I love this comic! Check out the one from today, especially this bit of dialogue at the end:
Penny: I don't need any "fixing up"! I can get guys perfectly well on my own!
Faye: Really? Does the public library have a Happy Hour?
Penny: That's a terrible idea! Have you ever SEEN a gaggle of drunken librarians?
Martin: A friend of mine in college got jumped by a gang of 'em one night. They shushed him so hard that he can't speak above a whisper to this day.
:D
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Sunday, May 27, 2007
Anime North
I was going to wait until tomorrow to post these, but I figure I might as well do them now :)
This post will be very picture heavy, since I don't think blogger does cuts like Livejournal does. Also, if you want to see pictures of the cosplayers, go to my website. I'm not going to repost them here.
I will, however, post the pictures I didn't put on my website. Here they are!
J and J, pretending that they're too cool for an anime convention.
The Artist Alley part of the con (aka the boring part) - the work is all very pretty, but also expensive since its done by talented artists who are trying to make a profit. Nice to look at, though
Me, with two of my toys - a stuffed Chocobo, and Momiji in bunny form! I love that rabbit!
The rabbit likes J, too!
And now, onto the loot! I'm not saying how much I spent, but I got some great deals!
The loot, an overview.
My Chocobo, with seasons 1 and 2 of Magic Knight Rayearth
Momiji, with the 5 volumes of Tokyo Babylon I bought (I only need 6 & 7 now!)
The Munto movies, and the complete season of KareKano (or, His and Her Circumstances, in translation)
Not a bad haul, huh?
Incidentally, this post will be x-posted to my Livejournal, so everyone can see what happened at Anime North and so I don't have to type this all out again :)
This post will be very picture heavy, since I don't think blogger does cuts like Livejournal does. Also, if you want to see pictures of the cosplayers, go to my website. I'm not going to repost them here.
I will, however, post the pictures I didn't put on my website. Here they are!
J and J, pretending that they're too cool for an anime convention.
The Artist Alley part of the con (aka the boring part) - the work is all very pretty, but also expensive since its done by talented artists who are trying to make a profit. Nice to look at, though
Me, with two of my toys - a stuffed Chocobo, and Momiji in bunny form! I love that rabbit!
The rabbit likes J, too!
And now, onto the loot! I'm not saying how much I spent, but I got some great deals!
The loot, an overview.
My Chocobo, with seasons 1 and 2 of Magic Knight Rayearth
Momiji, with the 5 volumes of Tokyo Babylon I bought (I only need 6 & 7 now!)
The Munto movies, and the complete season of KareKano (or, His and Her Circumstances, in translation)
Not a bad haul, huh?
Incidentally, this post will be x-posted to my Livejournal, so everyone can see what happened at Anime North and so I don't have to type this all out again :)
*squee!*
Anime North!
Today!!
Hopefully there will be many pictures taken, and much money spent. If only the weather didn't look so craptastic. Ah well.
Today!!
Hopefully there will be many pictures taken, and much money spent. If only the weather didn't look so craptastic. Ah well.
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Pom Poko
Before the long weekend, I saw another Studio Ghibli film (working at a library *rocks*) called Pom Poko.
First off, this movie is *strange*. I realize that most of the Ghibli films are weird, but this one was bizarre. It was about a bunch of raccoons whose forest was being destroyed for a housing complex. The neat thing about the raccoons was that they can change their shape, so they try to sabotage the construction to regain their home.
Raccoons and foxes in Japanese myth are magical, and able to transform, so that premise wasn't too far-fetched. The things the raccoons changed into were pretty strange, and how the males used their, ahem, "sacks" to crush humans and blind truckdrivers was pretty funny.
I found the ending sad, but the movie overall was entertaining.
Pom Poko poster
The male raccoons using their "sacks" to fly
The raccoons learned about the humans by watching TV - and quickly got addicted!
(I'll put these pics on my own server when I get home... promise!)
First off, this movie is *strange*. I realize that most of the Ghibli films are weird, but this one was bizarre. It was about a bunch of raccoons whose forest was being destroyed for a housing complex. The neat thing about the raccoons was that they can change their shape, so they try to sabotage the construction to regain their home.
Raccoons and foxes in Japanese myth are magical, and able to transform, so that premise wasn't too far-fetched. The things the raccoons changed into were pretty strange, and how the males used their, ahem, "sacks" to crush humans and blind truckdrivers was pretty funny.
I found the ending sad, but the movie overall was entertaining.
Pom Poko poster
The male raccoons using their "sacks" to fly
The raccoons learned about the humans by watching TV - and quickly got addicted!
(I'll put these pics on my own server when I get home... promise!)
Thursday, May 17, 2007
Something that caught my eye
While reading through the "Booklist" magazine at work, I spotted this title that made me think of all my knitting friends:
Knitting with Balls: A Hands-On Guide to Knitting for the Modern Man
by Michael del Vecchio
It's a collection of patterns for men, good for men who knit and women who knit for men. It also encourages male knitters to come out in public with their knitting, and be not ashamed!
Anyway, check it out if you're so inclined. I thought it sounded interesting :)
Knitting with Balls: A Hands-On Guide to Knitting for the Modern Man
by Michael del Vecchio
It's a collection of patterns for men, good for men who knit and women who knit for men. It also encourages male knitters to come out in public with their knitting, and be not ashamed!
Anyway, check it out if you're so inclined. I thought it sounded interesting :)
Travelling Librarians
Deep in the snow, in the middle of a windswept moorland, a small band of travelling librarians sat around their cooling stove and wondered what to burn next.
Tiffany had never been able to find out much about the librarians. They were a bit like the wandering priests and teachers who went even into the smallest, loneliest villages to deliver those things - prayers, medicine, facts - that people could do without for weeks at a time but sometimes needed a lot of all at once. The librarians would loan you a book for a penny, although they often would take food or good second-hand clothes. If you have them a book, you got ten free loans.
Sometimes you'd see two or three of their wagons parked in some clearing and could smell the glues they boiled up to repair the oldest books. Some of the books they loaned were so old that the printed had been worn grey by the pressure of people's eyeballs reading it.
The librarians were mysterious. It was said they could tell you want book you needed just by looking at you, and they could take your voice away with a word.
(Taken from Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett, pg 224)
:D
Tiffany had never been able to find out much about the librarians. They were a bit like the wandering priests and teachers who went even into the smallest, loneliest villages to deliver those things - prayers, medicine, facts - that people could do without for weeks at a time but sometimes needed a lot of all at once. The librarians would loan you a book for a penny, although they often would take food or good second-hand clothes. If you have them a book, you got ten free loans.
Sometimes you'd see two or three of their wagons parked in some clearing and could smell the glues they boiled up to repair the oldest books. Some of the books they loaned were so old that the printed had been worn grey by the pressure of people's eyeballs reading it.
The librarians were mysterious. It was said they could tell you want book you needed just by looking at you, and they could take your voice away with a word.
(Taken from Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett, pg 224)
:D
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Future Project
One of these days, I'm going to reread all the Terry Pratchett "Discworld" novels and make special note of all the times he talks about librarians. Not just the Librarian, but libraries and librarians in general.
I'm reading "Wintersmith" right now, and I came across a particularly funny passage about librarians. When I'm not at work (or when I'm off-desk, perhaps), I'll write it out to start my project.
I seem to recall something in "Going Postal" as well... of course, if anyone who is reading this blog happens to also read Discworld novels and would like to assist me in my project, please do!
I'm reading "Wintersmith" right now, and I came across a particularly funny passage about librarians. When I'm not at work (or when I'm off-desk, perhaps), I'll write it out to start my project.
I seem to recall something in "Going Postal" as well... of course, if anyone who is reading this blog happens to also read Discworld novels and would like to assist me in my project, please do!
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