First of all, let me take this opportunity to thank each and every person who wished the wife and I well on our civil union. And extra special thanks to everyone who sent us something. We were both quite breathless with everyone’s generosity and kindness. The deed is now official, the papers have been filed. We are a union, even if we are not really “civil” in any sense. :-)

Now, on to news.

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I know that a lot of people hang out in a lot of different online spaces. I can’t be everywhere, but I thought I’d give everyone a rundown on the various spaces and groups where you can find Yuricon (or me.)

Yuricon ML: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Yuricon/
This is a general chat list where your comments on anything remotely to do with Yuri are always welcome! This is the best place to get Yuricon and ALC News and updates, since I post there first…and often I post there and forget to post elsewhere. Woops…

Yuricon Announcements ML: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Yuricon_announce
This is more like a newsletter- you get the announcements. That’s it. There’s no chat and no way to reply.

Yuricon in LJland: http://community.livejournal.com/yuricon/
This is a group someone set up on LiveJournal to which I sometimes remember to post news announcements. I do occasionally check in to reply to comments. If you have a LJ and check that regularly, it’s one good way of getting Yuricon and ALC news.

Okazu: http://okazu.blogspot.com
This, the thing you are reading, is my “official” blog, which I am now updating on the order of 4-5 times a week. It includes reviews of yuri anime, manga, live action and related (sometimes not so much) films and books, as well as news and updates. Other than the YC mailing list, it is the best place to get updates and news – and you can get it on an XML feed to make it easier to get updates.

Mixi – http://mixi.jp/show_friend.pl?id=7455248
This is a Japanese social networking site. It is, therefore, in Japanese. I’m really bad about updating this, for fairly obvious reasons. If you have a mixi account, let me know and I’ll add you as a friend. It’ll make us both look cooler. :-) I am going to try and post there a bit more often.

Yuricon MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/yuricon
Yuricon MySpace Blog: http://blog.myspace.com/yuricon
Like the LJ Community, I’m going to post news and updates here, but not much else. But feel free to add me as a friend, or ask me to add you. Like Mixi, it’ll make us look so much cooler. ;-)

Last, but not least, you can usually find me hangin’ on IRC in the evenings at [email protected] and [email protected], two wonderful scanlation/sub groups that you already know about (or should, if you don’t) where we talk about yuri from time to time. :-)

Hope I’ll see everyone *somewhere* online! :-)

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And last, some headlines from the Yuri News RSS Feed on Yuricon!

# Curve Magazine interviews Yuri Artist Althea Keaton

# Polish magazine Komikz talks to Yuri Mangaka Rica Takashima

# Lesbian Graphic Novelist June Kim is interviewed by Afterellen.com

# Get your Library card for the Yuri Manga and Doujinshi Library at Yuricon’s 2007 “Yurisai” Event

# The Cutie Honey Movie relased by Bandai

Get your irregularly updated Yuri News with RSS!

I was so ready to be clever and funny today, but it’s just not happening. Instead, here’s two pieces of important news:

The Yuricon/ALC Publishing website is currently down. This is not a crisis (yet.) Due to Philip Mak’s sudden death, we’re moving servers. There’s a lot I have to do and I’m not entirely sure how to do it all, since Philip setup the whole thing for me originally. I hope to be up and running *soon*.

This does not affect Okazu, of course, except as it sucks away my will to live and leaves me with no energy to write… ;-)

It also does not effect Registration for Yuricon 2007, which is open. Register today for the only 100% yuri of 2007!

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Also in today’s news, Infinity Studios now has a page up for their translation of Iono-sama Fanatics. It looks like they are reproducing the dust jacket, the 4-panel comics on the inner jacket and full-color pages. Happy day!

We heard about this months ago, but how nice to see that they’ll be reproducing the actual thing, instead of a close imitation.

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That’s it for today folks. Tomorrow, if all goes just lovely, I will write a lovely review of the lovely Simoun Drama CD “Ah, Lovely Office Lady Temps”. (No, seriously…that’s the title.)