Where The Heck Have We Been?

Um, seems like actually forgot about this here “blawg” once we got our bar (The Feedback Lounge”) open for business (in West Seattle). Who knew running a business demanded our attention every single day of our lives? Why can’t our customers run it? Yeesh – wish we knew that stuff before we committed to all that “cleaning” and “ordering of stock” and “paying taxes.”

So here’s where the next issue of ManSplat sits. We have begun assembling the articles (and even wrote a few). We have a rippingly hot new Miss Splat. We have our cover girl. We have more music to review than we know what to apply verbs and nouns to. So when will it come out? This year. Not specific enough? Blame it on our bar. We’re HOPING to get the darn thing done by the end of summer (of this year). Which means there’s a lot to get done over the next few weeks.

Needless to say, we haven’t forgot about putting ManSplat out, even though we forgot about this blog dealie. Our bad. So send in your comments/letters/twitters and we’ll get back to work on it. 

Go spit on something. But not our car. You might wash some of the seagull crap off it.

Cheers,

The Splat Crew

ManSplat Update #1,000,000

Alas…

As the Splat Crew moves closer to the opening date of the Feedback Lounge, our new full-service bar (with free parking and napkins), we thought we’d take a sec to update you on the status of the next issue of MANSPLAT. [insert imaginary orchestral embellishments here]. 

The Feedback Lounge opens in April, 2009 and then work begins on the next issue. After long hours of sipping refreshing adult beverages we decided it would be quicker to put out a regular version instead of the grand, multi-paged “Best Of,” which would’ve taken far more time to pull off. That, and we’re FREAKIN’ LAZY.

So what’s in the upcoming Splat? Um, not sure yet, although we do have a pile – and by pile, we mean load – of stuff we couldn’t find space for in the last issue. Are we accepting any contributions? Nothing editorial, but we’ll gladly take your cash. 

At any rate, we’re still publishing despite the gloomy economic forecast, evaporating ad sales and an epidemic of unwashed pants. That said, the last two covers were in color. Not the next one as we can’t afford it. (We’re so poor, we can’t even pay attention.) But it WILL be publishing and you WILL want one. Or two. 

Feel free to contact us via our website: www.mansplat.com or on MySpace: www.myspace.com/mansplat. (No, we’re not on Twitter or Facebook.)

So rock hard, ride free and don’t spit on anything.

The Splat Crew

ManSplat Millennium

Yeah, it’s been a while since we’ve “blogged.” Then again, we blog in our pants almost ev-very day. [Inset "eewww" here]

That declared, the reason for the delay is that we, the editors of ManSplat, are opening a cocktail sipping place in West Seattle called, the Feedback Lounge. You can visit us on MySpace until we get our new website up: www.myspace.com/feedbacklounge. We’ll be a rock bar, not a club (more on that later – it involves city ordinances, which are as annoying and painful as untended jock itch).

The place will be loaded with cool rock memorabilia and booze (not necessarily in that order). And talk about surprises - you’ll just wet yourselves when you see what we have in store on an ongoing basis.

There’s also tons of free parking and we’ll be open from 4PM ’til 2AM every day of the week, though we might open for weekend lunch and breakfast earlier in the day. (Don’t quote us on that – city ordinances once again). We’ll launch a Feedback Lounge blog so you can keep up on all of our events.

You say you’d like to buy one of our cool Feedback Lounge shirts? They’re only $15.00 + $2.50 shipping. We have all sizes in men and women. Hoodies coming soon. (Zippered because chicks told us they don’t want to get their hair messed up. Makes sense when you think about it.) View said fashion statement on our MySpace page.

We’re looking to the get the super mega official Feedback Lounge happy slide website up soon (January 2009) to coordinate with the launch of our new undertaking. We’ll announce when it’s up and running: Come by for a visit – you’re not gonna believe what we’ve done to the place.

More questions? E-mail us: editor@mansplat.com

Drinkin’ & Drive-in: Horror, Sci-fi, Beer Vol. 2

The follow-up to our phenomenally underwhelming Drinkin’ & Drive-in horror/sci-fi movie reviews book has just arrived. You may now get off those pins and needles you’ve been sitting on. Vol. 2 delves deeper into classic horror and sci-fi, with hundreds of insightful (i.e., inebriated) takes on all that stuff from the ’40s, ’50s, some ’60s, a lot of ’70s and a plethora of ’80s. And we’re not done yet.

Drinkin’ & Drive-in: Vol. 3, however, will take full aim at all the craptacular independently-made genre movies, and will boggle the mind as to how we can sit through hundreds of hours of stuff like “Barn of the Blood Llama,” “Gorgoyles” and “Cadaverella.” No need to thank us; It’s what we do.

Yeah, you need to own the first two books. They’re $12.99 each or $25.98 for both. Throw in $2.50 shipping and you’ve got a deal. Send your fun bones to: Hairball Media, 4742 42nd Ave. SW, PMB 515, Seattle, WA 98116. And both “must reads” are now available online at Amazon.com. Order ‘em today while it’s still fresh in your mind.

Now that we’re officially big-time authors, you should, like, worship us ‘n stuff. Just sayin’.

Yours in Rock,
The Splat Crew

Who Be ManSplat

ManSplat magazine is a free pop culture tabloid publication, in print since 1995. And when we say free, only in Seattle, Tacoma and the less stinkier parts of Portland, Oregon. Outside of those postcard-esque areas, $5 a copy (which also gets you some additional stuff that you may or may not put up for grabs on eBay).

So you could either buy a gallon of gas for $5, or get the latest issue (and a back issue or two) of ManSplat, which goes a lot further than four quarts of unleaded: Hairball Media, 4742 42nd Ave. SW, PMB 515, Seattle, WA 98116. Visit us at: www.mansplat.com and www.myspace.com/mansplat