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Lindsay Totty takes the DC stage at Busboys and Poets bookstore and restaurant and performs two original poems as part of their Open Mic Night.

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Lindsay Totty returns from the Katsucon Convention, with observations on where to draw the line between journalist and participant.

Part Two: The Line That Blurs

At the Katsucon Convention, I happened upon a group of college-age convention patrons sitting on the floor of a merchandise room and decided to see what they knew about webcomics. They were open to participating in a group interview, which would make for good “round-table” discussion sort of tape, so I sat down with them and began to ask them questions.

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From the Arts and Information Desk, Lindsay Totty writes about taking the DC metro to Japan.

Part One: Getting In(to Character)

On the night of Friday, February 15, the day after Valentine’s Day, I took the Metro to the Adams Morgan station on the red line, with my flash recorder slung around my shoulder. It was in the early evening, and I was still dressed in the clothes I had worn to the office that day, but with the added accessory of the headphones on my flash recorder around my neck, the only place they would fit. The train hadn’t passed too many stops before I began to see teenagers dressed as pink-haired samurai and robots made of plastic and foil climbing on. They were clearly headed to the same place I was, the Omni Shoreham Hotel, for Katsucon - the biggest Japanese pop culture convention of the season.

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