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…
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…
There, see? I DID do more stuff during the con than just pick up a badge! I got shot at by heavy artillery! Yeah, this is what that opening page was about: somebody went and got a T-shirt cannon like[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…