The Basil Blog

He was instrumental in the creation of Robotech, the crazy Blackjack-level surgery of three anime productions into one US TV cartoon epic. And Robotech got a lot of folks into anime, including myself. He then went on to help found Streamline Pictures, where his crazy antics would continue on but brought us such greats as Akira, Fist of the North Star, and the original Vampire Hunter D. His Streamline Pictures Part-In-Crime Jerry Beck posted about the details.

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!

We also have done one on WEBCOMICS! But I never had a chance to make an image for that one.

I am currently sitting in my hotel room at Dragon*Con, and way more awake than I have any right to be! I suppose I could be out there doing stuff, but nope here I am poking away at my laptop. I saw Alex White and then Jessi before I hit the PreReg line, that was cool. I also saw Evali but she was so busy rushing off I didn’t get the chance to say hello. I guess I am also bad at this whole social thing, too!

Now off to EXCIETEMENT! Or poking at the internet some more.

Sad times.

Just throwing that out there.