My Choices Part One

Okay, so my very good friend M. made a post about anime openings, ending with a question of what other’s favorites are, so here are some of mine.

In truth, I had never really thought about show openings before.

Sure, everyone knows that the A-Team had an awesome opening, and, yes, Star Trek is classic, but I really didn’t contemplate this until today.

And, of course there’s this, which is probably my favorite opening of any series ever:

Here we go with a few of my anime favorites. I’m not certain if these are my favorite openings, or just some favorite anime. Then again, some major titles didn’t make the list, so maybe I did go for favorite openings.

This post is in two parts, with the part prior to the cut being identical.

My Choices Part Two

Okay, so my very good friend M. made a post about anime openings, ending with a question of what other’s favorites are, so here are some of mine.

In truth, I had never really thought about show openings before.

Sure, everyone knows that the A-Team had an awesome opening, and, yes, Star Trek is classic, but I really didn’t contemplate this until today.

And, of course there’s this, which is probably my favorite opening of any series ever:

Here we go with a few of my anime favorites. I’m not certain if these are my favorite openings, or just some favorite anime. Then again, some major titles didn’t make the list, so maybe I did go for favorite openings.

This post is in two parts, with the part prior to the cut being identical.

Content???

Shocking as it may be to imagine, this is a post that is not based around a short comment related to a link, a video, or a picture.

This post may even classify as content. That’s right. Content.

First, over on the right you should see a box showing authors. That box is there to show who has written what on the site, or at least the 5 most recent posts by each author.

Why would I need that?

Well, Amanda’s site, as most of my readers are no doubt aware, is based around art, and art only.

Rather than start a second blog of her own, she will (supposedly) be putting up non-artsy stuff over here.

So, please make her feel welcome when she starts posting.

(Of course, she’s used to her readership, which apparently averages over 60 hits a day, whereas I, apparently, average 14ish. Those are both overall averages, allowing for the really big days to pull the average up in my case, or the unusually low days to pull hers down. If we were to compare numbers, I’ve had one day with over 40 hits once in the last 30 days (45 hits). Amanda’s had one day with less than 40 hits in the last 30 days (39 hits). Not that I’m bitter.)

Anyways, she’ll likely start posting sometime soon.

The Show That’s Still My Favorite

Okay, so this is great. A couple of my readers know the show, one of whom I introduced to it.

It’s still my single favorite show, and still the show that I most fear Hollywood touching.

This is subtly less serious than the original.

Video after the break

Updated - Coming to Star Wars - Aha!

Aha! I encountered this a few weeks ago.

(and…)

Meant to post it.

(and)

Didn’t. (I know you have been inconvenienced…)

(and)

Am doing so now. (You will be compensated)

Aha!

It’s a StSanders thing.

There’s something related, but a little different after the jump.

This is Real

Okay, so as everyone who visits here should know, I am an English teacher in Japan.

As such, I work with a wide variety of books designed to teach English to people who don’t already speak it.

In one grammar book, I noticed this exercise.

This is an unedited scan of that activity.

I know that both Amanda and one of my co-workers found humor in it, so it’s probably not just me.

Or maybe being in Japan affects one’s sense of humor.

Please tell me: Is there anything potentially amusing in this??

I Finally Understand…

I have a certain selection of movie/SF/F sites that I visit regularly.

On one of them, Mania (formerly Cinescape, formerly the wonderful Coming Soon), I found this article/rant.

And I finally understand why I have minimal desire to finally finish watching Firefly, or to watch Serenity.

Bloody Firefly otaku, aka, my friends.

I will (someday) get around to finishing Firefly, but we’ll see when (and if) that is.

It also occurs to me that I have been a ranting lunatic with certain of my addictions, and I henceforth repent of my ways.

At least until I get obsessed with something new.

BTW, have I mentioned that I’m playing Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura and that it’s a fantastic CRPG?  Well, I am and it is, but other than that recommendation, I’ll leave it to others to explain why/whether you should play it too.

I Am, Apparently, a Freak

A recent news article brings to light what I had long thought: I am a freak involved in deviant behaviour.

Read the whole article here.

Music Makes the People Come Together

Here is Bobby Conn performing his hit single “Never Get Ahead.”  The lyrics are a little different from the album version, and he explains why at the end of the clip.

And he dances!

If you watch this video in its entirety, you will have this song randomly pop into your brain at some point in the next week.

Consider yourselves warned.

Still Stalkable

This pic was taken on our visit to Sendai, way back in August.

The editing was done by my beloved and gorgeous wife, Amanda, via her new tablet that she got for Christmas.

Gamera and I had a long chat about his career, though he looks bigger in the movies.

Sendai, by the way, has recovered wonderfully since Legion destroyed it back in 1996.