More brief notes, though with some of these I may do separate write-ups anyway to enable spoilery discussion. Do not spoil anything in the comments unless you use spoiler coding, please; note where I have elided spoilers.

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Last night I dreamed that my Dad had a career writing Firefly AU tie-in novels in which Mal and Zoe solved cozy mysteries. The main recurring villain was an evil chicken.

In related news, I am amazed that I completely forgot that the very first few episodes of Fullmetal Alchemist contain a flock of zombie parrots, a giant attack parrot, and a ( Read more... )

This was the first day that I felt even minimally OK physically-- that is, my back still hurts and I can't walk a block or up a flight of stairs at a normal walking pace without getting short of breath and coughing for ten minutes-- so what I mean is, this is the first time since I got here that I've even felt more-or-less all right when I'm ( Read more... )

I've recently been re-watching Fullmetal Alchemist, and around episode 40 or so began to be struck by some similarities in characterization, themes, and even plot developments surrounding one of its characters and one from Lord of the Rings.

If you click on the cut, you will be spoiled for the entire run of Fullmetal Alchemist, a series with a ( Read more... )

While driving downtown today I saw a storefront reading "Al and Ed's Automail." This rather surprised me, until I realized that it was actually "Al and Ed's Autosound."

At Kinokuniya downtown, I picked up a book with some nice karate photoreferences for telophase (ignore the horrible seventies haircuts and moustaches) and a book on karate tournament ( Read more... )