Happy Lunar New Year!

Year of the Tiger

Snow

The first decent snowfall for this winter season.

Nico Nico Orchestra 2

Watch it here. If you can’t, shame on you… After seeing it through, I’m somewhat proud to be a former brass player.

My reaction: Fuck yea! Time for more musical goodness! Time to figure out what songs they played. So many that I know but only on the tip of my tongue…

New (and Not So New) Loot

“Squishables” are very… squishy.

Adding to My Harem

I wish my absence was due to some spiritual journey where I underwent grueling training and gained special powers… Alas, it’s a more mundane matter. Apartment hunting…

Otakon 2009:I only meant to stay a while

This post about Otakon is a bit late. It’s coming up on two weeks ago that the massive convention occurred. I’ll make it up by posting a few different things about it. Let me start with what I did, or rather what I didn’t do.

I didn’t participate in the masquerade, submit art to the art show, run a panel, staff, get lost, get in a fight, eat out, go to Otachan, LARP, enter a video game tournament, ride a train, cosplay, buy anime, buy art, sing, or get an autograph.

But I did check out a bit of everything as I always do.

When Reality Hits…

It hurts more than a ton of bricks.

My lack of updates can be accounted for by a new sudden development in life. Currently changing residency so things are a bit hectic. I’ll try to update whenever possible.

[FFVIIKnight] Otakon 2009 Update

Due to a family matters, I will not be able to attend Otakon 2009.

Otakon 2009: A looking forward and backward!

Otakon is here! How will this one measure up against previous conventions? First, where am I coming from? Well, I’m not part of any tight anime blogsphere, nor am I press. I’m new to talking about anime online.  I have always lived in Maryland and have attended Otakon for all 3 days since 2002(when there were the hordes of Vash and Wolfwood). So, this will be my 8th Otakon! I was recently looking over the schedule and felt compelled to get a few things off my mind about it all. I even decided to go a step further and get a bit nostalgic in my comparisons. I can’t find my Pocket Guide from 2008 so details from last year may be a bit shaky.