It's like, with a movie review or a book review, you expect the author *of* the review to provide some context. How does this particular movie/book compare to other similar ones? Where does it fit compared to that director's (or that author's) other works ( Read more... )

I think I've said this before, but, hey, so I'll say it again. So, you think anime, you think Naruto or Bleach or One Piece - a series that's been running for how many years now, and with how many episodes? Which is perfectly reasonable - but I gotta say, one thing I've always really appreciated is that pretty much every season, there's going to be ( Read more... )

I've said this many times - and I'll keep on saying it - nothing puts how weird my work hours are into perspective as much as a Sunday, when it feels like the day has already been going on for so long already, and then I look at the clock, and it's only five p.m. Which, on a typical work day, would only be half of my, uh, work day ( Read more... )

Seriously, leave it up to me to walk into a Library that's not my own (...at least in the sense of, I don't actually work there and have never worked there - even if it is just the NYPL Mid-Manhattan Library), start browsing through the shelves, and within like a minute, come across a book with an entirely incorrect call number - a *decidedly* not ( Read more... )

So, later this week, my brother - who I still and will always think of as in 9th grade (the only point when we were in the same school at the same time) - is done with *his* graduate program. Hey, after everything - CUNY, Japan, Moscow, Japan again, Portland - now he gets things to work out *right* - and a week into next year, will be off to the ( Read more... )

So, there was a point when it was like, between my brother, my parents, my friends, and just so many people I know, I was the only one who had never actually been to Japan. Reasons - but really, excuses. Or just, lack of real planning ( Read more... )

Some days, it's like, man, where the hell is a body supposed to get a hot dog around here? If there is one thing I miss about 120 Broadway (...other than the Borders in the next building, and the normal people work hours) was the hot dog cart that was parked by 1 Chase Plaza, the one with the two ladies that actually grilled the hot dogs ( Read more... )

It's like, can't help but chuckle at a "Get your $300 bonus" junk mail thing from my bank. Oh, yeah, conditions - open a savings account, deposit $15,000 into the account ( Read more... )

You know how this works. If you want to play, I give you an age, and you answer the questions.

naye gave me 24.

So, let's do this, Who was I at 24 - so, this day, this month (...or thereabouts) - 2005.

I lived in:Brooklyn, New York. In fact, this same exact apartment - that I moved into over the summer. My first Own Place that was an actual ( Read more... )

Because obviously, Things at Work are still by far where most of the amusement in my life comes from - so, two and a half years in, but often, it *still* feels like I just pretty much stumbled into there, and nobody really expected me to hang out for more than a couple of weeks. I mean, it was awkward enough when my boss *finally* let me know that ( Read more... )