From: michael@izumi.DIALix.oz.au (Michael Studte)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Subject: It's not easy being the Anit-Christ
Distribution: world
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 92 14:00:06 GMT
Organization: JAFWA, Cal-Animage Zeta, Perth, Western Australia


In article <T6sDRB1w165w@clubzen.fidonet.org> fafhrd@clubzen.fidonet.org writes:
 >  
 > My first thought when reading Albert's post was "...y'know, it's not easy 
 > being the anti-Christ...."

Excuse me, I've got these rusty nails that I've been dying to get rid
of, would you mind raising your hands to these wooden planks?

Playing the hapless unloved "evil doer" doesn't work.

 > As for Mike Tatsugawa's post...."It is a tale full of sound and fury, 
 > told by an idiot, signifying nothing" -Shakespeare.  Throughout the 

All you do is hurt the whole movement. All I want from everyone
involved in the whole affair now is to shut up and get things going. I
don't give a flying f___ what the hell your opinions are, especially
since they are nothing but flaming.

You, sir, are now doing nothing but harming any possible con/expo that
may exist in the future. Just shut up.

 > I despise rumor-mongering and indirect attacks on me.

I despise nothing more than openly offensive attacks on individuals,
which is what you are doing.

If you'd read 90% of the posts made by the general populace of raa, you
would have seen that they just want everyone (now that all sides have
had their say) to shut up bitching to each other.

 > In my opinion, Mike Tatsugawa is very much interested in the welfare of 
 > the anime fans. However, I think that he has screwed up several times in 
 > very important ways, and that rather than face responsibility for his own 
 > decisions, he projects the blame onto me. 

BS. Cite me any major problems in the last two cons that cropped up
that Mike has blamed on you. Don't play victim.

He has quite frequently admitted that he has made mistakes, and we're
only human after all, and now that he knows about these mistakes they
won't occur again. An experienced person who has screwed up and learned
from mistakes rates higher in my book than a greenhorn.

 > Fine. Its All My Fault. Towards this end, and in apology, I pledge to 
 > NEVER run an anime convention. Not Animecon '93, not Animecon '94. Never. 

[only just read this far during replying]

Yay! Now if you'd only shut up about it. :)

 > Now...they have had their say, and I have had mine. I suggest that anyone 

You had yours twice. You can't count.

 > those of you who really do need a scapegoat, use me. I can just see it 
 > now: Dave medinnus, the Randall Stukey of the West Coast.

That was clear for quite a while. <snigger>

 > PS -To Ken tsai, latest victim in the Anime Wars '93; my condolences on 
 > your elevation as Chair of Anime Expo '93. I can be reached from Noon to 
 > Midnight at A Wrinkle In Time, (408) 255-9406. I sincerely wish you good 
 > fortune, and I will be pleased to answer any questions you might have.

Yet another backstabbing comment. Anyone who is at least having a
serious and well-meaning go at chairing the con is to be commended.

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