The Old School Otaku Lounge

I think once the price of corn starts going back up -and once the US normalizes relations with Cuba - we'll start seeing real sugar used in food production again. I know most soft drink bottlers will use whatever's cheaper at any particular time, and usually HFCS beats them all. Up here in Canuckist...

I can remember all the fuss about Ordinance 156 back in 2010 and 2011 and I was curious to see what kind of changes it would deliver to the anime/manga world. As near as I can figure the only change has been more labelling of adult material, which I don't have a problem with anyway. There was some w...

I've actually gotten to the point where I prefer diet Coke to the regular stuff. There's been a lot of scare talk about aspartame, but unless you're a phenylketonuric there aren't any health issues with it that anybody's been able to find (and they spent 27 years looking). It's interesting how Diet ...

The amount of misinformation and propaganda spread in the States about the Canadian healthcare system is amazing. There's a real axe to grind on the right side of the aisle in American politics, and if they feel like slandering Canada, nothing's going to stop them. I've been on both sides of the bor...

C/FO O.G. REPRESENT! Welcome to the board, and let me know if you make it out to Anime North next year; we can do a panel on the early days of Canadian anime fandom.

While I was in Japan I got word that an AWA director had passed away unexpectedly from a heart attack, so our show is going to be a little bittersweet this year. It is interesting - depressing, but interesting - to see old photos and videos of people who were actually pretty skinny when they were 19...

The 18th annual AWA is coming up next month and since I helped start it, I'm kind of duty bound to show up and make sure things happen the way they need to happen to keep things happening in the AWA tradition; meaning, at least one event utilizing something we bought at a thrift store, at least one ...

This is a photo of me and two pals at what I believe was an Atlanta Fantasy Fair in 1986.



I am not wearing a hat or glasses. I believe that's a Cerebus T-shirt I'm sporting, though.

If you remember a kind of hyperactive teenager obsessed with the Japanese cartoons running around the place, that was me. A hyperactive teenager obsessed with anime? At a con? What are the odds of that happening? Well, at the Worldcon in 1986, anime-obsessed teenagers were definitely a minority. In...

[quote="_D_"]Atlanta 1986: http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f72/dougo13/Atlanta_1986_1.jpg http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f72/dougo13/Anime_Fans_Atlanta_1986_1.jpg I know at least two people in that first picture, still hear from them regularly. The guy looking at the camera has been i...