Burn After Reading–Movie Review
The latest movie from Joel and Ethan Coen is another grimly funny story featuring ruthless people who are not nearly as smart as they think they are. The premise is… Read more »
Bless this Laptop
According to this article in The Register, the Kanda-Myojin Shrine near Akihabara does a brisk business blessing laptops to protect them from viruses and other mishaps. I’ve been burned by… Read more »
New Version of WordPress
I just upgraded to version 2.6.1 (after leaving the site at version 2.5.1 for a dangerously long time.) In the past a “second-digit” version upgrade has sometimes caused trouble. If… Read more »
Majokko Tsukune-chan–Anime Review
There’s not much to this one: just a short and funny OVA. At first glance it looks like a standard kodomo (children’s) anime, with simple, brightly colored artwork, bouncy inane… Read more »
Vicky Cristina Barcelona–Movie Review
Granted, I haven’t seen every movie that Woody Allen ever made, but it’s quite possible that Vicky Cristina Barcelona is the most depressing Woody Allen move ever. I find it… Read more »
Tropic Thunder–Movie Review
Tropic Thunder is a hilarious sendup of war moves, particularly Apocalypse Now (not to mention Hearts of Darkness.) It is also a sendup of Hollywood itself, a place where people… Read more »
Japanese Names and Honorifics in Anime
One of the main advantages of watching anime in Japanese with subtitles is that even if you don’t understand Japanese you can pick up a lot of information that will… Read more »
Mamma Mia!–Movie Review
It stands to reason that a musical featuring ABBA songs won’t get much respect. After all, ABBA didn’t get much respect even back when they were popular. Still, they were… Read more »
Cosplay Photos
Photos of cosplayers at Connecticon 08.
The Dark Knight–Movie Review
How many people remember when Batman was a lighthearted tongue-in-cheek TV show about a somewhat pompous “Caped Crusader” who battled absurd over-the-top villains? That era seems pretty distant now. The… Read more »