Mar/April

[norther practitioner]

The March and April edition is on news stands (well, at least the one I was at yesterday). Gene, come on now... who picked that shot for the cover?

[Judge Pen]

Hmm. That means it will be in my mainbox in a couple of weeks.

BUT, we get to see the new ORA girl, Lianne Lin, and that makes me very happy!

[mickey]

Gene,

Last night, I had put up a thread about how you guys kicked off your new "Got Wood?" campaign with the Leung Ting cover. I deleted it because I did not want to take BL's place on this forum.

Still, that is the funniest cover ever for any magazine.

mickey

[GeneChing]

...and the cover shot was mostly the result of Design Sifu's input. Speaking of BL, she just called me. Some things just never leave well enough alone...

[mickey]

"...dirty minds" ??

Gene, you are way too harsh on a guy.

It's not like I said, "VASCONGESTIVE PRIAPISM." Nooo. I was so reserved. A gentleman. Yes, a gentleman. I can see your new line of T shirts now:

"Got VASCONGESTIVE PRIAPISM?" I'd buy the shirt.

So wounded, yet, so enterprising,

mickey

[norther practitioner]

um, lol, I just thought it was funny, definitely caught my eye on the news stand.

I'm in the middle of a move, I'll prob. not get to read it for a while...

which sometimes is nice.

[Shaolinlueb]

i hope the picture of leane lin is as good as this one

[GeneChing]

....when you see it, you'll understand why I say this.

[Judge Pen]

*runs to check mail.* Not there yet. *Visits Lianne's site in the meantime.*

[GeneChing]

...I hoping y'all give us some comments on the content too.

[Judge Pen]

Will do as soon as I can read the mag.

[mickey]

Okay Gene,

What I liked:

-The articles on the martial arts development in Mainland China and Taiwan.

-The Tai Chi and Pop music article. I enjoyed seeing the subject on the back cover.

- The continuing success of Benny Meng.

-The advertisment that featured the "homeless" guy with the sign "Will break boards for food."

What I did not like:

The tons of advertisments from Martial arts Mart; almost Every other page. For a moment I thought Dave Cater was the editor (yikes!!!). Joe Weider's rags were never so jammed like that.

mickey

[Judge Pen]

I liked the long pole article.

I like the old weapons featured. In fact I have a pair of hook swords that I bought off of e-bay that resemble the phoniex beak swords in the mag. How would I go about getting my hooks dated?

[GeneChing]

m- Glad you liked that taiji pop article. That one was experimental. We had such a varied reaction to the Lou Reed story. But the bottom line was that issue sold out. And from a strictly journalistic standpoint, pop culture influence beyond the movies is always very interesting to us. Plus that ad campaign was huge. If you are in business, you couldn't have missed it.

The ads pay for the magazine. Always. If you don't like ads, don't read magazines. But I think you'll still find a better content-to-ad ratio in our magazine than most of the others. Do a page count. Our ads are just louder, coordinated with our copy (same graphic crew) so they feel like there are more.

I'm glad you liked that homeless guy - he's the brother of Leslie, who works here at our CA Tiger Claw office. I've been having fun with that ad concept (this is just the second one) but it is really just an ad for more ads.

JP - As for dating, try get on Antiques Roadshow. SEriously, the only way is to find an expert.

[Shaolinlueb]

yeah gene i havent gotten mine in the mail yet either.