The Dreaded “Angst”
Steven den Beste and Ubu Roi have been conducting a spirited debate on their blogs about Shakugan no Shana. (Ubu’s posts are here and here; Steven doesn’t have permalinks for… Read more »
The Namesake
This is an earnest, heartfelt and well-intentioned movie, and I really wish that I liked it more than I do. It’s basically about some immigrants from India who name their… Read more »
The Hoax
In 1970 Clifford Irving, a minor writer best known for a biography of a notorious art forger, approached McGraw-Hill with an astonishing proposal: he had made a deal with reclusive… Read more »
Ah! My Goddess! Season 1–Anime Review
Once upon a time there was a poor college student, a decent young man, but awkward and unlucky. One evening a beautiful goddess appeared before him and offered to grant… Read more »
Rant: Shakugan no Shana DVD 4
A while ago I praised the quality of the subtitle translation on the Shakugan no Shana DVDs. Given that this seems to be a particularly difficult story to translate they… Read more »
Meet the Robinsons
This movie managed to surprise me: it is the first computer-generated 3-D animation that I have seen in which at least some of the human characters did not seem either… Read more »
Trying to Make Sense of Kanon
I have spent the last few days trying to figure out the ending of Kanon, which may be a waste of time, but the damned show got stuck in my… Read more »
American Gods
American Gods by Neil Gaiman HarperTorch 2002 For thousands of years people have come to America, sometimes in small groups, sometimes in large numbers, across the Atlantic and the Pacific,… Read more »
Chobits–Anime Review
This may be the most controversial of the many anime series adapted from CLAMP stories. Many people love it; others really hate it. Personally I like it. I find it… Read more »
Switching Permalinks
When I first set up this blog I selected the WordPress option to use “numeric” permalinks for posts, which just assigns a sequence number to each post. Over time I… Read more »