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THE GREAT FREE KICK WATCH 18 – A Minor Incident ASHITA E FREE KICK (Free Kick Toward Tomorrow)EPISODE 18: A Minor Incident WRITTEN BY: Yuu Yamamoto BROADCAST DATE: August 11, 1992 And this episode aired exactly thirty-three years ago today! This…

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Democratic front-runners for 2026 nomination are racing to be the first to claim “Bitches, am I right, lol” as a campaign slogan while WaPo and NYT nod approvingly.

The cover of "The Tale of Genji," as translated by Edward Seidensticker. I've read his translation (twice) and Royall Tyler's translation (once), and I recommend either one. I'd avoid the Waley translation, though, which cuts a lot and changes the book into basically a Victorian novel.

2. "The Tale of Genji" by Lady Murasaki. Similar to (900 years later) Proust in that it's very "LIFE-LIKE." But Murasaki was the 1st person to realize that fictional characters could be as full and deep as real people. Something that wouldn't hit Western authors until Don Quixote, 600 years later.

I was thinking of client red flags: the things that, if a potential client does them, I start out suspicious and on my guard. Some of these are about honesty, some are about narcissism and personality, some are about capacity to take legal advice.

Here we go:

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A blue and grey pigeon stands regally on a golden sand beach with small waves lapping behind.

This fellow pecks up wit as pigeons pease,
And utters it again when God doth please.

Announcement: First Time in Taiwan by Muta Yuki. An essay manga about traveling to Taiwan.

All of Proust's "In Search of Lost Time," a single novel in six (or seven, depending) volumes.

1. "In Search of Lost Time," by Marcel Proust. EASILY the most "LIFE-LIKE" book I've ever read (in that it feels "like life"). It's VERY long and difficult, but it's EXTREMELY rewarding.

It might take you a bit to get acclimated to the style, but you'll be happy once you do!

OK... I've read many books. Not as many as I want to, but a lot.

And so here's my once-a-day recommendations. I'll keep going until I run out of books I like.

You must be thrilled with how things are turning out.

AnimEigo is the oldest US anime company.

We've been ramping things up lately.

An overview of some of our recent and upcoming releases.

I'd include "Loser" by Beck.

Me trying to show anime to my parents in the 90s:

The crossroads of Gundam fandom

LEFT: Where our government incarcerates a person who has a tattoo in honor of a family member.

RIGHT: Where our government incarcerates a person who has facilitated and/or engaged in the sexual assault of over a thousand children.

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Golden Boy was one the first DVD I ever bought from a Discotek booth, long before I was properly familiar with the company.

It’s a kind of full circle moment now that I can say I wrote the back of box copy on the series’ long awaited Blu-ray release!

Museum day two at @otakon.bsky.social. Come on by to see and experience the history of anime on home video. Open until 8pm tonight! #Otakon2025 #Otakon

Being an anime fan means I've never totally moved away from physical media, but I have gotten significantly lazier about it in recent years (though that's partially due to shelf space). Seeing more and more media becoming casualties of the streaming wars is good incentive to buy shit though!

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A particularly gut wrenching excerpt from this article:

Ten Years of Turn A Gundam Content - Retirement

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Oh look, the Holy Grail #anime #otakon

the only ZZ TOP i acknowledge is Haman Karn

This is Chris’ attempt at “actually I was being Italian”

But yeah, I really loved some of his short stories, especially "The Goldfish Pool and Other Stories" (I THINK that was the title...).

I vividly remember reading it on a flight to Tokyo in 1998.

Remember, "Brief Lives" Delirium is 9/10s Tori Amos. Who is still awesome.

(Unlike "Seasons of Mists" Delirium, who is 9/10s Kathy Acker, and who is also awesome, but in a different way.)

Do you even have to ask...?

(Oh, and there's been a thing going around about how he ripped off Tanith Lee's Tales of the Flat Earth books.

Having read them, it isn't true. They both just borrow from the same Mythic-yet-Gothic mood.

I mean, if he thought he could profit off of it, he would've.)

Yeah, I don't like that. "I always hated his works" sounds like self-aggrandizing to me.

That said, I don't particularly like his novels, but SANDMAN was start-to-finish EXCELLENT.

I look forward to talking about it again, once Gaiman's dead.