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A Larson kind of moment...
Apr. 3rd, 2001 08:55 amI got to the store a couple of minutes late this morning. Nonetheless, I tried to go get some coffee a few doors down, and by the time I'd returned, a line had formed.
Today is apparently a deadline day for hunters to apply for various licenses that are awarded on a lottery basis. I suppose this means I ought to be particularly careful when postmarking mail addressed to the "Colorado Division of Wildlife," but it is hard to do so with a straight face when your typical address reads:
I bought the RF gadget that I needed to take the VCR out of the DVD-to-TV equation, and picture quality improved immensely. I am still steamed at the effrontery of Hollyweird selling me something that's been deliberately brain-damaged so it can only play on certain players attached to certain equipment, but I'm sure some, um, technical countermeasures will be developed - if they haven't already - so it ought to be an interesting party.
To celebrate the ownership of a somewhat functional DVD player, I decided to play an anime that I'd bought some time ago, in anticipation of such a day. It's called Perfect Blue, and though I seem to be too thick to understand what "blue" has to do with anything, I think this is the finest animated story I've seen since Ghost in the Shell.
Unfortunately, this is not the kind of animated feature one can share with children, as it contains graphic violence, nudity, and the rest of it (making it little different from the typical Hollyweird feature with real people, but I digress...). I did note, however, that in distinction from other anime on the market, where nudity seems to be included as a gratuitous extra (e.g., while fighting the forces of evil, main characters get naked and do something innocuous, such as take a bath), everything in this film - including the nudity - was well integrated.
Customers coming...gotta go.
Cheers...
Today is apparently a deadline day for hunters to apply for various licenses that are awarded on a lottery basis. I suppose this means I ought to be particularly careful when postmarking mail addressed to the "Colorado Division of Wildlife," but it is hard to do so with a straight face when your typical address reads:
Colorado Division of WildlifeI keep thinking Gary Larson would have fun with such an address.
Attention: Deer
P.O. Box .....
Denver, CO .....
I bought the RF gadget that I needed to take the VCR out of the DVD-to-TV equation, and picture quality improved immensely. I am still steamed at the effrontery of Hollyweird selling me something that's been deliberately brain-damaged so it can only play on certain players attached to certain equipment, but I'm sure some, um, technical countermeasures will be developed - if they haven't already - so it ought to be an interesting party.
To celebrate the ownership of a somewhat functional DVD player, I decided to play an anime that I'd bought some time ago, in anticipation of such a day. It's called Perfect Blue, and though I seem to be too thick to understand what "blue" has to do with anything, I think this is the finest animated story I've seen since Ghost in the Shell.
Unfortunately, this is not the kind of animated feature one can share with children, as it contains graphic violence, nudity, and the rest of it (making it little different from the typical Hollyweird feature with real people, but I digress...). I did note, however, that in distinction from other anime on the market, where nudity seems to be included as a gratuitous extra (e.g., while fighting the forces of evil, main characters get naked and do something innocuous, such as take a bath), everything in this film - including the nudity - was well integrated.
Customers coming...gotta go.
Cheers...
