Yeah, I've seen Frank Miller's film adaptation a few times in the past couple weeks. And having a general flair for the lame wit, I couldn't resist the madness SPARTA ( Read more... )

It's amazing just how quickly my spring and summer schedule has filled up. I'm scheduling conventions a year in advance! (It helps when conventions advertise their dates EARLY, like how most here have.) I hate having to choose between cons, though, and I unfortunately will have to do that with 2 weekends ( Read more... )

I don't understand this at all, but Ohio seems to have decided to plant their convention seeds all at the same time for the Spring harvest. Here are all of the known conventions already slated for 2006:

DatesConventionLocationAttendance

Jan 6-8
Ohayocon
Columbus, OH
4,000+

Mar 24-26
Pai-Con
Cleveland, OH
new con

Mar 31-Apr 2
Anime Punch
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ColossalCon report
ColossalCon was fun with good times had all around. From what I understand, this was the first year there was a focus solely on anime, which is cool and I hope the attendees appreciated that. The hotel was mega-cool, with complimentary breakfast in the morning and drinks (booze!) in the evening for every hotel guest. That, and ( Read more... )

Well, in less than 48 hours, I'll be in Cleveland. Home of The Drew Carey Show (that I haven't really seen), the Indians baseball team (Go White Sox!), and the Cleveland Colossal Convention 4. Seems like there'll be a good amount of dealers around, so there will at least be a few familiar faces. While I've never been to ColossalCon before, from ( Read more... )