Category: News
The AI Bubble Will Pop (But Maybe Not The Way You Think)
By: Thom Fain You wanna know what I think about sometimes: Remember when Axl Rose spent $13 million recording Chinese Democracy over fourteen years, and everyone assumed Geffen Records would […]
Hard Shots in Small Rooms: Tokyo Wrestling Nights (essay)
Originally published in Monthly Puroresu Magazine The sweat hits the canvas before the first chop lands. You can hear it – that wet slap of flesh meeting mat – and […]
Japan Life and MP Acquired! What’s Next?
After four years, my side hustle turned small business turned globally recognized brand, Monthly Puroresu, has been acquired – freeing me up to pursue other interests. And, boy have I […]
More print journalism? Yes. On AI and Cybersecurity this time
As if everything else I produced in 2023 weren’t enough to satisfy my endless curiosity, I followed updates in the AI space rabidly, with surefire social ramifications set to come […]
First trip to Tokyo & FiteTV on-air personality
As my staff at Monthly Puroresu bats around new ideas for Issue #11 to kick off our third year in print, I had the amazing opportunity in mid-January to work […]
Monthly Puroresu Issue #6
A few incredible things happened with the release of my newest magazine, MONTHLY PURORESU: Tournament Edition. First my team was blessed with an insider look at the making of championship […]
Monthly Puroresu Issue #5
Pushing Things Forward Finding time for editorial direction while juggling our Special Edition page designs – and multiple Zoom interviews – was a tall task. But, my team came up […]
I launched a new website
Extremely proud of our new website, monthlypuroresu.com! I pored over aspects with the web devs that most Editorial guys would completely ignore; all that time spent with UX designers at R/GA and […]
Monthly Puroresu Issue #4
Designing both the business and publication of Monthly Puroresu ground-up has been both a joy and an insane learning lesson. BUT! Burning all that midnight oil and obsessing over editorial […]
Monthly Puroresu Issue #2
Riding the wave into a second run Two steps forward, one step back: While I sharpened my design skills on this publishing, def could’ve done a lot better as Editor. […]