What do you give to the anime conventioneer who owns everything already? How about a commemorative convention sword?

Available for ACen, Fanime, AniZona, and a few other conventions.

You know, if the airfare wasn't so ridiculously high, this would be an interesting flight to take ( Read more... )

Tales of Anime update: We'll be doing a two-hour block of open mic on Friday night from midnight to 2AM. Check the at-con schedule for exact location. Ladies and gentlemen, let's keep the Simple and Clean to a minimum ;-)

Coming soon: Fanime contest rules and AX notice of proposed rules changes + possibly a new mini-contest announcement.

Hope everyone had a good holiday season and best wishes to everyone for a great Year of the Boar ( Read more... )

So, GenCon has announced that it is cancelling GenCon SoCal. To be honest, I am not shocked. Although the facilities and location were great, and the event was highly organized and well-run, it just never had the energy that GenCon Indy (the original event) has. The Indy event is renowned not only for its size and scale, but for its breadth of ( Read more... )

Have an iPod of relatively recent vintage? Don't want to wait in line to sing? Get this ( Read more... )

To mark the passing of National Talk Like A Pirate Day, I am pleased to announce that we will officially be returning to Fanime and AX for next year. One other new convention will likely also be added in the near time frame.

Link courtesy of ming_ling:

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I am pleased to announce that the KKD will be appearing at Anime Vegas this year, tentatively on the evening of Sunday, September 3. kiyone and catsonmars will be amongst the crew. There will also be a FuKu/CoM panel right afterwards.

Probably just open mic, but we'll see depending on how big a time slot we are assigned.

I just realized, that in addition to being the 15th anniversary of AX and the 10th instance of the Karaoke Contest, this year will also be my 10th AX personally. Although, the AXs I have attended don't correspond exactly to the Karaoke contest ones, as there was one non-consecutive AX Karaoke Contest in 1994 ( Read more... )