Saturday, I had a ticket to a preview of "The Secret World of Arietty", a Disney release of a Studio Ghibli film based on the Borrowers books. For those unfamiliar, Arietty is a Borrower, one of a species of tiny humanoids that live in the walls of "human bean" homes and borrow things they need to survive and the beans won't miss ( Read more... )

My brother and his family invited me along for a trip to the Minnesota Children's Museum in St. Paul. There was an exhibit sponsored by Viz Publications, the people who bring us Shonen Jump USA ( Read more... )