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Youmacon 2007 has come and gone and I can sum things up neatly in one sentence. I had a lot of fun! ^_^ Like most things in life, Youmacon was not perfect and I did run into some trouble, first getting off course trying to get there, and later just dealing with events starting very […]

Well time to head out the door for Youmacon! Hopefully I haven’t forgotten anything important. This is my first time going to this con, so I’m a little nervous. But I’m really looking forward to a little vacation time and meeting some new people. I’m even thinking of entering my Yuujiro outfit in the Hall […]

I was up late working on my Yuujiro costume and needed a break from sewing on snaps. I really hate sewing on snaps because it is just so tedious. Most of the time it goes slowly because on at least one side I need to take care to hide the back side stitches. Uggh! […]

I hadn’t really planned to do a new costume for Halloween, but here I am just a few days before the Halloween Cosplay Party at Sushi Samba Rio, rushing to get a costume completed. I’m not a traditionalist, but I still feel a bit of reluctance to wearing non-scary costumes for Halloween. So most anime […]

With little more than a week before Halloween, it’s crunch time for my costume making. So I haven’t kept up with my email and didn’t catch this little gem until this morning. This is from the New York Times, Fearing Crime, The Japanese Wear The Hiding Place. Before I read it, I thought that with […]

After a nap, followed by some hemming and hawing, I jumped into the car and went to Chicago’s Microcenter to get Halo 3 at midnight. I was hoping for more of a carnival atmosphere, especially since they were giving away a copy of Halo 3 Legendary Edition to the best Master Chief cosplayer. There were […]

And so it begins again! I had originally only planned to tune up my current cosplays for Youmacon, but had a Halloween inspiration and decided to make a new costume. The inspiration came via the anime Princess Princess when I realized that Yuujiro’s goth loli nurse outfit would be perfect for Halloween and Youmacon. Most […]

I think my interest in anime and cosplay has made me more observant of fashion in general and hair styles in particular. Yesterday I had the pleasure of seeing a woman near the Apple Store with her hair spiked in the back like the soul reaper Kenpachi on the anime series Bleach. The spikes weren’t […]

Inspired by some others, and a little bored, I decided to remix my Otakon pictures as a YouTube slideshow.

On the whole, the fun I had at Otakon this year is still resonating within me days after the event ended. Friday was a good start, but little did I know the hotel horrors that awaited me the rest of the weekend! This year I stayed at the Sheraton Baltimore Inner Harbor, formerly the Wyndham. […]

This year getting to Otakon seemed to be fraught with peril. The washer and dryer broke and nearly caught fire. I had to fix brakes and air conditioning in the car, and of course the AC broke again before I left promising a potentially very hot 700 mile drive to Baltimore. And on the morning […]

Otakon starts in a few days, and I’m starting to get all of those crazy feelings I get when it’s go time! The last week has consisted of fixing cars and broken appliances, including, most sadly, the washer-dryer unit! But I anticipate/hope/pray for success. This year promises to be my busiest Otakon ever because I’m […]

Here are a couple of jewels that midori-chan on Crossplay.net found on YouTube. These are from a Japanese game show in which the guy who becomes the best girl wins. In a media market starved for new show ideas, I wouldn’t be too surprised if a US adaptation of something like this showed up in […]

Since the convention ended, I’ve been browsing a buttload of picture galleries of photos people took at the convention. These are from this Anime Central Forum thread. So I figured I’d start a link list here for easy reference. These links may or may not work for long, so enjoy while you can! Thanks […]

I watched the last episode of Inuyasha again last night on Adult Swim. I really hope that someday Rumiko Takahashi will write a proper ending to the story. I really love these characters and they deserve a proper ending to their stories! Yeah, just silly fanboy ranting, a fanboy who still doesn’t have any ACen […]