Welcome to my world.
I'm SomeGuy, 29 years old, residing in Vancouver, BC, Canada. I've studied English Literature, Chinese Martial Arts, and am currently pursuing careers in writing - possibly even in the anime industry itself.
And I work for this site.
And you should be watching Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad.
Or watching Ranma 1/2.
Or learning about the Shinsengumi.
Or planning to visit Vancouver, The Best Place On Earth (actual marketing motto).
Here at the "Smallville" page, I have my personal blog where I'll post about anything and everything. If ya need me or otherwise need to know anything from/about me, here's where I'll be.
If you're really looking for my more professional, site-type stuff, you wanna head over my "Metropolis" world.
(Banner Design Courtesy of Red Tigress - thanks Red!)
A'ight, so the FUNimation Industry Panel write-up is done. Check.
Next is Brina Palencia and Todd Haberkorn, and then my full "summary" report . . . and then . . . oh! A Shinsengumi cosplay report!!! Yahhh . . . there we go!
I'm still trying to decide how to write my overall report, 'cause my usual style is to document everything from the moment I leave my house to the time I get back to my house. I almost feel like I should write the "professional" summary and the "casual" one with all the stories about hotel rooms and stuff . . . somethin' to figure out, I guess.
So that's that.
And for all you other people . . . Cung Le and Frank Shamrock are MMA fighters for the Strikeforce franchise. I was discussing a title fight they had recently. It was an awesome fight.
Definitely have a buttload of articles to write today. Here's hoping I can get through at least one or two . . . whether they go to official theO World or "Metropolis", I don't know at this point. But we'll see what happens . . .
In other news, it turns out Cung Le beat Frank Shamrock on the 29th - Le broke Shamrock's arm with a kick at the end of the 3rd round, Shamrock couldn't continue into the 4th. That's pretty wild and cool.
Been back since early evening yesterday and I've got a lotta work to do now that I'm back. I just posted a novel over on the Watercooler (that I marked for publication in case people think it might be useful for posterity), and now . . . I think I'm gonna go to bed.
So before the big long list of articles, I'll just leave these few bits that I found interesting about the weekend:
- Batou has the same eye tic as I do.
- No one in Seattle has ever played "Uncharted: Drake's Fortune".
- Even though I know it's not, I'll still buy a "battle ready" katana because I'll feel bad for buying just the stainless steel show one (the fact that it's the Kensei sword is besides the point, really . . .)
- Border guard decided to use "weapons" instead of "firearms, etc." during questioning - that threw me off.
- Gail and John are like, the BIGGEST geeks ever and I love them. They hate "Baki the Grappler", though.
- Adam took care of a bunch of Fan Words while I was gone, so he's awesome.
- Brina Palencia kicks serious ass. Seriously.
I'll write more later. In any case, I'm back home, I'm safe, and I'm sorry I didn't come online last night. You know how it is . . .
. . . oh yeah, and Vic Mignogna's retiring in May.
Just doing the last of my packing now. And maaan, costumes really mess up luggage-layout, y'know?
Here's hoping I don't forget anything . . . or anyone. Still, the plan is sound, everything should work . . . so we'll see what happens.
I'll probably post one last time over at the Conventionist before heading to bed. Rest of ya, have a good weekend and hold down the fort; Bossman, take care of Fan Words for the weekend if you'd like, otherwise I'll do it all 500 submissions when I get back.
See ya Tuesday, guys. Don't die while I'm gone.
Alright, checklist of things to do today:
- Go to mall, check for the following:
- The third "Black Mages" album
- "AAA" batteries for mp3 player speakers
- A large quantity of "nice" Pocky for con' meet-up, maybe some juice and cups
- Small notebook, possibly with fake-leather cover for effect
- Small thing of hair gel (or borrow from brother)
- Possibly a wider brown belt for Nathan Drake cosplay
- Double-check batteries, make sure they're not dead
- Touch up golf tube saya, perhaps add cheap versions of kurigata and sageo to them
- Request passport from safe - evidently, we have a safe
- E-mail Gail, tell her when I'll be arriving in Seattle
- Re-confirm with all my car people about plans for tomorrow
- Re-confirm with stupid Ed about plans for meeting with him
- Pack
- Sleep
Am I forgetting anything?
In other news, I saw the Japanese "One Missed Call". It was a'ight - I'm still working out the ending, but I liked it for the most part.
So that's that.
EDIT: Oh! Gifts! Need to pick some stuff up for certain peoples! There we go!
EDIT 2: Oh shoot! Gotta go to the costume store and check in about masks too!!! Aha!!
