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[edit 29 October: perhaps you have noticed yourself, that the best intentions for ‘getting some work done’ over a few days off are quickly subsumed and forgotten when presented with nearly limitless possibilities, like sleeping for 15 hours and re-reading Emma (seas.2 dvd’s aren’t out quite yet but are shipping any day now) and — oh, I don’t know… changing the colour scheme on one’s web site.

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True to my word (though in fact much earlier than I thought I would have to) there will be no Weekly Manga Charts for your perusal today, or tomorrow, or ever — until Monday, but at that point the posted numbers will actually be this week’s chart (week ending the 26th) as last weeks chart was accidentally dumped in the firebox.

Irretrievable error. We let some drunk guy near the spreadsheet, and he messed everything up.

Console yourselves with the Huge Honkin’ Charts I Posted All Week and consider that if only I could do this as my full time job, rather than on the side after a 45 hour work week, then you’d get your numbers early, often, and with a side of reviews — maybe a weekly column for dessert. Alas, such is not to be.

(unless someone wants to Pay me to blog, hint hint.)

I’m not necessarily trying to make up for a late posting with a big ol’ block of data to assault your eyeballs — it’s just a coincidence. :)

New this week is the Emerging Trends Report: In much the same way that the weekly rankings summaries make sense of the looong boring lists that are the multiple charts of the Manga 500, this new weekly feature is a snap-shot of what’s new and what’s hot. (to the limits of my method)

Hidden underneath that chunklet is the full posting of the New Releases & Preorders for the week (with a slight change in format to accomodate the new summary report) and the index and estimated sales rankings for the week ending 7 Sep.

currently suffering from something pulled or slipped or dislocated in my spinal area, roughly in the lumbar, such that I can lay flat (or close to it) with little difficulty, other positions and motions become difficult *

[ * the dull ache with occasional twinge instantly converts into thought-shredding shocks ]

I can type, by bringing the laptop into bed with me, but the amount of typing needed for say, 3500 lines of data entry are a bit beyond my physical limits. Not only will last week’s chart be a smidge late (I’m thinking it will be a Thursday post, again) I will also have to stretch the definition as to when last week ended. Right now I think the chart may include data from wednesday, the day after tomorrow.

I guess I will just have to use this “down time” while I can’t really post to watch a few DVDs, and read manga. O, the hardships. ;)

….and that’s my limit: have to move now. hurts a tad too much

On the one hand, I could claim the banner as my own work (which of course it is, in the sense that a well trained monkey can cut-and-paste with the best of them, and so can I) but in providing due credit to the sculptor Hans van Bentem [*sigh*, like most artistes he insists on flash for his site; be warned] for his robot statue (that’s the 4th image right-to-left) it occurred to me that I should probably credit all the source photos.

It just took me a while to track all the breadcrumbs (or search blindly until I could rediscover sources) but if one were to glance to the sidebar immediately left, one might discover that it is awfully bottom-heavy at the moment with — while not up to legal or academic standards, still a better-than-average web attempt — actual citations

If you feel you are the owner of one of the said images (and in the case of the Soviet stuff, hell, I might take you to court just for kicks — I’m fully prepared to cite Marx & Lenin on the record in a court of law, in the face of your greedy grab for someone else’s work done under the guise of collective ownership for a country that technically doesn’t exist anymore, unless you’re the original artist which would be cool and in that case I’d take you to court just to meet you face to face and shake your hand) drop me an email at matt [at] rocketbomber [dot] com and after verification, I’ll remove your image (and the free link at left, and the free publicity, that you’re getting for free) and replace it something even cooler. Your loss, dude.

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