Something You Need to Know About Me

As someone who has found the time to watch the Pantsu Anime Strike Witches end to end twice, but somehow in 10 years has NEVER seen a single episode of American Idol, I admit I still only have the vaguest idea who this 'Snooki' person is. And apparently she has now written a book, and it has made it's way onto the NYT bestseller list.It's also one of those books with Amazon reviews that have

What It's Like Inside My Head Sometimes...

...frequently after doing customer service.Yes, that's very much what it's like to be in the Anime business. Thanks for asking...

What It's Like Inside My Head Sometimes...

...frequently after doing customer service.Yes, that's very much what it's like to be in the Anime business. Thanks for asking...

Earthquake Aftermath

As I said in yesterday's newsletter, many of us here in the DC area were awoken at 5:04am yesterday by the 3.6 earthquake that was centered near Rockville, MD.Some pictures of the devastation have started to surface:Now we are all just waiting for the Federal Government to declare a disaster and start shoveling in Billions of taxpayer funded financial assistance...

Earthquake Aftermath

As I said in yesterday's newsletter, many of us here in the DC area were awoken at 5:04am yesterday by the 3.6 earthquake that was centered near Rockville, MD.Some pictures of the devastation have started to surface:Now we are all just waiting for the Federal Government to declare a disaster and start shoveling in Billions of taxpayer funded financial assistance...

Stan Cox is not a cool guy...

As a life long DC area resident I can only wonder what happened to the Washington Post that they now allow some of the worlds stupidest people to write for them. Oh how the mighty have fallen.Case and point, one Mr. Stan Cox.And here while I'm worrying over squeezing every ounce of efficiency from the A/C units at both my home and our warehouse, Mr. Cox thinks the better choice would be to do

Stan Cox is not a cool guy...

As a life long DC area resident I can only wonder what happened to the Washington Post that they now allow some of the worlds stupidest people to write for them. Oh how the mighty have fallen.Case and point, one Mr. Stan Cox.And here while I'm worrying over squeezing every ounce of efficiency from the A/C units at both my home and our warehouse, Mr. Cox thinks the better choice would be to do

The Small Business Zombie Apocalypse

For any of you contemplating starting and running your own business in the current economy, here is a really good illustration of what it's like for us:Hint: That's us at the top. Have a nice weekend! :-)Update: You can also look forward to stupidity like this. I think if this and the new Internet sales tax goes through, and they actually allow the investment and capital gains tax rates to

The Small Business Zombie Apocalypse

For any of you contemplating starting and running your own business in the current economy, here is a really good illustration of what it's like for us:Hint: That's us at the top. Have a nice weekend! :-)Update: You can also look forward to stupidity like this. I think if this and the new Internet sales tax goes through, and they actually allow the investment and capital gains tax rates to

Freedom Commercial Doesn't Suck

In consideration of Independence day coming up in a couple of weeks, this is the first piece of marketing material to come from the People's Automotive Collective #3 that I've seen in a long time that doesn't suck:Sorry to our Brit friends, but how could the Redcoats be expected to stand against Washington's legions of attacking Dodge Challengers. Remember Lord Cornwallis held the line at

I Could Not Have Said it Better Myself

Hilarious but sooooo true:Meanwhile, Peter Serafinowicz has an article over on Gizmodo about how he's committing career suicide in by stealing his own movies.

Clarke and Dawe ask the Million Dollar Questions...

Leave it to our friends in Australia to sum up the entire current global financial crisis in less than 3 minutes:

The Hits Just Keep on Coming...

Lots of interesting news from the Anime Economatrix today:"The Publishers Weekly trade magazine reports that the North American manga and anime publisher Viz Media has laid off up to 55 people at its San Francisco headquarters and closed its New York branch, which had five employees. According to the magazine, the layoffs represents about 40% of the publisher's workforce. Viz confirmed the

In PA They Are Partying Like it's 1984...

This is what the state government is running on TV in PA:Those darned Proles with their nice cars and nice houses, gotta make sure they pay the state their annual protection money so they can have permission to keep their stuff another year. Poor Tom probably doesn't even know he owes the state 4 large + interest and penalty. He's still busy trying to figure out the Federal tax code for his small

Nozomi To Release Dirty Pair TV Series This Fall

Press release:"Nozomi Entertainment announced that it has acquired the rights to the Dirty Pair TV series. The company will release the 24 episodes and two specials in two DVD box sets. Each will feature re-mastered video with Japanese audio and subtitles."Coming on DVD this fall. Sub only.Is there anyone that still doesn't already have a copy of Dirty Pair? Based on all the foreplay Brand X did