Okay, I am getting really sick of hearing certain individuals making light of other people's misfortunes. Read: If I see one more Facebook status laughing at the people of Dakota Dunes for losing their homes to flooding, I am going to start typing in CAPS LOCK. (oops, too late ( Read more... )

Is it just me, or for every step forward we take in women's portrayal in media, we take two steps back? Sure, we don't have movies where the woman's only purpose to the plot is to be a love interest for the guy anymore ( Read more... )

Maybe I should start explaining to people that I can get flustered very, very easily and how their small action that might not seem a big deal can affect me for hours on end. Because it's not hard to do at all, and do it people do. Frequently. A lot. Almost every time I see them, it feels like. Or try to see them. All it takes is for someone to ( Read more... )

Energizer has been advertising on FUNimation's videos, showing off their rechargeable somethings-or-other. It features kids talking about how they want their toys to work, then one of them holds up a sign that says something along the lines of, Get this product "or else." All the still images outside of the main "cute kids bossing you around!" ( Read more... )

Something made me pause in the midst of my Internet surfing today. I saw on my newsfeed that there's a Facebook group called, "People who prefer reading REAL paper books rather than e-books." And it disturbed me.

Paper books. Real books. Real paper books. Real.

Does that mean digital is unreal ( Read more... )

FUNimation posted the first episode of Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood in English. Because I'm too curious for my own good, I watched the first ten or so minutes of it ( Read more... )

Around nine o'clock Saturday night, two of my four roommates and I were hanging out in the Embassy Suites hotel room, tired and hungry after a long day of Anime Convention. We get the call from Giordano's that our food has arrived, so they leave to get it and I wait so as not to crowd the elevators any more than they already are. As they're out, ( Read more... )

Note to my flist: This is an excerpt from my latest friends-only post. I liked the essay aspect of it so much I thought I would paste it here publicly out of context, with all the potentially offensive ranting about specific teachers and departments and schools cut out. Anyone who wants a bit of backstory as to what fit of fury encouraged me to ( Read more... )

Let's talk Pokemon.

The new games, Black and White, have announced their starter Pokemon and protagonist designs. (They're on Serebii if anyone hasn't seen.) Usually I try to avoid bitching at things because they're new and different, but this isn't that. I'm bitching because they're ugly as hell ( Read more... )

People need to get their freakin' priorities straight.

Woman tries to ban Bone vol. 4 from her library because it contains cigars, alcohol, gambling, and (almost non-existent) sexual situations.Really, lady? Really? Your problem is that Phoney (the notoriously corrupt character kids are probably not supposed to relate to) makes bets in a botched ( Read more... )