Giant Robot Store and GR2 News
When times are tough, it’s great when a package of love shows up. Bobby Hundreds asked me for my sizes, and just a week later comes a box of goodies. First an apology. These are the worst shots possible. I didn’t do it on purpose, but my camera battery was dying and I rushed through it. Three shots and it died. The Michael Lau figure above is awesome. I never thought I’d get one of these. I thought they were gone by now! The plastic on the hands are still on there. I guess you can call it Chinese Opera version. I got three T shirts. I’m trippin on the middle one. The detail of their spoofs are insane. What fun it would be to design that shirt. I’ll wear that one. The logo one is a no brainer. I think I have 3 or 4 of these now. To sort of quote a song by the Untouchables. I Spy for the FBI. one for when you go out, and another for everywhere you go. Again apologies for the bad photo. These shoes are a lot nicer than these shots. I need some new shoes for when my Vans keel over. These are perfect.
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Terence Yin and Daniel Wu have the sunglass thing going on near the Japantown Plaza. Terence Yin and Eugenia Yuan are in a film called Fog. I didn’t get to see the film yet, but it showed in SF for the film festival. This year, I wasn’t there for an official project as in the past, but instead, there was plenty more to do. Visits to GRSF, hanging out with tons of folks who are friends or who have helped GR, and more. I didn’t see any film festival folks however, I didn’t know where they were. At the same time, I feel like GR and the fest are far apart these days. Maybe we’ll close the gap one day. Here’s an example of Automator’s music and towards the end there’s Emily Wells singing. She’s quite great and is part of a future project together. Eugenia Yuan holding a pooch. Patrick Lee doing the AnD merch section at Yoshi’s. Big smiles, and he should have one.
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The Game Over 3 show features some great art. Check out this Team Macho cartridge! It’s carved from wood, and painted in the coolest way. There’s three versions and if you’re a true game fan or game executive, this is a must have. There’s plenty of great art on the wall at GRSF and the fans and friends from GDC were there in force. I dig the pencil sketch mature Mario by the guy pictured: Jake Gillespie! Ferris Plock and Kelly Tunstall Petri, a game maker from Europe! LA in the house. Souris Hustler of Culture, Lulu, and Silvio Porretta, game maker and artist, and their friend Wayne. Aww blurrrr. Can’t recognize them?
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Backyard BBQs are usually about hot dog, hamburgers, and maybe chicken. That’s what you do on the bare minimum. Sho from Yoshi’s in San Francisco does things differently when food is involved. He goes all out. It’s not an event to miss. Here’s Sams hands making toro sushi. It’s obviously amazing. Look at the pink color. Sushi was being made inside the house while a BBQ of amazing flavors happened outside. Look at the rich orange color of this uni from Hokkaido. The label is below. The package it came in still had the shipping labels from Japan. Uni is usually a lighter orange, this one possessed a deep, rich color and tasted that way too. The kitchen arena The ikura was also a deeper orange than what you typically see. Sam dealing with the ikura Miles Nakamura and Daniel Wu. What kind of kicks are those? Sho with the straw hat holding a bag of marinated tongue which was amazing. Dan Automator on left, Sam the sushi man and friends Intestines in two flavors and organic chicken. a larger crew Dan and Dan The uni
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The tennis courts… I step onto a court and some guy says, “are you good enough to play here?” He then he points a finger on my chest to slow me down from getting on the court. I tell him “don’t touch me” and he remarkably says, “I’m not gay!” I keep walking through it and I tell him, “I’m a terrible player.” I hear people saying, “don’t touch him.” I walked through it. Then while I was on the court just a few minutes later, the guy walks onto my court area and starts babbling or something (it wasn’t an apology) and I told him to leave my court with some expletives and then he kept coming forward. That’s when it got ugly seeing a bunch of people running around to stop this. Yes, he got pushed a couple of times, and I remember him saying, “you can’t say that to me, I’m going to call the police!” and then it was more mayhem. I just remember people holding me back, holding back my cousin, holding back that old man, and a lot of words. It turns out the guy has complaints against him. One person showed me a document that he filed to the police and park director from 2006 including the guys photos. That’s life on the public courts. It’s best to ignore it. Can you believe tennis can be like this? It’s honestly not worth this blog entry, sorry to waste your time.
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