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In my head, I sound like Yahtzee (quite a feat, given my inherited U.S.-flat-midwestern-accent.)
where I start my browsing day...
...and one source I trust for reviews, reports, and opinion on manga specifically...
...and where my casual browsing usually ends, past the research for various articles that I have to do each day.
Note: NSFW. Icarus, best described as "the Thinking Man's Porn Manga." Simon does me the undeserved favor of dropping free review copies my way, which I have callously ignored to date. Simon's blog is also a must-read, for a look at the manga industry from a small indy publisher's perspective. Plus, porn.
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Top banner photo credits, from right to left:
- Soviet concept art vintage 1967, ganked from Dark Roasted Blend
- Excerpt of a souvenir card from the 1929 round-the-world flight of the LZ-127 Graf Zeppelin, ganked from Oldbeacon.com (via Metafilter)
- Goodyear Rocket Airship concept, posted in a 1958 Popular Mechanics article; ganked from online archives of the rec.aviation.military usenet group, found via GIS.
- Photo of the sculpture "Guard" by Hans van Bentem, located in Rotterdam, The Netherlands; ganked from Wikimedia Commons
- Soviet concept art from 1970, also ganked from Dark Roasted Blend
- Butt end of a R-7 Soyuz-class rocket booster of recent vintage, ganked from Michael Saxe at TravelBlog.
- Overlayed schematics, colour-inverted, of the Lippisch P-09 Rocket Plane, the Sänger-Bred Rocket Bomber, an unnamed heavy-tank-class mecha, and a second unnamed mecha in fighter-jet configuration (both anonymous to keep my ass from infringement -- and at that resolution & in combination I claim fair use as part of an artistic and satirical collage)
- Excerpt of "Dr. J.W. Mauchly makes an adjustment to ENIAC, the massive computer he designed to assist the U.S. military during World War II," ganked from Science Clarified
-- Logo art is original, credit M. Blind; logo created and photos composited in the Gimp 2.2
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Visible Inventory:
(starting top left, left to right, top to bottom)
Behind the chair: 4 sleeves of still-packed manga (from the February move) including Shinobu Life, Tsubasa: Those with Wings, Pastel, Shugo Chara, Shaman Warrior, To the Terra, A Kiss for My Prince, Orfina, Dorothy of Oz, Enchanter, Gacha Gacha, and Firefighter Diago of Fire Company M
Five volumes of the Flight anthology sitting under a copy of Reading Comics by Wolk.
A box of whole wheat Triscuits.
May/June issue of Call Sheet by Back Stage (formerly Ross Reports) — The ‘Voiceover’ issue
Western Digital 500GB drive.
(x2)
External DVD/CD-Rom Drive — and behind that
Three Aria DVD box sets (Aria the Animation and both parts of Aria the Natural)
Love Roma, 5 vols.
two more 500GB WD external hard drives, still in the box, waiting for the day when their brave efforts will be needed. (what can I say, I found them on sale) (69.99 ea.)
Next Row:
Latest Shipment from Right Stuf, still in the box (hey, I’ve been busy) — scores from their Bargain Bin; complete DVD runs of Battle Athletes and Snow Fairy Sugar.
Some empty boxes from previous shipments (Amazon, B&N, Right Stuf)
Box of Baconnaise from J&D Foods. (much better than it sounds)
Sleeve of random Audio CDs (dozens, stored loose, jewel cases long discarded) but also containing this gem:
…and a bunch of cables, plus one cat named Dag.
[not my cat.]
Comment by Matt Blind — 25 May 2009, 21:00 #