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petroniaEDIT -- (from too many people to count) Directions: 1. Grab the nearest book. 2. Open the book to page 23. 3. Find the fifth sentence. 4. Post the text of the whole sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
他是中唐时期很负盛名的诗人，被稍后的权德舆称为“五言长城”，尤工五律。
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Well, I'm sorry, but that's what it is.
Brief panic this morning as I thought I'd lost the 20.5 fanbook while manga-shopping (I carry it on me - shuddup). But it turns out I just left it behind at T's on Wednesday when we were doing the Ooishi Doubles Quiz. So am ditz, but not irrecoverably so. >_>
(The Ooishi Doubles Quiz is supposedly part of the personality quiz he makes the Sei-Regulars take in vol.19 or so - the one with the stick-figure drawings - except it has rival school charas in the answers, so small wonder it was no use. XD The consensus after T, Lo and I ran through it several times was that it says a lot more about Ooishi's personality than anyone else's; we particularly liked the "Your beloved goldfish dies; how does it go to heaven?" question. Does an angel descend and carry it away? Does its soul grow wings and fly? Does it swim up a rainbow river into the sky?
Lo: "It DOESN'T! The fish gets flushed down the toilet!"
Moi: "Dame da! You'll make Ooishi cry!"
On the bright side, at least now one knows what a Type E personality is.)
...Harddrive-clearing proceeds apace. Sci-fi, cars, sports - really I have fanboi tastes in anime. ^^; Apart from R.O.D., I suppose (even the f/f hints in that don't feel male-oriented, if only by virtue of the fact that the women are pretty much unidealised, superpower aside), though it's hard to say because the series itself is difficult to pin down. There's domestic comedy, gakuenmono, a portrayal of the blocked writer's plight that "reads" like a navel-gazing realistic lit-novel about the authorial experience - and from one second to the next it all gets washed away in a mindbending flash-flood of fantasy thriller action. I'm at episode 14, which is a recap ep, and by golly the straightfaced narrative delivered therein may be the most madcap fictional conspiracy theory since Foucault's Pendulum. U.K. versus China as embodied in an arms war between bioengineering British Empire holdouts and a shadowy underworld group founded by Qing-dynasty eunuchs - now there's the good crack, haha.
Then GitS 2nd Gig. XD Is it just me, or is there a lot more Motoko saabisu in this season? Not that I'm complaining, mind you (and Kyuuka-tachi's reaction was too classic - "Did that guy just touch her ass?" "...Ignorance is bliss, dude."). When you think about it she's almost too much the cool deadly beauty in her various anime incarnations - in the manga she gets comedically annoyed, has the occasional boyfriend, and in general is a bit more flesh and blood, pardon the oxymoron. And damn, I'm going to assume that I'm supposed to be thinking of slashing Major Kusanagi with the Prime Minister of Japan at this juncture, because it's not as if this series was ever shy about the f/f fanservice (indubitably male-oriented in this case, though I kind of think you'd have to be missing a pulse not to be affected by the Major ^^;;).
Oh, and incredible amounts of politics. Really what it is, is 1/3 arcane extrapolation of dysfunctional Asian realpolitik, 1/3 police procedural including sweet violence, and 1/3 cyberpunk wank-sophy. All those gruff Kyuuka military dudes are smart as buttons, when you get down to it, I barely follow their throwaway conversations.
Watched an ep of the something Butoh something. Mech pirates on Mars; I could do with that. Designs have a whiff of retro, like it was based on an old but classy series like Area 88, though not that obviously. It's Tenjou Tenge I want to see - it's been hanging around near the top of my manga-to-read list for ages - but I forgot to look for it, even. We return to the theme of my ditzhood. ^^;
他是中唐时期很负盛名的诗人，被稍后的权德舆称为“五言长城”，尤工五律。
...
Well, I'm sorry, but that's what it is.
Brief panic this morning as I thought I'd lost the 20.5 fanbook while manga-shopping (I carry it on me - shuddup). But it turns out I just left it behind at T's on Wednesday when we were doing the Ooishi Doubles Quiz. So am ditz, but not irrecoverably so. >_>
(The Ooishi Doubles Quiz is supposedly part of the personality quiz he makes the Sei-Regulars take in vol.19 or so - the one with the stick-figure drawings - except it has rival school charas in the answers, so small wonder it was no use. XD The consensus after T, Lo and I ran through it several times was that it says a lot more about Ooishi's personality than anyone else's; we particularly liked the "Your beloved goldfish dies; how does it go to heaven?" question. Does an angel descend and carry it away? Does its soul grow wings and fly? Does it swim up a rainbow river into the sky?
Lo: "It DOESN'T! The fish gets flushed down the toilet!"
Moi: "Dame da! You'll make Ooishi cry!"
On the bright side, at least now one knows what a Type E personality is.)
...Harddrive-clearing proceeds apace. Sci-fi, cars, sports - really I have fanboi tastes in anime. ^^; Apart from R.O.D., I suppose (even the f/f hints in that don't feel male-oriented, if only by virtue of the fact that the women are pretty much unidealised, superpower aside), though it's hard to say because the series itself is difficult to pin down. There's domestic comedy, gakuenmono, a portrayal of the blocked writer's plight that "reads" like a navel-gazing realistic lit-novel about the authorial experience - and from one second to the next it all gets washed away in a mindbending flash-flood of fantasy thriller action. I'm at episode 14, which is a recap ep, and by golly the straightfaced narrative delivered therein may be the most madcap fictional conspiracy theory since Foucault's Pendulum. U.K. versus China as embodied in an arms war between bioengineering British Empire holdouts and a shadowy underworld group founded by Qing-dynasty eunuchs - now there's the good crack, haha.
Then GitS 2nd Gig. XD Is it just me, or is there a lot more Motoko saabisu in this season? Not that I'm complaining, mind you (and Kyuuka-tachi's reaction was too classic - "Did that guy just touch her ass?" "...Ignorance is bliss, dude."). When you think about it she's almost too much the cool deadly beauty in her various anime incarnations - in the manga she gets comedically annoyed, has the occasional boyfriend, and in general is a bit more flesh and blood, pardon the oxymoron. And damn, I'm going to assume that I'm supposed to be thinking of slashing Major Kusanagi with the Prime Minister of Japan at this juncture, because it's not as if this series was ever shy about the f/f fanservice (indubitably male-oriented in this case, though I kind of think you'd have to be missing a pulse not to be affected by the Major ^^;;).
Oh, and incredible amounts of politics. Really what it is, is 1/3 arcane extrapolation of dysfunctional Asian realpolitik, 1/3 police procedural including sweet violence, and 1/3 cyberpunk wank-sophy. All those gruff Kyuuka military dudes are smart as buttons, when you get down to it, I barely follow their throwaway conversations.
Watched an ep of the something Butoh something. Mech pirates on Mars; I could do with that. Designs have a whiff of retro, like it was based on an old but classy series like Area 88, though not that obviously. It's Tenjou Tenge I want to see - it's been hanging around near the top of my manga-to-read list for ages - but I forgot to look for it, even. We return to the theme of my ditzhood. ^^;
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Date: 2004-04-15 02:02 am (UTC)Heh, congrats on cleaning out your harddrive.
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Date: 2004-04-15 08:11 am (UTC)I don't know the page number, not being currently in possession of the book, but it's the one with the little sketches of empty landscape and forking paths? XD You're right, they're essentially Quizillas - I'm considering typing/coding them up so people can do them online. Just as utterly inconclusive, too, I think 90% of quiz-takers will average out to the middle of the curve and get either Sakaki or Yukimura (or Shinji, who's the match given to what I think of as the "intelligeek fangirl" personality type). But then again you think about it, and you would have to be a pretty special personality to play doubles successfully with Atobe, say. ^^;
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Date: 2004-04-15 07:41 pm (UTC)Ah, yes, that's the one. Heh, if you do have time, that would be very cool, actually. So, you think Shinji is the choice the the baseline intelligeek fangirl type? I'll have to try and read it again.
(Er, to play doubles successfully with Atobe, I'm just not seeing much anyone in the series doing it.
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Date: 2004-04-16 04:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-04-17 02:41 am (UTC)Meanwhile, I am happy to say that this particular member of Shioul ML, at least, has just been guffawing at the first episode of 'Tenjou Tenge', interspersing it with occasional outbursts along the lines of 'This is SO preposterously great!'.
Oh!Great, one might even say. ^^;;;
Should be a review in Shioul soon. And then 'Monster' just started as well... This spring is some kind of quality anime cornucopia.
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Date: 2004-04-17 10:20 am (UTC)(Meanwhile, you of all people really should get hold of Hitsuji no Uta...)
Tenjou Tenge is next. ^_^v
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Date: 2004-04-17 10:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-04-17 04:08 am (UTC)You said sports. *is curious* Have you ever read I'll?
Not that I'd qualify that as sports manga per se, in the sense Slam Dunk is, but, you know. *shifty eyes*
...well it does have pretty boys plus a guy who looks like Gaiman's Dream... ^^;
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Date: 2004-04-17 10:22 am (UTC)