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What a weekend.
May. 9th, 2006 12:20 amWell, Anime Central's finished. The Freakin Suite II: The Wrath of Con was a success, despite a couple hiccups. There was record attendance. The panels were a little light, and frankly, a little weak, and the autograph sessions never got started on time. This made for some frustration, naturally, while trying to adhere to my schedule. I mixed things up on Saturday, as well - only managed to get one game of Morton's list in, as most of my crowd was pre-empted by the speed dating sequence and the premiere of Negima! (which I watched - there were some fun delays there). Also, instead of playing a significant amount of 1000 Blank White Cards, like I did last year (not that the 30 minutes or so that I played wasn't great), I went to the Saturday night techno rave. It was definitely music you could feel. I was there to listen to Greg Ayers spin a set, actually. That said, the con chair spun a good set, the scratch-master was awesome, and then Greg Ayers tossed off a kickass d'n'b set (technical difficulties seemed to plague him wherever he went - the Negima! premiere was delayed by an hour because there wasn't a DVD player, and then it had sucky audio. Eventually, the sneak disc went into a borrowed laptop, and all was cool. At the rave, the people who set Greg's mixer up, plugged power directly into the subwoofers. Considering what kind of speakers they had there... yeah. Once it was all found out, though, and a reboot later, no troubles at all, and Greg rocked the house. Didn't stay for his second set, though, as it was getting to be about 3 in the morning, and I had to get up (relatively) early. Sunday closed the day out with yoga, with Jan Scott Frazier. My shoulder thanked my greatly for it, as it had been carrying my messenger bag all weekend.
The Dorian cosplay (form 9th Elsewhere) was recognized by more than just the artist. I got a picture taken, and a hug, and recognition (some of the "I know what you're from, just not who you are" variety. Should have asked the person who took my picture to send me a copy.). It was good. Although I think the ears that I used to make the earwings were a little small. All in all, though, success. Also,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
neoboy3000, we need to make some refinements and start planning now, while we have time and remember. All in all, an average con (Too many weaknesses, including planning across from Golden Week, so almost zero Japanese guests, but bolstered by Negima! and cool con people and costumes and set spinning)
The Slacktivist tosses off some interesting thoughts - first, a new dimension (or perhaps just an important one) on whether or not cheerleaders are participating in a sport - if there's no sport to receive the cheer, is the cheer a sport? The second, though, is a bit more thought-provoking, and discusses The Minutemen (the anti-immigration vigilanties) as men who commit the sin of Sodom, inhospitability. Although there are at least a couple who argue that there's some homosexuality involved there, too, in the comments, the main thrust of the Slacktivist is that the people who are against doing the whole "give me your tired, your downtrodden..." bit are not paying attention to the bits in both Testaments that keep referencing how you need to be kind and hospitable to aliens and strangers. You never know whether one of them might end up speaking for or against you at Judgment.
That article may prove to be a biasing frame for the next: a film being made about "Jesus Camp". It's pretty much what it sounds like - an evangelical summer camp for children. This is probably well beyond Vacation Bible School. If it were geared toward teaching Islam, people would probably be denouncing it as a terrorist training camp. Still, no child should have to be subjected to such a high-religion atmosphere at such a young age. I honestly think that people who come to a religious conclusion as adults, with their faculties fully formed, and with no pressure from anyone else, will probably be the most devout of followers, rather than those who were raised in it and don't know anything else.
Back from a rather long European Tour, we find that Geoffery Chaucer blogs. And apparently has some dandies of pick-up-lines, too. Although some of them may not work unless you're fairly well-versed in medieval and early modern culture (B.A, M.E.M.S., U of M, 2005 C.E., that's me!).
AOL going the way of the dodo? Some say it's not soon enough. AOL may be on its way out because people don't need the convenience service that AOL was - you didn't have to navigate the WWW if you didn't want to. The kids and adults these days, however, are much more web-comfortable, and even if AOL offers exclusive content, someone's likely to bootleg it and put it out at large.
Also, ( I have lived through one hundred seven of these one hundred fifty-eight things )
That'll be enough for tonight. There's still more to sift through over the weekend's interesting material, along with whatever crops up tomorrow. So, I'm going to bed. G'night.
The Dorian cosplay (form 9th Elsewhere) was recognized by more than just the artist. I got a picture taken, and a hug, and recognition (some of the "I know what you're from, just not who you are" variety. Should have asked the person who took my picture to send me a copy.). It was good. Although I think the ears that I used to make the earwings were a little small. All in all, though, success. Also,
neoboy3000, we need to make some refinements and start planning now, while we have time and remember. All in all, an average con (Too many weaknesses, including planning across from Golden Week, so almost zero Japanese guests, but bolstered by Negima! and cool con people and costumes and set spinning) The Slacktivist tosses off some interesting thoughts - first, a new dimension (or perhaps just an important one) on whether or not cheerleaders are participating in a sport - if there's no sport to receive the cheer, is the cheer a sport? The second, though, is a bit more thought-provoking, and discusses The Minutemen (the anti-immigration vigilanties) as men who commit the sin of Sodom, inhospitability. Although there are at least a couple who argue that there's some homosexuality involved there, too, in the comments, the main thrust of the Slacktivist is that the people who are against doing the whole "give me your tired, your downtrodden..." bit are not paying attention to the bits in both Testaments that keep referencing how you need to be kind and hospitable to aliens and strangers. You never know whether one of them might end up speaking for or against you at Judgment.
That article may prove to be a biasing frame for the next: a film being made about "Jesus Camp". It's pretty much what it sounds like - an evangelical summer camp for children. This is probably well beyond Vacation Bible School. If it were geared toward teaching Islam, people would probably be denouncing it as a terrorist training camp. Still, no child should have to be subjected to such a high-religion atmosphere at such a young age. I honestly think that people who come to a religious conclusion as adults, with their faculties fully formed, and with no pressure from anyone else, will probably be the most devout of followers, rather than those who were raised in it and don't know anything else.
Back from a rather long European Tour, we find that Geoffery Chaucer blogs. And apparently has some dandies of pick-up-lines, too. Although some of them may not work unless you're fairly well-versed in medieval and early modern culture (B.A, M.E.M.S., U of M, 2005 C.E., that's me!).
AOL going the way of the dodo? Some say it's not soon enough. AOL may be on its way out because people don't need the convenience service that AOL was - you didn't have to navigate the WWW if you didn't want to. The kids and adults these days, however, are much more web-comfortable, and even if AOL offers exclusive content, someone's likely to bootleg it and put it out at large.
Also, ( I have lived through one hundred seven of these one hundred fifty-eight things )
That'll be enough for tonight. There's still more to sift through over the weekend's interesting material, along with whatever crops up tomorrow. So, I'm going to bed. G'night.
