Well, THIS took a lot longer to get out than I expected. Sorry about that. For one thing, I was on the road over the weekend (Patreon has already heard what that was about) which didn’t help things. But more[…]↓ 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…
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…
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…
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…
…and before you ask: No, my notes contain absolutely no mention of WHY I needed to draw a Manos/Batman crossover. I mean, the fact that we were wearing the ponchos for Awesomely Bad is presumably involved, but the exact context[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Dude, you don’t understand. Even setting aside the fact that OF COURSE the guy who always cosplays as Dr. Forrester would thing about doing a character from one of the most iconic MST3k movies, just the idea of doing a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Okay, it was more just a matter of one person carrying the Tarako down some stairs so that another person could pick it up in the living room, but even that was a LOT of coordinating by my reclusive standards. […]↓ 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…