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We got some rain over the weekend, temps cooled off and a few trees got knocked down. Spent Sunday drawing comics at the Baka cafe on Bloor with Steph aka Jupe; it was nice to kick back and get some drawing done out of the house, get caught up with Jupe, drink some coffee. Had dinner at the new Paramount on Saturday and it's good and we felt stuffed the rest of the weekend. Been watching old Night Flight DVDs via Gavigan, who got them from Dan Baker back in the day. Putting the Anime Hell opening together and it's about two solid minutes; I've been making deliberately slower editing choices but I think I'm going to have to speed things up, I think.
Otakon was last weekend, the last one in Baltimore. I've only been to two but I enjoy visiting Baltimore and it's not going to be the same over in DC. The Baltimore Sun had a big article about how the city didn't expand the convention center and Otakon was forced by its size to leave for bigger pastures; the piece referenced Anime News Network and confirmed that some goofy Japanese cartoon thing was, in fact, the largest convention of any size in the city. Emphasis on 'was'. Really stunning to see an anime con become such an integral part of a city's tourism plan, and equally stunning to see the city abandon that business in favor of, nothing I guess. If I was Baltimore I would be doing my darndest to convince somebody, anybody to bring their 25,000 person fan convention to the city, to fill up that Otakon-shaped hole.
Next weekend is... I don't know that we have any plans for the upcoming weekend, and the weekend after that is the Cambridge comics show. And the weekend after THAT is Labor Day, I think, and if I'm not well on my way to being done with AWA stuff then we're all in trouble!
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Otakon was last weekend, the last one in Baltimore. I've only been to two but I enjoy visiting Baltimore and it's not going to be the same over in DC. The Baltimore Sun had a big article about how the city didn't expand the convention center and Otakon was forced by its size to leave for bigger pastures; the piece referenced Anime News Network and confirmed that some goofy Japanese cartoon thing was, in fact, the largest convention of any size in the city. Emphasis on 'was'. Really stunning to see an anime con become such an integral part of a city's tourism plan, and equally stunning to see the city abandon that business in favor of, nothing I guess. If I was Baltimore I would be doing my darndest to convince somebody, anybody to bring their 25,000 person fan convention to the city, to fill up that Otakon-shaped hole.
Next weekend is... I don't know that we have any plans for the upcoming weekend, and the weekend after that is the Cambridge comics show. And the weekend after THAT is Labor Day, I think, and if I'm not well on my way to being done with AWA stuff then we're all in trouble!
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