kyburg | Working for the weekend -

It's this weekend. It's also Nisei Week weekend, so I expect to be out and about both days.

Oh, I think I can get there for Morimoto on Sunday. Oh very yes. I'll be out there after 8:30 AM, you can be sure of it!

As for the rest of my day? Blargh.

I have things on my list to do that I hate, oh well.
I have things on my list that didn't get done again, oh well.

I'm ignoring the fact it's August, oh well.

And AOD was a blast. I am still laughing. How good was it?

I'm already thinking of things for next year to suggest - like maybe Tom Hatten, with all that really old Fleishcher goodness (and it's a little known fact that Hatten was the only source of anime in Los Angeles for many years, via the Saturday Afternon Film Festival - he's actually something of an expert on the older stuff). Maybe do a "Life Before CGI" panel.

I've always wanted to do a "It Was A Great Time To Be A Kid" panel - Saturday Morning Cartoons in the '60s. (Nothing says I can't put other people on the panel to do other decades....)

I need to go through my collection again and see what rights can be gotten to show some of it.

There was another anime convention somewhere in the country last weekend? Eh. There was a guy from Aardman Studios at AOD doing hands-on workshops in claymation. Everyone got a figure to take home. How cool is that? (It was also the best-attended panel of the con, no surprise there.)

Nobody has even begun to discuss Hanna-Barbera from its prime. How can you talk cheese and history and ignore them? SHEESH.

There's also the possibility of the "Oh No They Didn't Voice THAT" panel - pick your favorite celebrity cast (or miscast) as VA. Or maybe we could host something of a gameshow - "Identify that VA artist." (Casey Kasem, anyone?) Oh snap - there's another opportunity....

Now, can you tell I'd like to have some company my own age next year? It might help if there was something besides screaming teenie weenies to deal with.

DO NOT ENGAGE.