Bandolero by Day

A brief review of the Joy of Baltimore with neherenia, shortcakegreen, and demonlet. Guest appearances by capuu and irksnapple.

◊ We're all super-best friends with Peter S. Beagle now. Laris has a photograph proving it. He has a plan in the works for a novel about Bela Lugosi, Boris Karlov, and Lon Chaney, and if/when it is written it will surely be THE GREATEST BOOK OF ALL TIME.

◊ No matter where in Baltimore you may roam, the con-goers are usually easy to identify by their long beards or their propensity for opening automatic doors with their magic.

◊ I got a lot of "nice boots" comments, which could easily have been mistaken for "nice boobs" if I were not a AA cup bra-forsaker.

◊ So Otakon has a choice of 16 different badges from different anime series, and the only one I recognized this year was Chun Li, which clearly means that I am Out of the Loop re: anime.

◊ The only new anime I've seen this year is Romeo x Juliet. I was expecting it to be pretty popular at the con, but I saw NO cosplayers and NO merchandise. Maybe I need to give it another year? Then again, Gankutsuou never developed a big following, either.

◊ Sleeping next to Angie makes me dream of secret midget cabals, but also Optimus Prime.

◊ I hear tell that my snoring is delicate and feminine.

◊ Laris got a picture of me with the Purple Tentacle dude. I said to him, "Okay, we can be fighting or we can be making out." It's practically a rhetorical question. Then I told him to kick it up a notch and discovered that it is very difficult to grope a dude in a foam Purple Tentacle costume, BUT I TRIED, MAN.

◊ Laris is the first person I've ever found who shares my "MEAT ONLY" pizza topping policy. She can also quote Napoleon Dynamite without shame. Bless her.

◊ RELIA IS MY FABULOUS SCIENCE TWIN. Someday we will have slumber parties in the Kitt Peak observatory and stay up studying cosmic expansion and braiding each other's hair.

◊ Relia and Laris harmonize really well when they're singing "Enormous Penis". I add tone-deaf-ness and snapping. Sadly, none of us can whistle a tune.

◊ Buy some land, fuck spinning rims.

◊ Picking up the last Harry Potter book and then walking out to discover a guy holding a poopom = joy overload. IT WAS TINY AND ADORABLE.

◊ Someone put a shiny power-up on the side of one of the skyscrapers, but we couldn't reach it because we didn't have our boomerangs equipped.

◊ Irk: "We just 'shipped the ketchup." It's beautiful enough without the context.

◊ People who hate cheese fries hate America.

◊ What is up with the Cheesecake Factory? 55-75 minute wait? Fuck that! I actually went up to the guy and said 45 MINUTE WAIT, except I forgot that doesn't work so well if you don't also slip him a $20.

◊ I forgot a lot of things this weekend. I was pretty confused and heavy with the gobbledygook the whole time. It was a schizophrenic weekend.

◊ Z is the person to call if you want a confrontation to happen. I'm good for yelling at noisy neighbors (politely) and asking Sailor Mary Sue who she's dressed up as. (answer: Sailor Astera, which I would link except I found TWO! a mystery!)

◊ I am become Ctrl+Z, undoer of worlds.

◊ Baltimore still has more trees and water than Phoenix. It's neat.

◊ I skipped both Seki Tomokazu panels because I wanted to hang out with my friends instead. What the hell is that all about?

◊ We DID watch some anime at this anime convention: Little Norse Prince, a Miyazaki film that is "pleasant and cheerful" for "good children everywhere". It certainly had more people singing and dancing in circles than I've seen in any other show or movie, ever. There was also Shakugan no Shana, which look pretty cute, but since I can't understand spoken Japanese well enough to pick up more than the basics, and since some dude's fat head was in the way of the subtitles, I didn't get much else out of the show.

◊ Laris introduced me to the joy of monokuro-boo pigs. Sometimes they are kissing, sometimes one goes into anaphylactic shock. I love saying "anaphylactic" so much, you have no idea. To celebrate this discovery, I bought a bentou box with them on it. (Metatron is the white pig. Zeruel is the black pig.) Also in the vein of cute is a wee tiny magnetic plush gomagoma mamegoma whom I have named "Mr. Brimbles".

◊ They see me rollin'. They hatin'.

◊ Peter S. Beagle and I flew on the same plane back to Phoenix. Our friendship is THAT AWESOME.

◊ Relia, Angie, and Laris are all anti-Z's-heart-exploding. They are good friends.

That wasn't very brief.

I was going to get you a sexy sexy man made entirely out of ice cream, but then I realized that science hasn't created that yet, and as Kayli pointed out, science is slow.

So, yeah, sorry. Maybe next year.

Wait a minute... aw shit! I could've just gotten you a sexy man COVERED in ice cream! I'm fairly certain science has already invented those! DAMNIT. WHY DIDN'T I THINK OF THIS UNTIL JUST NOW???

Oh well. Definitely next year.

P.S. I should start linking this from every birthday post. Being a PBF fan, I know you'll appreciate it.

!!!!!

It is the Tabbi's birthday!

I think.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY.

Happy Valen-tine's Day! Let us all take a moment to celebrate the great hero of the ancient shadow war!

Okay, I am totally stealing this idea from erythros, but only because it is a very good idea, and because I love Sinclair (and every other character on Babylon 5) with a fierce passion worthy of this holiday.

I think that makes me a tremendous dork. LOOK AT ME, THOUGH! I DO NOT CARE!


I was trying to think of something viciously cool to do for all of you as a gesture of affection - something that I could finish in my two hour period between classes anyway, because this holiday snuck up on me like a ninja. I couldn't think of anything, so instead I will resolve to do more viciously cool things for all of you during the year in general. Surely I can do more cool things if I give myself more than two hours in which to conceive of and complete them.

Now you'll take your hearts and you'll LIKE them, by golly! <3 <3 <3

I got a Christmas Bonus. Holy Shitkickers, Scatman! I didn't even know that Starbucks DID that, but THEY DO. Instead of my usual mediocre check, I got twice the usual amount today. This means that for the first time IN FOREVER, I will not have to punch people's teeth out and sell them on the internet just to be able to afford next semester's tuition. I feel like Atlas after he decided "Fuck it!" and left the planet in Gravity's good hands. IT FEELS GOOD. GOOD LIKE VELVET AND PEZ AND MAYBE VELVET PEZ (EWW).

On a more fun note, WHY ARE MY FRIENDS SO AWESOME? How is it that all I have to do is THINK the words "paid account" and someone makes it happen WITH THEIR POWERS OF KICK ASS? I have a mysterious benefactor! Thank you, mysterious benefactor! You made me grin like an idiot and emit strange happy noises! If you weren't anonymous I would totally do you! OHOHOHOHO!

Now, I'm going to play with my new toy that is the paid account until the rest of my local pals decide to get off their duffs so that we can go out.

AHAHAHA W00T.