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…was voiced by Lisa Edelstein from House! I noticed while watching the “World’s Finest” three-parter last night. Very nice animation in that one. I switched to the commentary about five minutes in and heard them giving the credit to a Japanese company called TMS, which, as it turns out, is a 60+year-old studio that’s also done ルパン三世 and アキラ!

That’s what Mom wrote on a sticky covering the face of this picture she cut out from the New York Times (which she subscribes to in Houston, but who can blame her).

$99.99 + $9.99/month for something that didn’t even work in the store may have been inadvisable, but what about 39.99 & 1.99? I wonder if you still have to be with them to get that price?

My recent rediscovery of Jack Kirby—spoiled somewhat, by Roy Thomas’ Eternals sequel—didn’t include these. Sound familiar? (I thought I’d pioneered online interpretation, too.) Ah, if only they’d unearth some royal pr0n, because that’s what might’ve made it a hit. None in mine last night; just ping-pong. I had stumbled upon a gymnasium where players assembled after hours. Their balls kept flying into the dark room in the back, and I went to help retrieve them. Most were oddly-shaped, larger than what I remember, and broken, so not worth pocketing for myself. I returned them to their amusement, individually wrapped in plastic.

This new theme is, but I switched because I missed the strict formatting of my older blogs and all those widgets and things were cluttering up what had originally started as minimalist. The fancy fonts will take some getting used to, if I even keep them. And I guess by now it’s considered retro, but I’m still digging the Designers Republic-inspired icons-only approach; I’d do the whole site like their Wipeout interface, but I’ve given up even trying to right-align them on the side. Although I’ll most certainly remove that § symbol, which any law student will tell you stands for section number and not some proof that these aren’t “the words for a sermon no one will hear” (which is yes, a line I’ve used before).

[…“homosexual”, “lesbian” and “gay”] are terms that do not exist in Star Wars.

I’ve seen the prequels. Gay certainly does.

They’re working on it.

Wasn’t anywhere I went this weekend, but someone mentioned seeing it at a Target in La Verne on like the 20th page of tweets; I’d update the community if I could only remember my login. Wouldn’t you know it wasn’t available in cans, as deceptively advertised—

—but I did find 99¢ 20-oz. bottles in one of the fridges near checkout. Peanut gallery consensus seems to be that it tastes flatter, supported by the lack of bubbles along the brim, there in the Voltage I opened earlier this morning… this is in its favor, as far as I’m concerned, given my preference for days-old Dew. Citrus flavor is more prominent as well, prompting a comparison to the old Mello Yello competitor. Less sugars and sodium aside, what’s interesting is that the per-bottle calorie figure comes closer (280 vs. 290) to the per-serving calculation. But will this be enough to make up for their logo flop? Looks more like an ass-crack to me.

Yesterday Chris and I got into this chat about old Japanese cartoons (hence the Orion Quest), and while I was unsuccessful locating the morose ending credit sequence of Spaceketeers for him on YouTube, I’m grateful to someone for posting the US opening of Honey Honey, which at least has the same theme song that used to mesmerize me Sunday mornings on CBN. I used to love that synthesized harp—what am I saying, I still do—and there was an innocence to the show that appealed to me, even back then, while everyone else was being seduced by うろつき童子 and 魔界都市新宿. All that tentacle sex ever did was produce a generation of closeted masturbators; Josie & the Pussycats made me want to get out and see the world!

Remember when Bobby Jindal took a swipe at government spending on volcano monitoring? Tell that to all the castaways on this island. GOP thought as much about terrorist threats before 9/11 (and after). How they stay around beats me. Spectacular pictures of that eruption brought back a memory of the showdown with the main villain from Grandizer on Force Five. I know, something always reminds me of childhood cartoons.