I’m on a bit of a vampire kick now, so I finally started watching Hellsing, a lovely show about a vampire vampire hunter named Alucard (cute name, huh?) who works for the Hellsing Organization, a secret society in London dedicated to the eradication of all vampires. His boss is a very driven British woman named [...]

I just finished reading the new Robin McKinley book Sunshine, and I have mixed feelings about it, as I do sometimes when reading Robin McKinley books. My copies of The Blue Sword and the Hero and the Crown are around 17 years old, and I tend to reread both of them around once a year, [...]

Ever since refgrunt went on vacation I’ve noticed an alarming spike in my referral logs. Clearly people crave more refgrunting. Here you go!
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French Dictionaries are over there, miss.
We can’t hold your backpacks for you while you go eat.
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If you are researching public health policies, try these sources…
That speaker is in that building across campus
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I totally forgot that today was Yom Kippur. I am such a bad ex-jew.
Actually, I am probably a very good ex-jew for totally forgetting about a major holiday. I don’t feel all that repentant either : )
However, sometimes I feel like doing committee work is atonement enough to last me throughout the rest of the [...]

I saw Lost in Translation today, I was quite proud of myself for being able to catch bits and pieces of the untranslated Japanese. See, watching all that anime recently has paid off! Although it isn’t too hard to translate basic stuff, like “How many years have you been in Japan” when the little old [...]

I’ve been avoiding watching Saint Seiya, er Knights of the Zodiac on the Cartoon Network.
When I was 13 and the only way I had of watching anime was hanging out with the local university anime club, and getting new episodes meant waiting for the guy who knew another guy who knew some people who were [...]

I finished watching Revolutionary Girl Utena. The later episodes get progressively darker, you have storylines dealing with incest, immolation of junior high students, and standing shirtlessly on the hoods of moving sports cars. It had one of the more satisfying endings to an anime series that I’ve seen, I was worried about getting a more [...]