I read Cornelia Funke's new(ish) book this afternoon -- the one about the girl knight. It was not fantastic or anything, but I thought it was funny that said girl knight had a talking pet cat and a debilitating fear of spiders. Sort of like another girl knight we all know and love! The thing I liked best about it was that the Girl Power that is inherent in these sorts of books was so practical and matter-of-fact. It was very post-feminist, compared to the books I read as a kid. So I thought that was pretty neat.
Manga really brings out the crotchety eighty-three year old woman in me. My sister has started following this series called Tokyo Something or Another. My mom asked me to vet them to make sure they're appropriate, but I could not do it! Because they open the wrong way. The binding is on the right side! What. The. Hell. I literally found myself bitching to my mother that they're published in English for Americans and how this is America where we bind our books on the left side. Amazingly, Little Miss Ten Whole Years doesn't seem to have a problem adjusting to the change. And they are published in black and white and cost ten dollars an issue! Even used, they are something like $7.50. Ridiculous much? You could buy a real book for that much money! (See? Crotchety old lady!)
( complaining about annoyingly bloated network bugs... )
Probably rendered more annoying by the fact that I am kind of sick and therefore easily annoyed. In fact, many many many people on my f'list seem to also be sick. So I hope we all feel better soon.
And, heeey, the strike is OVAH. Which is cool, I guess. The deal seems sort of crappy to me, but as long as the writers are happy... Looking at the chart of strike-affected shows, I weirdly found myself not caring about all that much. I'm not caught up on FNL, and the news of its possible cancellation leaves me pretty cold. I'm still not caught up on Pushing Daisies. Don't care about Addison's Anatomy. I haven't been watching The Wire since I stopped HBO. I mean, I pretty much dropped everything but Chuck, Ugly Betty and Gossip Girl. Speaking of which, we were supposed to get 9 new episodes of Gossip Girl, but the CW seems to have trimmed its order to 5 or 6. Bummer, but I'll take what I can get.
Manga really brings out the crotchety eighty-three year old woman in me. My sister has started following this series called Tokyo Something or Another. My mom asked me to vet them to make sure they're appropriate, but I could not do it! Because they open the wrong way. The binding is on the right side! What. The. Hell. I literally found myself bitching to my mother that they're published in English for Americans and how this is America where we bind our books on the left side. Amazingly, Little Miss Ten Whole Years doesn't seem to have a problem adjusting to the change. And they are published in black and white and cost ten dollars an issue! Even used, they are something like $7.50. Ridiculous much? You could buy a real book for that much money! (See? Crotchety old lady!)
( complaining about annoyingly bloated network bugs... )
Probably rendered more annoying by the fact that I am kind of sick and therefore easily annoyed. In fact, many many many people on my f'list seem to also be sick. So I hope we all feel better soon.
And, heeey, the strike is OVAH. Which is cool, I guess. The deal seems sort of crappy to me, but as long as the writers are happy... Looking at the chart of strike-affected shows, I weirdly found myself not caring about all that much. I'm not caught up on FNL, and the news of its possible cancellation leaves me pretty cold. I'm still not caught up on Pushing Daisies. Don't care about Addison's Anatomy. I haven't been watching The Wire since I stopped HBO. I mean, I pretty much dropped everything but Chuck, Ugly Betty and Gossip Girl. Speaking of which, we were supposed to get 9 new episodes of Gossip Girl, but the CW seems to have trimmed its order to 5 or 6. Bummer, but I'll take what I can get.
feeling: sick
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