Last weekend was ACEN, which I've been going for nine years at this point, though admittedly not consistently. My interests have changed at this point so that I'm not really all that into anime anymore and barely know what's coming out and what's popular, but ACEN is still a great place to catch up with friends that are scattered around the country ( Read more... )

Something a friend asked me this weekend made me think a bit. We were playing the Lannister Drinking Game[1], and the statement to me was that my interest in Japan began in my early teens. This was, however, completely wrong ( Read more... )

You must watch this video.

As someone on RPG.net said, it's basically "Star Wars Episodes 1-3, but told in 4 minutes and with better storytelling." :-p

I have a little post-con blues at the moment, but I'm sure it'll go away. In the meantime, here's the report from Ohayocon 2008.

We spent most of Thursday traveling, so not a very eventful day. softlykarou and I woke up at ashiri-chan's, where we had spent the night to solve parking issues. Got to the airport, plane left on time, got to the con location okay, etc. etc ( Read more... )

And only five hours later than I should have. I'll post more about what happened tomorrow.

Well, it's been a couple days. Here's the more I mentioned:

After a jaunt at the airport and our arrival in Baltimore, we (softlykarou and I) met up with greyselke, her boyfriend and t3chnomag3 for the trip down to D.C. to visit jdcohen. Not much exciting on the way, just D.C. traffic. We finally got there, got ourselves situated in his apartment, then went out for sushi and some ( Read more... )