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Where to Eat When Visiting NYC
I have this problem... I think it's part of New York City disease, where the longer you live here the more it warps your brain. When friends and family visit I become a horrible food Nazi. If you're only in the city for one weekend, you're realistically only going to get in a few good meals, but NYC has so many great places to eat! I mean, people ( Read more... ) -
My Top Five Most Controversial Shelf Life Columns (so far)
This list is primarily for Joel, because of a recent episode of Fast Karate for the Gentlemen when Dave was mentioning people in the ANN forums "losing their shit" (not an exact quote) over my "crazy" opinions on various anime series. Off the top of my head, here are the columns/titles that set people off. This week I rated Chobits Perishable which ( Read more... ) -
The Legendary Sucker
One of the student teaching assistants I work with is biking across America as part of some "Bike and Build" nonprofit nonsense that you can read about here. He needs to raise $2000. His name is Noah Wagner. I gave him like $25. Being a film student, he's planning on filming part by mounting a camera on his bike behind a doll or something like that ( Read more... ) -
All the animated movies in the world, sort of.
I've dug up this old meme that crashed livejournal twicethree times in response to this person, who asked, "Umm... how much high budget animation have you watched?"
I tried to fill out this meme last year sometime, or two years ago, but LJ ate my post in an non-recoverable way. I think the original list I filled out was more clean and complete, but ( Read more... ) -
WTF is this thing: ※?!
I've noticed manga-ka use this symbol: ※ as a bullet point for exceptions... or something like that. Footnotes?
Anyone know what it's called?
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Edit: Ah! An answer from Melissa: "It’s called a こめじるし (rice mark, I guess it looks like grains of rice) and it gets used pretty much the same way we use an asterisk. Like, it usually denotes a footnote- ( Read more... ) -
PICKLING SPICE Brooklyn
Last Saturday we combed Williamsburg in search of Pickling Spice ( Read more... ) -
Ganbatte Japan
頑張って (がんばって, ganbatte) - according to jisho.org "hold on; go for it; keep at it". It can also mean "Do your best" "try your best" or even "Do the right thing!"
I saw this picture of a tiny cat on a wall escaping the tsunami and created two hopeful internet messages for Japan:
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がんばれ でぶ！ Going dry for March
N. and I watched this charming homemade animation a long time ago, and it got stuck in our heads. "Debu" means roughly "fatty" and "Ganbare!" is "Do your best!" So sometimes N. or I will sing "Debu! Debu! Ganbare debu!" around the house ( Read more... ) -
All the things I should do everyday 毎日毎日するべき
There are a lot of things I want to do every day, things I feel I ought to practice at or projects I want to work on. Part of my brain thinks that if I do a little bit of each one each day I'll make progress, but another part of my brain vetoes that part of my brain, saying that if I do some of each of everything I'll have no time left at all. ( Read more... )
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