Life feels like it's been something of a struggle lately. I'm still not as healthy as I should be, but dammit I'm trying. I think life is just too stressful and my work schedule is just too weird for me to feel like I'm ever really caught up, anymore.

Getting ready for Izumicon these days... Or well, as best I can. The convention will be in Midwest City, Oklahoma running from November 13-15. I'll be in artist alley with my fiance, as per usual, selling art prints, badges and doing commissions. =SilverPhantom, I'll have to let you know how it goes this year as compared to last year. Same hotel and convention building, though hopefully better organized this time.

And as is my usual habit when I see a movie I really dig, I'm going to encourage anyone even remotely interested in it to go see Astro Boy. Now, I'm not real familiar with the source material; I'm admitting that up front right now. I'm gettin' to be an old codger, but even the original stuff is a little too dated for me to get into. Still, the Imagi movie is fun, entertaining and just plain cute. I'm a complete and total sucker for anything that delves into sentient robots trying to discover who and what they are, seeking their humanity and all that good stuff. I'd really like to go see it again one more time in theaters before it's through with its big screen run and I'll definitely buy the movie when it comes out on DVD. The reason I'm recommending this movie is that, unfortunately, it's really not doing well right now. According to one of the major tracking websites, it's only made back about 1/6 or so of its production budget. This saddens me a great deal. I believe the movie deserves better. I don't know whether it's just because the movie was a non-summer, non-holiday season release or whether people just don't care because it's not Pixar or Dreamworks, but man... It bums me out. And I'm all for supporting Imagi as an animation studio because they're giving us Gatchaman next year. Part of my childhood involved watching a lot of G-Force, which was one of the syndicated versions of that old school anime, so I really want Imagi to stay afloat and continue to produce movies.

That's it for now, folks. Stay frosty.