Karakuri Babble is a daily column by the editors of i360.com, usually on topics tangentially related to anime and cosplay.

In the past we have endorsed many things; in the future we shall support many others.

back in LA, at a convention.

Another year, another Anime LA. Kind of terrifying, really -- we're all getting older.

As for myself, I'd just gotten back from Japan, and it's really quite impressive just how little I felt like dealing with people, particularly people I barely knew. We've known for a long time that I harbor very strong hermetic tendencies. This only served to confirm it, as if confirmation were needed.

But still, it was fun. ALA's turned into the party con, but no one forces you to party. It's perfectly possible to walk around quietly and drop in on friends, and that's about all I did, keeping to myself when too many people were around, hanging about in Jason's room when the mood struck me, drinking moderately and getting some work done, culling images from conventions past.

(Yes, work. Things are being forced to happen. Look suprised.)

words from chris, 2011-01-11 04:31:28, los angeles