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Okazu News: More site construction

December 6th, 2006

So, uh, once again, the old “under construction” sign is up around here at Okazu.

Blogger has a few new bells and whistles and I’m trying to get those working and keep all the old stuff in place. So, my apologies for any inconvenience as your RSS Feeds get 600 posts in the next several weeks, in clots of about 30 or so. (If I didn’t have to republish, I wouldn’t. But I do.) When it’s all over, we ought to have a nice automatically generated list of Labels for you to find things more easily, and I can lose the fakey categories I’ve been using.

I’ll still be posting all week, just to make this even more awkward and annoying. Got a couple more schoolgirl manga for y’all. :-)

Anyway, my apologies. I’ll try to make it as quick as possible. Thanks for your continued support of Okazu!





Okazu News: New Banner and "Opinion, Part 3"

November 8th, 2006


This week has been a bit busy, what with preparations beginning for Yuricon 2007 Yurisai, our festival of Yuri. Look for some signs of life on the Yuricon website soon, as we start developing programming, video, guests and contests for this exciting one-day event! Registration is slated to begin in January.

In the meantime, as we’ve made it to yet another November here at Okazu, I thought I’d offer up the opportunity once more to ask me anything, anything at all, as long as it’s not absurdly personal (“What’s your bank account number?”) I promise to, as I have in the past, answer everything with my usual brutal, yet somehow adorable, honesty. Questions about Yuri are always welcome, questions about ALC and Yuricon are VERY welcome, questions about Maria-sama ga Miteru are always fun, but don’t be afraid to make me think. I’ll warn you though – I’m not good at logic questions, I tend to think in bursts of intuitive thought, so if you’re proposing a difficult logic question, I’ll pass. I never liked those. ^_^

Ask your questions here in the comments section, or feel free to email them to me with the subject “Your Opinion” and I’ll do my best to answer them all. I won’t promise to be nice, but I’ll do my best to be funny. ^_^ The last two ventures into this were a hoot, so I’m looking forward to your questions! (And I have a personal bet with myself about them…let’s see how I do.) No limit to the number of questions you can ask, but no promises about the number I answer.

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While you’re thinking up a good questions, please feel free to use one of the wonderful new link to Okazu banners, complete with “Yuri Okazu” logo as created by my beloved wife! We have two sizes – the small banner is about 2.8″ long and the super-sized version is about 4.8″ long. Please spread the word and spread the love and link to Okazu! (I was going to include a tagline “Okazu – when you’re hungry for yuri” but decided to skip it on the banner. Feel free to use it or not. ^_^ And see if you can ID everything we put in our little “Yuri Bento” box there.





Yuricon News, Okazu News

January 28th, 2006

If you are regular reader, you may notice a few small changes going on around here. This entry is pretty much a “We apologize for the inconvenience while renovating” type post. ;-)

Here’s what’s up on Okazu:

Because I’ve been doing Okazu for over three years now, the monthly archive is, as you can see, huge and not easy to navigate. (Gee, what was Erica talking about in Sept. 2003?). Blogger does not have a real categories function, so I’m using a workaround I found, which is basically to use Blogger search for certain preset keywords. If you look on the right-hand sidebar, you’ll see a new section called “Categories”. I am retroactively retitling all the several hundred posts on Okazu to have one or more of these keywords in the title. It’ll make it a bit easier…I *hope*…to find relevant posts. And it will force me to use more consistent titles.

The Categories are broken down into basic, obvious areas – Yuri Anime, Yuri Manga, Marimite-related, General Yuri news, Yuricon news, etc. Not every post will be keyed in to one of those categories, but most will – eventually. My apologies for any issues you encounter with links and general difficulties until it’s all done. I’m starting with my very oldest posts, and my very newest one and working towards the middle.

I guess the question I have is – should I leave the monthly archive up, too? Does anyone other than me use it? Let me know in the comments section.

Onto Yuricon:

Firstly, the final day to submit a picture to the 2006 Yuriko Fanart Contest is January 31. (I know the rules say the 30th. I’m giving readers and Yuricon Mailing List members an extra day.)

Secondly – we are starting to think about 2007 and a possible event. IF we decide to do an event in 2007, it would be a US version of what we did in Tokyo. That would be a one day event, cosplay welcome (but no cosplay event held) with a focus on video programming, panels and workshops. So keep an eye on autumn 2007 in Newark, NJ!





Yuri News: Welcome to Okazu

August 14th, 2002

Welcome to Okazu!

“Okazu” (おかず) is Japanese for appetizers – and is slang for lesbian sex because, you know it’s not *real* sex. ^_^

It’s also a good name for dribbles of writing that aren’t stories – just thoughts and comments and updates on things I’m doing. Most of those “things” will be Yuri-related, some will be about women in comics and others will be me screwing around as I travel the world. Whatever it is that brings you here, welcome and enjoy the tasty Okazu. ^_^