The Writer's Corner

Links: Why the rise in cosplay is a bad sign for US economy Journalist Claims That the popularity of cosplay is a Sign of the US impending  Financial Doom This is kind of silly in my view, but also short sighted as the writer from the first article, James Pethokoukis, he pretty much believes that cosplayers are like the Japanese ones, which is kind of silly. No nations cosplayers are the same, the Japanese cosplayers are a class all their own. The fact he points out in the article that the young men and women in Japan are basically staying longer their parents with little to no job prospects and want to cosplay their life away, that's hardly even a case to be said. Job growth in any nation is hard no matter what and also the fact that the decrease of marriage and dating in the country is based on the cultural shifts that seem to be part of the culture now. Comparing that to the US is kind of an insult if you ask me, considering that I have a job, I work close to forty hours a

Why do we limit ourselves to just the music of our nation? Kind of funny when some of my favorite bands actually came from Britain and hell Germany.I am a Goth kid, that's right, I like Goth music, I grew up loving the Clash, which went to Big Audio Dynamite, I like Within Temptation and a few other bands that have a good Rhythm. What I also like and I was introduced to it by a great costume designer named Warumono Desu  and my friend, Danielle. We are fans of a growing crowd of J-Rock lovers. I love the groups, some being VAMPS (not to be confused with the US band), DaizyStripper, Alice 9, and more to say because there are just so many of them. There are so many and there are many who speak about it online and offline, but there is an overwhelming desire to bring J-Rock officially to the US, instead of us fans having to go to Youtube or sometimes having to go as far as importing the discs. We are lucky that some J-Rockers are able to expand to the US by learning they have fans

Link: Conservative CO School Board Member: AP history is wrong.... I went to school in Colorado, I was in the Jefferson County most of my childhood and to be honest what was going on has well....this is bad. You cannot censor the facts, and now they are basically doing just that, the Advanced Placement classes the classes you test into for college credit are now under fire by a overly conservative group in Jefferson County that wants to basically destroy history to the point where certain basic facts are considered Anti-American. I was never in an AP class in my life, but even I learned from the same teachers who taught these classes, they taught basically the same method. What's going to change if this goes on? Well...some of these kids won't be able to go through basic history in college because AP means Advanced Placement, as in they get college credit for these classes. When looking at what was going into this which turned my stomach, for one, historic facts like the