Like a significant portion of Animazement’s attendees, I came along after the “old days” of anime fandom had drawn to a close (even if I DO come a lot closer than a lot of these kids). Thus, I found this[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Seriously, people. It was old a YEAR ago, and it’s even MORE old now. Yelling ANYTHING at the top of your lungs in a crowded room is pretty lame, but when it’s a “joke” that everyone with a brain stem[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For several years now, I’ve done free face painting at Animazement. At first, it was just something to kill time while helping run a video room, but I’ve kept on doing it just for fun. The ironic thing is how[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s the thing about trying to organize photoshoots: they’d be MUCH easier if there weren’t PEOPLE involved. Our little Digimon group involved over half a dozen people, but we never had more than half of us in the same place[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Uh, yeah. I got a mini-fridge for our room and it froze pretty much everything. Even when I had it down on the lowest setting, it still left the Dr. Peppers rock solid. You’d think after 25 years of being[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve been to five Animazements before this one, all at the Sheraton Imperial Hotel and Convention Center in Durham. This was our collective first time at the Raleigh Convention Center, and the difference was jarring. Not that it wasn’t a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Okay, I LIVE around Raleigh, so it’s not like this is some new place I’m visiting for the first time. Still, it was a HECK of a time getting to the hotel parking lot. I think I must have looped[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
You see, Animazement has always prided itself on getting more Japanese guests than just about any other east coast convention. Alas, over two-thirds of this year’s guests had to cancel because of Japan’s sky-is-falling reaction to Swine Flu (citizens traveling[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s a little mind boggling to me that I’ve been doing Conventional Wisdom for nearly a year now, yet I’m only now getting around to this one. Animazement really is “home” for me, and not just because it’s the only[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
If you’ve never driven out to DC… don’t. This easily the most elaborate page I’ve done for Conventional Wisdom yet. It didn’t MEAN for it to be, but trying to convey sunset using nothing but Sharpie turned out kind of…[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…