Tsuki told me about one of the kids she taught drawing a picture of lovely Horo from Wolf and Spice, and that reminded me to carry on with this picture I started months ago.

It's an anime which treads a fine line between slow and cute, and slow and dull. If they swapped the ratios of 'merchant economics-based hijinx' and 'Horo turns into a 30-foot ( Read more... )

I saw the film Ravenous yesterday, and I enjoyed it so much I thought I'd recommend it. It has Robert Carlyle in the wild west, a really marvellous top-notch score that Damon from Blur helped with, and fun cannibals in it. If you have not seen it, and you have a spare hour and a half in the run-up to Halloween, you could do worse than to watch it.

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