Someone said they wanted pictures of the shirt.
Posted on January 17th, 2006
Filed under: General — Karl Olson @ 12:53 am
I think they are crazy: See?.
Bonus picture: Xmas Gift.
Edit: Extra Bonus Pictures – Me from the PAX 2005 DVD trailer. 1 and 2.
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And now, I have a modded shirt.
Posted on January 15th, 2006
Filed under: General — Karl Olson @ 7:34 pm
Thanks to my mom’s lovely sewing machine skills, I now have a Tohru Honda from Fruits Basket shirt modified for me. One of a kind. Take that Funimation! (Just kidding, I could never stay mad at them, after all, they did quote me on back of Spiral vol.5.)
Meanwhile, I continued my own home-ec skills by ironing on a new patch (Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex Laughing Man patch) on to my jean jacket/shirt, then reinforcing that patch with amazing hand stitching skills.
Otherwise, a fairly uneventful day. This week will probably busy and interesting though. Hopefully.
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Domestic Endeavors.
Posted on January 15th, 2006
Filed under: General — Karl Olson @ 12:53 am
Previously, I mentioned getting a Tohru Honda (Fruits Basket) shirt from Hot Topic. Well, I’m now roughly half-way through modifying it into a male-style shirt, thanks to a two buck shirt from walgreens offering up a pair of sleeves, and a few hours of removing stitches.
Tomarrow, grafting. Who knows, maybe one day I’ll learn enough about this kind of stuff to make cosplay. Granted, I don’t intend on giving up my press status any time soon, which means I’ve got to dress atleast semi-professionally at cons, which means no cosplay for con anyway. Ah well, atleast I can clothes-mod now.
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Mic Check Mic Check / Mass-Market Counterculture.
Posted on January 14th, 2006
Filed under: General — Karl Olson @ 4:32 am
This post will be a test of my blog, which is now operating on Version 2.0 of WordPress. Already, I’ve got some issues (no mySpace crossposting, again. LJ is up only because a different plugin, and that plugin needed some pruning of annoying blog-plugging code.)
Anyway, class was cancelled in the second day in the row (teacher has a rip-roaring cold,) so after my usual general gabbing at BCC, I made my way down to Anime Kingdom, where I got some new stuff and chatted with people. I went by Starbucks while I was there too, I got a Chai Tea Latte w/ some friends and family (thank you mom for footing the bill for everyone :D,) came back, hung out some more, and then made my way down to Hot Topic in Southcenter to meet back up with Zoe, Lucy and Mike (some of the other Anime Kingdom regulars for those of you just tuning in.)
Now, this is where the fun comes in. Normally, I don’t shop at Hot Topic. Maybe when they get an anime shirt in, or some cool Drum n’ Bass EP falls into their record bin for some odd reason, I’ll buy, but usually they are just to expensive for my blood. I can’t justify more than 40 bucks for pants, especially pants that a nerd like me can’t pull off. I mean, I’m a practical guy, so as much as I’m enamored with design and thus at points fashion, particularly counter-culture fashion (albeit mass-marketed, pre-packaged, nationally sold counter-culture fashion,) because I like the DiY (well, psuedo-DiY) attitude of those designs, I just look at things in terms of function over form most of the time. However, today, they had stuff that was already on clearance with an extra 50 percent off on top of it.
Oh snap! Bargains? My kryptonite.
So, for a mere 18 bucks including tax) I now have a Tohru from Fruits Basket t-shirt (originally meant for a woman, but with some modifications, I can make it a man shirt. Besides, it was 5 bucks. That’s worth the risk of wrecking the shirt, and/or wearing a girly shirt,) a mooninites wrist band (1 buck!??! the moon definitely rulz #1 at that price) and a cooler-than-me jacket that at about 10 bucks I couldn’t pass up on. If I put on one of my geek shirts under the jacket while wearing one my pairs of cheap and now well worn-in jeans and I’ll probably be “ironically hip in some flip universe.” Or something like that… 🙂
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Private: “Eat At Taqueria / [Write For NewsPapers In] Korea” – Beck, Hollywood Freaks
Posted on January 5th, 2006
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 9:09 pm
So I wrote a game review for the JoongAng Daily. Yay for having friends that have connections, jobs at newspapers and very tight schedules that result in me getting in the paper. Well, it’s probably only for the online, but still, woooooooo.
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*blatant ad for my annoying music*
BTW, the nerdcore CD is up for sale again . Supplies are limited, paypal only (and I mean paypal – no credit or debit via paypal. If you want to email me about entrusting a check to the postal system, I’m up for that too) and US only (unless you want to email me so I can find out how much it’ll cost to ship a CD to your locale.)
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On a related note (in as much as it’s nerdy rap,) here’s a link to something you’ve probably already seen. However, I still find it funny. “You can call us Aaron Burr / From the way we’re dropping Hamiltons.”
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Happy New Year.
Posted on January 1st, 2006
Filed under: General — Karl Olson @ 3:53 am
Going with a couple friends to an arcade to play DDR, In The Groove and Para Para on New Years Eve: Good. Even did decently in laser tag, I didn’t totally butcher songs at karaoke and I managed to get a B on the hard mode of the PA Theme by MC Frontalot.
Exchanging gifts with them that didn’t get exchanged before x-mas: Better, though they got me way nicer than I got them. I feel bad about unintensionally short shrifting them.
Picking up a couple extra friends in the parking lot of the arcade unexpectedly: Still better. The more the marrier.
Having people recognize my new FLCL tshirt and taking to them about anime: Equivalently awesome. Always happy to chat about that kind of stuff.
Ending the evening enjoying the gifts recieved, winding down from a physically strenous but fun New Years: Priceless.
Cleaning my room later today and getting the CD back up on the site: Not so priceless, but I think I’ve learned that I’ve got a lot to be thankful for, so the day-to-day stuff shouldn’t be particularly loathed, and so if nothing else, I’m resolving to be thankful for those things. Well, more like those people. I’m happily surprised at how many friends I have, and I’m happy to have them.