I picked this mouse and mousepad set up for $40, which is admittedly a little steep for a standard mouse, but I'd had a DESPERATE NEED for this ever since I saw a picture of it, so I wasn't going to let the opportunity pass by when I happened to find it. $40 for a very rare Ichiban Kuji prize from three years ago seems like a good deal to me at ( Read more... )

I finally saw Evangelion 3.33 [Q] You Can (NOT) Redo. I came away from it with a massive cluster of some very mixed feelings that I'm not going to go into here because I could write a whole essay on that by itself. However, appropriately enough I recently picked up some items designated specifically as Evangelion 3.33 merchandise, so let's take a ( Read more... )

The story of my acquisition of these awesome Evangelion socks is a long one.
It started a long time ago with a "tentative backorder" on the now defunct Otacute. I saw the socks and instantly knew they needed to be mine. So I placed an order.
( But clearly that's not the end of the story. )

HOLY SHIT. I'M ALIVE!
That was longest hiatus ever and it happened without any warning, so I'm sorry to anyone who follows my blog! I didn't just forget about it or decide not to do it anymore or anything like that.
Skip down to "MOVING ON" if you don't care about the explanation. Otherwise, read on!
( Under this cut because this entry is huge )

As many Eva fans already know, the Evangelion franchise is a merchandising giant. No matter what it is, you can probably buy an official Eva version of it, even if it's just had the NERV logo slapped on it somewhere. (I'll leave discussion of the alternating coolness and utter incomprehensibility of Eva merchandise for another entry ( Read more... )

I'm back after an annoying bit of business with my computer's motherboard. Thankfully, it was ONLY the motherboard so no data was lost. At any rate I'm really sorry for how spotty I've been with being...well, AROUND recently. Getting close to graduating from university means my classes are pretty demanding and I've been kind of stressed recently ( Read more... )