| 2:45am | Making lists | | | | I got a new toy and I wanted to play with it, so I though I’d record a podcast. Hours of babbling and editing later, it became clear that, although my face is made for radio, my voice isn’t. I think I’ll stick to the written (or typed) word for now. ***** I haven’t watched much... |
| 4:31am | Anime makeover | | | | Ever wondered how well Mikuru fills out the styles in her home century? Or what Mizuho would look like in clothing appropriate to his alleged gender? Or how a mahou shoujo would look as a mecha pilot, or vice versa? Here’s an opportunity to speculate, and perhaps to see your notions realized.... |
| 9:14pm | Is there a musicologist in the house? | | | | Does the background music to this clip from Strike Witches sound familiar? Steven thinks that it’s 19th-century, but I don’t recognize it. My guess is that the tune was composed specifically for the show. (Yeah, I hadn’t intended to watch any more of Strike Witches, but Steven’s... | | |
| 11:09pm | Blech | | | | I just watched the first five minutes of Strike Witches #5, and the hell with it. I want to support legal, DRM-free anime downloads, but this is garbage. | | |
| 12:25am | New poll | | | | Guchuko easily won the plushie poll with forty-three percent of the votes. President Aria was a distant second with sixteen percent. A random mushi and Potemayo got twelve and eleven percent respectively, and none of the remaining candidates got more than seven percent. There’s a new poll up... | | |
| 6:25pm | Idol singers are nice … | | | | but I prefer young women who play Liszt, such at Ayako Uehara (Via M. Keiser): Here’s the end. Here’s some Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky. Here’s Aya Nagatomi: |
| 3:11am | A world without skirts, etc. | | | | I’ve been doing my bit to support legal anime downloads by keeping up with Strike Witches at BOST. I’m still not convinced that the series really needed to be made. Conceptually, it’s delicately balanced on the borderline between absurd and dumb, but, as Steven says, you’ve got... | | |
| 12:32pm | Dewey, Cheatum and Howe | | | | I don’t listen to radio at all anymore except during entertaining weather. The last show that I regularly tuned in was Car Talk. I don’t have a car, but that didn’t matter; the real point of the show was the Magliozzis’ quick wit and corny humor. Now Click and Clack have their... |
| 9:54pm | Miscellaneous links | | | | Via a friend: Sex and Flirting in Japan. (There are no pictures, so it’s almost safe for work.) Lost in the anime zone with John Ringo. They’re not anime, and I recall posting them on my earlier weblogs, but they’re worth revisiting: Scientific Truth in Warning Labels, and Cognitive... |
| 12:14pm | Everlasting Moonlight | | | | Miyuki Kanbe, the third actress to play Sailor Moon in the SeraMyu musicals, died Wednesday of heart failure at the age of 24. (Picture from here.) |
| 5:11pm | Status report | | | | I don’t have interests or hobbies; I have obsessions. They usually progress like this: Stage one: What’s this? Stage two: This is kinda interesting. Let’s investigate it further. Stage three: This is really interesting. It’s worth a little time and money. Stage four: This is... | | |
| 5:05pm | Miscellany | | | | How Obama can win: Hey, McCain has been ignoring the catgirl vote throughout the primaries, I say Obama should take advantage of this. As a matter of fact, a strong anti-tentacle monster platform would bring in both the catgirls and the Lolis. He could then show show his strength on defense by committing... | | |
| 12:53pm | Checking in | | | | It’s been a while, hasn’t it? Life’s been very interesting lately, in ways both good and bad, and there’s little time for anime. I’ll be back eventually. |
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