Sooooooooo, yeah. This was the one major, MAJOR flaw in my whole commuting plan over the weekend: I DRASTICALLY underestimated just how sleepy I’d be by the time I left on Saturday, and I started fading fast before I was[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
…at least, I’m PRETTY sure I didn’t see any of the Fire Force cosplayers sneaking selfies in front of the truck. I actually did hang around the hotel entrance just to see if anybody tried it, but if they did,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well, of COURSE there had to be a page about this. Mandatory outdoors playtime, everybody! And, of course, the secondary joke is that virtually every time a fire alarm goes off at a con, it’s not actually because the hotel[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Now, obviously, a person who actually bothered to read the schedule ahead of time would have already seem Sgt. Slaughter advertised with the other guests, and thus wouldn’t have been surprised by this at all. But it’s well established at[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Don’t worry, folks, it’s not as bad as it looks… or it doesn’t look as bad as it is, I’m not sure. While the crack itself is fairly sizable, nothing really fell OFF; there’s not holes in the dome or[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Oh wow, this poor page was sitting around half-finished for about a WEEK while I was distracted by computer frustrations. Don’t worry, nothing’s broken this time, just a bunch of headaches with getting the finer details of the new rig[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is the sort of thing that ‘s a problem at just about any convention, but it’s REALLY a problem at smaller, cramped ones like Ichi. Unless you just wanna walk out to the parking lot each and every time,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I don’t know if this is as big a thing in other parts of the country/world, but here in the southeast United States, it seems like every single anime convention has a showcase of otaku-themed customized vehicles somewhere on-site. Sometimes[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I was really surprised when I discovered that Ichibancon HADN’T changed locations since the last time I went, because it definitely felt like the convention was getting way too big for that hotel. Strangely, it didn’t actually feel anywhere near[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
If you haven’t read the old stuff (most of which still haven been ported over yet) you need to understand that I actually DID camp out in the van all weekend one Ichibancon… and still haven’t lived it down. You[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…