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Going to Japanese school isn't something I usually mention in a positive light, but the oddest things will make you nostalgic. This is a youth choir from Singapore, it looks like, but they're singing a theme song from Spirited Away, and it looks oh-so-familiar...
My school, Yonezawa 2nd Middle School (Nichu) was fairly accomplished musically and ( Read more... )

So I do give off geek-chick vibes somewhat. I'm not always sure if I do. I need to hang out in the B&N on 81st in Tulsa more often--it has become obvious to me that I am wasted on Claremore.

Not that I necessarily want to be hit on by baristas more often, or anything. It's just fun to feel like you're not hopelessly outclassed by cowgirls and ( Read more... )

Helm's Deep
The piece of the soundtrack named this is one of the more beautiful movements of the normal themes throughout the movie.
I was listening to it for the first time in a long time this morning, and picturing the moment on the screen, and remembered the hardest moment of this whole epic for me.

Do you remember the glimpse during the equipping ( Read more... )

I know such creative people I surely rank in the richest world-wide for it...


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The thing with writers on the blogosphere is, we like to spread the cat-waxing around. So, per me, a quiz and another quiz's result (which will surely take you to the quiz if you like, as they always do.

What Your Art Taste Says About You

Fun for mere visual pleasure: quite a few new masterpieces to me, so this was probably put together by someone ( Read more... )

One of the things about the existential economy of the internet is that the currency is not only intangible, it's redistribution of wealth is fairly arbitrary.

Only if you are really subscriber-rich (think Boing-Boing, a niche blogger like Miss Snark was) is your referral sure to make a difference to the referee.

There's always the Black Swan affect ( Read more... )

One of those hazy "the real world as spec fic" realizations came to me yesterday. It had something to do with the way icon-making is an internet swap-meet (appropriately derivative and grass-roots), and the way Cory Doctorow talked about the unweildiness of copyright laws as they stand being applied to the Internet and electric media. The inciting ( Read more... )

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