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Just something I ran across on Amazon.com. There’s no picture yet, but it looks like Yubisaki Milk Tea Volume 8 is scheduled for a release in October 2008. I’ve been following this series for a while now, and was wondering if it would continue past volume 7 or had been canceled. TokyoPop has a volume […]

Yesterday I discovered that my oldest son was farther along the digital media curve than I thought. I was passing by him as he worked on the kids PC and caught a glimpse of what was clearly his art work on a YouTube channel, before he could cover it up! We’re pretty liberal around here, […]

A week has now passed since Anime Central 2008 and life has settled back down to what passes for normal. Still I am filled with fond memories of a really good time. Friday my main objective was to make it to the concerts which I did. Peelander Z was, well, unique. They put on a […]

Anime Central 2008 is now over and so far I’m at a loss for words, probably due to total exhaustion. ACen 2008 was a lot better for me than 2007. This year all of our badges came in time and I was able to avoid any unnecessarily long waits in line, like the now infamous […]

Now that Adult Swim has relegated anime to Saturday nights only, I no longer have any reason to watch AS on any other night. I like Family Guy and some of the other comedies, but by the 2nd or 3rd showing of even the funniest Family Guy, I’m finished with it. Comedy simply does not […]

YouTube has just made more detailed video stats available to all users of the service. Now any YouTube user can see where their viewers are and how popular their videos are in a particular geographic region. It was pretty cool to see that my most popular anime music video has been seen in 31 countries […]

I can hardly believe it, but I actually finished my Easy Action AMV and entered it into the Boom Boom Satellites AMVJ Contest before the deadline! It’s not what I would call my greatest work, but it did help me get more comfortable with my new movie editor. I still enjoy the challenge that a […]

After much frustration with the limitations inherent in Windows Movie Maker, I downloaded and subsequently bought MAGIX Movie Edit Pro 12. It wasn’t very expensive and allows one to do a lot more than WMM, but it is not itself without some limitations in the making of anime music videos. Specifically, I could not get […]

To wrap it all up, I had an awesome time Saturday night at Ohayocon. While I discovered that there was indeed karaoke too late to sing myself, I did enjoy watching and cheering on other singers. After that I dumped my bag and headed off to the rave.
I don’t know whether I got there before […]

Saturday is always the biggest day of the con for me. It’s the day that I’ll often have nightmares about a month before the convention begins. The nightmare usually involves running around the convention all day and forgetting to cosplay! That, of course, did not happen to me at Ohayocon. In fact, it was a […]

I hit the road for Ohayocon with a lot of hope, in the dark of night, 2:30am to be exact, and in the end, I was not disappointed. Ohayocon was a lot of fun for me, the drive through the night, hungering for dawn, was well worth it. Though it was not without a few […]

The weather forecast appear quite favorable for my Friday departure to Ohio for Ohayocon. Sadly, neither of my AMVs made the cut for the finals in the Ohayocon AMV Contest…*sigh* Oh well, contests are not the reason I make anime music videos anyway, still, it hurts not making the finals. I’m sure the winners will […]

After a great deal of technical difficulty due to field order swaps on the DVDs and crash happy Windows Movie Maker, I got my new anime music video completed and uploaded for the Ohayocon AMV contest. I also decided that this will be the last AMV I make using Windows Movie Maker, it’s just too […]

Ugh! The AMV is not done yet and I must sleep! One of these days I’ve got to stop using Windows Movie Maker for this stuff, but I’m just too cheap, or a glutton for punishment! ^_^ As usual, I’m trying to get a new anime music video ready in time for a convention AMV […]

A couple of days ago, I had the great pleasure of spying a stunningly attractive woman who, except for the absence of pink hair, looked a lot like Air Gear’s Simca. She didn’t appear to be as busty, but the style of the clothing and her overall shape just screamed “Simca!” Another great reminder of […]