Katsucon 2012 – page 15
…I’m just going to say that I think this needs to be a T-shirt. Agreed?
(Historical Notes: Several things here. First, I really did think about using this as the basis for a poster, or at least an ad of some sort, but I realized the references would go stale too quickly. I wonder how many kids today have absolutely NO idea what Dr. Tran even was. Next, I’m putting this in the “awesomely bad” tag due to some overlap, but the Endurance Test panel was technically a different thing. And I’m pretty sure this was the night that wound up killing it, when Kurt realized to his horror that not everyone in the audience was enjoying this stuff in the detached, ironic way he’d intended…)
I think I did this the next year at Katsucon as well, where I ended up with a completely empty room with no chairs, projector or sound system and to wait on staff bring all that in. Another strike for why I stopped doing Katsucon panels eventually. Audience was fine at this one, this was the one where I got a guy to dance to a Violent Femmes deep-cut over footage from a How to Disco Dance video and I’ll always have that at least.
Yeah, it’s kind of amazing how much trouble I have keeping some of these cons straight in my head. Everything just sort of blurs together into a big smear of spiky wigs and wrestling t-shirts and allegedly ironic body pillows.