Shin Megami Tensei Persona 3 FES is almost as amazing as my new red knee socks with skulls.  Also, the FLCL box set is apparently going out of print because Broccoli International is folding?  Tragedy!  

In descending order of deliciousness, here's this year's traditional post of the xmas haul ( Read more... )

While looking at various websites about medieval/renaissance-y Christmas stuff (b/c Casino Royale ended half an hour ago and I'm home alone with nothing to do), I came across a rather interesting Christmas carol.  It's kind of hilarious in that it portrays Jesus doing (and having done to him) some things that one usually doesn't expect.  It's ( Read more... )

Page C4 of the Express-Times (the one on the back of the comics and horoscope) is mine, mine I tells ya!  I even have a full-color blurb in left-thumb position on the front page.  Not bad, really.  Sure, it's not front page, but it is anchoring the feature section and is connected to a part of the paper most people read.  It's strangely hot real ( Read more... )

Today I finished watching Welcome to the NHK, which turns out to be one of the weirder anime series I've ever seen if not one of the better.  In style, it's a lot like Beck in that it deals with one guy who's sort of normal and the crazy people (including one girl who looks exactly like Ray's little sister in Beck) who surround him.   It's dark in ( Read more... )

The conference went well.  Due to various emergencies, my cheering section was reduced to Prof. Van Dyke and Sarah, the other presenter from Laf, but the small audience of outsiders (six in all, which is an impressive showing considering the boring title they had for the session I was part of  was "Medieval Morality").  There were three of us: one ( Read more... )

Guess what!?  I'm not dead...yet!  I am coming to the conclusion that some of my professors are actually trying to do me in.  Fortunately that's something not even I can do.  ;p  Anywho, although the rest of this week promises to be absolutely lethal in terms of drudgery, there are a few exciting things in the future.  First and foremost, this ( Read more... )

Today I went to see Don Hertzfeldt (Google him; I'm too lazy to link) with Sean at the Allentown Civic Theater.  It was amazing.  Such inane brutality and such tenderness...  He's like American animation's answer to Takeshi Kitano. Youtube doesn't do him justice, but next time we meet I can provide the goods via DVD.   In other news, I've been ( Read more... )

From the way people are reacting to the news, you'd think we'd just elected Jesus or something.  Granted, I for one am thrilled to be out of the oppressive, rights-denying hands of those goddamn conservative patriarchs.  I just wish people would realize that a system where the other option was a marginally more well-intentioned patriarch is ( Read more... )

For those of you who were at my party, thanks for your patience/concern/etc.  If word hasn't reached you by now, crisis has been averted(ish), and we only had to spend five or six hours broken up in order for things to work themselves more or less out.  Way to date the most confused (but sweet) guy ever, LA.  Good job!  Anywho, other than the last ( Read more... )