Tranny by Steve Lafler.

For those of you who have not imbibed on legendary comix dude Steve Lafler's earlier work, including the quite stellar 40 Hour Man and the quite killer BugHouse trilogy, please do, and in the interim please feel free to warm-up with his latest work Tranny, a loving homage to cross-dressing superheroes and the people who worship them.

An awesomely coincidental Most Likely You Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine (500) Days of Summer casting intersection.

Some time back we were asked to cast the still unoptioned, unscripted and unproduced move version of Most Likely You Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine by StoryCasting.com and when we did we couldn't imagine a more perfect pairing for the lead characters of Geoff and Jen than the very awesome Joseph Gordon-Levitt and the freakishly lovely Zooey Deschanel. Imagine our surprise and excitement than when we read about the new indie break-up "it" movie (500) Days of Summer starring none other than Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel in the lead roles. Coincidence? Maybe. Next project? Hopefully. So, Joseph and Zooey please have your people call our people and we will be happy to do lunch at Nate and Al's. Also, please note our newly re-configured version of the (500) Days of Summer move poster above. Sweet, yes? Totally.

Safelight by Shannon Burke.

We just had the great pleasure of sucking down Shannon Burke's Safelight and while its thematically and even tonally similar to his excellent Black Flies, Safelight struck us as both sadder and tougher, with the level of compulsion and paranoia ratcheted way up and totally absorbing. This dude can really craft a story and we hope you will take a look, because it just might change your life. Like big time.

This Self-Portrait Will Change Your Life, Week Twenty-Six - "Half-way."

Can you feel the excitement? We thought so. We have reached the half-way point in our year-long effort to post one self-portrait of ourselves per week for one year and the staff here at TBWCYL, Inc. headquarters are quite geeked. We also want to be sure that you know that you can follow the project in its entirety at the Flickr and while we would be thrilled to post a self-portrait of you as well here on This Blog Will Change Your Life, after six months we are wondering if anyone is going to take us up on the offer. No pressure of course, but if, and when, you change your mind, hit us with a photo at thiszinewillchangeyourlife@yahoo.com and we will take it from there. Cool? Nice.

CellStories.

Dan Sinker the founder of the now deceased, but always stellar Punk Planet has a new joint called CellStories that was highlighted in The Chicago Reader this week. He thinks that you want to read short stories on your iPhone, iPod Touch or similar mobile device. Or will anyway. And we think this could be quite cool. What do you think?

Recommended Reading. The Mesler. And more.

We keep stumbling into the quite awesome Recommended Reading blog where they interview any number of excellent writers about all things books and reading. We have been wanting to give them a shout-out sooner than this, but definitely found ourselves compelled to do so today after we saw that they had interviewed long-time TBWCYL, Inc. favorite and This Zine Will Change Your Life contributor Corey Mesler. We hope you will take a look and if you happen to be from the blog itelf please note that we have some time, a lot of time actually, available to do an interview ourselves. No pressure of course, we're just saying.

New mud luscious and Blue Print Review.

Blue Print Review and mud luscious, two quite fine literary e-zines that have been great supporters of the Repetition Patterns - see here and here respectively - have new issues out and we think that you might want to take a look. Now, will doing so change your life? We think its a distinct possibility.

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The rare Lucky Man surge. Oddness.

Life. Love. Comics. And the Tim Hall.

TBWCYL, Inc. favorite This Zine Will Change Your Life contributor Tim Hall has a very cool new serial-type joint going on at ACT-I-VATE called Uplift The Positivicals which he describes as "a free form serial about life, love, and comics." We just think of it as very Tim Hall which means we definitely think you should take a look. Yeah, like now, thanks.

Sunlight At Midnight, Darkness At Noon - The Cunningham/McCreesh Letters Volume 1.

Are we biased? Of course we are. Does that mean however that these letters aren't full of rage, beauty and ragged glory? It does not. And do we think reading them just might change your life? We do. So please take a look and then let us know what you think. Cool? Great.

Guth. Pink. McClanahan. Tanzer? This Reading Will Change Your Life, so please join us July 24th for some Book Cellar reading love won't you?

Yeah, so, we have unabashedly been hyping the Scott McClanahan and his new joint Stories, so imagine how geeked we are to have the chance to read in support of him at The Book Cellar on July 24th at 7:00pm? Now, what if we also had the chance to read with the very awesome Amy Guth, writer, blogger, runner and one time guest of This Podcast Will Change Your Life and, and, the Sam Pink, author of I AM GOING TO CLONE MYSELF AND THE KILL CLONE AND EAT IT and the first writer ever published in This Zine Will Change Your Life. Well we are and we do and we think this reading may very well change your life. Meanwhile, if that isn't enough McClanahan for you, you can also see him on July 26th as part of the ongoing and quite killer Orange Alert Reading Series. Pretty nice, yes? Quite.

This Self-Portrait Will Change Your Life, Week Twenty-Five - "UP."

We saw the UP today with the boys and the UP is glorious, hence the title choice for this week's edition of This Self-Portrait Will Change Your Life, our effort to post one-self-portrait per week for one year. We would add that we are but one week away from the half-way mark of this project and we are just a little excited about it. We also want to add that you should feel free to follow the project on the Flickr and if you too would like to see a self-portrait of yourself posted right here at This Blog Will Change Your Life you should also feel free to send us one at thiszinewillchangeyourlife@yahoo.com. Cool? Nice.

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Compulsion.

The new edition of This Zine Will Change Your Life is live and thinking about July 4th. Or something like that.

The new edition of This Zine Will Change Your Life is live and thinking about July 4th. Or something like that. We have a new story, The Arrival by Nathaniel Tower, which we are way excited about, and, as always, photo action from Adam Lawrence, a music selection from Jason Behrends and prose love from Pete Anderson. We hope you enjoy this edition and we appreciate all shout-outs and links. We also think you're special.