Oy! It was hot today!
For most of the day I suffered in a not very ventilated corner of the library. I kept eyeing my computer suspiciously, wondering if it was radiating heat and making me suffer more. The HVAC system wasn’t functioning well, and I really wanted to shave my head. My hair is very […]

R.I.P., L.A.C.K

Hot Gimmick is a great teen soap opera manga. Hatsumi lives in an apartment complex for the families of company workers. The complex is ruled by the nosy Mrs. Tachibana who exploits her husband’s high rank by surrounding herself with a gang of housewife minions. Hatsumi has an older brother (Shinogu), a flighty younger […]

Yay! I hadn’t realized that there were new posts on the original refgrunt this month.

I’ve been sick with a summer cold recently so I’ve been feeling yucky. There is no better time to indulge in watching martial arts movies! Shaolin Soccer arrived from Netflix a couple days ago, and I watched it, fell into a cold-induced coma, woke up and watched it again. Even though I rented it I […]

Via Waxy, a link to a post on marvel swimsuit specials. That is so wrong.

If you crave a gmail invite, e-mail me or post a comment. First come, first served!
Update: Even more invites suddenly appeared, I now have 3 to spare.
Update again: only 1 is left
Late update: invites are all gone for now

Wow, Lea Hernandez made a Cat Hat that looks as if the cat has partially devoured your head.

I am so full. I went out to dinner with some co-workers (ex and current), and got to hear all about what life is like for other people in the library (it appears that sometimes going to work is as fraught with peril as Capt. Benjamin Willard’s journey into the jungle in Apocalypse Now). […]

I saw Lady Snowblood today, it was interesting to see the elements (chapter format, bits of plot, soundtrack) Tarantino borrowed for Kill Bill. I’m really ignorant of Kazuo Koike’s work other than Lone Wolf and Cub, but I did get a kick out of learning that Lady Snowblood was based on a very early manga […]