I admit I was interested in picking up Ōoku: The Inner Chambers for less-than-literary reasons, given the cover copy and the “Mature” rating, but then there was the whole nomination for the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize thing which suggested hey, this probably wasn’t just well-written porn. In fact it’s not porn, and it did (quite [...]
About time
Jan 1st, 2010
If I never see 2009 again, it’ll be too soon.
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Elmore Leonard
Sep 14th, 2009
He writes some pretty good mysteries, sure, but the man is the Ernest Hemingway of Westerns.
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I’m really too tired to go around punching people in the mouth today. So: if you find yourself tempted to post one of the following things to the Internet, or God forbid saying one of them sincerely in conversation, would you kindly punch yourself in the mouth? Thanks.
“IANAL, but….”
Anything describing how when you were a [...]
Keep Your Children Home September 8
Sep 4th, 2009
Because Obama is going to indoctrinate America’s schoolchildren with the socialist, Marx-hugging message that they should stay in school, work hard and take responsibility for their learning!
And I absolutely want people who are stupid enough to believe that to keep their kids out of school that day. For every Wingnut, Jr. who doesn’t have the [...]