Things I’ve Done
Events I’ve attended and places I’ve been.
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I think every panel needs a “Kristin Schaal.” She burst onto the stage for The Mysterious Benedict panel and singlehandly raised the energy level. Watching to her speak about the show definitely outshown everything else on Day 2, including the American Born Chinese panel (the show I’m most looking forward to watching). For all the
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Day 1 of this year’s NY Comic Con was definitely “Velma Day.” They even held an impromptu Velma contest before the panel with Mindy Kaling, excutive producer for the new show about Velma from Scooby Doo. Having experienced the fiasco of last year’s Anime NYC, I have to compliment ReedPop on how far they’ve come
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I had fun at last month’s Play NYC Convention. I enjoyed meeting the game makers and playing their games. I went with my sister and my son. We started at the top of the Hammerstein Ballroom and wound our way down. The first game we played was Frost Lab Studio’s Orbit Quest. It’s a single
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This is The Nightmare Before Christmas It would be unfair to say Christmas snuck up on me this year. It’s done everything to make its coming known; settling down in store shelves even before the Halloween candy could have its turn. But, despite the foretelling, my apartment remains inconspicuous, innocuous, not a trace of the
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I swear I heard TV Guide’s Damian Holbrook utter the word “atonement” during The Following panel he moderated at this year’s New York Comic Con. I have to swear because the mention was so brief and the notion never really picked up. Kevin Bacon did sort of say something about the personal consequences his character,
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The 2013 New York Comic Con was my “lost Comic Con,” I was there in body but my exhausted spirit was elsewhere. I unintentionally spent a lot of time in the exhibit hall, normally the highlight of the Comic Con. But just like having too much candy on Halloween, one too many hours in the
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This past Wednesday, June 4, marked the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Massacre, when the Chinese government ordered the Red Army to open fire on unarmed students and democracy supporters in Tiananmen Square. This is a piece I originally submitted to the Asian American Literary Review’s recent anthology on Asian American art and activism in
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This year Otakon celebrated its 20th anniversary and I celebrated my first Otakon! According to Wikipedia, Otakon is “one of the longest-running anime conventions in the United States, and the second largest North American anime convention as of 2012.” That’s a great achievement but what I think is a greater achievement is that (according to
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