Civilization is Doomed
Raymond Chen discusses Hello Kitty Air, an airline devoted to Hello Kitty, with Hello Kitty images plastered over everything including the barf bags. (Actually I’m not sure that this should… Read more »
Monthly Archives: April 2008
Forgetting Sarah Marshall–Movie Review
You may need to be in the right mood to watch this one. It’s very funny, but much of it is painfully funny, the sort of humor that strikes home… Read more »
Planetes–Anime Review
This show has a special meaning for me because it reminds me of the science fiction stories that I loved as a boy, stories by people like Heinlein and Clarke… Read more »
Smart People–Movie Review
Did you ever have a college professor who was a complete, total insufferable jerk? I suppose in my time I may have had a run-in or two with a professor,… Read more »
Delayed Realization
Jeff Lawson reports that two years after watching The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumia he finally figured out that Kyon is a jerk. Which of course is true, but necessary. Haruhi… Read more »
5 Centimeters Per Second–Anime Review
What would you get if you gave Makoto Shinkai, who created Voices of a Distant Star on his personal computer, enough money to hire a professional staff and make a… Read more »
xxxHolic Season 1–Anime Review
This anime is best thought of as a series of clever, spooky short stories with some continuing characters. Viewed that way it is quite entertaining. There’s another way to look… Read more »
Wertham’s Crusade
Jeet Heer in Slate revisits the story of Fredric Wertham, an American psychiatrist who started a campaign against comic books in the 1940’s and 50’s, arguing that they promote juvenile… Read more »