Where journalism and fandom collide
2025 marks the 30th anniversary of Gundam Wing. In August, I was looking for an angle for a feature I was writing about my relationship to this show, which was one of the first anime I ever watched. I knew I wanted to write about Relena, a character I used to dislike as a teenager....
I’m glad to finally share my new piece of reporting for Anime News Network, Does the Light Novel Translation Process Need AI?. This is one of the longer features I mentioned I had in the works in last month’s blog post. It really says something about the AI debate that I began working on this...
These days it feels like Halloween stretches out for an entire month. Between pumpkin patches, Trunk or Treat, and the neighborhood Halloween parade, I’ve spent the last four weeks escorting my kids in their costumes—and Halloween isn’t even here yet. What’s more, I have not been dressing up myself, which a few people who know...
I don’t write very much in summer anymore. Each June, I realize that the only way I was ever able to be productive was because somebody else was watching my kids. This summer, I had the kids in summer camp for about 3 hours a day, time I’d use to hit the gym and run...
Beginning with the COVID-19 pandemic, I began recording a list of books I read each year to mark the passage of time and remind myself that I was still making progress in my life. Now that it’s May, my tally of books for this year so far is… 56. That’s over 10 books a month!...