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My Little Kpop – f(x)
I don’t know anything about this Korean girl band f(x), but a friend of mine posted their “Hot Summer” music video and I kept just seeing this.
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Pop Culture, Geek Culture, Role Models, and Logical Fallacies
So recently I came upon this image on The Internubs: The choices were obviously cherry-picked, and I don’t see what’s so bad about Lady Gaga (the woman is a branding genius as well as a decent musical...
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If you’ve followed me for very long then you may be aware that my “gateway anime” was Sailor Moon, as it was for so many young ladies and gents in the ’90s. However, it was not my “first” anime. When...
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So I Finally Watched Thor, And…
My friends have been on my case about seeing the various pre-Avengers movies that I missed (basically everything but Iron Man 1 and 2), and since I noticed that Thor was available on Netflix, I...
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D&D Alignments and Anime
Click for larger version You may have seen a chart like the above before. It’s an alignment chart, and it assigns alignments from Dungeons & Dragons to various fictional (or non-fictional)...
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Slice-of-Life and Nonstop Brain Activity
This came up recently on Twitter, and then again (to a more insane degree) on the Anime News Network forums. In fact, it’s a perennial debate, and not one that I think comes up so often in western...
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How Did They Make Furby Even Creepier?!
I should learn never to underestimate toy designers. Look at this: Now, a decade ago when the Furby was brand new and I was just starting high school (’98ish?), I admit to being more excited about it...
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Safety Not Guaranteed: Favorite 2012 Movie So Far
This past weekend I had the opportunity to join some friends in Dallas and catch a movie, and we decided to see Safety Not Guaranteed. The movie is based on a popular sort of meme-slash-urban-legend:...
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Ouya: Why I Dig It and What It Needs
I’m sure buy now most of you have heard about Ouya, the Kickstarter phenomenon with a pretty high goal ($950,000) that it surpassed in less than a day. Why? Because it’s a $99 Android console for your...
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Political Animals: Almost At the Finale
Just caught up on the most recent two episodes of Political Animals in anticipation of tonight’s finale, and although I intend to watch that finale, I am overall disappointed with the series after a...
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Oz Reimagined Review
Indoctrinated into the Wizard of Oz series of children’s novels as a young’un, it didn’t take much convincing for me to snatch up Oz Reimagined when it was available as a Kindle Daily Deal, and by and...
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Divergent Review
Let me say up front that I enjoyed Divergent quite a lot. The main character is fun, feisty, and also (mostly) relatable, the setting is interesting, and the story goes a direction that I wasn’t...
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Throne of Glass Review
Throne of Glass is not a hard or especially deep read, but it’s a fun journey with a fiery (if occasionally impetuous) young heroine. Celaena is a famed-assassin-turned-mining-slave who gets a chance...
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The Selection Review
Rating: * * * (of 5) Straight-up guilty pleasure. I thought I had already reviewed this and now I wish I had done so before reading the sequel, but basically someone came up with the idea of doing...
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Insurgent Review
Rating: * * * * (of 5) Of the post-apocalyptic and/or dystopic YA I’ve been reading (and there is so much of it lately!), Divergent was probably the most promising start once the ridiculous premise is...
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The Elite Review
Rating: * * * (of 5) As worthy a follow-up as one might expect to The Selection, The Elite picks up right where the first book left off. America (“Mer”) is one of the remaining contenders to become the...
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Skyship Academy #1: The Pearl Wars Review
Rating: * * (of 5) The story got interesting (eventually), but the bland characters leave this novel a little lifeless. Skyship Academy tells its story from two points of view: first-person narrator...
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Extinction Point Review
Rating: * * * * (of 5) Imagine a New York City without any people. No cars rushing by, no chatter at every street corner, no bright lights, no sirens…all silence. This is the New York envisioned by...
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Insurgent Review
Of the post-apocalyptic and/or dystopic YA I’ve been reading (and there is so much of it lately!), Divergent is probably the most promising start once the ridiculous premise is forgiven, and Insurgent...
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Skyship Academy: The Pearl Wars Review
TL;DR version: The story got interesting (eventually), but the bland characters leave this novel a little lifeless. Skyship Academy tells its story from two points of view: first-person narrator Jesse,...
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