I, admittedly, have a great deal of brand loyalty to Kingdom Hearts. The initial installment on the Playstation 2 was astoundingly enjoyable, and in my opinion Chain of Memories on the Gameboy Advance was a worthy follow-up. However, Kingdom Hearts 2 was a letdown of preposterous proportions. This leads me to the DS's Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days. I' ( Read more... )

I, for reasons that baffle even myself, am subscribed to the For Better or For Worse newsletter. I actually opened it up and read it for the first time in ages last week ( Read more... )

Norman Borlaug is dead. Every time someone mentions the horrors of genetically modified food, I think of Borlaug and how his high-yield disease-resistant wheat saved millions of lives (and made India's "population crisis" a moot point). Science is awesome.

Jesus. Professor Pyg scares me more than any Batman villain ever. Perhaps more than any fictional character ever.

I am shocked to say it, but Grant Morrison, I applaud you.

Watched Kings. I wish there was a second season. Biblical allusions (though occasionally a bit heavier-handed than I like in this instance) really float my boat. The whole modern absolute monarchy thing made for a fun setting too. And Ian McShane is badass. Always ( Read more... )

I'm tired of seeing Michael Cera. Okay. Arrested Development was pretty funny. He wasn't the reason why. Juno was cute n'all... but god. I'm tired of looking at the kid. He has ONE performance. He's incapable of doing anything else.

And now he's playing Scott Pilgrim! Rage!

Big-fat-sigh.

Gigantor the space-age robot is at my command!

So what do I do with said space-age robot? ( I think that should be obvious. )

I've walked the nakasendo... well, about 6 of 332 miles of it. About halfway through my first stretch of walking (between Otsumago and Magome) I actually came to the realization "OH, This is a MOUNTAIN pass!" Being in the mountains surrounding the Kiso river, I should've realized this sooner. They weren't kidding when they called it mildly ( Read more... )

Railroad and Sakaiminato ended up taking up all of Saturday since I didn't really get out of Nagoya 'till late morning. Wandered Matsue on Sunday morning. Matsue was ridiculously hot, and castles tend to be on hills with lots of stairs. The castle had some neat stuff inside, but photos are fuzzy 'cuz the lighting inside was pretty limited. The ( Read more... )