Hey all! Just a quick post to let the lot o' ye know I'm doing alright. I'm currently on the second leg of my Northern tour, having left New York City early Monday morning and writing to you LIVE from Boston, Mass. New York was pretty sweet! In addition to catching up with an old college pal and learning the depressing fates of a number of my classmates (depressing for me, that is, since just about everyone seems to be doing so well and making so much of him/herself), I snagged a ton of films in NYC's Chinatown -- The Twins Effect, Protégé de la Rose Noire, Lavender, The Eye, Midnight Fly, Golden Chicken 2, Sakuya: The Slayer of Demons, Tomie: Forbidden Fruit, and one other film I can't find an IMDb listing for. Not to mention that two thirds of these are DVDs -- as opposed to VCDs -- so that's like a milligram of Viagra for my DVD penis. What a haul! (more...)

Yep. Three new pieces: A Crayon Haiku #22 and Dusty Plastic HELL: Hot Flashes #18 and #19. And that'll be all for a while! I'm out of town starting tomorrow. Perhaps I'll post in the blog while I'm gone. Perhaps not. Anyway, see y'all later! Wish me safe passage and all that rot.

Two new pieces for y'all today: A Crayon Haiku #21 and Dusty Plastic HELL: Hot Flash #17 -- the latter of which is not work safe, as it features bared breasts and, uh... something else which sounds a lot worse than the art looks. Really, it's not so bad. Be brave, minna-san!

And I'm still looking for NYC area folks willing to shelter me for a few nights next week... any takers? Lemme know. Anyway, ja!

It's happened again. Every now and then I swing by eBay to check and see if something obscure and/or from Japan that I want is available. Usually it's not, and most of the time when it is it's too expensive for me to even consider purchasing unless I really really desire it (oh, how I lusted after that Turtle Saint action figure -- don't laugh; that thing is beautiful), but occasionally I find the object of my affections for sale and at a price I can afford. But that's never the only thing I find, because then I decide to check for something else that has eluded me in the past. (more...)

I slid that final article in just three minutes before the clock struck twelve, but that's the last of the anniversary pieces -- joining the two that went up earlier are A Random Lunch #8 (which actually went up about four hours ago, but I was too busy working on the next to post) and the special tribute article. Wow, that was a lot of work! I've literally spent every waking hour of my day working on these bloody SC features. Ah, the price we pay for fame money the satisfaction of having made the world a better place... Hey, why am I doing this again??? o_O;;;

I haven't even eaten, which means I'm going to go get some food now. Ja. And enjoy!