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Sunday, February 7th, 2010
7:48 pm	An untitled chatfic Well, the bulletin board that we used to use for posting chatfics have now been taken down, so I'm posting this on my own journal. This is a little piece showing Heather a.k.a. Artemis after she returns from her first visit to the headquarters of the Society. ( Read more... ) Current Mood: creative Current Music: Tha Supaabowl (Comment on this)
Saturday, January 2nd, 2010
1:36 pm	Writer's Block: I'm with the band If you could be a member of any musical group, past or present, which group would you choose and why? Submitted By baleheadmel View 1138 Answers Depends. Are we talking "if my talent could be up to actually holding my own with the real members of the band" or "if you could be a member of the musical group regardless of your talent level"? If it was the former, well, who could really resist being one of the Beatles? I'd love to be the fifth voice singing my lungs out on "The Weight". If I had to try to fit my existing level of musical ability to the group, however, I think I'd be part of Gentle Giant. There are a lot of live tracks that testify to the fact that they couldn't always stay in the right key, either. Current Mood: artistic (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Sunday, November 8th, 2009
2:12 pm	From today's "Not Everybody Gets The Clue": Prosecutors in Cook County are attempting to subpoena the grades of Northwestern University students participating in the Innocence Project. "Local prosecutors have subpoenaed the grades, grading criteria, class syllabus, expense reports and e-mail messages of the journalism students themselves. ... Lawyers in the Cook County state's attorney's office say that in their quest for justice in the old case, they need every pertinent piece of information about the students' three-year investigation into Anthony McKinney, who was convicted of fatally shooting a security guard in 1978. Mr. McKinney's conviction is being reviewed by a judge. Among the issues the prosecutors need to understand better, a spokeswoman said, is whether students believed they would receive better grades if witnesses they interviewed provided evidence to exonerate Mr. McKinney." I'd say there are a great many other issues which the prosecutors need to understand better than they currently do. Current Mood: cynical (Comment on this)
Sunday, November 1st, 2009
8:27 pm	Enjoying the inexplicable warm weather New England weather's a bit nuts; we get blizzards on the first day of April and this year we got a weekend in the low 70s at the end of October. So obviously getting out and enjoying the good weather was a priority. Friday night Tommey and Ann and I went out to Bella Luna/Milky Way with the intent of seeing Zili Musik (billed as "Boston's own all female African roots supergroup" on the website.) Tommey and Ann had heard them play before; I had not. Well, it will be a while yet before I get to hear them, because it turned out that without reservations we weren't getting to eat for at least an hour after we got there and probably more like an hour and a half. Reshuffled plans took us to Wonder Spice Cafe, a Thai/Cambodian place, where I got an enormously yummy bowl of seafood Phnom Penh noodle soup. We were so stuffed we couldn't eat another bite; of course, ice cream is more "lick" than "bite" so we went to JP Licks for ice cream before heading home. Saturday involved a lot of strategic lazing around in pajamas, and then going out in the afternoon and evening. The afternoon, Tommey came and picked me up and I made him a small loan so that he could get the on-a-great-sale-ending-today multi-function printer that Ann really wanted but couldn't get to fit in the budget. It was really great getting Ann's e-mail later telling me how much I rocked. =) Then Mom and I went over to Castle Grayskull for a not-party Fallon hosted (it was a "non-party" just to keep the pressure of expectations off.) Originally we thought we were going to watch Kolchak: the Night Stalker, either the original movie or something from the TV show, but we decided it would be better to put on something that could be ignored in favor of conversation if people preferred. Thankfully, I had brought Attack of the Supermonsters as well as the Kolchak discs, and people seemed to enjoy its $1.98-budget stylings. (Fal borrowed the Kolchak discs and was planning to spend much of Sunday with Tom, introducing him to the manly 70's man, the force of nature, that is Carl Kolchak.) Sunday I didn't think I'd have any special plans, and in fact in the morning all I did was play on an emulator and watch some Something Weird movies I'd borrowed through Netflix (movies which were actually bad enough to leave me with very little good to say about them.) But in the early afternoon Ann called and wanted to know if I could go to the Boston Vegetarian Food Festival with her, so I got a ride and met up with her at Forest Hills, and we took the Orange Line in and spent a little over two hours looking at all the vegetarian and vegan products that were available. I came away with a vegetarian Thai cookbook, a vegetarian "Tuscan burger" mix, and a pack of low-sodium vegetable stock cubes. Afterwards, Ann and I went out to Chilli Duck on Boylston Street and had some non-vegetarian Thai food (pad thai with crispy crispy chicken for me and a duck dish for her.) Overall, just an excellent weekend. Current Mood: happy Current Music: The Beatles - Wild Honey Pie (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
10:57 pm	EPIC SCIENCE FAIL An amazing pseudo-scientific spiel that may very well hurt to listen to if you know actual science. Current Mood: impressed Current Music: Carnival of Blood (Comment on this)
Saturday, September 26th, 2009
9:30 pm	Fun day! Massive amounts of walking up around Cambridge with Japanese food for lunch and shopping at Trader Joe's and Micro Center and Pandemonium = FUN! Getting attention from cute girls = also awesome! Current Mood: cheerful Current Music: The Beatles - Dear Prudence (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Monday, September 7th, 2009
6:37 pm	Back from Dragon*Con! I have returned! It was a wonderful time about which I shall post much more later! Right now food and sleep is on the agenda! Current Mood: excited (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, August 12th, 2009
9:20 pm	Belated, a meme From starphobe Name a category; I will either name my five favorites from that category, or explain why I can't pick five favorites. Current Mood: numb (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, August 1st, 2009
5:45 pm	The lovely feeling of victory You know what's a really good feeling? When you ask someone to read your work in progress and then someone trying to get their attention can't get it because they're so engrossed in your work. Also, I have an idea for a short visual novel (sort of a test piece for me) but I may have to work up to it, since the mood of it is rather down. Current Mood: jubilant Current Music: Everyday Peace - His and Her Circumstances Act 1.0 (Comment on this)
Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
11:39 pm	I have some very strong opinions. I don't try to deny this; it's part of who I am. And your opinions may not always match mine. But if you share your opinion, and it's not the same as mine, I will try my best to respect that opinion. I will trust in you, that you have arrived at your opinion by applying a reasonable thought process to the facts available. Even if I disagree with your conclusion I will not think less of you, or treat you as lesser, for coming to a different conclusion. I will not imply that your opinion is sexist, or racist, or homophobic, unless I absolutely cannot view it any other way. Friends don't go around trying to find the worst in each other, and even a relationship that isn't as close as actual friendship is unlikely to benefit if I start attributing your beliefs, not to a responsible attempt to work through the complexities of the world, but to prejudice. Will I try to convince you of the rightness of my opinion, if in all honesty I believe yours to be mistaken? Yes, most likely. This is how people grow: by subjecting the principles they are living by to examination and re-examination, and when your examination shows your principles to have a weak or unexamined spot, building something truer and stronger. I believe that it benefits us both when we talk about the areas where we disagree, and each tries to convince the other. But even if we asserted (incorrectly, in my opinion) that such testing conflict was always good, it isn't always the greatest good. If each of us understands the other's position, and simply cannot agree with it, then it may be best that we agree to disagree. I do not mean by that phrase, as some do, "giving up any attempt to talk sense into this godforsaken useless idiot who has proven himself incapable of even the most basic logic and/or decency." When I say that I will agree to disagree with you, I mean that I do not think you are correct, but I do not place a value on making you see things 'my way' that compares in the least to the value I place on us keeping our respect for each other, and perhaps our friendship. These are the things that I have worked out over long, long years of many issues and many opinions. These are the courtesies I feel I owe to others with whom I may disagree. I hope that you will show me these same courtesies. Current Mood: thoughtful Current Music: Born To Be Wild - Kim Wilde (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Sunday, July 19th, 2009
10:47 pm	yayyy! Today was a super-productive day for me! Among other things, I got a lot of writing done on my action-adventure story and figured out how to take pages I've scanned and OCR most of the text from them. Huzzah! Current Mood: cheerful Current Music: Peace Reigns In The Land - His and Her Circumstances Act 1.0 (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, July 10th, 2009
11:17 pm	A personal note As many of my friends and family already know, my birthday comes up soon. If you are wondering what you can get me, please consider the following: Please, nothing purely decorative. I have what might be politely termed "a problem with clutter" and anything which I have to figure out a place to put it but doesn't do anything is likely to cause more problems than enjoyment for me. Please be careful with foodstuffs. I used to love trying out new varieties of mustards and sauces and pickles and condiments and the like. I still love those tastes but about a year ago some long-running health problems I'd had finally got diagnosed as high blood pressure. I've had to cut down heavily on sodium, which unfortunately most pickles/condiments/sauces have a lot of. We now return you to your regularly scheduled LJ. Current Music: Undaunted - His and Her Circumstances Act 1.0 (Comment on this)
Sunday, July 5th, 2009
7:19 pm	Writer's Block: Listen to This If a friend asked you for some new music recommendations, what would you suggest? View 505 Answers Off the top of my head, The Phoenix Trap, Gentle Giant, Magma, and Ned Farr. Oh, and Caravan, and Soft Machine. (Hard to answer this question without knowing which friend we're talking about; there's some who'd probably never speak to me again if I recommended Soft Machine to them!) (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Saturday, July 4th, 2009
1:29 pm	Comment "WORDS" to this entry and I will comment back with five words I associate with you. Then you post this in your journal elaborating. Boston I live in the suburbs, just about 25 minutes' train ride from Boston. I've worked in Boston (or its surrounding towns and cities) for many years now. I love how much there is in Boston and how accessible it is. Maybe there are other cities out there that have the same balance of exotic variety and friendly familiarity, but I love Boston, and it would be hard for me to move away. Puppets Some of Gerry Anderson's "Supermarionation" shows are still among my favorite television shows. I'm a bit less active of a fan than I used to be a few years ago, but I still really enjoy Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet (while recognizing that they are hardly flawless -- even as dark a show as CS was considered more or less a "kid's show" and as a result some of the episodes devolve into absurdly broad comedy -- I'm looking at you, "Flight to Atlantica".) It's not really the puppet work that I like about those shows, though; it's a mixture of the aesthetics of the series and their upbeat paradigm that, whatever the situation is, there will at least be someone who will step up and do the right thing because it needs doing. One of the things that irked me very badly about the live-action Thunderbirds movie is that they seemed to assume that people who wanted to watch a live-action Thunderbirds would of course be aching for a painstaking recreation of the artificial look of marionettes via the wardrobe and make-up of the human actors. I didn't want that; I wanted to hear Jeff Tracy give a stirring speech on why International Rescue must be ready at any time to fly out to help someone in distress. Bad movies I'm a big fan of good bad movies. Not all bad movies are good bad movies, though. Bad bad movies are just utterly uninspired and as a result utterly uninspiring. Good bad movies, though, tend to have this loony sincerity to them as they try hard to sell whatever's on the screen. I can't help thinking of the terrible "tune-playing digital watch" running gag from Prisoners of the Lost Universe; at the point where the scruffy little thief is playing the bippity little tune as a demonstration of the "miracle otherworld technology" of which he naturally knows jack, nothing else is happening. It's as if they were deliberately holding off for the huge audience laugh which would be coming -- which it certainly isn't going to be, at least not because of the joke itself. But every time I think of that tableau and the thief's actor gamely smirking as if he was so incredibly amused by the hilarity that he couldn't keep character, I snicker and feel a little bit better about life. Writing Ah, writing. We had an electric typewriter in my house when I was young, and I used to do as my next-older sister did and type out poems and stories and plays and all sorts of writing. Naturally nothing I produced at that age was much good but it didn't occur to me that what I was doing wasn't what everyone did from time to time. It was later, in my teens, that I realized that not everyone did this for recreation -- and that if I had to pick an identity to strive for as a goal, "writer" was one that I already had a lot of the base qualifications and experience for. ... Of course, sooner or later I realized that I was entirely premature in trying to get published, because I wasn't nearly good enough yet, and I resolved not to send anything more out until I truly felt ready: felt that I had honed my craft enough to be able to say, this time from a mature, educated perspective, "This is good." Despite all my efforts to get better ... I never have actually felt ready since then. Wiki Ah, wikis... as I write this in one window, I'm actually working in another window (another few windows, really) trying to improve the wiki for fictionalstuff so that, uh, someone besides me will start editing it. I've been a fan of the wiki concept since I first learned about it, but I'll be the first to admit it doesn't always work. In fact, the biggest example of how a wiki can work -- Wikipedia, of course -- is also the biggest example of why a wiki often fails. I freely admit I spent way too many years and way too much energy on Wikipedia before the central flaw really dawned on me: just as open source software tries to solicit contributions from the widest possible range of contributors, a wiki (at least an open-to-everyone wiki, like Wikipedia) tries to be open to everyone who has, or claims to have, an idea of what could be done to make a new version of an article even better than the best yet achieved. The problem is that, with an open source software project, contributions are solicited from a wide range of people and then a small core group makes the decision about which of those contributions actually goes in the "production version" -- the version that's presented to people who just want to use the software as the best version yet. The structure of nearly every current wiki (I don't actually know any which differ from this) instead gives control of the "production version" to every single person who has the power to offer a contribution. To "offer" a contribution, in fact, is the same thing as incorporating it directly in the production version. Wikiwayers (believers in the magical, mythical "wiki way") say that that's okay, because even if someone replaces the actual best version of an article with a worse version, "someone" can just go back in the edit history and restore the best version. Of course, this depends on "someone" noticing that someone brought the quality of the article down, on "someone" having the time to find the actual best version of an article in the edit history, and on "someone" having the patience to keep restoring the best version against what are probably going to be persistent efforts by the author of the bad contribution, who doesn't realize (or doesn't care) that their contribution is actually a step down in quality. In actual practice, any open-to-all wiki like Wikipedia is going to see the "someones" -- the fixers, the group who actually understand what the goal of the project is and which articles are closer to that goal -- overwhelmed by the numbers of the muddlers, those who through either ignorance or malice are going to fight hard to make sure their "contributions" (their spam, their prejudices and spin, their gossip and rumors) go in the articles and stay there. Wikipedia is finally introducing something called "Flagged Revisions" which may at least slow down the rate at which nonsense and lies find their ways into the article, but as far as I can see, most of the proposals for how this new facility will be used involve giving the power to "flag" a revision as the "production version" to ... "established editors". No word on what "established" means, and if it just means "any editor who's signed up for a screenname" as it's likely that it does, the same problem is right back again. Thankfully even most wikis that have open membership don't scale up to the point where these problems become unmanageable. Still, I wish I had the programming skills to implement the concept of a wiki variation I've devised called a hayaku, which entirely separates the functions of creating new drafts of a page and deciding which draft of a page should be the current "production" version. Current Mood: contemplative Current Music: Yukino Miyazawa IV (Kanon) - His and Her Circumstances Act 1.0 (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, May 31st, 2009
7:49 pm	Con Report - Sunday Got an early ride to Forest Hills and took the Orange Line in from there. I was in time to catch at least a little bit of... "Overman King Gainer" - Showing - What I saw of this series took me by surprise. I knew it involved giant robots with dreadlocks but I didn't see them do much dancing at all. I left shortly before 10 so I could attend... "Totally Subversive Toons" - A panel on cartoons and anime that contain "subversive" moments, moments that challenge assumptions about what people should aim at / revere / accept as "normal". Interesting panel, though I wasn't expecting "subversive" to include quite so much (is it really all that subversive to acknowledge that high schools include mean popular girls?) After that, I thought I was going to check out the panels "Anime Drawing and Story Telling" or perhaps "The Anime That's Not Anime: Opening and Ending Themes". Instead, I spent about three hours on a combination of lunch (double-meat chicken teriyaki combo, for the third time in as many days!) and going really intensely through the Dealers' Room and Artists' Alley. More on the swag later, but it's worth noting that I saw at one of the dealer tables the guy who hosted the "Bad Anime! Bad!" panel the day before, and I mentioned that I was perversely curious to see if anyone was selling "Dracula: Sovereign of the Damned". He said "They've never put it out on DVD, so if you see a DVD of it, it's probably a VHS rip... However... I do have a copy of the title I used for last year's panel..." Yes, I bought it. Could you doubt that I would? "Webcomics - Money for free stuff" - An entertaining panel hosted by ... one guy whose credentials I didn't actually catch other than him doing some guest comics for "VG Cats", and Jennie Breeden, who does the webcomic "The Devil's Panties" (the tagline: "It's not Satanic porn! Honest!") The panel was interesting partly 'cause no one was really sure whether the subject was "webcomics" or "how to do a webcomic and not die homeless and starving." There were some useful tips on the latter (I principally remember "go to all the conventions you can and sell all the merchandise you can, even it's not particularly related to your comic.") With just an hour left before Artists' Alley closed, I roamed looking for last-minute deals and bargains, or just stuff that I hadn't seen before. I bought a few more items, and then went to the last official event I'd attend: "Ninja Nonsense" - Showing - Very gag-oriented series about a cute young ninja-in-training girl and her fellow ninjas and her non-ninja friends. Unfortunately, I got there fairly late in the showing, and though the schedule said the showing was running until 5, when the end of the current disc was reached well before that they simply shut down the video equipment and shooed us out. I wandered to the ballroom where the Closing Ceremonies were being held, and caught just a tiny bit of what was apparently the winner of some video competition -- Dragonball Z footage reformatted as a sepia-toned silent movie. Very funny, even if I only caught the last 5-10 minutes of it. And with the end of the video, they closed down the Con. ( Pictures, under the cut! ) Current Mood: tired (Comment on this)
Saturday, May 30th, 2009
6:03 pm	Con Report - Saturday! Saturday I managed to get in about 9:30 or so, wearing my cosplay costume (Shunsuke Akagi from Dai-Guard.) I would've gotten a faster start if I hadn't had great difficulty finding the Independence West ballroom where they were showing... "Phoenix (TV)" - Showing - An adaptation of Osamu Tezuka's famous unfinished masterwork, beautifully rendered. Of course, coming in late made it hard to pick up the thread of things. "Rubbersuit Roundup (or) Kaiju 101" - A presentation on kaiju movies such as the Godzilla and Gamera franchises, looking at their origins and their subtexts. This is when I broke for lunch, going to Wagamama for the first time for some noodle salad and coconut "reika", whatever that is, for dessert. Expensive but yummy. About then mature (visiting from Florida) texted me; we met up in the dealer's room and along with her friend Sam we toddled around looking at the various goodies. (This is where I got my pair of kitty ears, which did not actually go with the Shunsuke Akagi costume but which I wore the rest of the day anyways.) Then Heather said she wanted to take in the panel called... "Panel to the West" - A look at various adaptations of the classic novel Journey to the West, including Alakazam the Great where Frankie Avalon was (untruthfully) credited with voicing the Monkey King, Leiji Matsumoto's "Starzinger" (which I watched in my younger days under the name of "Spaceketeers" as part of the "Force Five" syndication package), and of course "Dragonball Z". After that we checked out Artists' Alley for quite some time, until mature went to the "Touhou Project" panel, and I, a short time later, left for... "The Absolute Worst of Osamu Tezuka" - and it wasn't always just HK subbing that made it bad. Part of it was that, as the presenters pointed out, Osamu Tezuka did a lot of things that had never been done before. It was inevitable that some of them would turn out to be things that would be better left not done (like drawing animated heads on live-action bodies as he did for Kureopatora -- trust me, it's creepy to see it.) "Bad Anime, Bad!" - Apparently this is a classic panel presented year after year, in which the host dissects one anime at length. This year's target was "Dracula: Sovereign of the Damned", a Japanese feature based on the 1970s Marvel Comics title "Tomb of Dracula", and the roasting was pretty well-deserved. I don't know how closely the plot of D:SotD follows the plot of the original comic, but it would certainly help explain why the anime is so episodic and meandering -- something effectively mocked by the presenter, who would play clips and then pause them to comment acidly on what made them risible. "Okay, so Dracula was so pissed at Satan -- pissed off enough to steal Satan's bride -- because Satan put him under the curse of being a vampire. So, to get revenge on Dracula for the stealing of his bride, Satan decides to punish Dracula by ... making him not a vampire? And then, Dracula, who's been pissing and moaning all this day about being a vampire, does he settle down with Dolores and enjoy life? No, the first thing he decides he's got to do is head to Transylvania to look up one of his vampire brides so he can get his curse back. ... Douche." "Totally Lame Anime" - yes, a third panel in a row about crappy anime, and it says something about me that I was totally up for it. And I was not disappointed. Highlights included the anime adaptations of "Frankenstein" and "Call of the Wild", Joseph Lai's "Space Thunder Kids" (with which I was familiar) and his "Solar Adventure" (which was a jaw-dropping revelation to me, mixing animation with live-action and light-hearted animated adventure with brutal, violent anti-Communist propaganda -- now I want a copy) and my dorky heart went pitter-pat when I realized they were giving props to one of the finest movies ever animated on the lowest possible budget, "Attack of the Supermonsters". Of course, this is one I already own a copy of. I caught just a little bit of one more panel but then had to go to my train. This is where a slightly upsetting incident occurred. The easiest way to get from the con to the Commuter Rail is through a series of glassed-in and sometimes elevated walkways that let you go from Hynes Convention Center through the Prudential Center to the Copley Place mall and then at the other end of the Copley Place mall, under the street and into Back Bay Station. Well, at that hour there weren't many people around; there were, however, as I crossed into Copley Place, a couple in Red Sox gear who were just turning into the entrance to the Marriott, and who looked shocked to their core to see me. I passed them by without comment, but heard the male half of the couple exclaim behind me, in a loud and angry voice, "F***! I hate that unintelligible, I can't understand unintelligible!" The personal offense he was taking was so plain in his voice that as I continued on to Back Bay, I looked back several times to make sure he wasn't following -- and I gave a wide berth to anyone else who looked too "mundane" at the station. Disconcerting. Current Mood: full Current Music: vroom, vroom! (Dad's watching the race) (4 Comments |Comment on this)
10:16 am	Belated con report - Friday So last weekend I attended Anime Boston! Because of the nature of the convention, a lot of the events were simply showings of various anime. In some cases I only dropped in to catch a bit of it, and didn't see enough to form an opinion. Friday -- Got in on the earliest train and jumped right in! "Cyberteam in Akihabara" - Showing - From the title I expected something organized more on the "team of cybernetic heroes" dynamic than "bunch of elementary school girls" dynamic. The humor was cute in small doses but wore thin with repetition. "Dubs That Time Forgot" - Despite the technical difficulties and the guy who wasn't doing the presentation trying to keep up a running commentary from the front row that made it difficult to hear Mike Toole, the actual presenter, this was highly enjoyable. It was fun to see how various dubs had placed radically different implications on the same material. Although it made me feel old when the question was asked "What shows did you watch on TV and knew there was something special about them even if you only found out later it was anime?" and I was thinking "Battle of the Planets! Star Blazers!" when everyone else was calling out "Pokemon! Robotech (woo, old-school!)" "Mythical Detective Loki Ragnarok" - Showing - My viewing of this was disjointed, due to hopping out just after the end of one episode to grab some lunch, but the choice to show episodes 22-24 of the show rather than something closer to the beginning made it confusing anyhow. "Excel Saga" - Showing - Come on, it's Excel Saga! It's spazzy and full of energy! Either you like that or you don't, and I was in a mood where I liked it. Albeit it foretold a common complaint I'd have during the con, where too much of the anime would be shown in dubs that were either mediocre in quality, or which just couldn't be heard above the noise of a crowd. "MADLAX" - Showing - Frankly a disappointment. I watched the first two episodes and got no indicators of how they related to each other or why I should keep watching to find out. Don't get me wrong; I'm all for "gradually unfolding mystery" but you've got to have someone you connect with enough to care if the mystery does eventually unfold. "3 X 3 Eyes" - Showing - Wow. I was unprepared for these OAVs, since I was previously familiar with the manga which starts in a completely different way. (For instance, one main character is amnesiac about her true nature in the manga, which she isn't here, and the other main character is working as a transvestite bar "hostess" for money in the OAV, which he doesn't in the manga.) I was hoping for the same likeable personalities I encountered in Yuzo Takada's "All-Purpose Cultural Catgirl Nuku-Nuku" but I wasn't finding them here. "Anime You Should See" - An introduction to some of the foundation works, most of which I had already seen. Does happen that way sometimes... I spent some time wandering around the Dealer's Room, but I didn't buy anything yet. "Maid Cafe 101" - I showed up late for this, and I got there just as the panelists were listing off all the variants of maid and butler cafes, and demonstrating how "maids" at the cafes played games with the "masters" like ... rock-paper-scissors. I didn't stay long. "Shattered Angels" - Showing - Another anime where the first episode was shown subbed and the subsequent episode dubbed. The dub in this case was fairly awful; the narration about princes and princesses and angels needed a voice that was lyrical and dreamy. Instead it just sounded vapid and fake. "What? Why? Hentai!" - A basic, introductory presentation on the terminology and traditions of putting chickens into neckwear. Not too much there that was a surprise for the experienced poulty-adorner. "Japanese Animation Hell" - I could only stay at this panel for about twenty minutes before I had to leave for my train, but the format of the panel seemed to be "whatever random videos we feel like playing" so I still got some enjoyment out of it. The funniest bit was when they showed the Cardcaptor Sakura OP (opening sequence) and then showed a video of grown college-age men recreating the sequence in backyards, etc. Edited May 31, 2009 -- I had forgotten the panel at the very end of the day Current Mood: cheerful Current Music: Tobe! Tobe, tobe, Gatchaman! (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, May 24th, 2009
7:44 am	Anime Boston! Enjoying Anime Boston even though not a single person so far has shown any signs of recognizing my costume (Shunsuke Akagi from Dai-Guard, for the record.) I'll try to post a more complete con report tonight or tomorrow. Current Mood: happy (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, May 12th, 2009
8:33 pm	For horror fans... I'm thrilled to pass this on: the teaser trailer for a short film by Stacie Ponder (the blogmistress of Final Girl and creator/auteur of the webseries Ghostella's Haunted Tomb) called Ludlow: Current Mood: impressed Current Music: creepy sounds! (Comment on this)
Sunday, April 19th, 2009
8:07 pm	If you liked the Large Hadron Collider Rap... The geekery is beautiful... Current Mood: amused Current Music: Regulatin' Genes (well, duh!) (Comment on this)