The once ubiquitous promotional tool snuffed out like a… What do you call those stick thingies again?
Master Blaster
Writer / Translator
Master Blaster is the two-man translating team of Canada’s Steven Le Blanc and Japan’s Masami M, a pair who in addition to writing work are in English education and created the StudyNow app for Japanese students of English.
Together they have written somewhere around 1,500 articles for RocketNews24 covering such diverse topics as Chinese men selling sanitary napkins to each other and a Japanese guy dragging an ear of corn around the Tokyo train system. A few of these were actually good, but don’t take our word for it! Here’s what our beloved readers had to say:
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Probably the most unexpected turnaround in an already long string of unexpected turnarounds.
A healthy diet and 7-Eleven aren’t often heard in the same breath, but maybe they should be.
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