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< Piro >

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"Off to Acen"

Thursday - May 4, 2006

[Piro] - 09:44:00 - [link here]

Been scrambling around trying to get ready for the show, same kinda thing i always deal with when attending conventions, especially when we bring the MegaGear store along with us

Just to recap - we're off to our second convention of 2006, Anime Central. The show is May 5-7 at the Hyatt Regency O'Hare & the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, Illinois (right outside of Chicago). You'll be able to find us most of the time at our MegaGear booth, where i'll be doing my usual signing and sketching of stuff for people. We have several new shirt designs that we will be debuting at the show, so be sure to come check them out.

The main Megatokyo panel is scheduled for Saturday from 3:00pm to 4:30pm in Main Programming. Should be as fun and haphazard as always, so be sure to come if you are going to be at the show and have some time to spare.

Acen is kind of my 'home' convention (it's the closest one and the one i've been to every year since Megatokyo started) so i'm definately looking forward to coming back yet again this year, and i'd like to thank the Acen folks for having me.

Ok, on that note, i'm off. I'm not finished with Friday's comic yet (I have a few drawings done) but we're getting an early start today, and if all goes well i can settle in and finish it tonight in the comfort of my hotel room (these small scanners are a joy :). Worst case senario will be that i won't be able to finish Thursday night and will have to finish it up Friday night, but right now the plan is to post the comic late Thursday night. Mondays comic i'll have to work on on Monday. So, the schedule is a little skewed, but i should be able to keep to the 3 per week over this convention weekend :)

< Dom >

Good shooters.  Amusing fanart.

"The Twain Meet"

Thursday - April 20, 2006

[Dom] - 12:00:00 - [link here]

How you know you're not living right: two of your nieces come up to you at a wedding. One asks "Hey, weren't you on Jeopardy like Uncle John was?"

The other asks "Uncle Chicken, are you going to the HYDE concert in Anaheim? Oh my GOD, he's so cute!"

My life is weird, and will stay weird until the day I die--and I'm willing to bet that there'll be some strange circumstances around my death, too. I don't know, maybe it'll be linked to organized crime, or people will never find my body, starting rumors that I'm secretly buried under third base at Pac Bell SBC AT&T Pac Bell Park, or in the foundation of some new UC Berkeley facility. Maybe I'll die under the massive pile of anime crap I've been accumulating since I was sixteen.

But anyway, it won't come close to the surreality of my family relations these days.

See, my family has always known me as "Ga," the quiet, nerdy one in the family (well, okay, one of the quiet, nerdy ones). Their recent discovery of the side of me known as "Dom" is a shock to them. In a recent trip to Tahoe, I overheard a conversation where they discussed stories they'd heard about me outside of the family circle, like how my cousin said that when I was at my job interview, I was a completely different person than she was used to.

Or, to put it in another cousin's words, "There's the Ga we know, and then there's Dom, who signs tits."

Now, before I go any further, I'd like to clarify one thing. I don't sign tits. I signed one, ever, and it ain't happenin' again. So that statement really should be "and then there's Dom, who signed a tit once and found the experience rather distasteful."

But anyway, the point remains--I've kept the MT side of my life and the family side of my life almost entirely separate, with the biggest anomaly being one dark, dark incident at Anime Expo which involved a cousin, his friend's copy of the MegaTokyo book, and a complete lack of eye contact.

Now they know, and not only do they know, my cousin's wedding on Saturday (note that I've referenced four entirely different cousins in this rant--I have 18, so if there is any cousin overlap, I'll tell you) was marked with a conversation with a fifth cousin about the recent eBay auctions, in which Fred's sketches went for a sizable amount. That produced the following conversation:

"Dude, sell out. *pause, grab an in-law* Hey, Burns, tell Ga what to do. If people are willing to spend that much money on pencil sketches, how about you give them an original? It's not ripping them off if they're willing to pay that much for it!"

"My advice to you is: sell out. Trust me, work doesn't get any more fun as you get older."

There was a lot of swearing in that conversation that I've omitted, but there was a lot of alcohol involved that I've omitted too, so I guess it's fairly even.

So, in conclusion, my family is awesome, even though they occasionally make me realize the folly of my existence by asking me to translate their J-rock magazines for them (yeah, this has happened too, to the same niece that was mentioned at the beginning). But I still don't think anyone would be willing to buy an SGD strip. I mean, Fred already overpays for them--meaning that he pays for them at all.

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