This is our last night in California before a Washingtonian homecoming over 5 years in the making!  We've got a Penske truck outside filled with all our stuff, and tomorrow the northward slog begins. Some pretty major changes coming down the pipeline. More news to follow.

Oh, and RIP, Yokoi Gunpei.

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What's up LJ. Thought I'd stop by to make sure you hadn't chewed the furniture half to pieces, and that you had enough food and all that. Have you been lonely?

Anyway, I've gotta run out again right away (sorry!) but I wanted to leave a toy for you that I found on my travels. It's a super-deformed, naked Rei Ayanami floating in a test tube on some ( Read more... )

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Your confessions:
[] I'm afraid of silence
[] I am really ticklish
[] I'm afraid of the dark
[x] I've collected comic books
[] I sometimes shut out others
[x] I open up to others too easily
[x] I read the newspaper (online, does that count?)
[] I love Disney movies
[x] I am a sucker for gorgeous eyes
[] I am a sucker for a gorgeous smile
[x] I don't kill bugs
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w00t, I just completed the draft version of the last major section of my master's thesis and mailed it off to my advisor.  (writing about masculinity in Inoue Takehiko's "Slam Dunk", which I just read for the first time a couple weeks back in preparation for this.  It's totally rad if you haven't read it.).  I've still got quite a damn ways to go ( Read more... )

“What is it we are trying to create?”

Before the animated series “Neon Genesis Evangelion” began broadcasting

The year is 2015.  It is a world where 15 years earlier, over half of humanity perished.  A world that has attained a recovery miraculous enough to fill the shelves of convenience stores and in which production, distribution, ( Read more... )

We just got back from seeing David Sedaris and Sarah Vowell at the Arlington theater.  He had just gotten back from 3 months in Japan and read from diary entries he took while there, which was hilarious.  She told a story of president Garfield's assassin, and showed the audience how its really a story about the Oneida corporation, and a 19th ( Read more... )