apparently Carl Macek died

I expect all my social media to be filled with tributes and reminisces. Already I have seen one huffy Facebook comment claiming that jerky anime fans will use this as an excuse to complain about Robotech. Commentator is obviously unaware that if there's one thing fans love more than complaining about edits and rewrites in anime, it's maudlin, reverential hagiography. I wasn't a big Robotech fan, but I will say that I got a lot of enjoyment out of his works, mainly providing me with cheap laughs during productions like "Bad American Dubbing". He was an entertaining con guest and always had a great story to tell. Sometimes they were even true, but that's not the point, the point is they were entertaining, way more entertaining than we had any right to expect, what with him being the target of so much vitriol at the time. Then again, if fans didn't over-react or fail to use their indoor voices, they wouldn't be fans.

Former Otakon chair John Scofield has also passed away. My only Otakon was around his tenure as chair and I remember the show as being shockingly well-run for its size; it's impressive to move through a conglomeration of that magnitude and have the most notable things be the efficency of the staff and the lack of problems or trouble.

My weekend? Friday we saw a dinged-up print of PSYCHO at the Bloor, Saturday I would up having to go into work, Sunday was the AN staff meeting, followed by a little shopping and lunch at Fran's and working on the new Zero Fighter at the newly updated Mister Kitty site. I'm back to being a little ahead of myself and I need to keep up the pace if I want to have a backlog in place for May. Lots of stuff going on in May.