Anime review: Blue Seed Beyond

(The following is a review I posted at Netflix for Blue Seed: Beyond, the sequel to the wonderful anime Blue Seed.)
The original Blue Seed is my favorite anime; it has everything I like about the form, Blue Seed Beyond, however, doesn’t live up to its predecessor. These three episodes feel more like a coda or [...]

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Plan your “sin tour” of the US!

From Andrew Sullivan via Razib Khan, maps of the continental United States showing the distribution of the seven deadly sins. For example,

The American southeast seems particularly “steamy.” I imagine Mark Sanford accounted for most of South Carolina’s contribution. And, with apologies, but Nebraska and Iowa seem uniformly boring.
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White Heat

Here’s a link to a great post by Big Hollywood’s John Nolte on Jimmy Cagney and what’s arguably his best movie, White Heat:
“White Heat” remains as powerful and entertaining sixty-years on because the goals its creators are grounded in the modest, timeless idea of gathering together the most gifted of artists to tell the best [...]

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Weird news story of the week

And I love the headline:
Man with Spears tattoo steals earring-wearing dog
Fri Aug 21, 7:47 pm ET
WILTON MANORS, Fla. – A man with a tattoo of Britney Spears‘ name on his arm or neck allegedly stole a Chihuahua with pink earrings from a South Florida gay bar. Brian Dortort, 48, said Thursday he has spent weeks searching for his 4-month-old [...]

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Google Ooops

Noodling around on Google Maps, I searched the Casitas Pass and saw a link to the Albertson’s in Carpinteria. Look at the picture below, and tell me if you can spot something a bit off about it….

I know people are fleeing California, but I didn’t know a whole town had relocated. 

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Iron Chef America

I haven’t watched this in a couple of years, but tuned in tonight for two episodes: Battle Corn and Battle Duck. Sadly, both featured Iron Chef Bobby Flay, whom I detest. Oh, his recipes look great, but whenever I see and especially hear him, I develop this urge to smack him until he cries. He [...]

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Back from vacation

Actually, I’ve been back for a couple of days, but yesterday was rather a lost day. Ever notice that it often takes a day to rest up after a vacation? Odd.
Regardless, from Tuesday last week through this Monday instant, I was in Indianapolis for the GenCon Game Fair. I’ve been going a long time – [...]

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Londoners through a lens

The Telegraph has a neat series of black-and-white photos of Londoners from the early 20th century through the 1970s on its site. Fans of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay will especially like this one.

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At last…

Sure it was only the Hall of Fame game, the first and most meaningless of the NFL pre-season games, but, still it was football, and the regular season is only a month away.
And that is a good thing.

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I would so live in one of these…

The UK’s Telegraph newspaper has a neat slideshow on unusual treehouses from around the world. Oh, yes, I wants one, I do.

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Paging Sherlock Holmes!

The Giant Rat of Sumatra lives….
Giant rat caught in China
A giant rat with one-inch-long teeth has been caught in the southern Chinese province of Fujian.
The rat, which weighed six pounds and had a 12-inch tail, was caught at the weekend in a residential area of Fuzhou, a city of six million people on China’s south [...]

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