I am a little stressed. For once it's not about money as much. Thankfully, takayla's full time job has saved our skins and plateaued us to the road to recovery. At this rate, it will take 5-7 years to fully recover from what was a slow drain since 2001 to a calamity in 2009. But things are looking up ( Read more... )

Random events from Balticon.


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About 17 years ago, I used to do an onstage ad-hoc act with a guy named "Tynie." I can't even remember all of it, but we sort of played off on another while we introduced stuff at opening ceremonies at FanTek conventions. Part of his act was this bunny suit someone in made for him. It was actually another performance group, "Mad Women of Schlock ( Read more... )

So while going through my iPhone notes, I found my notes for AMA. I figured I should annotate them because I am funny and you may all bow to my silly glory. These were notes I took during the rehearsal and run through. Most I used on stage. Some I did not, so consider this "deleted scenes" in the DVD commentary.

( Warning: I am not as funny as I think I am, according to various grade school hall monitors )

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So... here's my review ( Read more... )

I wont go into some play-by-play of this con, but I had FAR more fun at this con than I have had in any weekend in a very long time. Some stuff happened to me I can't go into detail on (yet), but it was like the Good Luck Fairy visited me pretty much every damn day. Here are some highlights ( Read more... )

Disclave is a long dead convention, but when I was a kid, it had this kind of bipolar personality. During the day, it was regarded as a convention of boring old fuddie-duddies. But when the sun went down, the younger set woke up and started to horse around. I was part of that younger set, and while I never engaged in any of the antics, I did ( Read more... )

So, as I said, a few weeks ago, I was only vaguely aware Anime USA existed. I had heard of it, but not known more than it's a local anime con. Then so many people asked if I was going, I got invited several times, and had free room and board. So I went ( Read more... )

Old Prune Bran Alumni badmagic has a post about How do normal people make friends? which has spurned some debate. I suggest you take a look. But then I asked, "How did I make friends?"

In clusters.

( How Punkie makes friends )