…and it’s not even like there actually was any cables or anything to trip over back there. The projectors were all out on the other side of the screen, and all the sound stuff was in a control booth over[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Yup, THIS pile of novelty shiny paper I picked up at Michaels still counts as more work than I’ve done on a costume for myself in years. Well, okay, I also re-did that giant Tarako prop we use for Awesomely[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Pretty much any random life task would be a million times more gratifying and fulfilling if Stan Bush just randomly started playing the moment you completed it. But yeah, Kurt had a panel Thursday night all about arbitrarily ranking ugly[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Obviously, it helped that this was the first time Awesomely Bad had BEEN at AWA for quite a few years, but still. Any time we find out there’s a room full of people who don’t realize what they’re about to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I mean, for all I know, there might have been SOME Digimon cosplayers meeting up with each other SOMEWHERE in the vast, sprawling expanse of the Washington Convention Center, but nobody ever told me about it. But that’s not what[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Yes, of COURSE we wore the Manos ponchos at Awesomely Bad again. Why would we possibly NOT do that? By the way, the AMV Theater was in a completely different room than any of the previous times I was in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Just saying, out of all of Shoujo Rock Heaven, the single biggest pop of the whole panel was for a keytar solo. Like, by a VERY wide margin. Also, it’s a reference to “Unbreakable Wings” by FATE GEAR, if you[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Now, just to be clear, most cons that know what they’re doing deliberately enforce a buffer zone between the end of one panel and the beginning of the next one, specifically to ensure that the host of the next panel[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
First of all, let’s be clear that I’ve seen FAR weirder scheduling in my time, including for panels I was actually on. Also, this was far from the first time Awesomely Bad had been scheduled for just one hour. It’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Okay, just to be clear, it’s not so much that the con just didn’t realize that panels might need sound AT ALL. Rather, the plan seems to have been for panelists to just plug straight into the speakers in the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…