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Three things, emo-free
Sep. 30th, 2008 07:34 am1. Escaflowne marathon!
As I know several local folks have expressed interest in watching or rewatching Escaflowne, I am going old-school (my high school crowd used to do this) and doing a marathon viewing on Saturday, October 25th. We will start at noon, and probably end around midnight or one, depending upon how much time we take out for food. Location is my place in Medford; email me for the address, as I don't post these things publicly. (arkady [dot] lizard [at] gmail [dot] com.) Please to RSVP!
For those who don't know, The Vision of Escaflowne is a girl-goes-to-fantasy-world anime where the girl is actually likable and the fantasy world is incredibly well-developed. As opposed to the other way around! It's got a fast-moving and fairly complicated plot, a lot of great characterization, beautiful art and music, and some of the best world-building I've seen in anime. Also, unlike a lot of my favorite anime, it is not brain-breakingly weird; that combined with its utter lack of standalone episodes (there's too much plot to cram in) make it very well suited for a marathon.
We will not be watching the Escaflowne movie, as that's a different continuity.
As a bonus incentive, the Escaflowne LARP I had been vaguely planning for a while has been biting me on the butt. This would be set about a year after the series, and would be primarily politics and character development. Only a few roles require canon literacy, but, as with all fanworks, the more you know it, the more you get out of it, and it does naturally spoil the series. So! Come increase my player pool! :D
Speaking of scheduling...
2. Do any of my local non-driving friends need a hand getting to the polls on November 4th?
Because, you know, it's the least I can do. Contact me by email?
Speaking of politics...
3. Best. Thing. Ever. Bill Maher:
Now, take a look at these pictures. Here are the CEOs of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, AIG and the Lehman Brothers. I know the first thing that jumps out about these faces is that they all happen to be white, and they all happen to be responsible for stealing. But what you have to understand is that these whites are a product of a society that made them that way. It was the neighborhoods and the schools they went to: Harvard, Yale, the Wharton School of Business. They never learned the value of doing real, actual work and the first step to fixing that is better role models, so kids growing up white today don’t think the only way out of Westchester is corporate crime. Or a government handout or sailing. So I get it, the temptation is to look at McCain and vote against him because you don't see an individual, you just see another typical welfare whitey.
"And it's true, he's spent his entire life shuffling from one low-paying government job to another. Well, except those years he spent in prison. Typical! And between you and me, he's not very articulate. Oh, he may have some street smarts, but he's not what you call an educated man. He freely admits he's ignorant about the economy. And apparently the only thing his white running mate knows how to do is crank out one baby after another. And now of course, her teenage daughter is pregnant out of wedlock. Because she learns it at home! But that doesn't mean we should assume all white people are like that, just because so many of them are."
As I know several local folks have expressed interest in watching or rewatching Escaflowne, I am going old-school (my high school crowd used to do this) and doing a marathon viewing on Saturday, October 25th. We will start at noon, and probably end around midnight or one, depending upon how much time we take out for food. Location is my place in Medford; email me for the address, as I don't post these things publicly. (arkady [dot] lizard [at] gmail [dot] com.) Please to RSVP!
For those who don't know, The Vision of Escaflowne is a girl-goes-to-fantasy-world anime where the girl is actually likable and the fantasy world is incredibly well-developed. As opposed to the other way around! It's got a fast-moving and fairly complicated plot, a lot of great characterization, beautiful art and music, and some of the best world-building I've seen in anime. Also, unlike a lot of my favorite anime, it is not brain-breakingly weird; that combined with its utter lack of standalone episodes (there's too much plot to cram in) make it very well suited for a marathon.
We will not be watching the Escaflowne movie, as that's a different continuity.
As a bonus incentive, the Escaflowne LARP I had been vaguely planning for a while has been biting me on the butt. This would be set about a year after the series, and would be primarily politics and character development. Only a few roles require canon literacy, but, as with all fanworks, the more you know it, the more you get out of it, and it does naturally spoil the series. So! Come increase my player pool! :D
Speaking of scheduling...
2. Do any of my local non-driving friends need a hand getting to the polls on November 4th?
Because, you know, it's the least I can do. Contact me by email?
Speaking of politics...
3. Best. Thing. Ever. Bill Maher:
Now, take a look at these pictures. Here are the CEOs of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, AIG and the Lehman Brothers. I know the first thing that jumps out about these faces is that they all happen to be white, and they all happen to be responsible for stealing. But what you have to understand is that these whites are a product of a society that made them that way. It was the neighborhoods and the schools they went to: Harvard, Yale, the Wharton School of Business. They never learned the value of doing real, actual work and the first step to fixing that is better role models, so kids growing up white today don’t think the only way out of Westchester is corporate crime. Or a government handout or sailing. So I get it, the temptation is to look at McCain and vote against him because you don't see an individual, you just see another typical welfare whitey.
"And it's true, he's spent his entire life shuffling from one low-paying government job to another. Well, except those years he spent in prison. Typical! And between you and me, he's not very articulate. Oh, he may have some street smarts, but he's not what you call an educated man. He freely admits he's ignorant about the economy. And apparently the only thing his white running mate knows how to do is crank out one baby after another. And now of course, her teenage daughter is pregnant out of wedlock. Because she learns it at home! But that doesn't mean we should assume all white people are like that, just because so many of them are."