I've helped out with cons a dozen times before (mostly Animazement over the years), but Contemporal 2012 was the first time I've actually been a major member of a ConCom. Running the Comics and Media track for a first-year steampunk (and sci-fi and fantasy and what else ya got) convention was quite the experience. It was exhausting, but also a ( Read more... )

Hello LJ! I haven't posted here in ages (partly due to spending too much time keeping up with reading other social networking sites, which could make for a post in and of itself). There are like three or four in-depth posts I've been meaning to make for months, but this is none of those posts. Instead, as I was catching up on over a week's worth ( Read more... )

Productive day so far.

This morning I took akiko to the airport for her flight to Berlin for her month-long language intensive. She's made it to JFK already, so so far so good ( Read more... )

It's a ridiculously nice Spring Equinox morning out. I should really get in some more biking this weekend (along with cleaning the bathroom and maybe thinking about doing taxes, bleh). Might need to break out the sunscreen, though.

donaithnen recently made a big post on upcoming movies and games he was keeping an eye on, and I responded with a comment ( Read more... )

So, I'm trying a new thing. I'm using peekfeed.com to deliver summaries of my twitter feed to myself via email, which I'll then use in a more organized attempt to copy and/or expand upon the actually interesting stuff in LJ posts periodically. This should mean there's no reason to follow kirinn_tweets unless you have a burning desire to read probably out-of- ( Read more... )

So according to gmaps pedometer, I biked approximately 15.5 miles this morning, including nearly 300 vertical change (most of it several times) - Hillsborough is hilly. No wonder I'm tired ( Read more... )

So I pick up this free comic from Marvel at the local comic shop's checkout counter. It turns out it's actually about 20 pages of dense narrative summary. Being interminably curious, I read the whole thing anyway. It turns out to be a condensation of (judging from the notes in the back) around 100 volumes spread over a dozen different Marvel ( Read more... )

More tweets of possible interest from the last recently and earlier in reverse order ( Read more... )

( This one goes out to Stu and Kim... )

So, over the last half a decade or so, I've been told several times both by personal acquaintances and by artists whose work I follow that Scott Pilgrim (a series of graphics novels/comics) is awesome. But I'd never gotten around to really taking a look at it. So when its author Bryan Lee O'Malley was scheduled to do a signing at my local comics ( Read more... )