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Anime Central 2001 (May 11 and 12, 2001) |
 Proof of intellegent life in Chicago: Webvan. |
 Proof of something else...: A PT Cruiser. |
 The nice people I spend an hour with in the reg line... my first reg line ever. |
 And of course, the nice hotel decides to completely reconstruct the lobby during the convention. |
 Dave, Rod, Maria and Michael in ConOps/ |
 Kevin Lillard, Lionel, Dave and Dennis give the Fan Photography panel. |
 And Lionel draws diagrams to illustrate a point. |
 The panel is interrupted by... Steve Bennett! |
 A brave soul working in the dealer's room. |
 The "bedroom" of the "suite" where I stayed. |
 The other room of the "suite." |
 The view out my "suite"'s window. |
 My truck that cost more to rent that my airplane tickets or my hotel room. |
 Joe and Katy at the Merchandising booth. |
 A typical cosplayer photo session. |
 The elevators all seemed to go up and down in unison, so they all let out at the same time. |
 Taka models his 5XL sticker! |
 And later they let us walk on raw concrete... |
 Michelle, Conty, Scott, Ken and Wynne. |
 S.W.E.K in concert, the other anime cover band. |
 All of S.W.E.K. |
 The lead guitarist had a remote pickup, so he roamed around... |
 Scary... |
 Joan and Katy in ConOps. |
 Michelle and Conty. |
 The overwhelming crowd at the MegaTokyo panel. |
 Dom and Piro of Megatokyo fame. |
 So that's why it crashed... |
 "It's not that I will win, it's that you will LOSE!" |
 Hank's hair gets mussed. |