Blankbaby points to this article on Gizmodo about e-books not living up to the hype. Gizmodo talked with Micah Burch from Vertical, the publishing house that puts out Osamu Tezuka’s Buddha. Burch says “Vertical’s strategy has involved incorporating the Japanese design aesthetic, and so our books are intended to be objects that you want to […]

For some reason, members of my family seem to be stricken with some sort of travel curse this summer. So far, people have missed flights or shown up for their flights on the wrong day. I managed to check in for my flight to Canada at 8:00 AM instead of 8:00 PM. Now, I am […]

The Stratford public library has a very liberal internet sign-up policy, I didn’t have to show a library card or anything to get on a computer! I saw Count of Monte Cristo and Macbeth yesterday, I’m seeing Anything Goes and Noises Off today. Now I must shop!

I did not realize that Morrissey once marketed a “Last Night I Dreamt that Somebody Loved Me” pillowcase. That is a man with a sense of humor about his merchandising.

I had a bunch of virtual reference questions today where the best answer I could give was the phone number of the patron’s local library reference desk. One problem with taking virtual reference questions from all over the country is that people reasonably expect that when they click on a link to chat with a […]

I’ve been feeling a little bit burnt-out lately, as if it were the middle of October instead of late July. So I’m glad I’m going on vacation tomorrow. I’m going to be in Toronto, and then I’m going to this Shakespeare festival. Seeing Shakespeare in the summer is a family tradition, we’d go to […]

I think Princess Ai is the first thing that I’ve felt compelled to read because I blogged about it incessantly before it came out. It is based on a concept from Courtney Love, Ai Yazawa did the character design, and DJ Milky co-writes the series with artist Misaho Kujiradou. Princess Ai is published in Japan […]

Damn you, faulty Dell laptop power supply, damn you to hell!!!!
Did you miss me?
I’ve been going through serious withdrawal not having Internet access at home. I did get through many Netflix dvds and I’ve been knitting like crazy (will post pictures soon) so I did get a few things done.
I’m in major […]

I managed to mangle my laptop. Expect minimal blogging over the next several days…

AnimeNewsNetwork linked to a ton of trailers today, including a 6 minute trailer for Otomo’s Steamboy which looks just as steampunkish as you would expect from its name.