At first I wasn't going to watch them but I did break down and watch the OP ceremonies, which were quite good btw. But I had no plans to watch LOTS of events at the time. Now i'm greatful that THAT didn't come to pass! Because at OP ceremonies, how come the americans came out in those outfits? And did they look like cosplsy outfits to you? Yeah right, more like a cosplay idea gone HORRIBLY wrong! lol And what about britian? Their outfits made them look like Takuto from star driver. I had no idea that they prided themselves on wearing white like that to represent their country! And ours, why suits and a tie? You saw the other countries with their ethnic, glamourous, outfits, that were akin to their character so why'd we have to come out in those school uniforms? Have we changed THAT much as a society? But better get of this topic, I could make a blog post just on THAT issue!

I saw some of the swimming events. Apparently Michel Phelps is now the most medaled Olympic swimmer ever or something (maybe even just general athlete, if that's the case, please let me know) so congrats to him, even though I dont really care about swimming, except when i'm in the water and dont feel like drowning.   I also saw the women's backstroke, and it made me think of some dirty jokes that I shared with some of you if you follow my twitter and facebook account. And this morning w/ women's diving, i'm starting to feel like Konata's dad from Lucky Star.

Saw some Beach Volleyball yesterday and made me think of my uncle who used to do it all the time and between you and me, will probably get into doing it more in the coming months and years. And these olympics, they're the only time where you see both beach AND indoor volleyball on at the same time! And now we move onto the track and field events, the main core of the whole olympics, the original events from the 1st olympics. (I think)

And not to put to much out there but how many people's got Tokyo for getting the 2020 Olympics? (which will be decided next year!)

Omg, I just heard about the Dark Knight Rises premire shooting a little while ago! Thats nuts! My condolences to all the victims and their families and my best wishes that they will all be able to make a full recovery.

But it also reminds me of the "Akiabara Massacre" back in '08. For those that don't know, *a man hit a crowd with a truck, eventually killing three people and injuring two; he then stabbed at least 12 people using a dagger (initially reported as a survival knife[1]), killing four people and injuring eight.* I hope that this guys' motivations arent the same! But if they are, we Denjin (otaku) need to be strong and not let this incident scare us out of doing what we love doing! I mean, it didn't for the people in Akiabara. They're still out there cosplaying and being good and enjoying life and what they love and we need to be too! C'mon my fellow Denjin, stand with me!

**= quote from Wikipedia

 As per request, i'm putting up the list of themes that I showed @ Anime Expo:

(all OP unless otherwise stated)

1. Astro Boy (a. Instrmentals, b. US ver. c. JP ver.)

2. Kimba the White Lion  (a. JP ver. b. US version)

3. Sally the Witch

4. Lupin III (1st season '71)

5. Mazinger Z

6. Cutie Honey ('73)

7. Mobile Suit Gundam

8. Urusei Yatsura

9. Laputa: Castle in the Sky

10. Sailor Moon

11. Tenchi Muyo Ryo-ohki OVA

12. Cowboy Bebop

13. Serial Experements Lain

14. Noir

15. Rosario + Vampire

16. D.N. Angel (Vic Mignogna fandub)

17. Eden of the East

18. K-on ED (Cristina Vee fandub)

19. Gundam Wing ED

20. Galaxy Angel

21. Sgt. Frog ED

extras: Cutie Honey ED, Haruhi (2nd season OP) also by Cristina Vee

ok, thanks to all who came out and I hope to see you next year!

I'm cooling down after a nice standup! And my AMV hour was nice as well! Gonna be going to a freind of mine's panel next!

And I'm glad that this f-ing wifi is working now. It was such a pain in the ass to get it up! But it's up now and good, I can talk to you all.

 Well minna, I have good news and bad news, the good news is that the Flyers won Game 7, (yay!) the bad news is That b/c of the game i wasn't able to release some video highlights that I wanted to release (the vid is made, but not up) Oh well, I guess it'll just have to wait till tomorrow. I hope you guys can hold out till then! lol

Performances:

Kotoricon: Jan. 15th @ 5PM. website: http://anime.gccnj.edu/

Katsucon: February 20th @ 2PM. (tentative) website: http://katsucon.org/

SpringFestNY: March 12th @ TBD. website: http://springfestny.com/

Zenkaikon: March 18-20th @ TBD. website: http://zenkaikon.com/

Panels:

Kotoricon: Anime Openings and Closings - Jan. 15th 11:30AM, AMV hour - 2:30PM

Katsucon: (also tenative) Anime Openings and Closings - Feb. 19th 6:30PM, AMV hour (18+) - 12:30AM

SpringFestNY: Anime Openings and Closings - March 12th TBD

Cons: (with possible events TBD)

Anime Boston: April 22nd-24th. website: www.animeboston.com/

Anime Next: June 10th-12th. website: www.animenext.org/

I may have said that I will be performing at Kotoricon next month! The website here: anime.gccnj.edu/ But what I probably didn't say is that i'll also be debuting 2 "first ever" panels there as well! Details to come later.

..For those of you keeping up w/ me on my twitter account: http://twitter.com/CosplayComedian, this news is nothing new for you. It turns out that I will NOT be performing at Anime Boston after all. This came as a shock to me considering what they were indicating to me.

But on the up-side, Hara Heta will put me on their next newsletter, featuring me as a guest. And that'll be good b/c i'll get some airtime on animecons.com, always a good thing. And it'll be nice to perform again after a more than 3 month absence of doing standup formally. (the longest amount of consecutive time since I started doing standup panels over a year ago)