Back from New York Anime Comic Con Fest Mashup Thing Event.

Impressions: They might have been better off just formally abandoning any "Anime Fest" description and just slotted in anime-themed programming generally. The end result here was that the anime side of things felt terribly marginalized. Not that they weren't fun or well-attended, but the ( Read more... )

And with everything else that was going on, I forgot to post a couple of choice snaps from the show.
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Or, I Survived Otakon And I Got A Lot More Than A Lousy T-Shirt.

Every show's a fun show if you bring the right things to it. I brought myself, my friend Dan, a sense of humor, bottled water, meal bars, protein shakes, hand sanitizer, double changes of clothing, a digital camera, and a wad of cash scraped from a few secret savings. Oh, and my ( Read more... )

Time for me to play catch-up once again, I think.

• The Really Cool Thing I Can't Talk About Just Yet took another incremental step forward at the end of the week. I suspect I'll have some kind of answer about that next week - right on top of about, oh, six other major happenings. (It was raining pretty fiercely outside my window as I typed this ( Read more... )

Last night I came to one of those conclusions I never like to come to, but which are like a gate which walls off progress: if you don't go through the gate, you never get to the next level.

It is simply not possible to finish The Underground Sun on the schedule I have set for myself and make it a good book.

Trust me, this doesn't thrill me in the ( Read more... )

I still can't talk publicly about the Potentially Great Thing that may or may not be happening - both because I'm not sure I can, and because I'm kinda anxious about jinxing a good thing. All I'll say s that if, if, this goes through, it'll mean I'll be getting paid cash moneys to do something fandom-related.

Again: if.

Some updates in the ( Read more... )

AnimeNext 2010 was a great success. I sold out all but two copies of the books in stock, met some great new friends, saw some also-great existing ones (you know who you are!) ... all around, a terrific show. Even the round-trip travel time from the convention center to the house where I was staying wasn't that bad - and this is the New Jersey ( Read more... )

I've spent the last few days running a fever and coughing my eyes out, so I haven't had much of a chance to post anything. Now that the cough has leveled out a bit and I'm no longer feeling like there's a layer of sweat between me and everything I touch, I can post some news:

First: I'm at AnimeNext this coming weekend! Look for me there in Artist ( Read more... )

After some date-wrangling, number-crunching and budget-scrunching, it looks like I have my convention schedule for the rest of the year.

I'm going to be busier than I thought.

• AnimeNext (June 18-20, central NJ).
• Otakon (July 30-August 1, Baltimore, MD).
• AnimeFest! (Sept 3-6, Dallas, TX)
• NYAF (New York Anime Festival) (Oct 8-10, NYC)

I'm working ( Read more... )

Dave Winer, one of the "protobloggers" (I suspect he hates that term), provides an intriguing way to do a panel that isn't a panel.

Renewed Evangelism: BloggerCon Format. (Scripting News)

The format is not far from the Socratic classroom, a discussion leader who pulls the interesting bits from the minds of the people in the room, with no sense ( Read more... )