Ummm . . . please forgive me if this isn't 
kosher.  :)  Obviously I'm new here . . . but you 
know what?  I LIKE PEOPLE, and I think stupidity 
should be painful.  Anyway, I've only been to one 
anime convention, and I'm going to try another 
this year (Nan Desu Kan, Sep 21 - 23, Denver CO; 
http://www.ndk.cc/).  Anyone else on this board 
near me? That would be neat.

Yann, you have family in NY, right?  Would you be 
interested in coming West some year?