Come on, everybody! Do the monkey with me!
Phil Lee
"While Phil Lee has been known to occasionally live and travel with a pack
of Northern Monkeys, he is himself a Southern Monkey, distinguishable by
his lighter pelt (suitable for the warmer climate he lives in) and his
primary diet, which consists of barbeque and sweet tea. Phil
generally spends much of his time in his lair, watching Japanese cartoons
with the Carolina
Otaku Uprising, or playing board games with the Carolina Otaku Role-Playing
Society of Evil and only
ventures up to the Monkeylair when it's necessary to pay homage to Faye." - The Field
Guide to North American Monkeys
I've been to Japan a couple of times in order to better practice my yo-yo
skills in train stations. Pic 1. Pic 2.
During my last trip to Japan, I had occasion to visit
the best maid cafe in Japan.
The Macross 7 Liberation Front distributed the tract Listen To My Song at Otakon
1997. After sharing literature with the masses there was a revival where
many fans were introduced to the beauty that was Macross 7 and a lot of
Surge was consumed. Listen To My Song was written by yours truly (with
gag contributions from The Monkeys) and it was drawn by Emily Bickle, with
additional art by Erik Nelson. Excessively large size tract also
available.
Here is a collection of random doijinshi scans.
PhilCon 2002 was a blast. So was PhilCon 2003. PhilCon 2004 was so awesome
we needed a bunch of flyers for the occasion. Flyer 1. Flyer 2. Flyer 3. Flyer 4. Flyer 5. Flyer 6. Flyer 7. Since it was feeling left out,
Monkeyfest got some flyers, too. Monkeyfest 2005. Monkeyfest 2006.
Phil, Jeff and David did battle in NYC during MonkeyFest 2003. Here's the
photographic evidence of their sacred mission. Phil and Jeff standing on the corner of
Joey Ramone Place, David at JRP,
the JRP sign itself, and CBGB.
Want to watch me suffer? Come to Animazement.
Okay, okay, it's really not that bad and I did manage to get at least one
good thing out of Animazement 2002: here's a sketch of Layla from Black Heaven by
the character designer.
One of the things I do at Animazement is run Hell, a calvacade of odd video clips.
Here are two flyers for the 2007 Hell, available in your choice of old school rap style or obscure yet cute. There are also
flyers for 2008, 2009, 2010 (along with the
alternate broadsheet for 2010), 2011, 2012, and 2013.
I've also written several parody musicals (Alas, I can't write music, but
cheesy gags? No problem!) which I then talked the more gullible members
of the Carolina Otaku Uprising into performing at Animazement. Here are
scripts of the musicals we've put on so far. Evangelion! The Musical
(Animazement 2005), It Seemed Like A
Good Idea At The Time: A Musical Comedy About Convention Running
(Animazement 2006), and JET! Or, How I
Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Kancho (Animazement 2007). Here's the awesome flyer COUP stalwart Lici
made for the JET musical. Also, with special thanks to COUP stalwart Bloodworth, here's the "Kancho: Threat or Menace?" video from the Jet Musical. Finally, here's an interview I did with The Escapist about the COUP musicals.
For an even more obscure bit of parody, my reaction to the 2004 Tentmoot scandal wound up being published as an appendix to a book
about the affair, When
The Fan Hits The Shit by Jeanine Renne. However, you can read "The Orange Blossom Special"
right here. For something more general that doesn't require a long
LiveJournal post to set up the joke, there's also "A Girl Named Mary Sue".
Via a comment
posted on Making Light, Sam and Frodo Blues are The Shire Brothers.
WXDU kicks your ass all over Durham.
I'm no longer DJing the Monday 7-9am slot but I hope to return to doing so some day. If you'd
like an idea of the sort of music I played on my show, here's
an archive of my more recent playlists. And, yes, you can listen to
the station online.
If for some reason you wanted to read an interview with me about things
like Animazement, Hell, musicals, and WXDU, my pal Mike Moon has you
covered in an edition of his Catgirl
Critics' Media Mewsings column.
I have developed a secret weapon in the war against telemarketing: The Magic 8-Ball.
I was asked by someone on the NeoGAF forum to write up a list of old school
anime, defined as anything before Evangelion. I'm not sure about that
definition myself, but I obliged and you can see my list with comments here.
By the way, if you're wondering what NeoGAF is like, I think this might give you an idea. I also have some
comments on forum moderation offered when
someone asked what it was like to be a mod. Some forum posts I've made
there that may be of interest include my two
part
analysis of early video game flyers (which is to say hot Pong action the
way you like it) and a look at 70s
video games whose graphics still hold up somewhat.
Having said all that, these days I hang out at ResetEra, which I would recommend as a superior video game forum to electronically loiter at.
On the off-chance you wanted to know,
here are some of my top ten favorite things.
Approps of nothing, I wrote up my Top 10 films directed by Quentin Tarantino, complete with rambling commentary.
Read the saga of the Chimera Rescue
Squad.
Maison Ikkoku: The Missing Episodes
The Top Ten Ways To Tell You've Been To Too Many
Anime Cons
The Top Ten Yu Suzuki Pick Up Lines
For all you Stephen King fans out there, here are the top ten endings to the Dark Tower saga.
In Tokyo, Captain Kiichi Goto is the law. (Patlabor filk)
An anecdote about The Magnetic Fields performing the entirety of their album 69 Love Songs live and the song "Zebra".
Finally, in the in-joke department we have "MonkeyFest" (a parody of "Pool Party" by the
Aquabats) and Tim Ruggieri has a
posse.
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