| Yasumicon Weekend! |
[Jul. 13th, 2009|10:14 am] |
This past weekend was Yasumicon, an anime convention I've been a regular staff member at since about 2006. Since the con itself only ran Saturday and Sunday and Friday is pretty unimpressive (I worked until 6 then went over to Tom's house to finish the snack packs meant to be handed out at our first panel Saturday. The end.) I'll start with Saturday:
Saturday:
Got to FIU around 8 am. Tom had to help with a lot of set up in main events. I should also mention that I have a midterm this week so my time was very much divided between studying and enjoying the con. Our first panel was Japanese snacks. The way we run this every year is by handing out snacks (mostly provided by Tate's Comics), show funny commercials, and hand out prizes for trivia. I found out the hard way this year that Vista is quite glitchy with allowing videos embedded into powerpoint presentations to play (I still have Office 2003). Apparently if its set up to allow the presentation to display on projector and on my laptop screen at once, the videos will have sound but will not on projector, just on my laptop. Not knowing this at the time, we figured the videos wouldn't work from powerpoint period and ended up playing them all off VLC. We found out in time for Bad Anime this was not the case.
Snacks given out at snack panel:
Chocolate Pocky
Meiji Marbe Chocolate
Coconut Sable Cookies
Melon Apollo
Mentaiko (pollock roe) toast
Had a lot of fun explaining what the last one was to people ;)
I was completely surprised at the showing we had for Bad Anime. It was the first time we did this panel so we had one of the smaller panel rooms reserved. We walked in 15 minutes before start time and the room was already packed. Moments after it started people were overflowing out the door. It was maddness
For this panel we showed clips from terrible anime, tried to offer some explanation of how they came to be, and where they could be obtained. People think I"m joking when I say I'm proud of the fact that I own most of the stuff we showed. People who know me well know that I have more fun watching bad movies than the best ones. Was an awesome turnout and we've been guaranteed to get a bigger room for it next year.
Sunday:
I didn't have any panels so there was considerably less for me to do overall. Bought some stuff in the dealer's room. To keep my bad anime streak going I bought Sailor Victory, Garaga, Gregory Horror Picture Show and one of the volumes of SD Gundam Force. They cost me $2.50 each. I also bought a grab bag (as always) which included an L phone decall, a couple of One Piece and Inu Yasha buttons, a Naruto figure (I don't know which character this is as I don't care much for Naruto and my knowledge of it is seriously lacking) and a few other things. I also helped clean up main events after but had to miss most of after-party, being 2 hours away and not wanting to drive home in the dark and all.
In between we met some friends, had some laughs, did some things. Fuck you, I'm tired, I don't need to explain myself.
The con went exceedingly well this year, and the only real drama that I know of was between us and a certain vendor who was being uncoooperative.
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| Three More, I Promise |
[Jul. 1st, 2009|10:33 pm] |
1. Go to Wikipedia and hit Random Page. This will be your band name.
2. Go To Wikiquotes and hit Random Page. The last 3-6 words of the first quote will be the name of your first album.
3. Go to Flickr and click on the last 7 days. The 5th picture will be your album cover.
Band: Tagab District
Album: A Task of the Government
Cover:
Band: Sky+ HD
Album: To Those Who Fear to Offend
Cover:
Band: Oi
Album: A Presentation on That
Cover:
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| Hey, kids! Try this at home! |
[Jul. 1st, 2009|09:43 pm] |
1. Go to Wikipedia and hit Random Page. This will be your band name.
2. Go To Wikiquotes and hit Random Page. The last 3-6 words of the first quote will be the name of your first album.
3. Go to Flickr and click on the last 7 days. The 5th picture will be your album cover.
Band: Soorapadam
Album: A Certain Duty and Responsibility
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| Why hasn't the US media picked up on this at all? |
[Jul. 1st, 2009|07:18 pm] |
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I had a horrible fucking day at work, but I'd rather not get into it right now. Instead, here's a tribute to Mollie Sugden, aka Mrs. Slocombe from Are You Being Served?, who died today at 86. It's the ending to my favorite episode, Happy Returns.
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| Michael Jackson Tribute |
[Jun. 29th, 2009|10:37 pm] |
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I stopped watching the BET Awards before this happened. I really wish I'd kept watching.
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| what is this i don't even |
[Jun. 29th, 2009|07:46 pm] |
Friday:
Met ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) vxo after work. We worked on our panels for Yasumicon. Anyone who's going should make sure to make time for Japanese Snacks and Bad Anime. Didn't do anything else of interest.
Saturday:
Met my sister for lunch at this tiny Israeli restaurant in the middle of nowhere my parents discovered last week. She went back to Gainesville Sunday and wanted to do something with me before she left. Picking something was a challenge.
I should explain that other than being full-blood sister, Jen and I have absolutely nothing in common.
Nothing.
We don't even look alike. You would never guess that we're related.
I'd do just about anything for Mediterranean food though. I'd eat it everyday if I could.
Later, Tom and I went to Saint Saturday @ Purgatory. It's one of the few venues that still hosts goth events in South Florida, in this a monthly club night.
Yes, I realize Fetish Factory is still around, but they have a strict dress code and I'd rather not have to buy expensive latex shit.
Had a great time. A guy who looked a lot like Snape but wearing a pinstripe suit kept checking me out. Fun times.
At work today I did a story centered around this. Hopefully this wall not effect these events. Fetish Factory is held @ Purgatory too. If it ends up closing hopefully they'll manage to find a new venue.
Sunday:
Woke up to the news that Billy Mays had died.
Tom needed a new wallet so we went to the Good Will. I found a bar of Otaku Soap.
Otaku Soap are these little promotional soap bars ADV used to give out at conventions as a reminder to con-goers to bathe. They had a little chibified figure in the middle, in this case Mireille from Noir. Tom bought one with Kirika form Noir and some generic robot with the ADV logo on it. The bars were still all sealed and package, don't assume I bought someone's nasty used soap lol.
I also bought Hello Kitty lunchbox. It needs to be cleaned out though. I think someone was using it to store makeup, it's got purple glittery residue inside it.
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| BULLSHIT! |
[Jun. 24th, 2009|10:47 pm] |
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Are you all this stupid?
Are you all really this fucking stupid?
I'm sick of people telling me in the same breath that the media is too biased and that's the reason they only watch O'Reilly and I'm sick of someone telling me that the Sun-Sentinel is totally biased and showing me an opinion piece to prove it.
And don't think you people on the left are any fucking better.
Olbermann is not a fucking god. He's as bad as the rest of them.
And those of you hipster idiots out there who tell me you only get your news from The Daily Show and/or the The Colbert Report are the worst of all.
Are you people so fucking stupid you can't interpret news if a pundit isn't telling you what to think or if an audience isn't laughing?
I'm sick of being treated like a leper because I give equal time to MSNBC Live as I do to The Fox Report.
I'm sick of each respective side telling me I'm biased because I bother asking the other side for their story.
You people are such fucking hypocrites. It's only biased if it doesn't lean in your respective direction and you whine and bitch and moan and blame the media when reality takes over and your side isn't always right.
Die in a fire. All of you. |
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| Ladies and gentlemen, dinner |
[Jun. 22nd, 2009|09:45 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | jon arbuckle | ] |
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Presenting: An Arbuckle Thanksgiving (watch especially if you're a fan of Garfield Minus Garfield)
There's a version of the Christmas special like this too, but it's not as funny. It would have been better had Jon's entire family been edited out as well.
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| TALK TO ME!!! |
[Jun. 22nd, 2009|10:39 am] |
Because I am almost perpetually online and usually quite bored, I'd like to post my various screen names. However, Because there are certain people who know my old screen names who I'd rather not have find this LJ, I made some new ones:
AIM: SqueakSpook
YIM: SqueakySpooky
Gtalk: SqueakySpooky@gmail.com
MSN: SqueakySpooky@live.com
For anyone who has me under my old screen names, you don't have to change them. The fun thing about Pidgin is being able to be on several accounts at once, including different accounts for the same client.
Question for anyone who uses YIM: Has YIM not been letting you sign on either? I can see my contacts through their fancy new inbox client, but I can't sign on via pidgin and from my understanding the external client hasn't been working either. AIM's been giving me a bit of trouble too. It won't log in automatically without me physically enabling it and I get kicked off periodically. Is anyone else having these problems or could it just be pidgin? I love being able to use it for various reasons (Trillian's a bit better, imo, but it doesn't support Gtalk)
EDIT: Apparently the problem is that yahoo upgraded its login protocol making it no longer compatible with Pidgin. They're currently working on an update to fix this.
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| Don't Look In The Basement! |
[Jun. 21st, 2009|01:39 pm] |
Sorry I haven't posted in a while. Life happened. Nothing of particular interest happened last weekend worth posting. Spent the whole weekend studying for my final exam in Contemporary Ethical Issues. I should know my final grade by Tuesday. This weekend was.... only slightly more interesting.
Friday: Met up with vxo at a B&N after work. Bumped into Travis during that time. Left with Tom to go out for sushi afterwards. Yup.
Does anyone happen to have this chart that was in the Weekly World News a while back? It's a chart detailing trends in disappearances through various types of toilets over time.
Saturday: Took Travis to Tate's for the first time. I think he liked it. Hard to tell, he doesn't emote all that much. Went there mostly to arrange with Jo what snacks they'd donate for this year's snack panel. Tom and I have run the Japanese snack panel at Yasumicon for the past three years. Also doing a new panel this year (Bad Anime) which will HOPEFULLY be good.
While we were there we found this on sale for $5.
Good stuff.
Since today is father's day I went out for breakfast with my dad. Gonna meet him to play volleyball and barbecue later. Bought him a fruit tart.
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| OH SHI- |
[Jun. 1st, 2009|05:39 pm] |
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| I will never fully understand Asia's obsession with Obama |
[Jun. 1st, 2009|05:18 pm] |
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Obama is soooooooooo moe, amirite?
For the record, this is Korean, not Japanese.
Amazon preview here. Marvel at the heartwarming and inspiring story of Obama's grandpa confusing Indonesia with the Philippines.
Bonus: Baby Obama boxing with a monkey on his head.
EDIT: MOEBAMA! LOL @ vxo!
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| Sunday and random |
[Jun. 1st, 2009|11:41 am] |
Was reading in ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) lj_spotlight about a mom who's living in Germany and teachering her kids to speak Indonesian, French and English, but her username is trilingual . Wouldn't this make her quadlingual? I assume if they're living in Germany they can speak German.
Now that that's out of the way, it's time for the Sunday update:
Went to dollar tree. I wanted to buy another box of stacker2 because it's cheaper than most other energy shots (which, from what I've seen, are usually $2+ per bottle). It's not quite as strong as some of them, but that can be a blessing. Some are just too strong. If i'm taking one it's because I want to be alert and focused, not so wired I'm too jittery to get anything done.
We also decided to buy a Boys and Girls grab bag, because, as I mentioned from the Jacon trip, I just can't say no to a grab bag. The contents contained:
Boy's:
A Finding Nemo pool float
Some kind of weird green stretchy rubber donut filled with little white things (we've been joking that it's mosquito larvae)
2 toy cars
Girl's:
A pink flower hair clip
Minnie Mouse crayons
Pineapple scented bubble soap w/ wand
I'd say the boy's bag was cooler just for the Finding Nemo float, but the bubble soap is pretty awesome too and alllowed me to leave a trail of bubbles behind us on the ride home, so it's too close to call.
Then we went to Whole Foods for dinner, hung out at B&N again and then I finished my paper.
Did anyone else happen to catch that live action episode of ATHF?
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| Weeked Report: Saturday |
[May. 31st, 2009|09:52 am] |
vxo came over and much fun was had.
Yesterday was free ice cream day at Wal-Mart so we stopped there to do that. Made a meatloaf and collard greens because i was really craving meatloaf and collared greens.
Went to B&N. John approached us about a half hour before closing. Told him we'd meet him again in 10 minutes and then left. Spent rest of the night working on my paper.
Yeah... sorry for being so boring :/
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| Weekend Report: Friday |
[May. 30th, 2009|11:27 am] |
Joyce has officially gone from wingbat crazy to tinfoil hat crazy. She was talking about Obama's new campaign to counter cyberterrorism. She seems to believe this is part of some whole big brother conspiracy of Obama's to completely take over the media and Internet and monitor everything we do. When one of the board operators pipped in that he thought it was a good idea, she fucking jumped down his throat. She also seems to believe that it's entirely Obama's fault that our economy has dipped in the first quarter of his presidency more than any other because, you know, we were totally doing just fine before Obama came into office. It would have been the same regardless of who was president right now. As someone who voted for Obama, I personally apologize to Joyce that he has not been able to fix all the world's problems and make us all grilled cheese sandwiches in less than five months.
My parents got back from Europe last night. They're suffering major jet lag (six hour time difference and all that), and so far all I know of their trip is they ate a lot and my dad has a cold. They apparently bought us souvenirs but I won't know what until my sister wakes up.
Hung out at B&N half the evening. No John encounter tonight, thank God, but I heard some girl argue with a guy who sounded like him (couldn't see if it was from where I was sitting and didn't feel like going to investigate for fear of having to talk to him). She was yelling about how he nearly tazed her in a library and her friends had to fucking hold her back. Knowing that he has a tazer he has just been itching to use (he almost set the damn thing off in my car once, which resulted in me pulling over and telling him if he so much as thought of turning that thing on in my car I'd have no reservations in tossing him out of my car and abandoning him on the street corner) this sounds very much like it could have been him.
Stayed up until about 4 am working on a paper for Contemporary Ethical Issues. Decided to write about when (if ever) suicide can be rational. No, this is not a cry for help, it's just something we went over a lot in class and I thought it'd be the easiest thing to cover with the amount of information on it I have.
Right now, watching Kamen Rider. Tom's coming over later today. No idea what we're going to do, but I've been craving meatloaf and collard greens so we'll probably make that at some point assuming Tom remembered to pick collard greens from his garden. |
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| Sigh... There Goes My Weekend |
[May. 27th, 2009|10:17 pm] |
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So I was wondering why I hadn't gotten my monthly Saint Saturday newsletter. Turns out it's because they're not doing it this month. There's some big fetish party going on they're planning an event at. I don't usually go to Fetish Factory's stuff because they're a lot more strict with their dress code. Excuse me for just wanting to coordinate an outfit of the stuff I have and the fun pieces I manage to come about rather than buy several pricey latex pieces that probably wouldn't even fit me and I'd only get wear out 12 times a year at most.
I can't really be too loose with how I spend my weekend anyway. I have a six-page research paper due Monday, and so far I've completed a grand total of none pages. But I'd like to go out at some point. Poo...
EDIT: As Germaine once said: "Store-bought ones usually have nicer clothes and all the accessories that go with it. Real punks and goths, for some reason, tend to have no money for that type of stuff."
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[May. 26th, 2009|08:19 pm] |
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A talk show host at our station who shall remain nameless here lest she were to ever find this page was saying today that a large percentage of Sonia Sotomayor's rulings as a state justice had been overturned. Now, I realize everything this host says has to be taken with a grain of salt. At best her facts have been questionable and at worst outright lies. But for the life of me, even amongst lists of Sotomayor's criticisms, I cannot find ANYTHING that backs this up. Does anyone happen to know if its true? |
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| Sunday @ Jacon and a little bit more about Saturday night |
[May. 25th, 2009|09:44 am] |
| [ | Tags | | | jacon, sunday | ] |
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I think I mentioned in the last post that the Hentai Cafe event we were at ended early. If I didn't, then the Hentai Cafe even we were at ended early. At the time all I'd heard was that a fight had broken out or something. Not having been anywhere near the area at the time I don't know for sure what happened. I've heard several versions of this story since yesterday. My understanding of what happened though is that someone in the rave sprayed pepper spray and got several people sick. This may or may not have been a botched attack on a man who had been groping several girls. We were forced to leave out of fear that the gas would eventually make its way through the ventilation system.
SUNDAY: Went around the dealer's room and bought more manga. All in all I bought:
I"s Volumes 1 and 3
Death Note Volume 2
Genshiken Volumes 8 and 9
Maison Ikkoku Volumes 6, 12 and 14, and
Planetes Volume 4 Part 1 (they split the last volume up into 2 parts for some reason. I don't know why they didn't just call them volumes 4 and 5).
Also got several grab bags as mentioned earlier. In there came a wide variety of pins, stickers, decals, posters, gashopan, various other toys and figures I can't identify, a figure of Kaoru from Eva and a Sephiroth plushie.
Only real event we went to was Richard Horvitz's panel before leaving.
You're going to probably think this is bizarre, but one of the most fun things we did on our way back was our quest for a Sonic.
I always see commercials for Sonic on TV, which is weird because there are no Sonics in South Florida (there may be ones on the northern end of Palm Beach, but thats kinda far from where I am). So one of the things I was dying to do while we were in Orlando was find one so I could try one of their thousands of mythical possible beverages I'm always hearing about. Managed to find one and got a strawberry-banana smoothie. It was everything I dreamed it would be. I think there was a whole banana in there.
So how would I rate Jacon's last year? I'd give it an 7/10.
I had fun and things like the pepper spray incident were out of their control. What I didn't like, however, was the venue. It was too small for the number of people that showed up. Larger events reached maximum capacity quickly, which meant if you were still determined to go inside you had to wait for people to start leaving before they'd let you in. Multiply this by a line full of people waiting to get in. I think we waited nearly 2 hours to get into the Yaoi PJ Party, and the hallway wasn't well-ventilated. We didn't wait so long for the Hentai Cafe (maybe a half hour), but it ended shortly after we got in (not blaming them for that though, that was out of their control).
I really hope the new con Wasabi Anime is planning will be in a different venue. I think they host the best events of the Florida cons (Animusical FTW), but the Ramada was a turnoff.
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annoyed
accomplished
bored
lazy
bouncy
sick
*yawn*
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