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Time Off to Count Cajuns!! Photo Fame Wears Lovely Shirts!!

This month is gonna be slow.  I'm driving all over southwest Louisiana taking head counts for Uncle Sam so the state can figure out how many Representatives it stands…

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Big Sound, Big Battle From Memories!! Long Live the Great Tree of Tragic Love!!

Legend of Fabulous Battle WindariaYeah, yeah, I know it's been a week since the last blog, but I've been pretty busy. Catching up. When you've been away from…

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Fans Worship Water Cape Kid From Comic God!! Please Find Missing Artist by Old Date!!!

Odd 'N EndsAbove is one of the doujinshis Mitsuyoshi sent me back in the day, this one devoted to Osamu Tezuka's Triton of the Sea.  It's a really…

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San Antonio Attacks Phoenix with OVA!! Beware the Animation Cel with Teeth!!

CactusCon '87 (or "That Wicked City Con")By the winter of 1987, C/FO-San Antonio was smack dab in the middle of organized anime fandom and I was right in…

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Movies Fights Comics!! Kenshiro Strikes Three in America!!!

Kenshiro can't go undercover, even in his feature film.  The eyebrows always give him away.Coming to AmericaBy 1986, Kenshiro was well on his way to conquering Japan -…

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Twenty Five Years Fights Kenshiro! The All About Man Punishes Old Typewriting!

"Yeah. I'm looking at you."My Twenty-Five Year Love Affair with Kenshiro (or does this headline make me look gay?)It all started in Ben Dunn's living room, sometime during…

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Godzilland Attacks Cool Stuff! Say Hellow to Comic Saurs Story!!!

Okay, before I get started I want to introduce everybody to someone.He ought to be here any moment now. Yeah, I hear him, breathing fire and smoke as…

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Queen Eve Blows Up Love Robot and Goofy Guy! Juuza Twists Cel Contest!

Anime stuff, circa 1986Fun N' GamesOkay, after that last mammoth post (remind me not to do anything like that for a while, please), it's time for a change.…

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Music Video Praises Pirate Queen! Obsession Drinks to Zero!

Steve Harrison bait.You say pot-a-to head, I say pot-ah-to headAs I mentioned a couple blog posts ago, one of the more interesting things about being dead to anime for fifteen…

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Texas Invades the Fifth Radish! Old Fans Find Funny Clothes!

"A scanner. A scanner.  My kingdom for a scanner."Sometime in late 1984 or early '85, the Daicon III&IV anime shorts started making the American fannish rounds and the result…

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Great Original Story! The Country Singer Leads to Treasure!

I owe a great part of my '80s anime fandom happiness to Deborah Allen. Never heard of her, huh?  Yeah, I wouldn't expect you to, especially if you're neither over 40 nor…

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Captain Aardvark Rocks the Convention! Drive, Magic T-Bird, Drive!

Dallas Fantasy Fair, 1984Back in cave man days, before the dawn of civilized anime conventions, we had to pretty much make do with whatever was in the immediate…

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Kenshiro Loses the Eye of the Cat! Fans Turn Grey Hair to Fame!

...In the "day late and dollar short" department...Geez, you step out the door for fifteen years and when you come back home, you hardly recognize the place.  Luckily, some…

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Cute Girls Attack Politics! The Audio World is Lost to Comments!

Just a Bunch O' Random Stuff(Or any old excuse to play around with the controls on this blog)I'm still trying to wrap my head around this whole "moe" thing.  And trying…

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Translation Fight! Heat Sink the Mecha Song of Woe!

.<clears throat>........."Soldiers of warlords from deep space."Okay, survey time!  Does the above cause you to:A) Start humming and nodding and getting all kinds of glassy-eyed,B) Quietly curse a certain name…

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Japan Cartoons Attack Memory Two! Texas Suffers the Blogging Lag!

The first thing to go is your memory.  Or so they tell me.  Doing the "googling for cool crap I missed out on during the past 15 or so years" thing and…

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Memories Attack the Mind! Beware the Imagining of the Past!

One of the more interesting things about being dead to anime for fifteen years is that, for the most part, everything is new again. Even the old stuff.…

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The Robot Boy Strikes the US Army! Hold Fast the Sacred Wood Shoes!

What's the standard opening question in nearly every single interview you've ever read with anyone on this side of the Pacific on the subject of anime?  Yeah, me…

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The Paper Bag Attacks With Beer Advertising! Fight, Videotape Gods, Fight!

So I'm listening to a football game Sunday.  That's not unusual in and of itself, I've always liked football.  Half of my family is Cajun from deep in…

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Beware! The Bones of Pharaoh will Take Your Life! Embrace The Power of the Pasties!

T'was doing some surfing recently and came across the wiki entry for Project A-Kon in Dallas and I tried hard to remember if I was at the first or…

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My Charles Jones Bunny is Deadly to Your Funny Bone! Die, Duck, Die!

Let me make one thing perfectly clear. I grew up watching cartoons during the Nixon era. I grew up watching cartoons.  Didn't make a whole lot of distinction…

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The Bloody Boot of Apathy Will Not Step on the Righteous Soul! Witness the Fatal Rebirth!

      Well, hmm, this blog stuff if tougher than I thought. Maybe tomorrow...

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