The ShizNat in the Rain
Blame this post on Michael:

Michael: I’m trying to get a bunch of anime bloggers to write about The Catcher in the Rye. We’ll all read each other’s posts and laugh and dance and be merry and gay. I know it might sound like a circle-jerk, but trust me, it’s definitely not [...]

Yeah, this is another blatant filler post. Deal with it.
Professor Randy Pausch died on July 25, 2008 of pancreatic cancer. For those of you who don’t know why he’s worth an entire filler post, check my sidebar. Yeah, I know it’s shocking, but some of you don’t visit my homepage anymore now that I have [...]

VS.

Round 1: Deadpan Expression
Golgo 13: Unflappable

Hell Girl: Cried once, just because she was banished from her village and buried alive
Advantage: Golgo 13
Round 2: Google Fight

Hell Girl: 3,860,000 results
Golgo 13: 548,000 results
Advantage: Hell Girl
Round 3: Hairstyle
Hell Girl: Long, shiny, silky, flowing hair

Golgo 13: The manliest sideburns in the universe

Advantage: Tie
Round 4: Professionalism
Golgo 13: The Professional

Hell Girl: [...]

Some of you thought I wouldn’t notice/care if you handed in your forms late. Not a chance.
“Forgiveness is divine, but never pay full price for late pizza.” – Michaelangelo

In order to uphold the righteous order of this website, 10 points will be taken off for every day late – no exceptions.
Ina:

Best color scheme ever. A+ [...]

This double-episode starts off with a flashback.
Booooooooooring.
But this is the good kind of flashback: the kind that explains why people are dead/injured/otherwise brutalized.
Awesome!
Rei’s robot goes berserk. It punches the wall and ejects her.

The Evangelion unit punches the observation booth where Shinji’s father is standing. Does this imply emotional tension—
[...]

2.5 years in existence
135 days since selling out (2/29/08, so I won’t have to celebrate it next year)
0 pre-sellout page rank
1 post-sellout page rank (still 0 by my original page rank checker)
40,000 pre-sellout hits
20,000 post-sellout hits
64 pre-sellout e-mails
63 post-sellout mail-mails
0 pre-sellout comments
1,000 post-sellout comments
258 spam comments (excluding lolikit)
212 comments from the top commenter (me)
65 comments [...]

Picking up with the same three categories from last time:
1. The Plot is still Crap
The ending was terrible: show

Murasaki, who’d supposedly given up on her freedom, conceived and brokered the most convenient compromise in the universe within minutes of Kurenai’s implausible yet predictable victory. Benika suddenly became the weakest character in the show (though she’s [...]

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Stuff from the episode: show

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Find Kibure!
You can find the other Talk-A-Raptor episodes HERE.
UPDATE:

Indisputable proof that I breathe fire

DEADLINE: July 14
That’s right, I’m going to Otakon. Unlike all these hick conventions I’ve been attending, I actually expect to see people at Otakon. To keep the sucking-up process efficient, I’ll be assigning suck-up privileges based on your responses to the above form. The most impressive submissions get priority suck-up privileges. Feel free to edit [...]

Last year I listed four New Year’s Resolutions on this site. Let’s see how they’re progressing:
1. Play More Video Games

Goal: Beat Kingdom Hearts II and Final Fantasy XII
Status: Beat Kingdom Hearts II in early March, currently about halfway through FFXII
Progress: 75%
2. Make More References to Heretofore Underrepresented Anime

Progress: -20%
How did I screw up my easiest [...]

I reached the con at 6:50, just in time to pick up my badge.

…or so I thought. They closed down the pickup booth early and kicked me out. Bastards. I went back to my hotel room and cried myself to sleep.

On Saturday they gave me a $10 refund. Great. $10 totally makes up for my [...]