The other day I came across the website of Yumiko Kayukawa, an artist who does manga-like paintings. I think Koneko Chan is my favorite one. What I like about her work is that she always puts the title somewhere in the background of each painting, so not only can I admire her artistic ability when I look at her work, but I can practice reading ( Read more... )

So a few weeks ago I was randomly browsing the web when I came across Larry Wall's speech about Perl being a postmodernist programming language (whatever that means). And as I'm reading it I see he makes this offhand comment that "if you'd like to see an unashamedly postmodern anime, you should get ahold of Revolutionary Girl Utena," and I think ( Read more... )

Ok, I think I'm going to make a little more of an effort to update this thing semi-regularly now :\ I'm sorta half-debating doing something like True Porn Clerk Stories, only talking about my life as a grad student/TA instead, except that I don't really wanna deal with getting fired/expelled/shot by a disgruntled student/etc ( Read more... )