For all my American f-listers, I hope everyone had a safe and happy Fourth of July weekend! For all of my international friends, I hope you had good weekends, too, of course!

So, here's this week's obligatory i ♥ manga blogging list:
Black Jack, vol. 6
Me and the Devil Blues, vol. 1
MangaCast Review: Sayonara, Mr. Fatty!
Land of the Blindfolded, ( Read more... )

I actually wrote this yesterday right after the news came out, but LiveJournal was all wonky, so here it is now.

With Michael Jackson's just-reported death fresh in my mind, I thought I'd share some MJ-oriented memories.

( He scared me in his Thriller days... )

Seems like all I'm doing these days is reading manga -- it serves as a nice diversion from worrying about whether or not I'll have a job in the next few months.

Anyway, here's what I read and reviewed for i ♥ manga this past week:

• Mars, vol. 1
• Kitchen Princess, vol. 1
• Monster, vol. 1
• Blank Slate, vol. 2
• Sexy Voice and Robo

Name 5 character deaths that surprised or shocked you.

( LJ-cut for obvious spoiler avoidage )

Super quick post before I head out to a drag queen show for my BFF's bachelorette party -- I won the entire series of Osamu Tezuka's Buddha from a giveaway on Largehearted Boy!

SOOOOOOOOOO AWESOME! I'm super stoked to read this series, especially since I've been eyeballing it for ages. ^______________^

Of course, I'll be sure to chronicle my ( Read more... )

Seems like it's "hip to be square" this week. Not only did we get a list of pop culture's 10 greatest nerds, but U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu proudly called himself a nerd at Harvard University's commencement ceremony todayAnd, being a self-declared nerd myself, I was surprised that there is a difference between a nerd and a geek -- geeks ( Read more... )

It's cold, "rainy" and cloudy in San Diego. Which is fairly normal up until about noon, but then the clouds are supposed to go away so the sun can come out. Unfortunately, the sun hasn't been visiting for the past four days ( Read more... )

Name five fannish things that never fail to cheer you up.

1 - A new issue of a fav manga anthology. Sadly, there's only one issue left of Shojo Beat, but I've still got Yen Press to love!
2 - Reading manga on a weekend afternoon. Lately, it's been Skip Beat!, but I've got lots of new manga to read this weekend ( Read more... )

Or the trials and tribulations of my ever-increasing pile of manga/graphic novels to read ( Read more... )