“Radiates, vegetables, monstrosities, star spawn – whatever they had been, they were men!” – H.P. Lovecraft, At The Mountains of Madness
Warning, possible spoilers ahead. I do my best not to ruin the stories I review too much, but some discussion of plot is necessary.
At the beginning of this month, I decided that as an aspiring author, it was my duty to read or reread all those books and short stories considered classics by my genre. I avoided Literary Classics, since generally I find them dull or pretentious (Sorry Mr. Joyce!) . Since I’m strapped for cash, I decided to start with things that I could find in intellectual commons.
Good day to you, Mr. Lovecraft! I started today with The Alchemist. (Warning, plot spoilers ahead)
Serial Experiments Lain is a haunting story about a girl named Lain, living in modern-day Japan, who lives a largely computerless existence.
My writing buddy read a recent story that I’m working on set in Aemon-Tor, my constructed world. I wrote that a character simultaneously saw a waxing gibbous and a waning crescent in the sky. He told me this was impossible.
Screeching halt.
Wait a second… is it? Now I’m inclined to believe his assertion, but it’d be just plain lazy to take his word for it! So I went and did research of my own. My thanks to Moon Connection for the chart below.
The Irresponsible Captain Tylor is a science fiction anime made in 1993, adapted from the novel The Most Irresponsible Man in Space, according to Wikipedia.
This series is awesome. It goes right near the top on my best anime of all time list, even though I’ve only watched it within the last month. The series follows protagonist Tylor, seen holding the fan above, about his misadventures in space…
I’ve been using Rosetta Stone for Japanese and German, Japanese since late August and German since Christmas. Curious as to how I should rate these fluencies on my resume I did a Google search, paraphrased:
“How fluent will Rosetta Stone make me?”
Ah, Chrono Trigger, one of the great classics of the Super Nintendo era. I can’t help but look back and realize that literally months of my high school life disappeared into this game. Its characters are likable, memorable and distinct. Its premise was highly original. Its execution, looking back without the pink-colored glasses, was not as perfect as I recall. Don’t get me wrong, I still absolutely love this game and its adaptation to the DS, but that can’t stop me from examining it tonight with a critic’s eye.
It’s alive!!!
Wait! I created you! You can’t do this to me!!! ARGH!!!