Hey all! For those that hadn't noticed, the new Voices For Tolerance album is out! janscottfrazier has a nice post about it here: http://janscottfrazier.livejournal.com/245653.html

And the new version of the website is now online!


voicesfor.org

Check out the new site and go buy the album!

It's been a bit since I've posted something here. Things have just been either moving too fast or way to slow the last few weeks.

Main reason for the post today is that there's a new version of floofy.net online. Nothing overly spectacular, but it's new, so I thought I'd mention it.

Beyond that, it's just life being life. School's going well. Teachers are great. Classes are fairly decent. It's mostly general ed stuff, so it's all just kinda there. You know, things like Econ and PolSci... All interesting stuff, but in the end, it's all just general ed stuff. Nothing major.

Still trying to get used to stuff at the new apartment. Things are still a bit of a mess and needs to be cleaned up one of these days, but that'll happen when it happens.

Yeah, just kinda here.
 

Well, after the year-long experiment that was Ionfuse, the time came to get back to our roots. @anime! is officially back. Why, one may ask? Well, after sitting back and looking at what we had intended to do with Ionfuse, things just didn't seem to be materializing like I would have wanted. The original intention was to branch out a bit more into American mainstream media and that just didn't happen. Yeah, I can say that based on my original intentions, Ionfuse failed to live up to my expectations. It's not the first time something I've done hasn't worked out and I'm sure it won't be the last.

Not that it's been a loss. It's all a learning experience. Ionfuse was a good thing for us here. It somehow got the companies paying a bit more attention to us, which is definitely good. I was able to finally get a site design going in a direction that, with the new @anime! design, I'm extremely happy with. There was always something in each design that I did with @anime! before Ionfuse that really bugged me. It was usually something small that didn't quite fit and I had to find some hack solution for the design problem. I was able to get over that with the new @anime! site design. I think it looks cool, but I know I'm biased.

Now it's back to the normal HUGE problem I've always had with the magazine. Finding people excited enough about anime, manga, video games, j-pop and Japanese culture to want to write. Does anyone out there have suggestions on how to recruit more writers? I'd really love any ideas or help that anyone has.

Beyond that, just happy to see things going again. After things getting sidetracked with trying to get some other projects off the ground, it's nice to see things getting back on track.

Oh, and if anyone knows anyone that wants to write reviews, let me know. We can use all the help we can get. :)