So I finally beat Ashley into shape and got her to write a blog. I stumbled across the photo while working on my Elfen Lied profile design on gaia. I searched google images but the website beneath the picture was listed as Picasa with no additional information as to the specific person’s gallery. OH WELL.
Hi there. The blog has lagged, due to my computer continuously breaking on me and the shear fact that while I’m at school, sometimes things like “classes” and “papers” get in the way. But today, I was bored, whined to Kelly about it, and she threw a picture at me, told me I was a worthless shrew, and ordered me to do it or suffer the consequences. What a joker that girl is, ha ha!
So she was talking about this anime called Elfen something-or-other (Just the word “elf” assured me there would probably be something good) and was blabbering on about this character called Nana or someone…god, I have a listening problem…and she showed me what I thought was a naked homeless girl who was smiling because she was just happy to be alive, even if she had no clothes! She gets high on life, sunshine, and having hot pink hair. Who needs a mortgage to worry about? I got cardboard in my hand, I’ll make my own damn house!
But no, apparently this is a character who’s like, continuously naked (which I wouldn’t mind, I’ll admit. Ah, exhibitionism) but bloody (okay, I’d mind that) and some other stuff that I can’t remember. Sue me, I’m the only non-anime crazed (and sane) person on this site.
If there’s one thing I always, always, ALWAYS hate about costumes, it’s the nude full body unitard. Oh, how I despise such a thing. I find them tacky when they’re not used in dance recitals or, how I used them back in the day, as a substitute for like, long johns or something. I usually wore them underneath an outfit if I KNEW I was going out and it would be 30 degrees. Just extra warmth. However, when poking out of a costume, I think, “Are they trying to cover up a bad case of hives?” or “Psh, gurl, we KNOW you got cellulite.” Basically, it screams, “My body’s not good enough on it’s own.” There’s the truth and then there’s denial.
Now, obviously, I know this girl can’t just waltz into the local community center naked or anything (well, without me daring her to for $20). But seriously, there’s other costumes. Good for her for being a speshul snowflake and all, going outside the norm, but that has GOT to be extremely uncomfortable, being in a unitard AND thinking, “My God, my starvation methods didn’t work, look at this frickin’ bunching I got going on around my Hoo-ha!”
…Plus, she just ruined a perfectly good unitard by throwing some red food coloring on it haphazardly. Get any doctor to look at this, they’ll be all, “…and she’s supposed to be bleeding from where?” It’s as if she was shaving her whole body (hey, there’s some hairy girls out there, trust) and happened to nick a few places, here and there. You guys should see my legs after some light deforestation, it can get pretty gruesome.
Oh, and Britney Spears wants her disgusting pink wig back. C’mon girl, don’t you know where that thing has BEEN? Seriously.
Please, construct an outfit out of that cardboard your holding, flag down a taxi, go home, and throw on a dress. No one needs to see this!
SO. There are even more Anime USA 2007 convention photos now thanks to Calvin, the president of my old high school anime club (of which I used to be president). Wewt 
Alia also posted a cosplay disaster blog about her long time friend Carpet Guy. I swear, that woman SNATCHED the damn camera out of my hands and ran off with it to take the photo.
Oh, and happy black friday. GET IT?! 
The photo you see is of my friend Malik, the guy who took the majority of the AUSA07 con photos. AND YES, HE IS OPENLY BLACK (AND PROUD). I really need to shut up right now…
It was June in 2002. Some friends and I were at our very first Anime convention, Anime Mid-Atlantic 2. I made a Ryoko costume in about a week, along with a gigantic Ryoko wig made out of loopy. I looked great. Shutup.
Anyway, I got used to the con atmosphere quickly and was having an amazing time, and though my cosplay judgement skills were not as acute as they are now, I could tell the bad from the good.
This was taken at this past Anime USA, but Carpet Guy (or Carpet Bag) has been my cosplay hero since that June oh so long ago. Why do we call him Carpet Guy? No one really remembers what started it; whether it was a piece of his costume looked like it was made out of carpet or maybe he smelled like old carpets, ever since someone said “hey, did you see that guy in that costume with like, a pillow on his head or something??” he has been a legend. We would trade stories of him walking alone down the hallways muttering to himself, or stopping someone to ask if they liked his costume. Stacy even had the pleasure of talking to him when she was dressed as Yumi from Magic Knight Rayearth. She was walking to the bathroom when she saw Carpet Guy in the hallway. Her heart raced as he passed, and she almost choked on it when he called out to her “Yumi, from Magic Knights Rayearth. Voiced by Wendy Lee.” in a voice not unlike Jimmy from South Park.
I know you were expecting some serious hate on this guy, but I have nothing but weird respect for him. If you ever go to a con around the DC area, keep a lookout for Carpet Guy. He’s not hard to spot because this is one of maybe three costumes that he has. Strike up a conversation with him, take a picture. I will pay you for pictures of Carpet Guy. I WILL.
The rest of the Anime USA 2007 photos have been uploaded! Alia’s going to be posting (a long-awaited) blog soon, so be sure to stick around.
I realize that there are double arrows by the headers in the gallery section, and I’ll get to fixing that probably tomorrow. As for right now, I’m trying to get myself in the mood to sleep.
And yes, I’m fully aware that “insomniatical” is not a word.
I converted the old menu over to a drop down menu. If you’re having any issues with it, let me know and be sure to include the name of the browser you’re using. Unless you’re using Safari… in which case you can pretty much go bitch to Apple about their shitty operating system (user-friendly my ass). I think it’s better if we end this subject here before I get into how crappy Internet Explorer is.
Hey there fellow cosplazyteers! Our friend Malik was kind enough to be our photographer at Anime USA 2007 this year, so we have high-resolution photos up at the moment. Pretty soon I’ll be uploading Miko and I’s photos (which are of lower resolution) and Malik should be uploading more of his photos later.
I also have some upcoming features to announce! Our navigation bar will soon be a drop-down menu for easier (and a more compact) navigation. I am also going to add a non-flash version of our gallery, a photo search, as well as the ability to order cheap prints of your photos.
This will probably be the last mention of Nekocon aside from photos. I have a little pile of business cards and flyers from the con, so here goes the Nekocon 2007 credits!
A special shout-out to the sexy nameless asian guy from Jpophouse.com! They have some pretty freaking awesome shirts and a bunch of cool figurines. Of course I have to give credit to Bridgeforth Artists for letting me take a photo of a work in progress (featured in our photo gallery). I’d also like to thank Video Games New York for being helpful with my search for a specific Sony Pocketstation™. And for more Nekocon 2007 pictures, click here!
Oops, and I almost forgot! I met a very talented artist who I MUST give props to: Starrcrunch accessories!
Cosplazy finally has its own favicon… in other words when you visit the site a little icon will appear beside the site’s name in any tabs and right next to the site address in the address bar. This will prove really useful for any of you who bookmark stuff on the site since the icon will also appear next to any Cosplazy pages you add to your favorites… making them easier to find if (like me) you have millions of favorites.
I also added 6 more Nekocon photos. Most of them are the other people who worked the booth with me having fun, but I have one photo of a kickass Deathnote cosplayer.
Oh, and just to let you guys know, I’m going to be working for YesAnime at Anime USA next weekend. I would have gone to the con for fun if I didn’t need the money… but unfortunately I do.
Aha! Sorry for those of you who I told I would post pictures last night! Apparently the people in the room next to us felt the need to be extremely rude/mean/loud/violent last night and we had to get security up here and everything. Pastey bastards.
At the moment I’ve gotten a fair amount of photos up in the Nekocon ‘07 gallery. Hoorah! And let there be photos. I’m working again tomorrow but on my break I’ll be sure to take some more photos.
