Come on, everybody! Do the monkey with me!
Phil Lee
"While Phil Lee has been known to
occasionally live and travel with a pack of Northern Monkeys, he is
himself a Southern Monkey, distinguishable by his lighter pelt (suitable
for the warmer climate he lives in) and his primary diet, which consists
of barbeque and sweet tea. Phil generally spends much of his time in
his lair, watching Japanese cartoons with the Carolina Otaku Uprising, or playing
board games with the Carolina
Otaku Role-Playing Society of Evil and only ventures up to the
Monkeylair when it's necessary to pay homage to Faye." - The Field
Guide to North American Monkeys
I've been to Japan a couple of times in order to better practice my yo-yo skills in train stations. Pic 1. Pic 2.
During my last trip to
Japan, I had occasion to visit the
best maid cafe in Japan.
The Macross 7 Liberation Front
distributed the tract Listen
To My Song at Otakon 1997. After sharing literature with the masses
there was a revival where many fans were introduced to the beauty that
was Macross 7 and a lot of Surge was consumed. Listen To My Song was
written by yours truly (with gag contributions from The Monkeys) and it
was drawn by Emily Bickle, with additional art by Erik Nelson. Excessively large size tract also
available.
Here is a collection of random doijinshi scans.
PhilCon
2002 was a blast. So was PhilCon
2003. PhilCon 2004 was so awesome we needed a bunch of flyers for
the occasion. Flyer 1. Flyer 2. Flyer 3. Flyer 4. Flyer 5. Flyer 6. Flyer 7. Since it was feeling left
out, Monkeyfest got some flyers, too. Monkeyfest 2005. Monkeyfest 2006.
Phil, Jeff and David did battle in NYC during MonkeyFest 2003. Here's the
photographic evidence of their sacred mission. Phil and Jeff standing on the corner of
Joey Ramone Place, David at JRP,
the JRP sign itself, and CBGB.
Want to watch me suffer? Come to Animazement.
Okay, okay, it's really not that bad and I did manage to get at least
one good thing out of Animazement 2002: here's a sketch of Layla from Black Heaven
by the character designer.
One of the things I do at Animazement is run Hell, a
calvacade of odd video clips. Here are two flyers for the 2007 Hell,
available in your choice of old school rap style or obscure yet cute. There are also
flyers for 2008, 2009, 2010 (along with
the alternate broadsheet for
2010), 2011, 2012, and 2013.
I've also written several parody musicals (Alas, I can't write music, but cheesy
gags? No problem!) which I then talked the more gullible members of the
Carolina Otaku Uprising into performing at Animazement. Here are
scripts of the musicals we've put on so far. Evangelion! The Musical
(Animazement 2005), It Seemed Like A
Good Idea At The Time: A Musical Comedy About Convention Running
(Animazement 2006), and JET! Or, How
I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Kancho (Animazement 2007).
Here's the awesome flyer COUP stalwart
Lici made for the JET musical. Also, with special thanks to COUP
stalwart Bloodworth, here's the "Kancho:
Threat or Menace?" video from the Jet Musical. Finally, here's an
interview I did with The Escapist about the COUP musicals.
For an even more obscure bit of parody, my reaction to the 2004 Tentmoot scandal wound
up being published as an appendix to a book about the affair, When
The Fan Hits The Shit by Jeanine Renne. However, you can read "The Orange Blossom Special"
right here. For something more general that doesn't require a long
LiveJournal post to set up the joke, there's also "A Girl Named Mary Sue".
Via a comment
posted on Making Light, Sam and Frodo Blues are The Shire Brothers.
WXDU kicks your ass all over Durham. I'm no
longer DJing the Monday 7-9am slot but I hope to return to doing so some
day. If you'd like an idea of the sort of music I played on my show, here's an
archive of my more recent playlists. And, yes, you can listen to the station online.
If for some reason you wanted to read an interview with me
about things like Animazement, Hell, musicals, and WXDU, my pal Mike
Moon has you covered in an edition of his Catgirl
Critics' Media Mewsings column.
I have developed a secret weapon in the war against telemarketing: The Magic 8-Ball.
I was asked by someone on the NeoGAF forum to write up a list of old
school anime, defined as anything before Evangelion. I'm not sure about
that definition myself, but I obliged and you can see my list with
comments here.
By the way, if you're wondering what NeoGAF is like, I think this might give you an idea. I also have some
comments on forum moderation offered when
someone asked what it was like to be a mod. My finest contribution to
the forum was this two
part
analysis of early video game flyers, "Hot pong action the way you like it!". Having said all that, these days I hang out at ResetEra, which I would recommend as a superior video game forum to electronically loiter at.
On the off-chance you wanted to know,
here are some of my top ten favorite things.
Approps of nothing, I wrote up my Top 10 films directed by Quentin Tarantino, complete with rambling commentary.
And here's a list of my favorite films of the 21st Century as of mid-2005.
Read the saga of the Chimera Rescue
Squad.
The Top Ten Ways To Tell You've Been To Too Many
Anime Cons
The Top Ten Yu Suzuki Pick Up Lines
For all you Stephen King fans out there, here are the top ten endings to the Dark Tower saga.
In Tokyo, Captain Kiichi Goto is the law. (Patlabor filk)
An anecdote about The Magnetic Fields performing the entirety of their album 69 Love Songs live and the song "Zebra".
Back in the day I spent a lot of time with the Triangle Area Anime Society. One of the great things TAAS did was borrow an idea from the Virginia Tech Anime Society and run 30 hour anime marathons on campus, with all of the youthful hijinx and sleep deprivaition that entailed. Here, as originally posted to rec.arts.anime.misc on Usenet, are some of the schedules from those early festivals: Aki no MIRAAJU (Autumn Mirage) 10/08-09/94,Yukimasa no FUESUTE-BAA (Festival of the Gentle Snow) 03/04-05/95, S^3: The Summer Shoujo Spectacular 07/22-23/95, Fall Festival '95!!! 09/30/95 and 10/01/95,"Yet Another Anime Festival" 02/24-25/96, and the North American premiere of X: The Motion Picture on 03/22-23/97.
Finally, in the in-joke department we have "MonkeyFest" (a parody of "Pool Party" by the
Aquabats) and Tim Ruggieri has a
posse.
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