in the shell

I believe a certain Titan was chained to a rock, his liver devoured time and again by that beastly bird Ethon, all for giving man the gift of flan. Or maybe such a scene was in that hodgepodge cinematic retelling of Greek myths, FLAN OF THE TITANS. <shakes his fist> I'll no longer give a fig for the...

Some stuff that moved me, at various points: 1. BATTLESHIP YAMATO, a.k.a. STAR BLAZERS: The first anime that rocked my world. I used to come home from school, as giddy as a kid on Christmas. 2. The Captain Harlock franchise, especially ARCADIA OF MY YOUTH. More Leiji Matsumoto. ARCADIA, for all its ...

Something I've always wondered, but no one takes it as a serious question: If a person with serious problems- say, Battle Angel Alita 's flan-obsessed Desty Nova- created a hyperadrenalized, freaked-out wombat and pitted the thing against a similarly crazed nutria, which beast would win, the diprodo...

I was a lurker. Now I'm poster. I think both labels sound rather unpleasant. I'm in my thirties. I live in New Orleans. Yes, I was in the city for Katrina. Yes, I stayed for just over a week after the storm. No, it wasn't a very pleasant experience. Yes, my property and my body survived the storm- m...

Re: The back-and-forth between Spica and Lightice: I think the following links might be useful- or at least interesting- when discussing neurons, etc. http://www.hhmi.org/research/investigators/anderson.html http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-02/uoc--ufa021704.php http://www.eurekalert.org/...