Through a special offer made available to recent Comic-Con attendees, I gained entry into the 2008 Scream Awards presented by Spike TV last night at the Greek Theatre in Griffith Park ( Read more... )

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As summer came to a close, I finally made it a point to try to return the favor to my friends from Anime ( Read more... )

[NOTE: I finally decided to get rid of all those unreliable eSnips players from my older posts and have replaced each of them with a simpler and more dependable music widget. So if there was a song that you couldn't play before, feel free to try listening to it now ( Read more... )

I'll be honest with you... if Anime Expo wasn't located within easy driving distance, I would have probably quit going to this event several years ago. This year (and for the foreseeable future), the largest anime convention has moved to the Los Angeles Convention Center, a location that could easily handle the crowds that overwhelmed the ill- ( Read more... )

Since this looked to be a slow month for me, I decided that this would be a good time to introduce people to an interesting site called GOODREADS.COM, which lets you build a reading list of books you have read (and/or plan to read), post reviews of books, and share them with other Goodreads members...


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I'm a bit of a history buff, and combine that with the fact that I've yet to travel to Asia (curses to OPEC and the bad economy!), it was a no-brainer for me to leap at the first chance to check out the largest loan (by China) of the famous Terra Cotta warriors in American history, first-hand and in-person...


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A co-worker scored some Pit Row Suite passes for the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach this past Friday. So that gave me the chance to check another item off my list of firsts: experiencing professional racing live. Needless to say, I did my very best to take advantage of the opportunity ( Read more... )

For the second year in a row, I found myself back at Wizard World Los Angeles (and once again as a staff volunteer).

Despite spending half of my time working, a few memorable moments from this wild weekend included...


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You didn't think that I would forget about New Year's, would you?

Welcome to the Lunar New Year, which is celebrated in my community as Tết Nguyên Đán...


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Recently attended a couple of sweet large-scale holiday parties over the past weekend. Took a few photos and movies, but not enough to warrant posting here. Too busy being merry to mess around much with a camera, really.


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