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Happy Birthday To Me!!!!

Recently I was listening to two DJs talk on my local alt rock station. (Is it even still called alternative anymore?) Anyway, one of them was a guy who had worked as a DJ in Seattle during the grunge heyday and knew Kurt Cobain and all those guys. He's basically a music lover and often tells interesting music-related stories about stuff that ( Read more... )

So I was just watching Inuyasha, and it occurs to me, no one likes Kikyo. Almost anyone you ask will say she's a bitch who's long past due getting what's coming to her. I've just gotta ask: why?

To me, she's a fascinating character: she has elements of her past kindness to be sure, and yet she's also got a cold, cold heart.  That dramatic change in ( Read more... )

Woah, it's pretty true!

Why should there be one?

Having this thing is weird. I think I should update because I have it, but don't have anything I'd really like to say. For instance: there's loads of manga that I really love and would like to have an intelligent discussion about, but Yahoo ML's are filled with squeeling fanboys/girls and so are message boards and lots of ( Read more... )

“Teen Titans” wants to bill itself as anime inspired, does it?

Well then, surely it must contain some of the things that anime fans argue are among the best aspects of the genre (after all, why be inspired by something if you aren’t going to be inspired by the good?) Things like:

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