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reading material

January 13, 2009

Two new blogs to watch – Ogiue Maniax – there’s no paucity of intelligent analysis on anime, but for some reason this stands out from the crowded field. Schoolgirl Milky Crisis – insider commentary on the anime industry, with the most hilarious title ever. I must take serious issue though with his utterly ludicrous insinuation [...]

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grumble

September 2, 2008

is it just me, or does the otakusphere seem filled with political posts these past few weeks? I am not knocking anyone’s choice of blogging subject material, but I am finding it harder to use the otakusphere as my release valve for the bitter and divided one-sidedness of the poli-sphere (left and right alike). I [...]

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engineering a debate

August 25, 2008

Steven was previously mulling about a change in his comments policy, and today just pulled a post because it (apparently) triggered some rather heated debate. I’ve noticed that Steven in particular tends to attract a lot of this sort of comment abuse – perhaps a better term for it is “signal saturation” because unlike spam [...]

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happy birthday, Shamus

August 24, 2008

the old geezer is 37 years old today. Luckily I am not so decrepit as that – I was in kindergarten when he was a big scary 3rd grader. You gotta respect the heroism of that greatest generation.

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kawaii religion

May 4, 2008

Congratulations to Don on his continuing recovery. Also, the term “kawaii religion” is cool enough that I am stealing google karma for it from Don with this post.

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The Tao of Scientism

April 10, 2008

Daniel Dare is one of those web personalities you come across who you might initially think is a crank, but after integrating over time you see that they have a subtle depth. He’s largely hostile to belief and subscribes to the Dawkins ultra-rationalist condescension of spiritualism. I haven’t asked him directly but I suspect he [...]

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vengeance upon den Beste

April 8, 2008

you know the reason I started this blog was because a certain someone got me addicted – and I mean ADDICTED – to Haibane Renmei. Steven wasn’t content to hit me with that alone, though – I also got a triple bolus of Sugar Snow Fairy and Someday’s Dreamers to course like crack through my [...]

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Condolences

April 7, 2008

Astro has suffered a loss. He will be fine, but that sort of thing always cuts deep.

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Hero machine

March 29, 2008

A cool toy at UGO lets you build your own superhero. I gave it a whirl: I can’t wait to see what Steven comes up with. Otaku dream girl, anyone?

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trailers

March 16, 2008

Mark has a brilliant idea – instead of movie reviews, he is reviewing movie trailers. If you think about it, the name “trailer” seems to be a misnomer. After all, they come before the film, right? It turns out that the reason they are called trailers though is because they are appended to the movie [...]

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