Herro. My name is Anne Ishii and I am the latest addition to the blogroll known as Giant Robot Dot Com. Here's a picture of me in my new "office" also known as the mud room behind my new backyard in my new apartment in my new neighborhood of Red Hook Brooklyn.

I just took this picture with the Photo Booth program in my newly requisitioned MacBook that was originally purchased by my old employer, Vertical, Inc.

My new employer is me. I'm a full-time freelancer now, after years of selling you books and consumer friendly feminish, asianish, comicsish shtuff via newsletters and social butterflight. I now sell consumer friendly parts of me from a corner. It's all brand new.

So suffice it to say the theme of my life now is novelty, freshness and the unknown. But none of that is to be confused with naiveté, virginity or the dark.

Just new.

(I'm realizing now that in the background of this picture is a birthday candle I got from an old intern, but it looks suspiciously like a vibrator. Or at least like my vibrator.)

I will do my best to at least make this news-oriented, so you'll come back. For starters, everyone, regardless of residence, should make a habit of reading the best newspaper out there.