Posted by Steven T. Seagle on July 13, 2006

I only kept a diary once in my life. Yeah I called it a diary – I know guys are supposed to call it a “journal”, but let’s be honest here. It’s a diary. And I kept it for a year. I wrote down everything that happened. I had codes for things that I wanted to remember but didn’t want anyone else to be able to read if they found it. I dashed down ideas to get back to, amazing things I saw, my psychoanalysis of my psycho friends.

I stopped because I thought, “I’m never going to let anyone read this sh*t!” And I sure as hell wasn’t going to read it again myself – I’d already lived it all.

And then it dawned on me – the only reason to keep a diary is so it can be found by other people that you (secretly) want to find out your secrets.

Which brings us to blogs.

No one will admit this, but blogs are big because blogs are diaries that you can read. Find out secrets. Talk to someone every day that you don’t even know without having to be bothered with coming up with your half of the conversation.

And that’s what’s going to happen here. We’re going to drop secret info like there’s no tomorrow (and if you’ve seen AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH, you know there might not be a tomorrow, so read on booch!).

Me personally? I’m toying with what to reveal first: the major book publisher I’m doing my new graphic novel for?…The long-dead, never-before-seen comic project that’s going to get it’s first public showing in ’07?…My next Vertigo hardcover gig?…My thirty-city assault on the American art scene? The inside scoop on my religion meets terrorism comic – AMERICAN VIRGIN?…My next two theatrical plays? There’s a lot I haven’t told anyone yet…where to start?

I guess the answer is here. On the new MAN OF ACTION blog.

When I suggested to my MAN OF ACTION buds – Joe, Joe, & Duncan – that we call this the MAN OF ACTION Diaries – well, let’s just say the fat lip is healing and the black eye is only a mild purple now. But make no mistake, that’s what this is. And you’re reading to find out or secrets…you naughty little minxes, you.

Fine.

I’ll try to keep it juicy for you.

Steven T. Seagle

(the T stands for “tease”)