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We're selling comics, dvds and cds soon, Aden and I are. I will have a spreadsheet available of all items and prices (o.b.o), and Graig'slist will be hitting Craigslist and GeeBay around the same time... maybe... if I figure this whole internets resale thing out.
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I had a hamburger and fries and a vodka-laced beverage last night...and it was good. Breaking my own self-imposed rules makes me such the rebel, no?
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Apparently my RSS feed is a bit tankered, as the new installation of Moveable Type with all it's weird Java interfacedness isn't working up to snuff. It's causing headaches as comments and trackbacks are locked out, pinging's right off, and yup, the "convert line breaks" doesn't work properly. So previous posts you're probably seeing as one grand Kerouac-ian lump-o-text, but now, with this very post and the power of html encoding, you should see paragraphs (oh, the novelty of it all).
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Now that I'm not buying new music, I'm still able to get my fix of sounds-I've-never-heard thanks to CBC Radio 3 live streams and podcasts, and Vancouver's newest DJ GAK (mp3s available on-site or you can tune in live Mondays 10:30 - Midnight eastern or 7:30 - 9 pacific on CITR).
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The Ricky Gervais-fuelled, HBO/BBC produced Extras is airing from square one on the Comedy Network, starting last night (yeah, I know it's been on DVD for ages). Rating: Uncomfortably hilarious. Because Extras is a full half hour show, it runs longer with commercials added in the mix. As such Comedy Network has to fill in about 20 minutes of time and has turned to Adult Swim's 12-minute monstrosity Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!. Rating: Bewildering. The show is not conventionally funny, but instead so beyond irreverent that you just have to stare in awe. Aden was stunned after a few minutes, unable to formulate words to describe it. The creators of the already peculiar Tom Goes To The Mayor un-cartoon have topped themselves, with the help once again of Mr. Show's Bob Odenkirk, and Walk Hard's John C. Reilly ("I'm not ready...").
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Aden received Battle of the Planets DVDs on loan from a co-worker, but they shall not be reviewed, because, quite frankly, there's no way in hell we're going to make it through watching all 16 episodes without either being drunk or wedging the corner edge of a table into our foreheads. The basic idea behind the show is it's a Japanese cartoon (or "anime" as all the kids call it) that was transported to America in the late 1970's, only Japan's cultural take on cartoons in that era were much different than the ol' USA's, and what was teenaged entertainment was made kid-friendly. Each episode was butchered to remove any real violence, any suggestion of death, or, quite frankly, logical storytelling. I wonder if any of the episodes retain even the basic plot of their Japanese counterpart? Instead, a little robot creature, 7-Zark-7 has been inserted into the cartoon, mainly through a voice over to either explain what's happening or to clarify to the kids that all the bad guys evacuated their exploded ship safely, were collected and are now behind bars. The Japanese Gatchaman tamed into Battle of the Planets by the same crew from the Superfriends (shared voice actors and similar musical accompaniment) is a bizarre experience; there's a curious similarity to how Space Ghost: Coast To Coast or Sealab: 2021 would re-use old animation for twisted new purposes, but here it's lacking creativity and moreover diminishing the original animation. Wikipedia details some of the big differences between the original and butchered remakes.
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All out of items for today.
We're selling comics, dvds and cds soon, Aden and I are. I will have a spreadsheet available of all items and prices (o.b.o), and Graig'slist will be hitting Craigslist and GeeBay around the same time... maybe... if I figure this whole internets resale thing out.
**ITEM**
I had a hamburger and fries and a vodka-laced beverage last night...and it was good. Breaking my own self-imposed rules makes me such the rebel, no?
**ITEM**
Apparently my RSS feed is a bit tankered, as the new installation of Moveable Type with all it's weird Java interfacedness isn't working up to snuff. It's causing headaches as comments and trackbacks are locked out, pinging's right off, and yup, the "convert line breaks" doesn't work properly. So previous posts you're probably seeing as one grand Kerouac-ian lump-o-text, but now, with this very post and the power of html encoding, you should see paragraphs (oh, the novelty of it all).
**ITEM**
Now that I'm not buying new music, I'm still able to get my fix of sounds-I've-never-heard thanks to CBC Radio 3 live streams and podcasts, and Vancouver's newest DJ GAK (mp3s available on-site or you can tune in live Mondays 10:30 - Midnight eastern or 7:30 - 9 pacific on CITR).
**ITEM**
The Ricky Gervais-fuelled, HBO/BBC produced Extras is airing from square one on the Comedy Network, starting last night (yeah, I know it's been on DVD for ages). Rating: Uncomfortably hilarious. Because Extras is a full half hour show, it runs longer with commercials added in the mix. As such Comedy Network has to fill in about 20 minutes of time and has turned to Adult Swim's 12-minute monstrosity Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!. Rating: Bewildering. The show is not conventionally funny, but instead so beyond irreverent that you just have to stare in awe. Aden was stunned after a few minutes, unable to formulate words to describe it. The creators of the already peculiar Tom Goes To The Mayor un-cartoon have topped themselves, with the help once again of Mr. Show's Bob Odenkirk, and Walk Hard's John C. Reilly ("I'm not ready...").
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Aden received Battle of the Planets DVDs on loan from a co-worker, but they shall not be reviewed, because, quite frankly, there's no way in hell we're going to make it through watching all 16 episodes without either being drunk or wedging the corner edge of a table into our foreheads. The basic idea behind the show is it's a Japanese cartoon (or "anime" as all the kids call it) that was transported to America in the late 1970's, only Japan's cultural take on cartoons in that era were much different than the ol' USA's, and what was teenaged entertainment was made kid-friendly. Each episode was butchered to remove any real violence, any suggestion of death, or, quite frankly, logical storytelling. I wonder if any of the episodes retain even the basic plot of their Japanese counterpart? Instead, a little robot creature, 7-Zark-7 has been inserted into the cartoon, mainly through a voice over to either explain what's happening or to clarify to the kids that all the bad guys evacuated their exploded ship safely, were collected and are now behind bars. The Japanese Gatchaman tamed into Battle of the Planets by the same crew from the Superfriends (shared voice actors and similar musical accompaniment) is a bizarre experience; there's a curious similarity to how Space Ghost: Coast To Coast or Sealab: 2021 would re-use old animation for twisted new purposes, but here it's lacking creativity and moreover diminishing the original animation. Wikipedia details some of the big differences between the original and butchered remakes.
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All out of items for today.