Jason R. Merrill

Our parents sat us down in the living room to watch this live... saying it had never happened before and may never again.

The Evolution of Abridged Anime Part 1 - An Artist Collective & The Arrest of Mr. Macek While the concept of comedic fandubs of anime isn’t exactly new, the way anime fandom interacts with them is changing in a major way, thanks to TikTok and

The Evolution of Abridged Anime Part 1 – An Artist Collective & The Arrest of Mr. Macek - Borealis Capps examines the origins of the Abridged Anime parodies format. In this first piece, she dives into the classical fandub parodies that formed the bedrock from which the format was built decades later

Beat me to it. Yes Please!

I have handouts from my past demos here. The newer PDFs have all the sources (and look a little better format-wise).

tinyurl.com/sodaformulas

Classic soda syphons are still available and use much cheaper C02 cartridges. Any plain, unflavored seltzer is much better than club soda for making fountain drinks. No added minerals/tastes, just carbonated water.

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Here is one of my sources for making syrups & my own sodas. A book for soda fountain owners from 1915. I've made some syrups using allulose instead of sugar and did not taste a difference. For my live demos I use small bottles of plain seltzer from Syfo or a syphon.
play.google.com/store/books/...

lol. Hope the rest of your trip is a good one. Sorry I never made it back to the show on Sun.

I always think of Hilda Whitcher when people want to use SSNs as Indexes/Keys

www.ssa.gov/history/ssn/...

Maybe we can get you actually in one this weekend.

When The U.S. Government Tried To Replace Migrant Farmworkers With High Schoolers In 1964, a program that brought migrant Mexican laborers to the U.S. ended. So the U.S. recruited American students to pick crops instead. When they saw their living conditions, strikes ensued.

Farmers complained — in words that echo today's headlines — that Mexican laborers did the jobs that Americans didn't want to do. This farmworker story by @gustavoarellano.bsky.social is timely again
www.npr.org/sections/the...

I will be presenting "100 years of Pop Culture Sodas" 11am Sat June 19th at ATL Comic Con (in Auditorium C102).

Who was the "Merry Widow"?
What do "Fluffy Ruffles" & "Foxy Grandpa" have in common?
And the big question: What do their namesake sodas taste like?

Hope to see you there!

Yeah... but you've captured the sense of it. 'La Dame' was the one I was thinking of from my 90's trip. So amazing in person.

You have to be in the room with them to appreciate things like the silver paints... and the actual size/scale of the pieces. Wish I could get out there for this.

What has it been like shifting from reporter to media executive, managing a staff instead of filing stories yourself? And do you write any of the jokes at The Onion? Or are you strictly managing the business? The Onion’s process is deeply, beautifully inefficient. Every day, our writers take 150 headlines into a physical writers room in Chicago and whittle them down to maybe one or two. These people throw away the funniest sentence I will ever write in my life six times by noon every weekday. The point of taking over this place was to preserve this process, which I learned this week is almost assuredly more rigorous than The New York Times. That’s why I don’t touch any of it. I just try to get more people to pay attention to the output, and get our work into different mediums and new places. We brought back the paper, reinvested in the Onion News Network, bought a full page ad in The Times for something they were going to write anyway. The role is to make the world-class work they’re already doing seep into everyday American life more frequently, and that’s working. You actually can do this, you know. You can just try to highlight the beauty of things you like and not try to vampirically extract value at every step. If people get one thing out of this whole Q&A, I hope it’s that. You do not have to make an A.I. version of your own employees that operate at 1.5x speed but produce purely iterative garbage, especially in media and journalism. People don’t actually want that shit. Make a good, human thing and people will bend over backwards to support you. This is a valid way to run a company.

Also talked about The Onion being inefficient on purpose.

www.status.news/p/the-onion-...

advert for Bad Squiddo Games showing Annie (me!), an artwork of a Pulp explorer by maritn whitmore, a shieldmaiden, soviet spotter, vampire queen and jeanne de clisson on a horse.

Could you help us out? It's been one of the quietest months in a decade, and partly I believe it's because people don't know we exist! Hi! I'm Annie! I run Bad Squiddo Games! We hand sculpt & hand cast 28mm scale models of women, critters, scenics & occasionally a man!

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two older guys in a personal library reading in armchairs. one says ""Those who don't study history are doomed to repeat it. Yet those who do study history are doomed to stand by helplessly while everyone else repeats it.""

*taps cartoon*

Yeesh.

First time I had to go to the East side of Atlanta from the NW, I went the wrong direction on 285... then turned around when I realized my mistake. For those not familiar with Atlanta, 285 is the local state highway that loops around the city. In a big circle. Would have been faster to keep going.

That's an awesome find!

Was hoping to see this here and was not disappointed.

We thoroughly enjoyed the excellent presentation from @jasonrmerrill.bsky.social of #BlackbirdFinery about 19th century soda fountains at #221Bcon and really appreciated the fun recipes that were shared that we'll make for our next #SherlockHolmes marathon. 🐝🥤🔎

Thank you! I had a great time presenting at 221B. One of my favorite cons, hands down.

When I have done etiquette presentations, I always read that quote. It's as true and correct today as it was in 1866.

Had mine 2 weeks ago. Endoscopy at the same time... All looked good. Next one in 8 years.

YouTube video by National Book Ursula Le Guin

I miss her so much, but the work is on the rest of us now.

@ursulakleguin.com at the 2014 National Book Awards. "I think hard times are coming when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et9N...

Love it!

For all those attending #Conpossible2025 / @conpossible.bsky.social this upcoming weekend, we'll be bringing back one of our favorite photo booth builds for portraits across the weekend!

Be sure to come by, get your photo, and say Hi.

2-7pm Friday
10a-7pm Saturday
10a-4pm Sunday

Now, now... the Banzai Institute would not let him past the front gate, much less join. The bulk of his time was spent in the back yard with his action figures pretending he was fighting Hanoi Xan with Buckaroo.