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Stranger in a Strange Land
With the bluster and bombast of the E3 week behind us, it seems a good time for an update on how things have been going ( Read more... ) -
Transitions and Thoughts
Hello everyone. It hasn’t been that long since I last wrote, but there’s enough to write about, so I figured it’d be a good time. I mentioned in my belated “year in review” entry that although I wrote it on New Year’s Eve, things had transpired between then and when I posted it that represented a significant change to my status quo. Allow me to ( Read more... ) -
2013 - The Year in Review - Part 2 (Games/Anime/Media Retrospective)
I do sometimes lament that garbage “social media” means everyone is there to look at some vapid cat video and not on forums where we can argue about why game X is totally better than game Y, you philistine. But as you well know, every year at this time, I list the anime, games, and a few other miscellaneous media I’ve seen over the course of the ( Read more... ) -
2013 - The Year in Review - Part 1 (Personal Retrospective)
[[Personal Note: I originally wrote the first half of this (the personal retrospective) on New Year’s Eve, but got around to writing the media half just recently. There have been some significant developments in my life in the first three months of 2014 that render some of what I’ve written in that first half out-of-date. However, I’m posting it ( Read more... ) -
Anime Expo Update
For those of you who may have been waiting on me to finalize my plans before deciding whether or not to go to Anime Expo this year (or in determining your lodgings if you're already set to go), I just wanted to update you on my situation ( Read more... ) -
2012 - The Year in Review
Well well, what have we here? Three months into 2013 without my analysis of all things pertinent in 2012? For SHAME. I plan to remedy this ill right here and now, however. As usual, the first part will be me generally dishing on notable events that happened throughout the year, while the second half will be my show-and-tell of the best media I ( Read more... ) -
Returning Champ
Salutations, dear friends. I have returned safely from Anime Expo - just wanted to let you all know that. It had been years since I'd been down there, and I was really kind of up in the air as to whether I'd enjoy it, but I did end up enjoying it - a surprising amount, really, given the average nature of this year's programming - so I think I can ( Read more... ) -
2011 - The Year in Review
It seems like 2012 is already off to a spirited start, but as usual, I’m not ready to fully let the new year run wild until I’ve ruminated on the past year, its peaks and valleys, and what it meant for me. That’s right; in the longstanding tradition, it’s time for my annual "Year in Review!" If my navel-gazing is a bit too longwinded for you, ( Read more... ) -
Whether Talk is Cheap Depends on Us
Posting a reply to cross_scars on FFSociety wherein I unpack some of my thoughts on Dennou Coil made me realize that I really miss shooting the shit with the old FFO anime forum crew. It would often start with someone expressing a contentious opinion, backed with stalwart passion, then deconstructions of all the points (because in those days, I mean, we had ( Read more... )