December 18th, 2007 by Brack
I’ve been laid out with a cold since Sunday afternoon. All things being well (well maybe not all things, I’d just settle for this cough to go away) the Awesomevent Calendar should be back on track tomorrow.
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November 16th, 2007 by Brack
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October 20th, 2007 by Brack
So I planned to go to this MCM Expo thingy today. I hear it’s a bit like the Peterborough Sci-Fi and Fantasy Fair, except without the great 15+ year-old poster of wizards and spacemen.
However, really I didn’t have much motivation for the shindig. The one earlier this year had Troma honcho Lloyd Kaufman attending and that one I’d have gone to had real life not interfered. Of this weekend’s guests only Dougie Braithwaite meant anything to me and he’d pulled out. So I was half heartedly dragging my ass to London. At least I’d get a change of scenery, some exercise and pick up a couple of manga volumes I thought.
Well I got to London and it hit me in the face this thing was on the wrong side of town for an easy trip. Especially as part of the Circle line was closed. I figured I’d get on the Central and go across town that way. Only Holborn had been evacuated, so I had to abandon that trip part way through. At this point I gave up on the whole Expo idea and got off at Oxford Circus and wandered along Oxford Street to Forbidden Planet and Gosh!
On the way I saw a man carrying a ferret. The ferret was wearing a high visibility lead. This suggests that the man has on occasion walked said ferret at night. Or it’s a professional ferret used for vermin control. I hope it was the latter, and it wasn’t an deliberately eccentric pet.
I picked up Monster Volume 10 but there wasn’t a Golgo 13 Volume 11 in sight. I grabbed a bite to eat, then figured I’d see about swinging by the Expo and seeing if I saw any faces I knew. So I got there mid afternoon, wandered around the ExCel centre for a bit, decided I wasn’t going to pay (especially as I was going to be charged to take money out) just to feel even more cynical and old than I was feeling already (the sight of Naruto headbands will do that to a man), took some photos of derelict riverside buildings and headed back.
So my Expo experience was all of 15 minutes!
So it was a lot like Peterborough Sci-Fi and Fantasy Fair, except without people I know dressed as vikings and hitting each other with real swords. And I bet there wasn’t LARPers trying to sell VHS copies of their own homemade Stargate film!
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September 28th, 2007 by Brack
If you Hate Fun, then join me tomorrow, as I again review anime series that haven’t even aired in Japan yet based on my kneejerk reactions to their websites.
Oh, and howzabout that final panel in this week’s One Piece? I was picking my jaw off floor.
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September 26th, 2007 by Brack
A cold has snuck up behind me and clubbed me over the head. Boo.
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August 28th, 2007 by Brack
Real Life.
The Awesome Engine is in neutral until further notice.
Nothing serious, just busy.
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August 21st, 2007 by Brack
I’ve spent most this evening tidying, cleaning and washing my ceiling (!) so I’ve not written what I had wanted to write about Bacanno! episodes 2 and 3 and the narrative approach of EVERYTHING HAPPENS. AT ONCE.
Tomorrow maybe.
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July 18th, 2007 by Brack
I’m suffering with dizziness/vertigo-esque symptoms at the moment which is why posting is sparse. While I do have some medication, it’s basically exchanging dizziness for drowsiness for now. Normal service should resume by Friday hopefully.
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June 1st, 2007 by Brack
I’m updating WordPress in a bit, so if this blog disappears/breaks/kills your dog that is why.
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