Giant Robot Store and GR2 News
This is David Leda, he’s part of COBRA, a space in Argentina. It’s a shop gallery type of place, and they’ve been reading GR for a while. He wanted to meet up just to do a shop owner to shop owner type talk and to interview me for an upcoming publication project. I hope it all works out. He’s a good guy. Check out their shop. It’s a nice spot. This could be your next hangout. link.
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The DVD signing at GR2 went well. It’s cool to support a funny film and have all of the main players come out to sign and meet some fans. Quite a few came through. See more pics at the GR Facebook or Flickr or Transmissions. That’s Jessica Yu the director. She has an Oscar award for a previous film. That’s huge. I was going to ask her to bring it, so she could let people check out her bling, but I forgot… Then it’s Smith Cho. She’s on Knight Rider. She came a bit late, but that’s how the stars do it. Jimmy Tsai the star of the movie. I think it’s his first acting role. He’s usually behind the camera. Roger Fan, who you might have seen in Annapolis, and Jim Lau, who plays the dad! We brought a table onto the street to let passers by and guests play ping pong. Thanks to Clement for bringing this out for us. It made it fun. People just picked up the paddles and started playing. We have to do this more. That’s a grandmother playing. She came out and showed her little grand kids how to do it. If she’s the mom, then I’ll say, damn, I got it all wrong.
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Did you know Japanese people do it up on New Years Day? Not Christmas, but New Years Day… So that’s when there more food than anything. I had to put up a few pics, to give props to the hard work. It’s a lot of work, and exhaustion soon follows. Now there’s helps from a lot of people. The plates get divided up, but imagine, there was a time when mom had to do it all. That’s nuts and other households do it this way too. See mom adjusting her hair? That’s Red Velvet. It’s good stuff and homemade. Everyone like Red Velvet.
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