FanExpo looms ever closer, but I find myself having mixed feelings about the affair ( Read more... )

Run, don't walk, to your local multi-plex to see Ponyo, Hayao Miyazaki's latest animated adventure. It's definitely reminiscent of the his older, simpler work. This is no Spirited Away. But it's great fun in a pleasant way that Totoro was. It's not a children's story in quite the same way as Totoro, but the visually simplicity reminds me of it. So ( Read more... )

Well, it looks like anything I'd been reading at the moment just got co-opted by FanExpo panelists. Let me explain.

Turns out that horror/suspense author Jack Ketchum will be there, and a friend has lend me a book of short fiction by him to introduce me to his writing. Apparently he's great in person, so I'm reading in anticipation of a good panel. ( Read more... )

Yikes, long time no post. I haven't been thinking about LJ, Facebook or Twitter much lately. I am a bad Internet updater.

Well, the most interesting news is that I'm changing majors. After two years at York as an anthropology major, I am making the transition towards English. I took every English available in high school and always assumed I was ( Read more... )

Book Club was interesting. I joined a non-fiction club and a fiction club (for diversity, yes?) and the non-fic met up this past Wednesday. We had read a book called Super Crunchers. So interesting debate popped up, ranging from shoppings habits to political agendas, but overall it was an interesting experience. Lots of different perspectives, ( Read more... )

Not too much to update on. Prospects for the first two points flattened out, alas. As such, the status quo reigns:

• Still job-hunting
• Still single
• Still reading too much.

Joined a couple of book clubs in an effort to become more social. It worked well when I joined my board-gaming club, and that was almost two and a half years ago. So we shall see. It ( Read more... )

I haven't listened to Collective Soul this much in close to ten years. Man. They must have been my absolute favourite band as a kid. Rediscovering them has been pretty darn fun, I gotta say ( Read more... )

Right, so classes, papers, exams...all done. Spent the last week in London visiting my mom and friends. Didn't have enough time to hang with everyone adequately, but I had weekend plans back home and I must find work on Monday lest I die on Toronto's streets.

Been wanting to read Robert J. Sawyer's Parallax trilogy for a while now, but apparently ( Read more... )

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I've been eyeballing a pair of graphic novels, but I was wondering if anyone here had heard of them or had read them and could offer testimonials as to their quality before I decide to head down to the comic store later in the week.

Firstly, there's I Kill Giants from Joe Kelly and JM Ken Niimura. Seems to have a wistful coming of age feel within a ( Read more... )