An article at Newsarama focuses on Tokyo Pop’s line of romance comics, it is interesting that Tokyo Pop has managed to capture female readers while other companies efforts continue to be misguided.

My little sister sent me a link for Shmaltz, the Chosen Beers featuring Genesis Ale and Messiah Bold.
You can watch a commercial, “Two Jews Walk Into a Bar”
Also in the tradition of religiously themed beer, you could drink some Pologamy Porter “Why Just Have One!”

As if Blake didn’t have enough to do, it looks like library bloggers can have their own community blog for refgrunting using metaphilter, looks nifty! Now, if only I’d been on the desk recently so I could refgrunt!

It is sort of hard to have a restful vacation, when you find yourself awake at 3am coughing up your lungs : (
I’ve enjoyed not working for the past few days, but I’d have enjoyed it more if I hadn’t caught the lingering cold from hades. I’ve been resting up, saw Return of the King […]

Mars Vols 1 & 2
Berserk - I picked this up because I knew it had a huge fanbase, I was hoping I would like it too. But it is not for me. I didn’t care for the art or the storyline. The setting is interesting, you don’t see too much manga set in a pseudo […]

Tokyopop: Plans for World Domination Proceeding Apace
New site for Del Rey manga venture. 2 out of 4 of the first books are from CLAMP.

The next blogstakes contest is for the Onion Platinum Prestige Encore Gold Premium Collector’s Collection, featuring “Fully Turnable Pages” and “A One-of-a-Kind ISBN”!

Via Mefi, Once more with Hobbits features songs from middle earth using the music of the Buffy musical episode “Once more with feeling.”
I like “I’ll never tell” as sung by Gimli and Legolas:
LEGOLAS:
He’s short
GIMLI:
He’s pretty
LEGOLAS:
He thinks his jokes are witty
GIMLI:
He hums some elven ditty
As we run along
LEGOLAS:
He’s gross, and hairy
GIMLI:
He acts like he’s a fairy
LEGOLAS:
He’s […]

Greg writes about the response to Nanette’s “I hate library weblogs” post.
Personally, I think differences of opinion in the blogging world could be solved in any number of ways, perhaps a steel cage deathmatch, or someone could round up all the participants (and I count myself as one of them, because I think I left […]

Bill Ellis, Penn State folklore researcher profiled in the Chronicle of Higher Education:
‘Mr. Ellis has taken down from a shelf a large portfolio containing his collection of cels from Japanese anime. “On my salary,” he says, “it is the one vice I can indulge after the bills are paid.”
Mr. Ellis has been fascinated by […]