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This is M-M-Ma-Max Headroom Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 4:17 — 1,006.1KB) | Embed Yomigaeru Iron Geek!!! Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 2:36 — 612.1KB) | Embed testing this here AudioBoo thingie Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 4:42 — 1.1MB) | Embed Remember the Anime Secret Santa project that the folks over at Reverse Thieves cooked up? Well I’ve got good news – Otaku no Podcast will be participating! Look for our Anime Secret Santa review to hit both blog and podcast shortly after Christmas. This should be interesting – and fun! If you haven’t read my recent blog posting, I’ve been out sick for the past 2 weeks or so with what can only be described as “the Martian Death Flu.” It was nasty, and had me completely bed ridden, didn’t even have the energy to pick up the laptop most days. In fact I’m still not 100% over it, I still have a nasty cough and my voice is hoarse, but other than that I’m pretty much back to normal. I’m hopeful that the cough will go away in a few days. I’m working on the next episode, which of course will feature Part 2 of my look into how to get “anime on the cheap” – hopefully I’ll be able to record and release that in the next day or so. Since it’s been so long since the last podcast, and since I probably have some new listeners thanks to the publicity I got at BlogWorld and through Leo Laporte’s radio show, I decided to re-release Part 1 of Anime on the Cheap by itself, so here it is. Continue reading Episode #0009a – Repost of Anime on the Cheap, Part 1 Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 34:46 — 31.9MB) | Embed Yes, folks, he lives! As I mentioned earlier, October was a pretty busy month for me, with two huge work projects, and then the BlogWorld and New Media Expo conference mid-month. Well fortunately the work stuff all went well, and BlogWorld was a total blast. UNfortunately, however, I apparently took a little extra “something” home from the BlogWorld trip – what can only be described as “the Martian Death Flu.” I’ve been living in misery for the past two weeks, which of course explains why I haven’t been able to get an episode out (or any blog posts for that matter). In fact I’m still not 100% over this thing, I still have a pretty nasty cough and my voice is still pretty hoarse, but I hope to finally kick the last of this thing in the next few days. Anyway, I missed quite a bit of news while I was sick (so the next episode, which I hope to be able to record in a few days, will be chock full of news and such). One of the (many) things that slipped under my radar is the Pacific Media Expo (PMX) convention. But the good news is that you still have time to get in on this – PMX is being held right now (the weekend of November 6-8) at the Hilton Los Angeles Airport, 5711 West Century Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90045. PMX isn’t your typical anime convention – really it’s a convention about Asian Pacific entertainment and culture as a whole. Which, of course, includes anime and such, but also includes Asian live-action movies, Jpop/Jrock, visual kei, Japanese street fashion, and a whole lot more. Guests of honor this year include Gashikon, clothing designer famous for the Hangry & Angry line; visual kei rockers UchuSentai NOIZ; Maki and Asuka, clothing designers with Angelic Pretty; famed anime director Shinichi “Nabeshin” Watanabe; and fashion designer Takuya Sawada of Takuya Angel. Of course you’ll also find the usual series of events, including various panels and workshops, dances, karaoke, video and console gaming, video and film rooms, CosFest (cosplay competition), and even a fashion show! (Of course there’s also a Dealers Room.) Sounds interesting? Online registration is still open for the convention, at $40 for a full weekend adult pass, and less if you only want to go certain days, or if you’re a child, etc. – children under 5 are free with adult membership. Of course you can also register at the door. Unfortunately I won’t be able to attend – besides the whole recovering-from-major-illness thing, I have a podcast to work on this weekend 😉 However, if you do manage to make it to PMX, I’d love to hear from you! Either drop me an email or call our voice line with a mini-review. This comes by way of a tweet from the cool guys over at Tokyo Tower WAWL, who pointed us to a post over at the Reverse Thieves blog with a rather cool and unique idea for a group anime review writing project. (Sorry if this doesn’t match up to my usually scintillating level of writing prowess, it’s past midnight and we’ve had a long day of sightseeing around the greater Las Vegas Nevada area. In other words, I’m dead tired.) Basically the idea is this: get together a whole bunch of anime fans with blogs/websites, have them throw the names of a bunch of anime series into a hat (in this case, the hat is the anime community website MyAnimeList), and have everybody review a random anime series from that hat – Secret Santa style. Not familiar with this whole Secret Santa thing? C’mon, I’m sure you’ve heard of it, it’s probably been used as a plot device in at least one or two Christmas-themed anime episodes that you’ve probably seen. Okay fine, I’ll explain it anyway. Basically it’s a fairly common custom in Western countries, where a group of friends, family members, coworkers, etc. randomly choose a person from among the group to buy a gift for, and they give that gift to them in secret. (Starting to sound familiar to you? Thought so…) Anyway, here’s the skinny: sign up for a MyAnimeList account (they’re free), and fill it with the anime that you have seen, then email your name, blog/website url, and link to your MyAnimeList page to the folks at Reverse Thieves. Once all entries are in, they will then randomly pair people together, at which point you get to review one of the animes on their list, and they get to review one of the ones on your list. Their reasoning behind why they are doing this is threefold: mixing up what you watch and review on your blog, getting other people to watch things you feel deserve more attention, and facilitating a way to interact with other bloggers thus creating possibilities for cross blog readership, also it fosters an environment to try other cross blog experiments. Also, they hope to encourage reviewers to be more willing to step outside of their “comfort zones” and try out series that they may not normally be into – which is always a good thing if you ask me. Again, more details can be found on the Reverse Thieves blog post about this project. Better hurry tho – you only have until November 8th to get your entries in! Of course, I will be participating, so keep an eye on the Otaku no Podcast site to see which series I end up reviewing. This should be… interesting! (And fun!) The good news is that my two work projects went very well, and I’ve been having a great time at BlogWorld and New Media Expo, learning a lot of good blog/podcasting stuff and meeting and networking with a lot of cool people. I even took the opportunity to upgrade my podcasting setup – I got a new, much less crappy microphone, so the next podcast should sound pretty good. Speaking of the next show, I’m actually working on it. We’re still in Vegas for another few days, and unfortunately the Internet access is pretty lousy, so I doubt I’ll be able to post the show before I return this weekend. But you should definitely have a new show by next week. In the meantime, I’ve got something to tide you over. Your friends and mine, DJ City and DJ Gladiator of TJX – The Japan Xperience – have released a new episode in which they talk about one of my favorite subjects in the world – FOOD! More specifically, they take a gastronomical tour through Japan, and focus in on the most well-known/famous foods for various regions/cities of Japan. Give it a listen, you’ll like it. But beware – better have some snacks handy, as listening to these guys talk is gonna make you hungry! I just wanted to post a quick note to let you know what’s going on re: the lack of updates recently. Unfortunately I’m currently involved in several large projects which are occupying the majority of my waking hours, so I haven’t had much time to prepare a podcast or even do a blog post. I’ll be busy with this for another week or so, after which things should calm down significantly at work. Also, later this month, I’ll be off attending the BlogWorld and New Media Expo, a big conference for bloggers and podcasters which is held in Las Vegas. (I’ll be the clueless looking guy wandering around handing out Otaku no Podcast cards/flyers, so if you see me, be sure and say hi :-)). I’ll have a day or three between the end of my work projects and the time I leave for BlogWorld, so I’ll try and get an episode out during that time, but I make no promises (you know how busy things can get when you’re getting ready for a trip…). I will, however, try and get the occasional blog post out during all this. Thanks for your understanding, and for continuing to subscribe and visit the website. |
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