Okay, before we go any further, let me be clear that I had a good time at Otakon, I am thoroughly glad I went, and I’m very much looking to head back again next year… but WOW this weekend kicked[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Here we go again, people! I’m back in DC again for Otakon, the mythical birthplace of Conventional Wisdom! And I’m not staying an hour-long bus ride away this year! Thanks, friends who had my back on that one! And speaking[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Some important context: avoid the increasingly hellish traffic up and down I-95, we charted a winding alternate route up through rural Virginia to approach DC from the West. For the MOST part, it worked out really well… minus some sketchy[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
What, you thought I was going to allow this whole set of Otakon comics to go by and NOT take a chance to plug all the clever T-Shirts you can purchase RIGHT NOW over in the Conventional Wisdom store? You[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
First off, if you’re only just now poking your head in, this is essentially part two of the previous page, so make sure you go back and read that… but then, if you’re only just now jumping in here, you[…]↓ 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…
I mean, I’m pretty sure those boxes were ACTUALLY what all the Game Room stuff had been hauled up in, so it’s not like I was ACTUALLY sitting next to a pile of old diapers. But still, I know my[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
YEAH I ACTUALLY DID IT. WHY WOULD YOU EVEN DOUBT THAT. No, but seriously, even before I actually lived in DC, the prospect of going to visit the officially designated “important” parts seemed profoundly uninteresting. And you’d better believe that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Oh yeah, THAT sure made me feel nostalgic for my time living in DC. Like the constant stench of weed smoke and old vomit, there’s some things that just cause the past to come surging back to a person. Not[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Yes, I really bought this VHS. no, I don’t have a functioning VCR on which to play it. And no, that doesn’t bother me in the slightest. Also, in my quest to simplify our caricatures down do something simple enough[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…