LGBT: GLAAD Media Awards
Japanese: JLPP Translation Contest
Music: I recently heard and liked "Christ" by Ashbury Heights (NSFW)
Writer Interview: Judith Kerr via daegaer

Spam From Japan: Review of A Clockwork Orange starring Oguri ShunI have that audition tomorrow. And today I decided I hated my song choice and would swap in something random and around ( Read more... )

Kanji/Japanese: I forgot to mention this, but this year's kanji has been declared to be 「暑（ショ／あつい）」 or "warm/heat". This is due to the record-breaking HEAT-wave, the price of vegetables rising suddenly due to the HEAT, the awareness of global WARMing, the Chilean miners survival due to the WARMTH underground and due to Hayabusa's entering Earth's ( Read more... )

If these are 99 or 101 words long, I apologise, since I counted them by hand in my notebook. Rest assured though, that I paid very close attention to trimming down to that inaccurate wordcount.

Merry Christmas everyone!

For: golden_bastet
Fandom: Weiss
Title: Crucifix
Prompt: Farfarello "celebrates" Christmas in Japan.

( Drabble )

Do you have a best-selling title for your novel? (Pay attention to their disclaimer, although it's fairly obvious stuff.)

Preview of Spideymyu If this were in Tokyo, I would already have tickets for it.

Newly-Discovered Sea Worms

Nintama Rantarou Trailer (Rough trailer translation: "Guess who? He's a boy who wears glasses. He has mysterious ( Read more... )

False-Colour Satellite Photographs From Space

Mark Twain's autobiography -- which he requested only be published 100 years after his death -- is very popularI was going to see Battle Royale 3D, but I don't feel like it. I'm going to send out my query/synopsis tonight. Last call if anyone wants to offer their services to look them over. I really ( Read more... )

Halloween Town anime teaser site open

Spam From Japan: Tokyo Jidai Festival on Wednesday

I kind of want to participate in NaNoWriMo, but mainly because I like the idea of it more than the (unusable) work. I need to work on my query/synopsis instead and try to get it out before the end of the month. That's been slowing me down lately. I haven't ( Read more... )

News of Minekura-sensei's health situation from athena8

Profile of a Japanese teacher

STAR DRIVER's official anime site now has a 'gravure' page for the seiyuu

Teaser site for new Subaru x Gainax anime

I usually leave the staffroom at 1.30 and 2.50 (depending on the day) to say goodbye to the lower year groups. We practice saying goodbye, play janken ( Read more... )

Dan Savage launches a new anti-bullying campaign to tell GLBT kids that "it gets better."

Meta pizza

Interview with Chaz Bono

Spam From Japan: Tokyo Game Show 2010

I have an invite to Archive Of Our Own, if anyone wants it. Let me know.

Writing progress:

As you can see, I managed to get a blog post out about the Tokyo Toy Game Show. The rest ( Read more... )

Astronomy Photographers of the Year 2010 Winners

Yakumo anime: new PV It's not a particularly good PV, but it looks like the kind of anime I'd like. Which makes it a good PV, I guess.

Eigo Note If you know what Eigo Note is, this is HILARIOUS. They've used REAL dialogues and tracks from the semi-compulsory government English program. (via hideincarnate)

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