Things I've discovered or re-discovered recently, while moving from the big city to the "country".

1. The amount of stuff you have expands to fill the greatest number of boxes you are able to obtain.

2. Sofas, in between being placed in a home and being removed, bulge to at least 101% the width of the doorway they are to be carried through.

3. Keep an eye on your books. When you're not looking, they multiply like rabbits.

4. Cats have little motors inside of them. This of course, explains the sounds they produce. It also explains the sudden bursts of spastic energy they are prone to, especially at the ungodly hours of dawn.

5. Pitching hay warms you up. It's true.

Lately I've been practicing coloring Tsubasa/xxxHolic manga pages in the GIMP:

Eventually it occured to me to (duh!) try coloring one of my own pencil sketches.

This is the result:

(bigger version on DevArt )

She was supposed to represent Azula from A:TLA as the Sun Spirit, the counter part for Moon Spirit Yue [she doesn't look much like Azula though ].

This is my theory about what will happen to Azula at the end of the show:

She can't be killed out right because neither Aang nor Zuko (nor any of the other protagonists) are killers. Not to mention absolutely no one in the avatarverse is bad-arse enough to finish her off.

She also can't be killed because she's a 14 year-old girl on a Y-TV show.

On the other hand, they can't just let her live, because she would always undermine any effort to create lasting peace in the Avatarverse.

The solution is to have her "die" in the same sense Yue did: by becoming a spirit. Yue did this voluntarily, out of the goodness of her heart. Azula would incur this fate against her will. But it won't be so bad for her: She can blaze all she wants, and she would have plenty of worshippers.

New obsessions FTW!

If I really was smart, I would be careful about getting obsessed with on-going manga series. At least I'd make sure to choose ones that update in separate days of the week. But anyways, Naruto went on an end-of-the year hiatus, meanwhile leaving the anime watchers in a state of "#$@^, DBZ-esque episode-long power-up sequence!!!" and the manga readers in the state of "*jaw drop* No freaking way! This is so not what it looks like!".

To fill up time, this little black duck checked out the CLAMP-verse. A dangerous mistake, becase Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle has captured my soul. This manga starts out fairly well, but things really get intense around chapter [or chapitre, whatever] 110 (inconsequently, that's where an actual reservoir first appears, but it still doesn't explain the title).

Read at your own peril.

Edited to add some Tsubasa/xxxHolic (+Buffy quotage) icons made by yours truly.

Taking a trip down memory lane... I found a bunch of Fraggle Rock episodes someone has posted. I used to love this show so much. I wish they would still show it somewhere.

If you're a child of the eighties you can re-watch The Beginning and sing along...

Every day the world begins again

Sunny skies or rain

Come and follow me



Every sunrise shows me more and more

So much to explore

Come and follow me



Every morning

Every day

Every evening

Calling me away



While the sun goes round I'll still be found

Following the sound

Something's calling me



When the world goes drifting back to bed

Memories fill my head

Wonders follow me



Every morning

Every day

Every evening

Calling me away



Every morning

Every day

Every evening

Calling me away

First of, wow, finally. The Day of Black Sun aired today. The Spoiler Patrol is now out of session. Whew. No more chasing after dingbats who drop spoilers everywhere without thinking. At least not for a while. On the bad side, the AWS are coming back to bite.

The new AWS period will be better than the last one because

1) It will be shorter. New episodes should come by February (I predict).

2) We now know Zuko is good, Ursa and Suki are alive, Aang and Katara like-like each other, and Iroh is at large.

3) Did I mention Zuko is (finally!) good now?

Happy cliff-hanger >>>> upsetting cliff-hanger

Oh, he means it now, universe!

On another note, the Naruto Manga is finally getting back to... Naruto! *some spoiler stuff in white follows*

It's Naruto vs. Tobi now! Woot!

And we may finally (f-i-n-a-l-l-y) see the Sasuke Vs. Itachi match.

But I have a sad and creepy feeling that the next time we see Pain there will be seven of him, and one will be big and Jiraiah-like.

Finally (overuse the word much B?), brand new futurama DVDs came out this week! Bender's back baby!!! Everyone should go out and buy those!