Monthly Anime on TV Viewing Guide for Anime Programming on ComcastOnDemand Channels:
DECEMBER 2009- Updated 1 Dec 09
COD/CE/AdultSwim/Action
Big O (Ep 19)
Code Geass (Ep 23)
Death Note (Eps 4-5-6)
Ghost in the Shell/SAC (Eps 16 and 18)
InuYasha (Eps 147 to 151)
COD/CE/AnimeSelects is back. CE/FunimationAnime/AnSel now has Eps 15 to 18 of GundamSeedDestiny and Eps 9-10 of Vampire Princess Miyu. Sadly Anime Network is no longer available OnDemand. Sorry.
Regrettably I will no longer be listing anything anime nor cartoon from COD/Kids except for movies. There are just too many to keep following them. Again sorry for the inconvenience. Be warned, however, that many anime/cartoons/movies/series here can be pay per view especially the stuff under COD/Kids/All Movies.
COD/CE/IFC/Anime
IFC Alert: This just in folks- IFC has added Basilisk a Hieian Era Samurai/Ninja anime series to its lineup. For us it's Tuesdays at 11:30 PM ET. Check your TV schedules in your area.
COD/CuttingEdge/FunimationAnime ( FA is no longer listed under Movies or Top Picks):
These titles are first episode free and 99 cents per each successive episode:
D. Gray-Man (Eppys 37 to 39)
Spice & Wolf (Eps 1 to 5)(NEW)(Allegorical yarns)
Nabarino No Ou (Eppys 16 to 18)
Blassreiter (Eppys 12 to 15)
Nana (Eppys 17 to 20)
Dragonaught (Eppys 9 to 12)
Glass Fleet (Eppys 5 to 8)(NEW)(Evil Imprerial Space Fleet vs Good Glass Fleet Pirates?)
Hunter X Hunter (Eppys 7 to 10)(NEW)
El Cazador (Ep 9)(NEW)(Bounty hunter finds amnesiac girl who is wanted Dead or Alive)
Specials:
Blassreiter P1 (Eps 1 to 5)($2.99)
Case Closed 3 Movie ($2.99)
Dragonaut P1 (Eps 1 to 5)($2.99)
My Santa OVA (Newly born Santa meets Mai a Santa in training and--)($2.99)(I just got this DVD)
These Funimation Anime titles are free:
Drama-Comedy:
Air Gear (Eps 11-12)(NEW)(Young folks training to be pilots)
Case Closed (Eps 43 to 45)
Fruits Basket (Ep 15)
Negima! (Eps 10-11)
Shuffle! (Ep 10-11)
Action-Fantasy:
Black Cat (Eps 1-2)(NEW)(Assassin known as the Black Cat)
Sasami (Eps 25-26)
xxxHolic (Eps 15-16)(Addicted to Sorcery & Witchcraft? This your mug of java)(New)
Solti Rei (Eps 9-B and 10)(NEW)(Not sure what this one is yet)
Tsubasa Chronicles (Eps 11-12)(Tsubasa is a submarine I think)
Ah My Goddess (Eps 17 to 20)(NEW)(A goddess enrolls in school)(FREE)
All pay per view anime available under Movies & Events/ Funimation Anime(includes above ppv titles)
Anime Select:
Gundam Seed Destiny (Eps 15 to 18)
Vampire Princess Miyu (Eps 9-10)
This next section of COD/Kids may have changed. Remember onegai that I only keep the Kids/Movies and Kids/Free Movies updated now. As far as I know all the kiddie stuff and teen stuff under Kids is still there albeit later eppys than I have here. Ditto for the Free Movis and Premium Channels sections for kid stuff. Check it out if you're interested at COD:
COD/PremiumChannels/Starz/StarzKids
Hansel & Gretel
The Pagemaster
Jim Carrey in Grinch
Chronicles of Narnia 2/Prince Caspian
Iron Giant
Wall-e
All Dogs Go to Heaven 2
Batman & Robin
Follow That Bird!
Thunderbirds on Patrol!
Secret of NIMH II
Comic Books Unbound
Anime: Drawing Revolution
Bolt (Travolta's a dog/Hannah Montana's a cat)
Wubbzy's Big Movie
The Witch's Dance (Princess Sydney wants a witch to turn her into a pumpkin!)
The Happy Cricket
Serendipity (Accidental Xmas Love)
COD/PremiumChannels/Encore/Kids
The Pagemaster
An American Tale (Spielberg's Russian mouse adventure animated film)
Daffy Duck's Movie and DD- Quackbusters
Ferngully
Dr Seuss- Grinch w. Jim Carrey
Persepolis (Unusual anime re a girl coming of age in Iran)
Nightmare Before Christmas (Xmas meets Hall-o-we'en a la Tim Burton)
COD/PremiumChannels/Encore
Resident Evil 3
Mimic
Tokyo Raiders
Cowboy Way (Raunch anime re horny cowboys- Rated X)
Enter the Dragon w/ Bruce Lee and Chuck Norris
Hansel & Gretel
Flatliners (College co-ed experiments with death)
Silent Movie (Mel Brooks' send up of silent films)
Truth About Charlie (Remake of Charade- pretty decent)
COD/PremiumChannels/Starz/AllMovies
Spiderman 3
Underdog
Untraceable
8 Women (A superb mystery- French w/ English subs)
Bolt
Jim Carrey's Grinch
Serendipity (Accidental Xmas Love)
COD/PremiumChannels/Max/Movies
Incredible Hulk
Fantastic Four 2 (Silver Surfer)
New Wolverine flick (Sneak Peek)
The Mummy 3/Dragon Emporer (stars Jet Li)
Kung Fu Panda
Jumper (Goku's DB powers of instant transmission- don't let Uncle Sam find out!)
Babylon AD
City of Ember
Hellboy II- The Golden Army
Journey to the Centre of the Earth w/ Brendon Fraser
Max Payne
COD/PremiumChannels/Movieplex
God's Gun (Yeah a Western but well if you've read my ff's you'll get the irony)
Nightmare Before Christmas (Tim Burton has 9 due out soon so don't miss it)
Sneakers (Robert Redford a computer nerd? Better believe it. Dan Ackroyd too!)
Secret of Nimh 2
Tokyo Raiders (Missing groom?)
White Nights (A classic w/ Mikhail Baryshnikov as a Russian ballet dancer who defects to the West)
COD/PremiumChannels/HBO/Movies/AllMovies
AI (Artificial Intelligence- Animated Androids)
Babylon AD (Vin Diesel in futuristic NYC. Based on game)
City of Ember (Kids saving subterranean city)
Max Payne (Mark Wahlberg is still invincible. Even against Aesir birds!)
The Dark Knight (Batman and he's got Arkham Asylum game out now)
The Incredible Hulk (Not as incredible as Bill Bixby/Lou Ferrigno were)
Hellboy II- The Golden Army
Kiltro
Nancy Drew
Kung Fu Panda
The Golden Compass
Titan AE
X-Men
The Day the Earth Stood Still (remake)
COD/Premium Channels/Showtime/All Movies:
Forbidden Kingdom (Jet Li/Jackie Chan's Journey to the West redo)
Lara Croft:Tombraider (Angie Jolie as a female Indy Jones)
Sukiyaki Western (BION- Warring Samurai in the old West!)
COD/Premium Channels/Too Much For TV:
Step Up Love (Ep 4)($14.95 monthly fee)
COD/Cutting Edge/Something Weird/School Scare Films:
Play in the Snow (Vintage short re snowman building, snowball fights, etc.)
COD/Free Movies/A-L:
Angel of Penna. Avenue (Kid asks Prez Hoover to find Dad for Xmas)
The Elf Who Didn't Believe (Elmo 'borrows' Santa's sleigh and vamooses)
COD/Free Movies/M-Z:
Santa's Slay (Demonic St. Nick on the loose!)
Tokyo Raiders (Missing groom?)
Xmas on Chestnut Street (Too many lights to sell/have a Xmas lights contest)
Xmas in Connecticut (Remake directed by the Governator AS)
Xmas Evil (Psycho thinks he's Santa and keeps track of the 'naughty or nice' kids!)
No change from November guide for any kids' shows except as noted below.
COD/Kids/CartoonNetwork
COD/Kids/DisneyXD
COD/Kids/KidsWB
COD/Kids/Bomerang
COD/Kids/4KidsTV
COD/Kids/Kabillion
COD/Kids/Free Movies:
See Free Movies above.
COD/Kids/Kids Movies(Pay Per View films):
An All Dogs Xmas Carol $2.99
Ernest Saves Xmas $2.99
Bah Humduck! (Daffy Duck is Scrooge) $2.99
Battle for Terra $2.99
Bob the Builder Xmas Special $2.99
Coraline/Coraline in 3-D $4.99 each
Invincible Iron Man $2.99
Iron Giant $2.99
Mickey's Twice Upon a Xmas $2.99
Monsters vs Aliens $4.99
Mulan (Chinese warrior maiden) $2.99
Pinocchio's Xmas (Paul Winchell/Alan King) $2.99
Rudolph's Shiny New Year $2.99
Rudolph & Frosty's Xmas in July $2.99
El Superbeasto (Slapstick Schtick a la Rob Zombie) $4.99
Xmas in Wonderland $4.99
Aladdin (Robin Williams is the genie) $2.99
Dr Seuss' Horton Hears A Who (Jim Carrey is Horton) $4.99
City of Ember (Save the glittering city!) $4.99
Kung Fu Panda (Jack Black the fighting panda) $4.99
Madagascar 2 (Lost animals again) $4.99
Open Season 2 (Deer leads animals against hunters again) $4.99
Pocahontas (Indian girl loves nature and Smitty) $2.99
Return to Neverland (PP must rescue Wendy from Hook years later) $2.99
Wall-E (The Oscar winner of 2008) $4.99
Atlantis the Lost Empire $2.99
Inkheart $4.99
Pink Panther 2 $4.99
Tale of Desperaux $4.99
TMNT (The turtles are back) $2.99
The Wiggles (13 movie skits @ $2.99 each)(Regular eppys are free at Kids/PBS Sprout. The Wiggles are a down under Aussie music quartet for kids. Meet Greg Page, Anthony Field, Jeff Fatt and Murray Cook who join Sprout's morning lineup weekdays at 6 AM ET starting Monday 24 August. Sure to appeal to the small fry! Don't miss the Wiggles Xmas extravaganza for less than $3.00!
COD/Top Picks/Holiday Movies:
COD/Movies/Holiday Movies:
These are all PPV holiday themed films:
Twelve Dogs of Xmas
All Dogs Xmas Carol
Aliens in the Attic (Not holiday but a great funny flick)
Babes in Toyland (1961 and 1997 versions)
Bah Humduck & A Looney Tunes Xmas (2006)
Barney's Xmas Star
Bob the Builder's Xmas
Xmas Carol (1938)
Xmas Story (Kid wants a BB gun for Xmas)
Dennis the Menace Xmas (2007)
The Nutcracker Ballet (1993)
Home Alone (Versions 1 to 4)
Mickey's Twice Upon a Xmas (2004)
Miracle on 34th Street (1947 and 1994 versions)
Monsters vs Aliens (Cool animated flick)
Mr Magoo (this is hilarious)
The Nutcracker (1986)
Pinocchio's Xmas (1980)
Rudolph's Shiny New Year
Rudolph & Frosty's Xmas in July
The Santa Clause (1994)(Tim Allen as St Nick)
The Original Wiggles Xmas Show (2003)
COD/Top Picks/TV and Movie Trivia (FREE):
80s Trivia 1
Animated Phrases 7
Britney Spears Trivia
Friends 2
Guess the Phrase 8
Harry Potter 8
Movie Trivia 7
One Tree Hill Trivia
Picture Puzzles 6
Seinfeld 2
Simpsons Trivia
Star Trek 2
The Office Trivia
Twilight Trivia
Word Puzzles 7
Word Srmables 4 and 8
COD/Kids/ActivityTV
Origami (Japanese art of paper folding)
Hometown Recipes (Like Chicago style pizza)
Cartooning Lessons
COD/TV Entertainment/AMC and TV Series/1967 The Prisoner (Eps 1 to 17 of this fine 60s cult classic starring Pat McGoohan as #6)(Ends 30 Nov 09)
Don't miss AMC's The Prisoner 2009 6 parter over three nights beginning at 8 PM ET on Sunday 15 Nov 09 and concluding Tuesday 17 Nov 09 with repeats each night and repeated afterwards on COD/TV Entertainment/AMC- with Jim Calveziel as #6 and Ian McKellen as #2- in the Sahara Desert near Namibia. Still being run as of 1 Dec 09.
That's all the FREE anime/cartoons on demand but there quite a few Pay Per View Ones here:
COD/PremiumChannels/DisneyFamilyMovies:
These run a basic subscription of $5.99 a month and only two really touch on anime this time around.
Phoenix & Carpet (A firebird and a flying carpet a la Boronov's symphonies)
G Force Sizzle (sneak preview of new animated film which is like GI Joe)
COD/PremiumChannels/TooMuchForTV/Imports:
This service runs $14.99 a month guys and gals:
Step Up Love (Ep 4)(Guy/gal discover themselves. This series not for the younger generation unless they are over 17)
(Most of these PPV animes are definitely not for the kids!)(Fireman Sam is OK for them)
I promised to add this one under KIDS.
COD/KIDS/PBS Sprout/Fireman Sam-
These are from Season 2 and feature a revamped format, better characters and new voices.
Jupiter and Venus have blue lights and the firehouse has been repainted. Norman's mom
Dillys and Bella are better looking and Sam's brother puts in some appearances too.
Dinosaur Hunt
No Nurse Like You
One That Got Away
The Wrong Smell
When Fools Rush In
TMFT has other non-anime fare too and it's pretty raunchy so be warned gang!
COD/Movies/X-Men & Wolverine:
X-Men, X-Men 2 and X-Men 3 are $3.99 each
X-Men:Origins;Wolverine is $5.99
(Also available under Top Picks)
Screensavers w/ and w/o music:
COD/Top Picks/Holiday Films & More/Yule Log & More (also HD)(FREE):
2009 Yule Log SS with Xmas music
Christmas SS w/o music
Fireplace SS w/o music
Glacial Lake SS w/o music
Snowman SS w/ Xmas music
Winter 1 SS w/o music
Winter 2 w/o music
Winter Green w/ Xmas music
COD/Music/Holiday Music:
COD/Music/Music Choice/Holiday Hits:
Various Xmas themed music which can also be found on Comcast's onscreen menu under
Songs of the Season which can be found under Channel 433.
From now on I'll post this list twice monthly and I'll keep it under 'Files' rather than 'Messages' or 'Blogs' (at www.Eons.com/groups/group/anime-a-holics/Files)
The 'teaser' beginning of the chapter on blog's first page and the balance in the comment/reply is how I'll post my fanfiction chappies from now on unless it's a short chapter that is.
SYFY's AniMonday (11 PM to 1 AM ET) is a double eppy of Monster (Doctor running from the law for a crime he did not do- sound familiar?) followed by Macross Plus (Computer generated hologram singer in love with two test pilots. Concludes next week).
Good news from SYFY folks! AniMonday has been expanded from 9 PM ET to 1 AM ET with the first two hours called Chiller. Chiller will feature unusual and scary anime film masterpieces beginning with Blood:The Last Vampire which spawned the Blood+ saga and a brand new live action film now running in theatres. Looks like 24 August will be Chiller's debut. If you get SYFY in the SE PA-USA area you are still getting Star Trek-TNG reruns from 9 to 11 ET on Mondays dammit!
Hey WitchBlade the film (with Sarah Pezzini not Masane Amaha- yech!) will hit theatres in a year or so while DragonBall and Death Note are already out there showing. Many more anime based flicks are coming soon and they are filming Bebop with Keanu Reeves in Dave's role as Spike Steigel. For Jett I'd pick LF- Larry Fishburne or even MF- Morgan Freeman. Denzel Washington or Samuel L Jackson don't fit the mold. How about Miley Cyrus aka Hannah Montana as 'Ed' and Lindsay Lohan as Faye Valentine? (Rafe) Donnelly could be Tommie Lee Jones. Hey I oughta be a Hollywood cast finder eh? Gad, I wonder how much of a muckup they'll make of the 'Bebop', 'Swordfish II', 'Redtail' and 'Hammerhead'? I don't think Ed's power scooter had a name although we all know the computer she wore on her head with 'goggle monitors' was named 'Tomato'!
Here's the new Saturday night CN/AS lineup which begins earlier now for us at 12:00 AM ET following Star Wars the animated series at midnight. All times Eastern of course:
12:30 AM to 1:30 AM Bleach (two eppys)
1:30 AM to 2:30 AM Fullmetal Alchemist (Just restarted)
2:30 AM to 3:00 AM Morabito (Balsa protects Chagum from Mikado)
3:00 AM to 3:30 AM Death Note
3:30 AM to 4:00 AM Ghost in the Shell/Stand Alone Complex
4:00 AM to 4:30 AM Blood+
4:30 AM to 5:00 AM Big 0 (Big Giant Robot fare)
5:00 AM to 6:00 AM InuYasha (2 eppys once more- yay!)
In both Code Geas and in FMA some of the characters have a special logo in their eye a la Code Lyoko's XANA logo in the evil characters' eyes.
In both Death Note and Bleach there are specific hints as to character origins. In DN Ryuuk tells Light Yagami that any user of the DN book can neither go to Heaven nor Hell after death. So what's left? Shinigami World meaning that DN book users after death become Shinigami death gods- right? Guess what live TV series is a DN parallel series? Hint- it's on Showtime.
In Bleach Rukia's Squad 13 captain (the one that is always sick as a rule) tells a subordinate that Ichigo's friends are special with unusually high spiritual pressures. He goes on to say that he would not be at all surprised if after death they became soul reapers themselves after they had passed on to the Soul Society. Renji Abari committed a minor faux pas in this week's eppy. While fighting one of the Arrancar Hollows he told him that by the time Kiske arrived the Arrancar himself would be dead. He apparently forgot that all Hollows are already dead to begin with. For that matter are soul reapers really alive or dead?
Ichigo, Urryuu and Chad have just met three Arrancars and their pet in the Wako Mundo desert on their way to Las Noches (The Nights) which is Aizen's HQ fortress. Seems not all Arrancars and Hollows are bad because these guys gave 'em a lift and are guiding them to LN. Live and learn guys. Why are they in WM? Aizen has Orihime of course! (see new post for more)
Discovered why Moribito theme music is so familiar. Group is Arc 'n ciel who did the GTO theme Driver's Edge. Early OT and ET for Death Note are done by Nightmare group which is what the Black Knights and Brittanians' Gundamlike fighting suits are called.
In FMA Ed has learned truth behind the Ishbaal massacre of fifteen years ago while brother Al has just discovered the identity of the Homunculi leader from the snake chimera Marta seconds before she was murdered by the #7 Homunculus- the Fuehrer King Bradley himself. He is Pride- the seventh deadly sin! But- who is his boss? Rose of Lior has become pals with Lira the girl alchemist who used to be with Yochi the state alchemist army lieutenant and she's now called the Holy Mother but she has gone mute and who's her baby's father? The climax seems to be fast approaching and it promises to be exciting so don't miss it gang! Hohenheim the Elrics dad is back and going after Dante. Al has become a deadly time bomb courtesy of an unknowing Scar and an evil Kimlee the Crimson Alchemist who used the red stones in Ed's SAA watch to transmute the souls in Scar's arm into a philosopher's stone!
Another Bleach note- why did Aizen want Orihime kidnapped? What or who is the sojioque he has stolen which will awaken in the winter? Who is the lad newly born from its power? What does Kiske know which he ain't telling? Can Ichigo defeat his Espada nemesis? Don't ya just love that jutsu used by Captain Toshiro Hitagawa- reign over the frosted heavens! then the name of his zambatou? A version of it is used by the evil Dragon Emporer in Mummy 3 when Jet Li turns a field of snow into jagged ice stalagmites. Of course he has mastery over the five Chinese elements- fire, water, earth, wood and metal! If there are only five elements in Chinese philosophy then how can there be an avatar or guardian of the air- Avatar the Last Airbender? Air is not one of those elements! And who's the looney tunes Espada poor Rangiku is stuck with?
Getting into DLs and ULs and burning CDs again. Trying to get into attaching videos to messages like I do pix now but it's damned tricky folks!
Sherlock Holmes returns in the personage of Robert Downey Jr as the famous sleuth. Hits theatres soon.
Mama's new read is Helma from the Tros of Samothrace series. Ho hum so far. Tros is getting interesting now- very interesting with refs to English countryside landmarks.
Dan Brown's Lost Symbol was just excellent! I loved it. A lot of Freemason stuff in it I didn't know. If any of you are Literary Guild members by all means check out the secret societies books they have at reasonable prices.
I have just added three plums to my anime vids collection: Complete DVD sets of Noir, Gasaraki and Tactics. I already have the complete set of Black Lagoon on DVD and partials on Blood+, Cyborg 009, FMA, Bleach and a few others. I have the first 7 eppys of Morabito and am on the lookout for the set. Bobby has the complete set of Trigun and Mama has the complete set of Gunslinger Girl and Witchblade. Anyone else have any new acquisitions to talk about? If so blog it here or post some messages folks.
Now have Bebop movie on DVD and VHS. Just got GS Innocence 2 and Haunting in Connecticutt. Thundercats came at last for Mama. Still have yet to watch DB Evolution film.
SYFY is airing Destination Truth which is like JBs old Digging for the Truth on HC. DT is hosted by Josh Bates or Gates and looks pretty good. Anyone know why SYFY considers wrestling science fiction stuff?
This just in folks! Josh Bernstein has revamped his website and is now using Twitter too. He has a fab group called JBs Group at YG. Dan Brown is on both Twitter and FaceBook now. What do you guys think about my starting an anime recipes file and a golf tips corner either here or at AH1 or somewhere else? Animeinfor.org is the only place I have ever seen an anime recipes section. As for golf tips- what can I say? I love golf- passionately even if I don't play as much as I used to. Gomen but I just remem,bered this. Kudos to Robert the artist for hire for finding Dan Doh- probably the only anime series about golf itself! Sadly there are no dubs of it just subs. It can be found at VEOH and hulu quite easily. I'll post a pix or two soon.
Another great show was In Search Of narrated by Leonard 'Mr Spock' Nimoy and I recall an eppy of theirs re the Knights Templar and Foucault's Pendulum. If anyone knows where I can find a copy of those gems on VHS or DVD onegai let me know. A big domo arigatou in advance for your assistance. Gotta really go now and get some blogging done and maybe post Chapter 50 at last.
Just saw Kurosawa's masterpiece 7 Samurai and started reading Angels & Demons after I finished Bored With the Rings (a LOR satire) and Fritz Lieber's Knight & Knave of Swords which was about the two unlikely Norse heroes Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser- think of Arnie Schwarzenegger teamed up with Bruce Willis! Next chapter real soon now. Have a great day and weekend. Sayonara for now folks.
Dororo just ran on COD/FreeMovies. It was based on a manga about a warrior cursed as a demon trying to get human again and the gal warrior who aids him. Several more Japanese and Korean subbed films under FM like Triad Elections. Saw Sho Kosugi in Pray for Death which was about a modern day Ninja going on a bloody quest for vengeance in NYC! Cool!
Has anyone seen G Force yet? How about Haunting in Connecticut? Someone has suggested at FaceBook that our anime is dead. Boy did that ever open a potboiler of contention! If anime is dead well nobody told Hollywood! DragonBall, Watchmen, GI Joe, Blood:TLV, Transformers2, the list seems endless eh?
How about Tim Burton's 9 and Pandorum eh?
I have now posted up to and including Ch 60 of Wings. I am trying to get Xmas and Wings rewritten and published. Think they will sell? A note to budding authors- Avoid 'author mills' like AuthorAmerica and AuthorHouse. All they want is for you to pay them to publish YOUR works! They guarantee nothing! Likewise avoid AbsoluteWriters Water Cooler for info and inspiration. They are quite negative and attempt to discourage a struggling author!
Don't miss Showtime's Inside the NFL tonight at 9, 10 or 11 PM ET. Play Beat the Insiders at beattheinsiders.com and join my group there- Saint K's Anime Friends. I'm on FaceBook now you know. This is getting to be more like a newsletter than a guide. Any suggestions? I am considering a monthly golf tips column and a recipe file a la animeinfo.org. I just posted (Files) two Thanksgiving dinner menus. Comments?
Sports fans! I just started a group at Showtime's Beat the Insiders and it's called Saint K's Anime Friends. Come & join me there and at FanIQ.com if you like. By the way my Saints are the highest scoring team in the league with 120 points in just 3 games. They are at 3-0 and lead their division. Our offense is #3 and our defense is #10. Quite a rise from #19 and #30 last season eh? Drew 'Divine Wind' Brees and his '4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse' have outscored Detroit 45-27, Eagles 48-22 and Bills 27-7. In that last game TO never got close to a ball! The 'Saintly Terrors' are stepping up at last to complement our offense. Enough re that. Oro do ya think of a recipe file here and/or a golf tips column maybe once a month? Don't worry because I have tons of recipes and loads of advice for duffers. Sorry there's been no Ch 61 of Wings yet but I've been really busy with blogs, surveys, polls, reviews, guides, posts and now sports NFL groups. Soon I promise you will see Ch 61 and maybe even the end of Wings before Xmas.
A pet peeve here folks. Why is it that in most anime the characters either walk (InuYasha) or run (Bleach) everywhere they go? Didn't the Japanese ever hear of transports? I'd love to see how Kagome could get an SUV through the well! Cars in the Soul Society's Seretai? They've got wide enough roads there surely? And Ninjas and Samurai never seem to have carts, chariots or wagons although Samurai rode horses which was why they made the Zanzabatous like the one used by Zanza on Kenshin. Balsa did ride a stallion for awhile on Morabito and on Code Geas Lelouch's 'brother' Rollo does have a motorbike w/ sidecar. Trains are the transport on FMA although Mustang and Hawkeye did have a car in last week's eppy. DN and Blood+ have cars, boats, trains, planes and the like. So does GS and Bebop. Naruto has modern stuff but no transports. Guess it's to each his own meaning whatever the creators decide.
Cult classic from the late 60s has come to IFC on Fridays at 8 PM ET. Don't miss The Prisoner with Pat McGoohan. In November AMC will air the new Prisoner series with Jim Caveziel as the Prisoner (see new post for more on this 6 eppy show). First eppy airs Sunday 15 Nov 09 at 8 PM ET on AMC (Ch 57 on Comcast).
Latest read was Danny Brown's excellent fifth work The Lost Symbol (soon to be a flick?) which was quite good if a bit wordy. Damned thing took me 3 days to read! With 2012 in the theatres it was quite apropos. Hints: A famous statue stands in front of the CIA HQ building in Langley and is a pivotal part of the storyline. There are a lot of hidden details in Washington DC and Dan Brown's a history buff as well as a secret society expert. He more than proved that in Angels & Demons and then again in the DaVinci Code. By the way he's got a very entertaining website at www.danbrown.com so if you like tricky logic puzzles and codes by all means visit him there.
Oro am I reading now? Sax Rohmer's Shadow of FuManchu. He is the old-fashioned Darth Vader and the leader of a group out to save the Earth from its inhabitants. They are called The Seven. His nemesis is a Scotland Yarder named Sir Denis Nayland-Smith who with his trusty sidekick Dr Petrie pursues Dr FuManchu the same way Holmes and Watson pursued Prof Moriarty all those years. His latest escapade involves collecting scientists and killing anyone in his way. Looks like the Brits, Yanks, Russians and Aussies will have to band together to defeat Fu and Huan Tsung his sidekick. Some pair- Fu was at least 90 when Smith met him 60 years ago (Fu has the secret of eternal life. Has he discovered the FMA Stone?) and his pal's in his 80's! Geriatric? Far from it! Smith's on his own this time unless you count his scientific buddy Carter who is about as useful as Zorro against Darth Vader! What a wimp!
I just began reading Eller Queen's 'The Finishing Stroke' mystery classic. A bit like Lost Sybol it has a cypher EQ must solve to find the killer and it takes him over 20 years to bring the miscreant to justice! A must read for EQ fans like me!
Here's oro the Keiman wants for Kurisumasu (Christmas) and I doubt if such a thing even exists. A wall clock (battery powered) that plays anime themes every hour on the hour. Now oro themes would it have? Nonstop Angel (DP Flash); Billy in Despair (Death Note); Life is a Boat (Bleach); Real Folk Blues (Bebop); Freckles (Rurouni Kenshin); Guardian of the Spirit (Morabito). That's half and for the rest how about Sailor Moon, InuYasha, RaveMaster, Gurren Lagann, NOIR's haunting watch melody and another Angels theme? Comments?
Well that's it for this time. Enjoy and toodles tomos watashi-K&K
