I taught a whopping 4 classes yesterday. Remind me not to do that again this semester. So I decided I was entitled to a little fun today, so I ran off and saw Serenity, and enjoyed it very much. It did basically seem like a longer, souped-up episode of Firefly, but that’s exactly what I […]

I have to admit, I heard a spoiler about a certain event on Alias, but I totally didn’t believe it because it seemed way too awful.
Actually I still don’t believe what happened. It is pretty clear that almost everyone on Alias has a doppleganger or clone, so as far as I’m concerned, the clone died. […]

Townonline article on Art Spiegelman
Fanboy Rampage points to this messageboard thread about what pop music would sound like if Thor was singing everything. Features such lovely lyrics as “Dost Thou Not Wish Thine Maiden-friend Were a Freak Like Me?” and “Mine Milkshake brings all the young lads to the yard.”

Tegan is of course tracking mentions […]

13 hours is a long day, especially when 5 of those hours are spent in meetings/training sessions, and 4 hours are spent at the reference desk. I think in my last question at the desk, I sent someone off to the bound journals when we also had the back issues of the journal online. Oh […]

Love Manga points to this detailed post on the Go Comi blog about how manga is printed, with many pictures illustrating the process.
Scary knitted necklace

I was giving a presentation today to the instructors I work with for my library instruction classes. The Internet kept fading in and out on the instructor station, so I had a few moments of “Now I’m going to show you this fabulous tutorial….except I can’t connect to the Internet, so maybe I […]

Anansi Boys (amazon)
This isn’t really a sequel to American Gods, but it is about a god who lives in America, and a son of a god living in England. Fat Charlie has been continually embarrassed by his father for as long as he remembers. In addition to being a quirky father with a unique […]

Joystiq on video games and anime popularity
You can get your webcomics fix with Lea Hernandez two ways soon, she’s starting up another Texas Steampunk series and Rumble Girls returns.

Ultra Maniac (amazon)
Ultra Maniac focuses on the friendship between two girls in junior high - Ayu is concerned with maintaining her cool image and Nina who is a new transfer student. Ayu sees Nina looking upset and learns that she’s lost something. Ayu decides to help Nina out, and finds a slightly mysterious gadget […]

Hmm, I’m not sure why the plug-in posted my mini-review to the blog as if it was an excerpt. Also in my rss feed, the corpse bride post was repeated twice. I’m not sure if I need to change some settings, but the formatting needs to be tweaked. I commented out the huge media format […]