(Historical Notes: This is one of those pages where I wish I knew how much of the story Past Me actually told, because the comic itself really only gives you half the picture. I ran into the guy in the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Have I mentioned yet just how hot and thirsty I was all weekend? (Historical Notes: Say what you want about 2020, I suffered about 98% less heat stroke this year than I would have if I’d been running around conventions[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In all fairness, the Otakon Game Room has always been ENORMOUS, so it’s really not fair to just assume it would have the same con funk problems as its cramped, stuffy counterparts at other cons. But still, it just feels[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Now watch a bunch of people come up to me at my next con and ask me a lot or really obscure trivia bits that I totally don’t know the answer to. I HAVE TEMPTED FATE. (Historical Notes: I don’t[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I… really don’t have anything to add to this… other than the fact that, honestly, the only thing that surprised me was how unsurprising I was to hear that. (Historical Notes: This comic doesn’t really communicate the funniest part of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
If you wandered into the Westin on Saturday and glanced at any trash receptacle… or ANY flat surface, really, you’d probably have though to yourself “Wow, these anime geeks are really into their health food!” Well, no, there were just[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Yeah, I wasn’t in the con hotel this weekend, so I resorted to my old standby of stashing a cooler full of supplies in the van so I could just run over there rather than driving all the way back[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is sort of the reverse of when I thought I’d lost my hat several Animazements ago. I honestly thought I wasn’t concerned about the prospect of all my cosplay plans being wrecked… right up until the moment I discovered[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Okay, this one’s going to take a bit of explaining. A lot of Conventional Wisdom owes its existence to an impossibly nerdy cartooning project I embarked on back in college. I was in a Humanities course called The History of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
All I’m gonna say here is that I have to bite my tongue every time I hear someone say “Hey, I watched that kind of stuff when I was a kid and I turned out okay!” (Historical Notes: There was[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…