The year 2011 is in its death throes, and even as I type this, I and the rest of the world are essentially waiting for its heart monitor to go to the inevitable flat line, which is a mere hours away. So with members of my (real, not AJS) family ready to loot the corpse […]
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Ari Rockefeller presents A Look Back at Whatever the Hell 2011 Was
They call me "The Master" for a reason
Greetings, loyal Anime Jam Session readers and listeners. This is Ari Rockefeller, checking in. I just want to let everyone know that I’ve decided to participate in National Novel Writing Month, a.k.a. NaNoWriMo. It’s about a week in, and I’m closing in on 10,000 words (chances are I’ll hit it by the end of today). […]
Ari Rockefeller presents New York Comic Con/Anime Fest 2011 — Five Boroughs, One for Each Day
So, right off the bat, I have to rescind something I said in my review of Otakon 2011. When I traveled to Baltimore to take part in Otakon, I had mentioned that it was the earliest I ever arrived before a convention. That was simply because Otakon was a three-day convention; NYCC/AF, on the […]
All Brawn and…Some Brains?
This is news to me, as I just recently learned via Anime Jam Session cohort DJ Ranma S that Mens Fitness pulled their offending NYCC/AF article…an article that I wrote a scathing rebuttal to in its wake, one of many surfboards hanging ten on a massive wave of backlash. Other websites such as Nerd Bastards.com, iFanboy.com, Total […]
Men’s Fitness to NYCC/AF attendees: "Stop Being So Fat and Dorky"
EDIT: Hey, DJ Ranma S here… It seems that Men’s Fitness got the gist of things and pulled the article down. But we may post a followup editorial to this. Great job in letting them know that our voice was heard!——– Anyone with any kind of nerdy interest has and continues to be stereotyped for […]