Okay, folks. The preliminary website for 42 Magazine is up. (It will be located at 42magazine.com soonish.) I'm very excited.

For those who don't know already, we're going to publish a print magazine in the spring of '09, celebrating meaning in life. This is something I've been dreaming about since someotherguy's 42nd birthday, and now, with mine coming up, here it is.

Click here to see the call for submissions, which I've excerpted under the cut.

Whee! *bounce*

( Call for submissions, Spring '09 issue )

So as you may have noticed, my life went a little chaotic there for a while. Good chaos, but still. Everything went kind of blooie while I got us settled in, but now, we're settled in, so I can share with you my new project, which I promised to share with you months ago. (My last new project, the sex-toy websites, was put on hold by the boss, but this one's my own baby.)

The thing is called "42". It's the first publication from our new small press, JAFSP, whose website is still in development, but will be jafsp.com. It will be a quarterly print magazine with a companion website. One of the companies I work for, 4TheBest, is sponsoring this venture, and I'm so excited to see it start taking shape.

42 is a magazine for people like me, and many of my friends. It's about the meaning of life (as the title suggests), with a secular focus* and a DIY sensibility. I envision a really great collaborative effort. I'm turning 42 next month, and this is the year when I focus on the things and people that give my life meaning.

I'll be issuing a call for submissions very soon, possibly tonight, but I wanted to get you ready to put your thinking caps (and writing caps and photography caps and art caps) on.

I'm VERY excited.


*Yep, secular. That is, if you find meaning in religion of any flavor, way cool, I'm happy for you. But it's not something we'll be addressing in this particular magazine.

Edit: vasilatos informs me that اثنان ؤ ءاربءؤن is "42" in Arabic. I know zwei und vierzig (German) and cuarenta y dos (Spanish). Any others?

1) I am breaking nooks's rule for a second to say "I haven't been not-blogging because nothing is going on, or because things are going on, or because things are rough or easy or happy or sad -- just because I haven't felt like it."

2) Had the heart scan thingy. It was interesting, and I may make a post about it later. I have a medical appointment on the 29th to talk about it.

3) The visit to mom's was better than last time. LOTS. First of all, my mom is doing well, and wasn't in the hospital. Second, the sibling I can't seem to get along with made herself scarce. Third, I saw most of my beloved relatives. Fourth, there was real Mexican food. Lots of it.

4) I will have exciting news in a day or two. Sharpen your pencils, writers and artists!