From: mcq@sscdev1.stx.com (John Mccorquodale)
Subject: Ordinary average guy
Organization: Goddard Space Flight Center
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 19:57:48 GMT

Greetings, greetings, fellow stargazers!

I'm new to rec.arts.anime, so I'm gonna take a second here to introduce myself,
and hopefully dispell some of the effects of the "who *is* this guy?"
syndrome that seems to accompany most unknown posters...here 'goes:

I live in Raleigh, NC.  I'm a student at North Carolina State University,
studying the fields of Physics and Computer Science.  I'm currently (for the
summer months) doing contract work for NASA in Greenbelt, Maryland (about 10
miles from the center of Wash., DC).  I've always enjoyed the anime that I
"accidentally" saw as a child (Battle of the Planets, Robotech), 'tho I didn't
until recently realize that the "anime world" was as large as it is.  I'm
new to anime fandom ('tho not to fandom as a whole, I was an avid Dr. Who
worshipper in my younger days), and I'm still at that stage where everything
is new, unknown, and waiting to be devoured.  I *love* Orange Road (join the
crowd, right?), and am fond of the bits and pieces of "stereotypical" anime
that I've seen over the last few months (Dangaio, Dominion TP, etc...)

I have noticed, however, a seemingly total *lack* of organized anime fandom
on the east coast, where, sadly, I will be living for the foreseeable future.
(No, I can't *quite* manage to rationalize moving to CA in pursuit of anime...
;-)  So, my big question is: does there exist organized (or anarchic, I don't
really care) fandom in the east?  Especially useful would be anything in the
DC or Raleigh, NC areas.  On a similar note, are there any retailers of anime
merchandise within 2 or 3 hours of either of those cities, I'd love to take
a paycheck and a day off and go visit one.  ;-)

Well, that's about it for productive, useful writing.  I look forward to an
interesting and enlightening future in this newsgroup!

And finally, here's my contribution of "noise" -- all those little things that
needed to be said, but didn't merit an article of their own:

[takahash@ntmtv.UUCP (Alan Takahashi)] writes:

> (And no, I don't have a Madoka Ayukawa poster in my office either! :-) :-))

Actually, I've got a Madoka GIF (a la "orange-2") as my X root bitmap.  That's
better than a poster, since it follows me from office to office.  Sick, ain't
it?  ;->

[pac@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Purdue Animation Club)] writes:

> In 2141, what else would they do?  Play SuperNintendo?  not.
>
> But then again, this is only several hundred years in the future, it's not the
>year 10,191... :)

Kul wahad!  Now there's a year I haven't seen in a while...

[chiu@ucsee.berkeley.edu] writes:

> >How can they when 40% of printed matter in Japan is manga? :)
>
> Perhaps precisely because manga has such a wide acceptance that addiction(?)
> to manga is considered as an acceptable life style (Reminds me of some guy
> who sued his grandmother for throwing out his manga in Japan, and WON)

Ack!  The silly lawsuit: there's a "western idea" that didn't need to be
exported...

[umadoka@mcl.ucsb.edu (Ayukawa Madoka)] writes:

(article deleted)

Ayukawa Madoka, eh?  Sacrilidge!  (So...can I buy you a drink?)

--- END OF NOISE

John McCorquodale                 mcq@sscdev1.stx.com, mcq@sscop1.gsfc.nasa.gov
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