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“Weird Al” – Craigslist Monday, June 15th, 2009

After a midday 'hacking' of weirdal.com, brilliantly designed to mirror the look of craigslist (which unfortunately seems to have gone away), the parody master has just posted a new video homaging The Doors for the track Craigslist:

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DVD-A-Day 18 – Comic Party 1 disc 1 Monday, June 15th, 2009

Wow, what a difference a switch in mediums can make, and not for the better- at least so far. While the important personality bits are there(with some tweaking), the characters, and more specifically the girls, all seem to have gotten a few years younger, and someone also decided that ...


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Manga-A-Day 16 – Slayers Special: Spellbound Monday, June 8th, 2009

Well, I probably should have paid more attention there... Seems this is the fourth collection of a series of Slayers shorts, I thought it was a one-off :\ Still, given the nature of the book, there wasn't any sort of overarching plot that I could see, and ...



Manga-A-Day 15 – Shaolin Soccer v2 Sunday, June 7th, 2009

And the weekend of bad continues. Picking up where the first volume leaves off, our team of kung fu soccer 'brothers' work their way through the tournament, racking up an impressive string of victories. That is, of course, until they meet up with Team Evil in the ...


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Manga-A-Day 14 – Shaolin Soccer v1 Saturday, June 6th, 2009

Tenuously a manga, closer to a manhua given its Chinese artist, but commissioned for the movie, it really is the awesome of the movie that drove me to pick it up (as part of that bag of as much as possible for $20 thing). While it sticks pretty close ...


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Manga-A-Day 13 – Comic Party v5 Friday, June 5th, 2009

Another series down, and certainly pleased with how it all turned out. After being scouted by a weekly manga magazine for a professional gig, our lead (who has only been at it for a year and has barely broken past the smallest tier of doujinshi publishing) is quickly swept ...


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Manga-A-Day 12 – Comic Party v4 Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009

Again with the two major plot threads, tying back into earlier, briefly introduced characters (also cute girls, this did originate as a visual novel game after all). Overall, the tone of this volume was a fair bit more serious (relatively speaking) and almost approaching normal slice-of-life, rather than the ...


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Manga-A-Day 11 – Comic Party v3 Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009

Continuing last volume's cliffhanger, we spend the better part of the volume wrapping it up, in requisite ridiculous fashion. Then we're on to getting our lead's proto-Kasukabe girlfriend (yes, I know, completely different creative group than Genshiken, but still) to participate in the next doujinshi event ...


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Manga-A-Day 10 – Comic Party v2 Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009

The insanity marches on, as our lead continues to learn the ins and outs of the doujinshi world, finding that its not always successful, and that spurned fans/creators can be really fucking scary. The cast, which seems to keep expanding every few chapters, is working nicely, and the lead ...


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Manga-A-Day 9 – Comic Party v1 Monday, June 1st, 2009

For some reason, I thought this was going to be a rather tame series, focused on the crafting of doujinshi with somewhat realistic characterizations. Doujin-making aside, I couldn't have been more wrong. Opening with a nailbat wakeup call, lots of metal references, and a quick jump into the world ...


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