Working for the weekend -

[kyburg]

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.

Comments

[elfwench.livejournal.com]

Has it been a year already?

By the way, your Nisei Week has a web site:
http://www.niseiweek.org/

It looks very shiny... both the site and Nisei Week itself.

[lesliepear.livejournal.com]

You would appreciate the stuff we've shown Alan:

Top Cat
Jetsons
Flintsones
Wacky Races
Dasterdly and Mutley
really old Popeye Cartoons

(He's probably the only one in his preschool who knows those characters!)

[foogod.livejournal.com]

Masaharu Morimoto?

*envy*

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

I'd seriously consider coming to AOD next year - you'd all do well there!

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

If I get pictures, I'm posting. You want book if I can get you one?

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

It's my absolute favorite festival of the year. Bar none.

GET LUCKY

[bitpig.livejournal.com]

Love that Loverboy reference.

Man, I wish we had a Tofu Festival in the DFW area. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong here, but based on the selection I see in our markets (Casa Bitpig being located in our city's Little Saigon), the Vietnamese just aren't the tofu eaters that the Japanese are.

Re: GET LUCKY

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

Between them and the Chinese, no - I don't think anyone are the tofu eaters the Japanese are.

But the Tofu Festival here is just too much fun. Tofu in everything. With a cookbook! And swag! (Think a hand fan that looks like a block of tofu. That silly.) Last year, it included enchiladas, ice cream and so on. It was nifty - and the portions are small, so you don't get stuffed. (It's also a bit pricey, which has the same effect.)

Re: GET LUCKY

[bitpig.livejournal.com]

Tofu is great. I love the stuff, especially agedashi dofu.

But tofu enchiladas? As a Texan, I am deeply, deeply offended.

Re: GET LUCKY

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

Dude, this is Los Angeles, the reinvention capital of the United States. Also home to every weight-loss invention known to man. Combine the two, add an Asian influence (not to mention a 40% Latino population) and voila.

That said, they looked strange and I ran out of script last year before going near the place. I take the Fifth on what I thought of the idea.

[foogod.livejournal.com]

That would be really nifty.. not the same as seeing him in person, which is what I really envy, but still something :)

You know, I was just realizing.. it's kinda funny but of the very few celebrities I actually have any interest in seeing in person, a surprising percentage are cooking-related..

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

People who really know their business with regard to culinary arts, really tend to enjoy their audiences - people - in general. It's not hard to enjoy them as well.

(Martha Stewart? Her books are legion for having recipes that Do Not Work and likely were never tested. Case in point.)

I'll keep it tucked away -