April 4th - It's So Fun To Pretend You Have a Wooden Leg

You should be watching this. That is all

Posted at 8:11
I've been watching/reading this Japanese series called "Azumanga Daioh." I've pretty much given up on Anime and Manga as of late but Azumanga is one of the few exceptions. It's really hilarious but impossible to describe since it doesn't really use a lot of snappy one-liners you can just repeat. It revolves around a group of High School girls and their random school adventures. I found a site that has a couple of them scanned/translated and I picked two ones I think help explain the wackiness of the series. Read down, not across.

Heh. In case anyone out there likes me enough to buy me a present I think the first volume of strips would do nicely. It's only $9.99 *whine* It'll be better than having to go to Barnes & Noble everytime I feel like reading. That's where I was today. I noticed the second volume of Megatokyo was out. Megatokyo became really unfunny once Largo left the site and Piro took over, although I will have to give Megatokyo credit in a moment. See, since Manga is read right to left the companies publishing it usually put a warning in what would normally be the front of a book, saying "Stop!" and explains how you're reading the book backwards if you're starting on that page. The Megatokyo book has that warning in the back, saying "Stop!" and explains how Megatokyo was created by Americans so of course it reads left to right. Then it calls you an idiot for expecting otherwise. That made me laugh.

Ezra told me Jonny Wow is playing a show at Mount Holyoke College on the 23rd. Aparently they're playing with this band Holiday, who has this really great video you should watch. I wish more bands had more sentimental, real footage of themselves in their videos. They're also playing with this shitty punk band called Scattered Rock. I wish Jared were here to make fun of them. Jared loves making fun of teen punk bands, and him doing a hilarious rendition of that shitty Simple Plan song "Addicted" while jumping up and down strumming an air guitar is the funniest goddamn thing I've ever seen. Right behind Azumanga Daioh anyway.

I'm working on a big update for all the empty areas of the site so stay tuned. And my first letters column is tomorrow! GET EXCITED!