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…
I may have to just make Wendy a Winter-Only costume, because this sort of thing keeps happening. It seems like the costume involving a long jacket and wig would be hotter than this one, but NOPE! (Historical Notes: No joke,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In case you haven’t noticed elsewhere, I am not a fan of the whole “shout things in crowded rooms” school of behavior. Thankfully, more and more cons agree with me and now treat it as the disruptive behavior it is.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
But hey, that picture has gotten more action on Tumblr than all but, like, four other things I’ve ever posted there. That’s something, right? Sort of? But yeah, if it feels like waaaaaay too many pages of Conventional Wisdom lately[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Don’t worry, Servo didn’t have another horrible accident this year. I just got tired of his string constantly snapping so I decided to replace it with fishing line… which I of course never got around to doing until Friday morning…[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…