'm no longer employed by the library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, as the project I was hired for comes to an end. I have an exam on Tuesday to qualify for another position that SHOULD open up...but won't know the results for weeks, and won't know about the job for longer.

Still editing manga for DrMaster, but I have promised that "time off from work" really means "time on for writing."

I might have decided that I'm not up for grad school, prefering to shoot for library job and writing as my "real jobs." With luck and asskick, the latter will eventually be my only job.


2006 will be my bitch.

benjamin sTone

By Friday, I'll know for certain, but I might as well mention it now. It's close enough that I doubt I'll jinx it. If I do...I know who to blame: me.

Anyway, it's a VERY short piece (350 words) on three historical female pirates, for this magazine here:





That's right, not only am I editing manga for DrMaster Publications, but I'm also about to get paid for a one-page piece in the magazine that prints manga like One-Piece, Naruto, YuYu Hakusho, Yu-Gi-Oh!, and more.

And, to put a fucking cherry on top, after some e-mails with the EiC of Shonen Jump last night, he assigned me another piece, on the basis of the quality of my LadyPirate piece.

I never said I wanted to be a writer; I said that I was a writer, and that I would be published.

Boom-shaka!

b
Who hearts all of you, and is ready for his goddamned close-up

Went to brain doctor. Will pick up new pills after work.

Need to plot some stuff, then edit the fuck out of the third Rahxephon novel for DrMaster. Novels pay three times as much as a plain manga, but take AT LEAST three times as long.

Fudge.