Blurring under miracles of snow

[cyrano]

My wonderful housemate was all industrious this morning, and furiously cleaned house. I assuaged my guilt a little by sweeping and mopping, and then it was The Time of the Errands.
We braved the weekend coliseum of CostCo, fought some lions and gladiators, and escaped with soda and popcorn. And there were crafty bead-type things, and Jamba juice and lovely wonderful silk and velvet that I can't afford but had to have anyway. (It was 75% off, what could I do?)
I began assembling some concrete details on a birthday present I've been letting ferment in my brain for a while.
And there was a Barry and a Stuart and a Tony and a Cindy who all came to watch movies, and Leigh Ann hung out for a while and humoured us before dashing off for more exciting social engagements. I think people enjoyed all three films, which was nice, and then we watched a couple of hours of a cartoon called Samurai Jack which many of my friends had raved about before. And, like so many things that people I should have a lot in common with rave about, I thought it was 'pretty okay'.
Sometimes I think I must be missing something. There's still a lot about anime I know I Just Don't Get. But Tony loaned me Shamanic Princess, which he thinks I will like.
Then it was all late and everybody left and I went up to bed. Until like one-thirty or something, when I woke up and wasn't in any hurry to go back to sleep. Thank you, circadian rhythms. So you, faithful reader, get lots of spew about nothing in particular. Aren't you the jammy bastard?

Comments

The sad fact is...

[mallen.livejournal.com]

99% of anime just isn't that great. Oh sure, there are animes out there that are worth watching. But this kind of compulsive "everybody else does it" "how can 2 billion flies be wrong?" fan-dom is simply over the top.

I watched this Samurai Jack because I heard it was "cool, and I'd really, really dig it." What I found far more productive to do was leave it on as random background noise while I industriously coded a perl script to build digital photo thumbnail webpages for my website.