Yep, I'm back. Got back on Saturday evening, actually, but I've been resting. Or trying to, anyway. Tomorrow it's back to the bookstore. Interesting stories and such from the trip COMING SOON to a blog near you. And as far as Scary-Crayon goes, I should have a new special edition Crayon Haiku installment up before I skip off to work tomorrow. I've picked up lots of material for the site -- perhaps too much -- so it'll take me a while to wade through all of it, not to mention all of the other stuff that I had on deck beforehand. It's entirely likely that you'll be reading reviews of things from the NYC trip in December. (more...)

Okay, Scary-Crayon's not really experiencing a popularity surge -- it's just that the bandwidth leeches and image thieves are out in full force and I'm not amused. Apparently a livejournal user who happens to be on fifty-billion friends' lists sourced an image from the April article, and now it's gotten a TON of referrals. It's not that large an image, and for most of the viewers it should spawn an error message (for some reason, the image displays fine on foreign computers in Anon's browser), but still, it's apparently raising the bandwidth numbers quite a bit. Sigh.

In other news, I found TMNT bootlegs today in Chinatown! But I think they might be candles, as Raphael has a wick coming out of his head. None of the others do, though. Unlike some of the other pretty decent bootlegs I've seen, these are really awful knockoffs -- they're not even articulated. But I'll say no more for now, as they'll be getting their own SC review (of course) when I get back to MD.

There are definitely more things to be said about the past few days (including Anon's first trip to a Chinatown VCD shop, which he did NOT enjoy -- sorry for dragging you in there, pal...), but I'll write about those at a later time. STAY TUNED!!!

1. Tuesday Night Trivia was interesting. Probably not something I'd attend too often if I lived in the area, but only because I was pretty much useless until the visual round at the very end. (Contrary to certain recent comments about me, I'm well aware that I don't know everything. ;P) That last round was really my thing, though (see some of the answers starring in Dusty Plastic HELL #2, Where's April??? Part 2, Turtle Spew, and A Crayon Haiku #16 on SC; I also drew a picture of one here). I did, however, get our team a point for the Big Brother 5 question, but that's because I figured there's no way Nakomis (Jennifer) could've been voted off. She's gorgeous -- watch the videos and you'll see what I mean. (more...)

Hi all -- still on vacation. From what I can remember (I just wrote that to psych you out. I remember most of the party, because I didn't drink that much, and certainly not as much as our pal Sydney...) Sunday night's shindig was great fun, though apparently Pam, Anon, and I left before things got really interesting. Ah well. Thanks a lot for hosting, Sarah and Zoey! I took pics; they'll go up when I get back. (more...)

Hey all! Quick note to let you know I made it out to the Big Apple okay. The Anonymous Blogger is a great host so far -- despite what some of his posts might lead you to believe about his attitude, he comes across as a pretty nice guy. He can't compete with the giant mechanized T-Rex in the Manhattan Toys 'R' Us, though. That thing is my new best friend.

Yeah, it's retail, and retail sucks, but I would work in that store forever (well, maybe not that long) just to be close to the T-Rex. All hail the T-Rex.

Ave T-Rex. Ave T-Rex. Ave T-Rex.

Ja for now! 🙂

Ave T-Rex.