I didn't flip over to the Penguins-Lightning game seven showdown until the second period had already begun.  I'd been spending the evening doing some research for a planned Yoshiyuki Tomino panel by watching the first five episodes of Daitarn 3.  And as enamored as I am with this show, the fact that hockey was going on nagged me in the background ( Read more... )

I'm not normally one to do one of these things. No, not blog posts, we already know I've stopped doing those. I mean memetic lists. Especially those "X Days of Y". But I wondered how it would turn out if I tried the 30 Days of Anime, so I decided to do all of them at once. This saves you the trouble of having to wait to hear what I think about ( Read more... )

After an excursion into the world of fake dancing and the end of Monday Night Football, we're ready to put this boxset to sleep. This is it, the final four episodes of Super Dimensional Calvary Southern Cross. Who will win? Will humans defend Gloire, or will the Zor retake it? Or can they come to some peaceful understanding? Grab your bags, it ( Read more... )

We're over halfway home! Fifteen episodes down, eight more to go. Last time, Jeanne spent more time playing matchmaker than being a military commander. It's just as well, since Squad 15 hasn't been in a serious fight since the action shifted to space. Things are bound to come to a head shortly, so without further ado, here are episodes 16 ( Read more... )

One bowl of tasty chicken later, we're ready to resume the battle for Gloire. When we last left our heroes, they discovered that they couldn't expect any substantial reinforcements from the homeworld, and the alien Zor are moving forward with their plans to convert humanity to subservient biohumans -- or annihilate them in the process. Episodes ( Read more... )

All right, the snow is coming down outside, but I'm snug in my basement lair and just finished up disc two. I'll break for dinner and then resume this party from episode 11.

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Well, I've taken several vacation days between Christmas and the New Year so I can just sit at home and do nothing. The other night I decided to watch all of Mazinkaiser, because I figured, "Eh, it's just seven episodes, so I could finish this tonight." Then I got to thinking... I have all of these shows lying around that I went through the ( Read more... )

We had a VCR, and after hijacking a TV lounge in West Wing, a few of us decided to see what Bruce Lee's Big Book of Hurt Volume 2 was all about. It turned out to have nothing to do with Bruce Lee but a lot do with hurt ( Read more... )

What the hell, I opened the floor vent and the temperature went *up* to 82. Apparently CIC is tartanspeak for FAIL.

I was thinking the other day, you know, now that the weather is nice again, I should take advantage of working next to Schenley Park instead of using "blaugh, it's a mile away from my house" as an excuse to not go outside and do stuff. So I went out an exercised after work yesterday by running on the path that circles Flagstaff Hill. It's not ( Read more... )