October 2008

Let the Right One In

Submitted by ardith on Thu, 2008-10-02 07:51

I'm a podcast addict. Two of my favorite center around movies. Filmspotting and /Film accompany me on my drives and distract me from thinking about all the work I'm doing while at the gym.

This week, on the /Filmcast, they briefly discussed a Swedish vampire film that sounds all sorts of interesting.

My friends know I don't watch horror if I can help it, but the premise of this movie sounds really fascinating. It centers around a bullied 12-year-old boy and his new classmate, a mysterious girl who doesn't feel cold and only comes out at night.

Have You Registered?

Submitted by ardith on Thu, 2008-10-02 18:38

If you haven't, you need to get off your butt and do it. You can even do it on the internets.

While every election is important, this November will be historic. And frankly, the world is going to crap and you need to speak up before we are all covered in it. So here are some links and a very special video message after the cut!

Rock the Vote
League of Women Voters
Locations to register - 2008 Registration Info from the video

Old Anime & Manga Papers - Finally Up! Um, Again.

Submitted by ardith on Fri, 2008-10-03 23:11

research papers

I've finaly gotten the rest of my old anime & manga research papers up. Click on the RESEARCH PAPERS link above to get to them.

I wrote these while I attended UCLA. I tried my darndest to get anime & manga into whatever liberal arts class I was taking during my stint there. I even wrote a paper on Native Americans in anime & manga, which I, alas, cannot find.

Actually, it was probably a bad paper since I wrote it during my freshman year (1995) and tried demonstrate how Native Americans were very present in anime & manga in stories like Blade of the Kamui. Seriously. I think he has a knife fight with an American Indian for a few seconds. But I think the topic was weird enough to earn an A for that class.

I can't remember which classes I wrote which papers for. I can probably double check against my transcripts, but I don't know if I want to go through so much and think about all of the Biochem classes that I didn't do so well. You know, because I loved Japanese so much more. Well, loved anime & manga so much more.

These papers have been up on the internet in one form or another for years. Hm, I can probably use Archive.org to look up the old paper references!

Come to think of it, I have a stack of 3.5 inch floppies that probably have more papers. But I shan't dust them off. I don't think I even have a disc drive that can read those!

Submitted by ardith on Fri, 2008-10-03 23:44