It was back in 2001 or 2002, when it was still new, that I first saw Noir. A friend and I were trying to watch all the best series out there, and when we found this one we tore through episodes as fast as we could download them. Although I now realize that we didn't really grasp more than a small portion of what was going on beneath the surface, at ( Read more... )

The Narrator’s-Living-Room Inn was doing a brisk business this weekend. First some old friends let me know at the last minute that they’d be visiting Seattle and crashed on my floor from Friday night through Monday morning. Then my friend who comes down from Bellingham for the weekly gaming decided to crash on my couch rather than try to go back on ( Read more... )

....watching goofy anime like Busou Renkin is way more fun when you're drunk and have a snarky friend to bounce wisecracks off.

That was some much-needed unwinding.

So that's why the buses were rerouting around University Way last night. I figured as much. My neighborhood is having a shooting about once a month these days. It's only the friends who don't live here who wonder why I own my own vest.

I think some friends of the victim were on the same bus as me last night... I overheard them making phone calls to ( Read more... )

My work is right down the street from where SakuraCon was held this weekend. This led to a few strange sights, as wild bands of cosplayers roamed the streets of Seattle. The first was the most noteworthy, however....

It's about 5:50am on Friday, and I'm nearing the end of my shift, standing at the front desk. (Well, more like pacing behind the desk ( Read more... )

So, I've been neglecting this thing for more than half a year now. Sorry to just up and almost entirely drop off the internet like that. (Again.) Had a lot of stuff going on and kept getting busy and distracted and stressed and wound up putting off dealing with this for a lot longer than I'd realized. It's been sort of a strange time for me:  ( Read more... )

I've been so busy the last few days... working, trying to sleep, having friends showing up to drag me to movies,  watching Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex on DVD...  that I let my friends list build up on me a bit. Like, three or four pages worth. I've been at it for hours and I've still got more than a page to go. It's all scans_daily's ( Read more... )

I've clearly been out of anime fandom for far too long, because a lot of great series have passed by without me knowing of them. I still wouldn't know about Seirei no Moribito ("Guardian of the Sacred Spirit") if I hadn't heard about it on the TWoP forums when Cartoon Network bought the rights to air it.

Seirei no Moribito takes place in a fantasy ( Read more... )