my memoirs of AX '93. [LONG]
Linda Chui
this article contains my memories of AA and AX, written in classic rambling-
linda style. it is not anime-oriented, but rather net-personalities-oriented.
it is intended that way because i'm sure the raa audience already had a healthy
dosage of CON reports, so i'll try to make this as light as possible.
<still exceeded 200 lines, tho. oh well.>
Anime America saturday:
======================
didn't plan to go to AnAm 'coz i couldn't get my travel itinery finalized
early enough. being cheap, i decided to just go for the saturday programming.
it was a special day for me 'coz that's when i met my e-mail pal, Jim Ramberg,
and his girlfriend, Joanna, for the first time. I'd like to thank Jim for
being a natural leader and....so LOUD. if it wasn't for him and his amazing
social prowress, i wouldn't have met so many other interesting net people and
managed to get myself involved in some of the major actions at AX a week later.
briefly visited the dealer's room, and watched Sailor Moon episode 1 (another
first for me) in Jim's room. that's also the episode where Usagi's eyes turned
into hearts when tuxedo kamen appeared :-D .
then we saw the masquerade. walking out of the masquerade, we wandered around
the convention a bit more, wondering where to go next. all of a sudden,
somebody behind us started talking loudly...i turned around and saw a small,
puerto rican dude discussing anime with another guy (David Fleming, i think)
next to him. i took a look at his name tag and ARGH!!!! my jaw was wide open.
ENRIQUE CONTY!!!! holy smokes. i immediately turned back and went off behind
a pillar somewhere to catch my breath. then i took up the courage and walked
up to him.
"hello, you're enrik, right?"
"enrique ", he corrected me <in pure puertorican accent>
i held out my hand.
"hi, my name is linda..." <puzzled look on his face>
"chui..." <starting to ring a bell>
"friend of miho nishida?"
it was at this point that he looked at me as if i was a saint :-D
his mouth was wide open and he held my hand with BOTH HANDS!!!!!!
hahahahaha....i mean...gee...i'm only a friend of
miho nishida and i'm already getting this type of treatment. what if
i'm miho nishida herself? :-)
<please hitoshi, miho is not seeing any of this :-) >
shortly after that, i left the con <and missed the concert! oh well>
Anime Expo Friday:
=================
After the opening ceremonies, i took my brother to the dealer's room, ready
to empty my wallet on his gundam models. there i saw a booth called,
"manga no more" :-)
i walked up and saw Tonghyun Kim and David Mou. no way. these two are the
manga ohs??? didn't expect to run into net names so quickly.
<btw, what happened to UC herald 3. for some reason, i vaguely remember
TK mentioning that it'll be available at AX. :-) >
then i met up with jim ramberg, his gf, and got introduced to Alan Takahashi.
more surprises! nobody looked like the vague images i've assigned to their
respective userids. i guess this is just the beginning....to more shocks :-)
then i went into the (alt.)manga panel. i could not believe it. it was
alt.manga LIVE! i always thot people would be less "linguistically diverse"
in real life than in posts 'coz the latter allow them more time to play around
with words and organize their thots more...randomly <like what i'm attempting
to do now>
little did i know. those two (TK and DM) were too funny. i thoroughly enjoyed
that panel. we were later joined by hitoshi doi, who gave the famous lines:
"I don't watch anything that is not animated."
"... Except for news. Too bad that's not animated."
Mike Tatsugawa wrote:
> Well, there was even a Hitoshi Doi Fan Club which followed Hitoshi
> from panel to panel. Felt very cozy.
he's right. the next panel we visited was the International Animation Fandom
panel hosted by Darold Higa and Michael Studte. then hitoshi walked in and
threw yet another line:
"how come it's the same people?" < pointing at the audience, us>
which sparked the beginning of the Hitoshi Doi fan club.
who else is in the hitoshi doi fan club: i think it's basically Paul Aoki,
Jim Ramberg, and i. there might've been others that i wasn't aware of. so if
anyone reading this vaguely recall being at the aforementioned two panels,
you automatically qualifies as a member of the fan club :-)
sad but true: i have to say that our hearts were broken when our idol went up
to the international fandom panel and said,
"i hate fan clubs."
but does that mean the hitoshi doi fan club will crumble?
of course
NOT!
i guess our fan club will just have to be more discreet in our activities :-)
Ryan Matthews wrote:
> -- No real @-party. That sucked. One was attempted, but it was spur of the
> moment, poorly publicized, and very few @'s attended.
yeah. it was like, 4 or 5-ish when jim ramberg attempted to throw an @! party
at 7. kinda tight. he got hitoshi and enrique on board. so paul and i ran
around trying to round up as many net persons as we could find. we even drew
up a little flyer and stuck it at the message board. i guess it was a lame
attempt. but we tried.
i checked out the video room schedules and found that some of the
titles Miho recommended were being shown: Joker, Arslaan, Earthian, etc.
cool :-)
saw Joker before jim brought us to dinner at Lococo's. wrapped up supper
eating ice-cream at fenton's. got back at 8 pm, completely missed the ad-hoc
@! party. wonder what happened.
then it was the "meet the guests reception". jeff yang got a bunch of net
personalities in a round table with a tape recorder. the spur of the moment
was the revelation about Enrique's history of dating :-)
for some reason nobody mentioned this in their con reports, i guess it's
not intended for the general raa audience <i'm gonna get killed for this :-) >.
then i managed to get a seat at Jeff's round table. got interviewed as the
"token" female anime fan. i wonder if he's gonna publish any of the material.
:-P
went down to the game show. to my amazement, my pal paul aoki beat everybody
and got up there to compete with ryan gavigan.
Enrique Conty wrote:
> As it was, Gaver-sensei had no opposition from Paul Aoki
> and Dickinson Lo (sp?), and won again.
well. according to paul himself, he was not "aware" of the rules of jeopary
<and all other game shows for that matter>, and even tho he knew a lot of the
answers (or questions?) , he was "waiting" for his chance to speak. Only
halfway thru the game <when it was numerically impossible to beat ryan> that it
finally dawned on him and he started to "fight" for his chance. meanwhile,
enrique was sitting next to me, answering ALL of the questions (no comments on
the % of correctness :-). Enrique, you shoulda been up there! at least ryan
wouldn't have won without a sweat.
then we met up with Jeff Yang and grabbed a bite at the lounge where more
"interviewing" was done. after that, we "accidentally" stumbled upon the "H"
panel. my poor sister! she opened the door, peaked in, and gasped out loud.
that got a round of embarrassed laughter from the room. :-P from a distance,
all i could see was on the 47" screen was...well...digitized squares <AHEM>
it was midnight. i remember Arslaan was going to be shown in the video room.
hoping to get a good seat, we got there early....just to find the schedule
changed at the last minute - they're showing a live action flick instead by
one of the GoH's instead.
mad, i started vandalizing the posted schedule ...<ooops!..you didn't read
this :-) >...i scratched, "i waited all night to see this!!!" and drew an
arrow pointing to the entry that said "Arslaan".
all of a sudden, a guy next to me said, "i'll see what i can do."
what? oh. a staff. AHA! you people!
so i started whining, "how could you do that...blah blah blah"
still the same response, "i'll see what i can do.."
i continued bugging him, "so are you gonna change it...blah blah blah"
then my sister whispered in my ears, "oneesan.....remember i said there's
a guy carrying knives around on his belt? ...he's..."
<GASP!>
OOOOOPPPPSSSS!!!!!!
i changed my paradigm in a fraction of a second.
"ah...ha ha...that's ok...thanks, eh...", i said to the guy.
we left the scene as quickly as we could.
hey. i'm not a wimp. it's just that my aikido is not good enough to handle
weapons. yet. :-)
Anime Expo Saturday:
===================
we started off with dim sum, of course. all stuffed, we staggered to the
magical girls panel <being members of a certain fan club, this panel is a MUST>
... and had to sit thru another episode of sailor moon. <oops! i didn't
say that :-) >
then it was on to the kitty panel, where we filled out questionaires and had
high hopes of getting some cels. :-\
we were later informed that our names got called out during the "lucky draw",
but we weren't there to claim our prizes. >-(
then....it was time for...the rescheduled ARSLAAN! haha.
Albert Wang wrote:
> BTW, To Linda Chiu -> Arslan was shown the next day. Hope you were there
> to catch it. :)
caught it. thanks. even tho jim scheduled dinner at 6.
now i can tell miho what i think about daryuun :-)
finally got to the restaurant at 7, when everybody was already
having their main course.
Alan Takahashi wrote:
> > let's hope the photos are good (* Especially the dinner "shot" *
> I wanna P-chan shot!!! :-) :-)
i wonder how many of those "P-chan shots" exist. i remember p-chan and i
"posed" about 3 times. so i guess there are at least 3. my sister got one,
jim ramberg got one, and i think pascal janin also got one. i gotta see them!
then we rolled back to the convention centre, where we were hit by a super long
lineup for the masquerade. the masquerade itself was interesting, tho there
were some "short breaks" in between. those "short breaks", however, were made
interesting by the fun people around me. you know who you are. thanks.
tried to look for parties on the 4th floor around 11. i guess it was still too
early for anything. having younger siblings, i had to go home early. i guess
this is where a hotel room would come in handy. i'll make sure i do that next
year.
Anime Expo Sunday:
=================
I MISSED SHOUJO SUNDAY!!!! >-( !!!!!
dammit. i guess the only problem i have with AX is the lack of TV programming
being shown in video rooms. i mean...well...it would be nice if there were
video rooms 4 and 5, which would've shown the tv tracks. then i would've
driven from lafayette at 7 am in the morning just to catch tokyo babylon :-)
therefore, i missed titles such as Sequence, Earthian I&II, and Koko wa
Greenwoon #6.
i did manage to catch greenwood 3-5 in the other video rooms. thanks to
the person who planned those showings.
dropped by the Gundam panel. i guess jeff okamoto fell ill, 'coz TK was
hosting the panel. how was it? we were too hungry to stay, we headed out for
lunch instead.
after lunch, we went into the art auction and had lots of laughs. Akane+PChan
cel went for $215! Ranma Chan cel went for $230. i'm amazed. where did
people get all that money? they were crazy enough to bid for a 3D squirrel
cel <sold at $4!>. not to mention "The Bag"!
never managed to stay till the closing ceremonies, as we made plans to visit
J town and crissy fields that evening.
as a wrap up to this incredibly long and curiously content-free post, i'd like
to give thanks to Paul Aoki, Jim Ramberg, Alan Takahashi, Enrique Conty,
Hitoshi Doi, Ryan Gavigan, and Pascal Janin, and others whom i have met at AX.
now i can read your posts on raa, recall what you look like, and SNICKER. :-)
Tonghyun Kim
>
>After the opening ceremonies, i took my brother to the dealer's room, ready
>to empty my wallet on his gundam models. there i saw a booth called,
>"manga no more" :-)
It's also known as Tonghyun and Dave's Excellent Table. :-) I wonder
if Manga no Mori people heard about our table. :-)
>i walked up and saw Tonghyun Kim and David Mou. no way. these two are the
>manga ohs??? didn't expect to run into net names so quickly.
What did you expect us to look like? :-) Monsters with 3 heads and 6
arms? :-)
><btw, what happened to UC herald 3. for some reason, i vaguely remember
>TK mentioning that it'll be available at AX. :-) >
Well, UCH 3 has been delayed by a month. So it'll be available by
early August.
Too many things to do, not enough time... :(
>then i went into the (alt.)manga panel. i could not believe it. it was
>alt.manga LIVE! i always thot people would be less "linguistically diverse"
>in real life than in posts 'coz the latter allow them more time to play around
>with words and organize their thots more...randomly <like what i'm attempting
>to do now>
NOT alt.manga. Dave and I never think twice about things we post on
alt.manga.
>little did i know. those two (TK and DM) were too funny. i thoroughly enjoyed
>that panel.
If Ricky Chau had been there, it would have been crazier. Unfortunately,
Ricky was working in the video room at that time.
> we were later joined by hitoshi doi, who gave the famous lines:
>
>"I don't watch anything that is not animated."
>"... Except for news. Too bad that's not animated."
"I would watch it more if it's animated. " :-)
>sad but true: i have to say that our hearts were broken when our idol went up
>to the international fandom panel and said,
>"i hate fan clubs."
>but does that mean the hitoshi doi fan club will crumble?
>of course
>NOT!
>i guess our fan club will just have to be more discreet in our activities :-)
Don't worry. There will be THE Hitoshi Doi panel at Anime Expo 94.
Stay tuned. :-)
>hey. i'm not a wimp. it's just that my aikido is not good enough to handle
>weapons. yet. :-)
Nah, mere martial arts cannot defeat 'Higeki no Alberto'. :-) It was
Albert Wang who carried the dreaded knives throughout the day.
>dropped by the Gundam panel. i guess jeff okamoto fell ill, 'coz TK was
>hosting the panel. how was it? we were too hungry to stay, we headed out for
>lunch instead.
Jeff worked too hard and got sick. So Matt Clark and I had to run
the panel for him. We bashed V Gundam most of the time. :-)
Tonghyun "Vajra" Kim
tk...@sdcc3.ucsd.edu
"To defeat your enemy, you have to defeat your friends first."
- Naga from Kanzaka Hajime's Slayers! -
Hitoshi Doi
|
| hahahahaha....i mean...gee...i'm only a friend of
| miho nishida and i'm already getting this type of treatment. what if
| i'm miho nishida herself? :-)
| <please hitoshi, miho is not seeing any of this :-) >
maybe we can get miho to go next year..
but she says that the 4th of july weekend is not good for her.
| i walked up and saw Tonghyun Kim and David Mou. no way. these two are the
| manga ohs??? didn't expect to run into net names so quickly.
i ran into net-names the instant i went got to the hotel to check in.. :-)
| i wonder how many of those "P-chan shots" exist. i remember p-chan and i
| "posed" about 3 times. so i guess there are at least 3. my sister got one,
| jim ramberg got one, and i think pascal janin also got one. i gotta see them!
when they turn up on ftp sites, you'll be very famous.. :-)
--
Hitoshi Doi, Toshi Nibunnoichi d...@jrd.dec.com
half a UFO catcher doll, half a cel [from JUNET: d...@jrd.dec-j.co.jp]
Hitoshi Doi
| In article <rec.arts.anime.9...@relay1.UU.NET> LC...@torolab6.vnet.ibm.com (Linda Chui) writes:
| >
| >sad but true: i have to say that our hearts were broken when our idol went up
| >to the international fandom panel and said,
| >"i hate fan clubs."
| >but does that mean the hitoshi doi fan club will crumble?
| >of course
| >NOT!
| >i guess our fan club will just have to be more discreet in our activities :-)
|
| Don't worry. There will be THE Hitoshi Doi panel at Anime Expo 94.
| Stay tuned. :-)
I probably won't be told about it..
Alan Takahashi
# Anime America saturday:
# ======================
#
# [...]
#
# briefly visited the dealer's room, and watched Sailor Moon episode 1 (another
# first for me) in Jim's room. that's also the episode where Usagi's eyes turned
# into hearts when tuxedo kamen appeared :-D .
"suteki..."
-- Sailor Moon (from episode 1)
# then we saw the masquerade. walking out of the masquerade, we wandered around
# the convention a bit more, wondering where to go next. all of a sudden,
# somebody behind us started talking loudly...i turned around and saw a small,
# puerto rican dude discussing anime with another guy (David Fleming, i think)
# next to him. i took a look at his name tag and ARGH!!!! my jaw was wide open.
# ENRIQUE CONTY!!!! holy smokes. i immediately turned back and went off behind
# a pillar somewhere to catch my breath. then i took up the courage and walked
# up to him.
I actually didn't post about *my* first meeting with the hologram
Enrique Conty. He actually took me by surprise with his energy...
...THEN, when I read his badge, I must have spent about 5 minutes
recovering from the shock... :-)
Wonder what the *real* C.O.N.T.Y. is like... :-)
# [...]
# shortly after that, i left the con <and missed the concert! oh well>
If it's any consolation, the concert was pretty short...(but FUN! :-))...
# Anime Expo Friday:
# =================
#
# then i met up with jim ramberg, his gf, and got introduced to Alan Takahashi.
# more surprises! nobody looked like the vague images i've assigned to their
# respective userids. i guess this is just the beginning....to more shocks :-)
I'm not quite sure how to take this... :-)
Side story: Jim and I had informally arranged to meet at both of
the cons, but we weren't sure when or where. At Anime America, I finally
ran into Jim at the coffee shop...about an hour or two before leaving the
convention.
Of course, at Anime Expo, he was the first person I ran into... :-)
# [comments on the {alt.}manga panel...]
# little did i know. those two (TK and DM) were too funny. i thoroughly enjoyed
# that panel. we were later joined by hitoshi doi, who gave the famous lines:
#
# "I don't watch anything that is not animated."
# "... Except for news. Too bad that's not animated."
My luck at getting to the right panels wasn't that good this time. How
come I seem to miss the good stuff?? :-)
# he's right. the next panel we visited was the International Animation Fandom
# panel hosted by Darold Higa and Michael Studte. then hitoshi walked in and
# threw yet another line:
# "how come it's the same people?" < pointing at the audience, us>
# which sparked the beginning of the Hitoshi Doi fan club.
#
# who else is in the hitoshi doi fan club: i think it's basically Paul Aoki,
# Jim Ramberg, and i. there might've been others that i wasn't aware of. so if
# anyone reading this vaguely recall being at the aforementioned two panels,
# you automatically qualifies as a member of the fan club :-)
I guess I'm out... :-)
# i checked out the video room schedules and found that some of the
# titles Miho recommended were being shown: Joker, Arslaan, Earthian, etc.
# cool :-)
# saw Joker before jim brought us to dinner at Lococo's. wrapped up supper
# eating ice-cream at fenton's. got back at 8 pm, completely missed the ad-hoc
# @! party. wonder what happened.
From the sound of it, we probably had more fun at the dinner... :-)
# then it was the "meet the guests reception". jeff yang got a bunch of net
# personalities in a round table with a tape recorder. the spur of the moment
# was the revelation about Enrique's history of dating :-)
# for some reason nobody mentioned this in their con reports, i guess it's
# not intended for the general raa audience <i'm gonna get killed for this :-) >.
# then i managed to get a seat at Jeff's round table. got interviewed as the
# "token" female anime fan. i wonder if he's gonna publish any of the material.
# :-P
Actually, you should blame Jeff Okamoto for this. *He's* the one who
stopped us, and waved Jeff Yang over to meet the "famous group of
net personalities". Funny how it seemed that I was always the first
one to get the next question... :-)
Of course, when the dreaded "otaku" question came up, that's when the
group decided to snag Enrique as soon as he appeared... :-)
BTW, as an "otaku in training", are you getting properly initiated,
Jeff? :-)
# then we met up with Jeff Yang and grabbed a bite at the lounge where more
# "interviewing" was done. after that, we "accidentally" stumbled upon the "H"
# panel. my poor sister! she opened the door, peaked in, and gasped out loud.
# that got a round of embarrassed laughter from the room. :-P from a distance,
# all i could see was on the 47" screen was...well...digitized squares <AHEM>
...you mean they zoomed the video camera up to one of the "digitized"
areas? This must have been an...*ahem*..."interesting" panel... :-)
# it was midnight. i remember Arslaan was going to be shown in the video room.
# hoping to get a good seat, we got there early....just to find the schedule
# changed at the last minute - they're showing a live action flick instead by
# one of the GoH's instead.
"Zeiran". Wasn't bad actually...and I got a much better seat in that
showing than I did during the "Meet the Guests" reception. Not that
I was actually paying too much attention to it the first time... :-)
# mad, i started vandalizing the posted schedule ...<ooops!..you didn't read
# this :-) >...i scratched, "i waited all night to see this!!!" and drew an
# arrow pointing to the entry that said "Arslaan".
Oh, so that was you, eh?
# [...]
# hey. i'm not a wimp. it's just that my aikido is not good enough to handle
# weapons. yet. :-)
Maybe you should take up kempo... :-)
# Anime Expo Saturday:
# ===================
#
# we started off with dim sum, of course. all stuffed, we staggered to the
# magical girls panel <being members of a certain fan club, this panel is a MUST>
# ... and had to sit thru another episode of sailor moon. <oops! i didn't
# say that :-) >
This was one panel that I *was* at. Hitoshi noticed me immediately... :-)
Side story: during the "Sailor Moon R" showing, some people (I think they
were from Japan) wandered by...noticed what we were doing...and came in
to watch the remainder of episode #60. The moment that the episode
finished, the group got up and walked out without a word... :-)
# [...]
# finally got to the restaurant at 7, when everybody was already
# having their main course.
#
# Alan Takahashi wrote:
# > > let's hope the photos are good (* Especially the dinner "shot" *
# > I wanna P-chan shot!!! :-) :-)
#
# i wonder how many of those "P-chan shots" exist. i remember p-chan and i
# "posed" about 3 times. so i guess there are at least 3. my sister got one,
# jim ramberg got one, and i think pascal janin also got one. i gotta see them!
Well, actually we had just gotten our food when you walked in. After
some quick shuffling, we added a table to our 3. I guess you were getting
hungry... :-)
[Further clarification on "P-chan" omitted...you had to be there... :-)]
# as a wrap up to this incredibly long and curiously content-free post, i'd like
# to give thanks to Paul Aoki, Jim Ramberg, Alan Takahashi, Enrique Conty,
# Hitoshi Doi, Ryan Gavigan, and Pascal Janin, and others whom i have met at AX.
# now i can read your posts on raa, recall what you look like, and SNICKER. :-)
...now I *KNOW* I'm in trouble... :-)
-----
Alan Takahashi UUCP : ......!{portal,ames}!ntmtv!takahash
Northern Telecom Inc. ...!uunet/
Mountain View, CA INTERNET: taka...@ntmtv.com
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"When you need to knock on wood is when you realize the world's
composed of aluminum and vinyl." -- Flugg's Law
Tonghyun Kim
>|
>| Don't worry. There will be THE Hitoshi Doi panel at Anime Expo 94.
>| Stay tuned. :-)
>
>I probably won't be told about it..
Where is Angela? Where is Dave? :-)
This time we'll make sure to inform you at least a month in advance.
:)
Scott Henry
>>>>> In article <rec.arts.anime.9...@relay1.UU.NET>, "Linda Chui" <LC...@torolab6.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
LCHUI> hahahahaha....i mean...gee...i'm only a friend of
LCHUI> miho nishida and i'm already getting this type of treatment. what if
LCHUI> i'm miho nishida herself? :-)
LCHUI> <please hitoshi, miho is not seeing any of this :-) >
Who is miho nishida?
=-=-=
--
More useless drivel from:
Scott Henry <sco...@sgi.com> / Just Another Anime & Manga Fan
Patrick Lee
>what? oh. a staff. AHA! you people!
>so i started whining, "how could you do that...blah blah blah"
>still the same response, "i'll see what i can do.."
>i continued bugging him, "so are you gonna change it...blah blah blah"
>then my sister whispered in my ears, "oneesan.....remember i said there's
>a guy carrying knives around on his belt? ...he's..."
>
><GASP!>
>OOOOOPPPPSSSS!!!!!!
>i changed my paradigm in a fraction of a second.
>"ah...ha ha...that's ok...thanks, eh...", i said to the guy.
>we left the scene as quickly as we could.
>
>hey. i'm not a wimp. it's just that my aikido is not good enough to handle
>weapons. yet. :-)
This must have been J0KER1/2 aka AKA Aaron Pon. One of the hardest
working staffers (unnoticed) at Expo '93. It might have been the
Feddie Punk, but the Fed don't carry knives. Well...I take that
back, after thursday set-up and friday hassles, he may just have
taken up that habit.
>Anime Expo Sunday:
>=================
>
>I MISSED SHOUJO SUNDAY!!!! >-( !!!!!
>dammit. i guess the only problem i have with AX is the lack of TV programming
>being shown in video rooms. i mean...well...it would be nice if there were
>video rooms 4 and 5, which would've shown the tv tracks. then i would've
FINALLY!! Someone did notice! ^_^ Shojo Sunday will become a regular
feature at future Expo's, and if I can get the theatre crew to play
along, it will also infect the theatre track as well. What better
way to wake up on a sunday morning than to long, talky, drawn out melodramas
with themes of romance and teenage homosexuality. :-)
As to running the broadcast track downstairs as well, I'm seriously
looking into doing this. Whether or not we do this will rely on
the amount of space video theatres have to work with. We definitely
want to give every guest as much anime exposure as we can conceivably
fit into the time allotted.
One further note as pertains to Expo '94. We have always been
painfully aware of the limitations creating a "theatre" out of
convention rooms, i.e. the ceilings are low, so the people in front
block the subtitles from the people behind them and the circulation is
usually inadequate. Rest assured that we will try every way imaginable to fix
this problem once we pick the next convention site and we already have
half a dozen different ideas to experiment with.
Hope to see you all back there next year!
-
Patrick Lee pat...@veritas.com
VERITAS Software Bideo Heika - Expo '93
"GET OUT OF MY WAY, I'M RUNNING A CONVENTION" - The Feddie Punk screaming
out the window of my car
as we race to SF and back
from Oakland to get yet more
equipement.
Albert Sze-Wei Wang
>In article <rec.arts.anime.9...@relay1.UU.NET> LC...@torolab6.vnet.ibm.com (Linda Chui) writes:
>>hey. i'm not a wimp. it's just that my aikido is not good enough to handle
>>weapons. yet. :-)
I don't doubt it. :) Of course my Hapkido is rusty, but considering
my condition, you probably would have won. :)
>Nah, mere martial arts cannot defeat 'Higeki no Alberto'. :-) It was
>Albert Wang who carried the dreaded knives throughout the day.
Long story behind those. My thanks to knife-maker Gil Hibbens for for
the designs. More seriously though, I'm glad I could help in however
way possible... on top of everyting else! :) And thanks to the GOHs,
Toshi Yoshida, and Yoshi Karahashi for the nickname. I became Higeki
no Alberto Sunday night. We'll have a REAL live programming coordinator
next time... of course I got nominated to run it for AX '94 since my
rescue of it in the last 24 hours before the Expo was noted. I should be
more discrete next time... yeah right, and while I'm at it I can find a way
to hide my pet Brachiosaurus.
>Jeff worked too hard and got sick. So Matt Clark and I had to run
>the panel for him. We bashed V Gundam most of the time. :-)
Wah! I missed all the panels for the third year in a row! :( :(
Maybe I'll be able to attend the panels next year. :)
> Tonghyun "Vajra" Kim
> tk...@sdcc3.ucsd.edu
> "To defeat your enemy, you have to defeat your friends first."
> - Naga from Kanzaka Hajime's Slayers! -
Higeki no Alberto
--
The Daimyo | Never forget love
wa...@ocf.berkeley.edu | Like a dream,
| Please tell me the secret...
Higeki no Alberto | -Eve Tokimatsuri from Himitsu Kudasai, MZ23 p2
Hitoshi Doi
|
| FINALLY!! Someone did notice! ^_^ Shojo Sunday will become a regular
| feature at future Expo's, and if I can get the theatre crew to play
| along, it will also infect the theatre track as well. What better
| way to wake up on a sunday morning than to long, talky, drawn out melodramas
| with themes of romance and teenage homosexuality. :-)
Show Princess Army. Then I don't have to rent it. :-)
Also there must be a spot for Crayon Shin-chan..