With The Mom’s summer vacation ending in the very near future, I asked her what she would like to do before she headed back to the classroom. She wanted to go to Busch Gardens. So I took a vacation day, the Friday before last, and we went to Busch Gardens. The park is one of [...]

Some very, very good stuff this week! XD – BERSERK, Vol. 12 by Kentaro Miura (DARK HORSE MANGA) – BOOGIEPOP DOESN’T LAUGH, Vol. 2 with art by Kouji Ogata and story by Kouhei Kadono (SEVEN SEAS) – FRUITS BASKET, Vol. 14 by Natsuki Takaya (TOKYOPOP) – GURU GURU PON-CHAN, Vol. 5 by Satomi Ikezawa (DEL [...]

By Thursday night of last week, I was wondering when the plague of locusts was going to hit. Seriously. The weekend totally got everything back on track. Completely and utterly random… – My truck has four new tires. – Had an uber-cool, all-day Friday at Busch Gardens with The Mom. (It was a “Mom Day,” [...]

Now, back to our everyday, run-of-the-mill blog… The good news: Diamond actually sent most of this week’s order. The bad news: My issue of SHOJO BEAT is “backordered,” which in “Diamond language” means “maybe you’ll see it five months from now, out of the blue.” To my shock, I ended up finding it at the [...]

This past week has been a difficult one, and I can’t decide whether my decision to take Friday off was just dumb luck or pure kismet. I guess I won’t ever truly know. I really needed it by the time I reached Thursday. I don’t usually get terribly personal in this blog. It’s too online, [...]

- Do any of you use an RSS reader? – Which one? I know some of y’all out there are very passionate about these things, so if you’ve found an Internet-based one that doesn’t require I download a lot of stuff onto my computer, sell me on it! So far, the following have been suggested: [...]

I’ve had anemic weeks before, but this is taking it to whole new level… – FABLES #51 by Bill Willingham with art by Shawn McManus and cover by James Jean (VERTIGO) I’m really starting to like Willingham’s twist on Cinderella. How can you NOT like a character who is smart, who can take care of [...]

Some things winding down, and others just starting up! – CIPHER, Vol. 4 by Minako Narita (DC CMX MANGA) – FABLES, VOL. 7: ARABIAN NIGHTS (AND DAYS) by Bill Willingham (writer), art by Mark Buckingham, Steve Leialoha, Jim Fern, Jimmy Palmiotti, Andrew Pepoy and cover by James Jean (VERTIGO) – FULL MOON O SAGASHITE, Vol. [...]

Insane. Crazy. Busy. Week. (Hence the late post. >_< Grr.) – BASILISK, Vol. 1 by Futaro Yamada (original story) and Masaki Segawa (manga) (DEL REY MANGA) – GUNDAM SEED DESTINY, Vol. 1 by Masatsugu Iwase (art) and Hajime Yatate and Yoshiyuki Tomino (original story) (DEL REY MANGA) – OYAYUBIHIME INFINITY, Vol. 1 by Toru Fujieda [...]