I just found a shoujo manga about the Russian poet Pushkin!!! And his Amazing Love Story with Natalia. BY CHIHO FREAKIN' SAITO. I have always joked that Pushkin makes a great romantic subject, what with his genius, his numerous political exiles and even more numerous romantic dalliances, his marriage to the most beautiful woman in Moscow and his ( Read more... )

I've already posted about the anime "Venus Wars," and of the ridiculousness of running "Join the Army" ads during an obviously anti-war movie the last time I saw it on tv. Today I found a copy of it that I had taped way back in '98, and watched some of it over. It was interesting, on several points, most of them due to its being such a little ( Read more... )

I feel once again motivated to sing the praises of one of the most complicated and brilliant anime I know to all those interested in gender dynamics or feminism or just good mindfucks with a dose or Barbie pink surrealism: Revolutionary Girl Utena. It's based partly on a deconstruction of "magical girl" shows like Sailor Moon, and it also takes ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I went over to dangermousie's again, and we watched Escaflowne again, and then I stayed over and she made me pancakes in the morning! She is definitely making good on the feeding-me promise. (She also made me tea with toasted bagels and jam in the evening, and lots of other foodstuffs me the other two times I've gone to her place this week ( Read more... )

Today was pretty productive, considering I went to bed at 6 am and had to get up at 9 ( Read more... )

Huh.

( People who don't know Utena might want to skip this )