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It's Monday! Mondays are good for music, right? Well, that may be so, but I'm in the mood for something else. A strike of retrospection has me in the mood to talk about friends.

Anyone familiar with my blog to this point would probably consider today's post a step away from the usual content. Yes, today I am going to talk about something I rarely discuss: POLITICS. Apologies to those readers who are not from the United States and/or don't care to hear about politics. Personally, I consider it rude to discuss matters such as religion and politics in polite company, but I'm willing to make an exception this time. As you might surmise from the title of this post, I am concerned about the attitude of political discussion in the nation today. Too often, public discourse is hijacked by the most extreme voices, fueled by anger, raging against what they believe to be a government out of control.

I apologize to any regular readers for my absence. I could say that a series of complications have prevented me from updating over the past few weeks, but that is not entirely true. What is true is that I spent a weekend at Ohayocon, an anime/manga/video game convention, where I cosplayed and attended a few panels and took some pictures. I would now like to share my experience with you.

Note: This post originally had a number of pictures showing both my costume and the costumes of various others. The [...]