Kids today
They listen to the rap music, and that’s what gives them the brain damage.
Like most of you, I got older this year. Also, my blog is turning right around 6 months old. So I’m taking some time to reflect on the nature of this beast. I think the internet is a great equalizer, as evidenced by the recent Gender Drama sweeping the aniblogosphere.
I initially started out trying to be an island, a Google magnet living on the long tail and providing a little insight for people who aren’t necessarily hardcore anime people. Frankly, I think what I was trying to avoid by isolating myself were pictures of Shin’s crotch (don’t click that), i.e. link-baiting, attention-whoring, and retinal-burning. No offense to the trap-in-training himself, I am more inclined to believe you than call you a link-baiter but you sure have talked a lot about it lately, and hey — you got my link. 
But my digression actually strengthens my point: No one on the internet is an island if they want to get anywhere, and the community is the logical place to go. What I found were a lot of really interesting conversations, and people generally getting along better and expressing more entertaining opinions than on forums, my previous exposure to anime discussion on the web.
So, I got sucked into this world and now I probably provide very few resources for non-otaku, but it’s fun. And as for that great equalizer, I’m talking age too: I’ve found that other bloggers around these parts, aside from the old school Lawsons and Kabitzins, average about 7 years younger than me, some quite a bit younger — but they’re my “virtual senpais,” as it were, and have managed to teach me a little something by virtue of their blogs’ age.
Contributing to the echo chamber is a great way to get traffic in this space as well as the blogosphere as a whole, but I’m still holding out on too much participation. I just want to talk about anime. But it does seem like exciting things are happening, so, uh… yay! And thanks to everyone, the anime world has been a great place to blog so far.
It would take me back to those days sitting around a tiny crummy apartment in Pittsburgh watching Evangelion on VHS, except that apartment had a carbon monoxide leak and I lost most of those memories.
Lured by the promise of cookies, I have joined forces with blissmo and crew over at 
