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…
I can’t really judge, mind you. I read everything up to the big hiatus (in my amazing sense of timing, I finally finished my archive binge and got caught up THE VERY DAY that hiatus was announced) and honestly didn’t[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Have I sufficiently expounded upon the theme of my distaste for extended periods of isolation behind an Artist Alley table? (Historical Notes: I… THINK this dude was actually cosplaying as a character from One Piece, but I’m not sure enough[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Awesomely Bad cosplayers actually aren’t a new development, but this was the very first time any of us managed to actually get some pictures of the wondrous event. Hurrah! (Now, when is somebody gonna cosplay as the robot from that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Every year that goes by, I find myself sinking deeper and deeper into my roll of “Old Otaku Who Only Talks About Anime The Younger Fans Have Never Heard Of”. Then I tell them to get off my lawn. Oh,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…