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| Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 | | 12:31 am |
Manga Cafe Mika  Thanks to Deb Aoki who told me about the news I had missed while I was overseas, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-opening weekend of Manga Cafe Mika, the first Japanese manga cafe in San Francisco. ( Read more... ) | | Saturday, April 26th, 2008 | | 12:18 am |
The Fall
I wasn't a huge fan of Tarsem's previous popular movie, "The Cell" with Jennifer Lopez (nice visuals, kind of a cheesy plot) but this one, coming out on May 9, looks pretty interesting. | | Thursday, April 24th, 2008 | | 2:58 pm |
Manga: The Complete Guide Eisner Nomination Well, I'm back from India, but never mind that for now. For the moment I just wanted to share the news that Manga: The Complete Guide has been nominated for a 2008 Eisner Award for Best Comics-Related Work! I'm really honored to be nominated and I'll definitely be at Comic-Con this year. | | Friday, April 18th, 2008 | | 8:59 am |
Common Culture
* Conversation with a Twentysomething Western Tourist:
"So what do you do?"
"Do you know Japanese animation, anime, manga?"
"Never heard of it..."
"Well then... do you know Pokemon?"
"Nope."
"Well, basically I work in comic books."
"Oh! What superhero do you do?"
* Conversation with a Twentysomething Bhutanese Guy (in Traditional Bhutanese Clothing, Of Course)
"So what do you do?"
"Do you know Japanese animation, anime, manga?"
"Yeah! Do you know Dragon Ball Z?"
"Know it? I worked on the English version of it. Just the manga, not the anime, but still...'
"Cool!! I used to watch the anime all the time... I saw up until the part when Goku is fighting Freeza but then they stopped showing it on TV. Does it keep going after that?"
"Uh, yeah, some people would say it goes on too long..."
"Yeah, I'd like to watch the rest of it then... hey... do you know some free website where I can watch it online?" | | Friday, March 28th, 2008 | | 8:34 pm |
Good Luck, Tibetans As my trip to India approaches, I face the disturbing realization that there's no way I'll have time to finish posting entries about my 2007 Egypt trip before I have to go overseas again. The closing entries on Egypt will have to wait 'till after I get back. Originally I was supposed to go on a GAP Adventures tour of Tibet and Nepal (with a brief pass-through of India), but the recent protests and repression in Tibet forced the tour companies to change their plans. Tourists and even foreign journalists were all forced out of the region, which was wracked with ethnic and political violence -- Tibetans vs. Chinese -- for most of the second half of April. The Chinese side is winning, of course, unless you count a little bit of bad P.R. (but not nearly enough to stop the Olympics). Lhasa, the main city of Tibet, has become gradually more touristy and ethnically Chinese over the last few decades, but after this recent struggle, the thought of going to some hastily-cleaned-up, Potemkin Village tourist version of Lhasa is particularly unappetizing. It's too bad my tour didn't leave a month earlier or I could have been there right in the middle of it -- and neither side is particularly mad at Westerners, so I don't think I'm being too reckless. For now, the future of Tibet is anyone's guess, but a speedup of repression -- as opposed to the previous gradual assimilation policy -- seems likely. I've been checking Phayul.com for Tibetan news. Anyway, good luck, Tibetans. Maybe I'll get to see your country eventually, if it's ever quite the same as it was before. Instead, I'll be wandering about the ricefields of Bhutan dreaming of politics and shrines and gods. See you all later, sometime far from now. Current Music: "This Time Tomorrow," The Kinks | | 12:14 am |
| | Wednesday, March 26th, 2008 | | 8:57 pm |
Egypt: May 14-15, 2007  The highlight of our sixth day of the tour was a trip to the Valley of the Kings, the richest site of royal Egyptian tombs. ( More Egypt ) | | Monday, March 24th, 2008 | | 2:40 am |
Review: Only Words  From reading lots of Boy’s Love over the last two years, I’ve come to the politically incorrect conclusion that the main reason I like gay-themed stories is not because of any fundamental interest in them, but rather, because same-sex relationships offer more potential for angst. ( Review of Tina Anderson and Caroline Monaco's BL manga Only Words ) | | Friday, March 21st, 2008 | | 3:17 pm |
| | Thursday, March 20th, 2008 | | 10:39 pm |
Egypt: May 13, 2007  At this point I’ve talked about race and religion, and I’m running out of fiery subjects, so the next few posts will be a bit shorter. ( More Egypt... ) | | 12:11 pm |
Yun Kouga's Loveless Should I give Loveless another chance? I've fallen behind and been meaning to catch up on it, and I'd be happy to hear any impassioned defenses of the series. Yun Kouga's art is of course very attractive, but I didn't like the way the story shoehorned in the battle sequences... it took a good concept and, I thought, reduced it to the most basic level where you could, say, pad out an anime series by introducing opponent after opponent. As someone whose basic training is, admittedly, in shonen manga, I don't like fights which are just there to move the plot along... I like fights which are F*I*G*H*T*S. I've heard (from someone who would know) that Kouga has a definite end in mind for the series, which is good, but I got frustrated by the execution. The best thing about it, from what I read, was the way it used the cat-ears thing to distinguish virgins from non-virgins... this reminded me of something I'd used to imagine when I was much younger, that people would have an aura revealing their sexual experience. Because of course, people who've had sex are essentially a different species from those who haven't, and this was a pretty brilliant way to show it... though I normally don't have much interest in the cat-ears. | | Tuesday, March 18th, 2008 | | 12:07 am |
Egypt: May 12, 2007  We woke up incredibly early, long before dawn. Jake and I had chosen to go on the optional jaunt to Abu Simbel, far to the south, several hours’ bus ride away. ( More Egypt... ) | | Sunday, March 16th, 2008 | | 9:26 pm |
More on Manga Tasting I should have linked to the original podcast by Patrick, but now I must say I am impressed. | | 9:11 pm |
Egypt: May 11, 2007  We awoke to the sight of mud-brick houses and green irrigated fields, dusty roads with men in grey djellabas riding donkeys. ( More Egypt... ) | | Saturday, March 15th, 2008 | | 11:44 am |
Egypt: May 10, 2007  We awoke and joined the others in the lobby for the first day of our tour proper. (Actually, Day One counted as a tour day on the official dossier, although all we did was meet up for dinner.) Our morning destination was the Egyptian Museum, and our afternoon destination was the Pyramids of Giza, the great symbol of Egypt. ( More Egypt ) | | Friday, March 14th, 2008 | | 2:06 pm |
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Return to Egypt  In just under three weeks I will leave on a three-week vacation for India, Tibet and Nepal, to wander and get visuals for my The Stiff. I’ll be back just in time for Stumptown at the end of April. On the occasion of this trip, it occurred to me that I never actually wrote anything about, or posted any photos from, my trip to Egypt back in May 2007, almost a year ago. Here are the photos. Now for some commentary, if you're interested... ( More about my trip ) | | Monday, March 3rd, 2008 | | 11:36 am |
| | Monday, February 25th, 2008 | | 5:52 pm |
Different Harlequins I bet the publishers of Harlequin romance novels hate this.  | | Friday, February 22nd, 2008 | | 8:25 pm |
Useless Thoughts on Napoleon Man, most portraits of Napoleon show him as some short, fat, wide-faced old guy (and in fact, he still ranks high among "Most Boring Famous People of the Past" in my mind), but if portrait painters are to be believed, at age 32 he was relatively bishi.  |
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