(Historical Notes: First of all, obligatory link to the comic being referenced here. Second, MAN I just could not shut up about how I wasn’t working Artist Alley anymore, could I? I think Past Me thought it was all an[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: While I obviously enjoy getting shiny stickers and fancy ribbons and other showy details on my badge, the REAL issue here was simply a matter of keeping track of what the registration procedure is from con to con. […]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: Okay, I can say with absolute certainty that THIS page only got its photo background after having already been online for a week or three… although it’s in a totally different building than the one where this picture-taking[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: No, seriously, you kids today have NO idea how much faster registration has gotten in the smartphone era. I still remember my first few cons, where I had to show somebody a photo ID and a printout of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: Look, just because I won’t pay to stay in a hotel if I can help it doesn’t mean I’m averse to hanging out in a room someone ELSE is staying in. And it’d just be rude to not[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: Okay, this is another one where I REALLY wish I still had some form of the original SmackJeeves commentary available, ‘cos I’m not at all sure if there was ever a public version of this page without the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: It’s amazing how much we cling to the familiar just because it’s the only thing we know. This was my first Animazement EVER commuting, and the first one in a while since that handful of little cons in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: You know, it’s funny. Back before this comic started, when my “convention coverage” consisted of text blogs on Facebook, I used to be able to crank those out within a week of getting home. They were sloppy, typo-riddled,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE. And there you have it! Animazement 2016! Sorry it took so freakin’ long, but even with several planed pages dropped, this still came pretty dang close to being the longest Conventional Wisdom update ever. Pretty[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Confession: even my own wildly eclectic -and highly forgiving of easy listening and smooth jazz- musical tastes don’t actually include very much John Tesh. But if the punchline had been “Listening to Mark Isham, Peter Maunu or The Rippingtons”, no[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…