The Basil Blog

Another year, another slew of cons! This year I’m starting early with Ohayocon! Since Nekocon in 2008 Emily DeJesus has bugging me to bring myself and fellow OSMites to Ohayocon at each convention I’ve been to since, culminating into the podcast interview with herself and her husband the amazing artist Robert DeJesus where she told us and the world, “Just fucking go!” at MTAC last year.

Look out Ohio!

So I’m going! As is Kevin, and Brad, at least so far. Of course, it wasn’t good enough to just go, oh no. The sly fox that she is, has hoodwinked us into running some panels as well!

On Saturday at 1PM in Panels 3 (Union D-3) we’ll be hosting the Podcast Jamboree! It will be a panel about podcasting. This is something we’ve done several times before, should be aces.

However on Friday at 4Pm in Panels 6 (Grant/Harding) we’ll be running the panel Tsundere: Why We Love the Ones That Hate Us Most. This will be a look at the popular character archetype, where did it come from, and why it works. This one will most likely have pictures and PowerPoint and snazzy stuff like that. In other  words, we have to work at actually making this panel happen, with research and stuff! This is very scary! This will be the first ever “real” panel I have done, so it should be very interesting. If nothing else, it should be fun to watch us crash and burn. And it will give us a real chance to see how the whole thing works which is really good since I’ll be pitching this panel (and more!) to both MTAC and AWA.

Which reminds me, I should email Dave at some point soon.

In other news, my only resolution this year is a simple one. “Write more.” So hopefully this blog will be updated waaaaay more than it is currently. We shall see.

So I guess this weekend is AWA! I’ll be running around like crazy!

Hopefully, it’ll be fun!

I’ll be in the Anime Podcasters Roundtable on Saturday, 6:30 – 7:30 PM, Kennesaw Ballroom. You can hear me blab aloud IN PERSON.

James and (the illustrous DJ Inubito) and hid fellow DJ Cynispin along with some other anime fan DJs are passing out 200 copies of their latest CD release, “Renegade Remix Force.” It’s chock-full of anime and video game remixes and I banged my hands at the computer till a cover design came out. Good times!

Whomever is going this year, I’ll see you there!

I know several of you on this here LJ Friends list thing have hopped onto the Twitter long before I did. What are y’alls names on it? You can follow me @thebasilfeed. I’ve found that the limit of 140 characters actually makes it easier to post. 

Also, after choir I’m heading out will some fellow OSMites to MTAC! I’m hoping it shall be a blast. I’m actually on two panels too! I’ll be a part of the Podcast Roundtable Panel which is being held Friday night at 7:00 PM in the Fan Panel room. Then on Sunday at 1 in Panel Room 2 I’ll be the “token male” in the Shojo Mojo Panel: Feminism in Anime.

The second one could possibly get me in trouble… But I think I can handle it. We might also snag a possible interview or two, and I think we’ll be at least getting one cross-cast with Akihabara Renditions. Should be fun!

PS: This week’s OSMcast was on the awesome DS game Retro Game Challenge. Please check it out if you are so inclined. 

So last year myself and intrepid podcast buddies went to MTAC last year, and it was a blast.

This year, the OSMcast is again going to MTAC this year, but this time we’re going to be press. Very awesome.

So I need to know who are going to be my OSMbuddies for this venture. (I’m looking at you:  Eric, James, Lee, Kevin, Brad. I’m looking at you.) Also anyone else that wants to go, really. MTAC is April 3rd-5th. While the initial press pass was free, the rest we have to pay for. If we pay by Feb 28th, it’s $35 a head unless we can get 5+ people to go, then it’s $28. Since my press badge is free, I’ll be compensating the OSMcast dudes the diffrence of $35/28 to spread the wealth as it were. 

The hotel is apperently book already and they haven’t listed any overflow hotels yet. Todd, you are a wiz at cheaper hotels that are close to cons, do you know of any good places? 

So let me know if anyone is interested. This should be a blast. 

PS: I may also see about getting some OSMcast Tshirts made.

I keep meaning post on LJ, like everyday, then something inside me stops me from doing it. I have no clue why, but that’s okay because I’ve now kicked reason to the curb and am now posting an entry! Hopefully it won’t be the last one for a month! Er anyway…

Hello world!

So AWA happened and it was pretty awesome. I’ve covered most of what happened to me via my podcast, but in short I had a blast and it was great seeing people I only get to see once a year or so. Though sadly I also missed out on a few people I wanted to see but missed, but there’s always next year right?

Somehow ending up on the podcast roundtable was definitely the highlisght of the con for me, though Anime hell was great this year too. Last years while fun was not quite as good as previous years, he totally brought it back around for this year. Also seeing the last bits of the Ouran High School Host Challenege was something that had to seen to be believed. While I can safely say it was Not For Me, for eveyrone there it was very much for them and they looked like they had an amazing time*. But yeah, AWA was fun.

Has anyone out there played Time Hollow for DS yet? It’s kinda like Phoneix Wright meets The Butterfly Effect. It’s pretty fun.

And also on the DS front, I’ve been playing Dragon Quest 4 as of late. Man, as much as people knock the DQ series for never changing, DQ4 is pretty revolutionary in some respects. Maybe I’ll expound on that on a later post because this is starting to get a little long…

*Oh wait, I’m not supposed to say nice things about that anymore. Oops!

I’M HERE WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

HAAS' AWA Bonus Badge

TIME TO GET TO ATLANTA FOLKS SO I GOTTA DRIVE LIKE THIS:

POCKET SCHEDULE!

VIDEO SCHEDULE!

AW YEAAAAAAH