Before anybody asks, no. I have absolutely no idea what the business in question actually was. I couldn’t even tell you if there was any more Big Brother-esque messages in any of the other rooms. All I know is that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Seriously, you turned left at the elevators and it was a row of normal hotel rooms, but turn right and it was where somebody’s start-up goes to die. I really have no clue what was going on with that hotel,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
…aaaaand we start off a new year of Conventional Wisdom with a whole new con! And in a whole new corner of the country, too! For the first time since Anime Boston all the way back in 2012, I’m actually[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
IT’S THAT TIME AGAIN! That’s right, after a SURPRISINGLY long break and series of filler comics, Conventional Wisdom is FINALLY going back to a convention again! If you’re stumbling onto this page during the convention weekend itself, then be sure[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Remember, kids, when you can’t come up with a punchline, that IS the punchline! No, but seriously, I said last time that I was trying to play tour guide of weird, non-touristy locations around DC… but the problem is, I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Now, it’d be highly disingenuous of me to pretend this was the WORST hotel I’ve stayed at. I once stayed in a hotel where people in another room reported finding a severed human toe, and I think that wins by[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I could explain how the whole aspect of Cosplay Chess where characters who have no business interacting with each other have to do so and how it led to Napoleon Dynamite doing JoJo poses… and I guess I just did,[…]↓ 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…
To anybody showing up late, I’ve slept out in the parking for a con more than once. The people I know have never let me live it down, and rightly so, but it does tend to make me a bit[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Yes, I’ve basically done this gag before, but that’s kind of half Yoink’s whole gimmick these days. Besides, it’s more applicable now than ever. Much like Raul Duke, I went off to an event for the express purpose of covering[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…