I can’t remember if I’ve posted about Scrapped Princess yet. This is another of the new shows this season. So far we’re only up to episode five, but things are quite interesting so far. The story is about a young girl who is due to destroy the world when she turns 16. They haven’t really been quite clear as to what that means exactly, but an oracle predicted it and supposed it will definitely come true.

The show itself has a nice feel, it moves between having comedic moments that are quite fun, and more serious, bittersweet moments. As is typical in many shows, there’s much more to what’s going on than meets the eye. I have some theories, but they are really only half theories because I don’t have enough information. Hopefully, number six will come out soon!

Oscar Wilde: “Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.” [Quotes of the Day]

For some reason, Google has started to return my sitedata page as a hit for things like “bittorrent porn”. The issue with this is that for almost 3 months that page has been listed in my robots.txt as one NOT to index. And this only started happening like 2 weeks ago. Time to look into removing the page by hand.

Move over Power Rangers, the France Five are here.

France Five are French sentai, dedicated to protecting France’s people and culture against all odds.

Lucky we are to have them, as the evil Glou Man Chou intends to attack our blue planet, after his successful conquests in the rest of the universe. [France Five]

You too can watch the adventures of Red Fromage, Black Beaujolais, Blue Accordeon, Yellow Baguette, and Pink a la mode as they fight ninja mimes. Episodes are available to download in RealVideo format and have to be seen to believed. And even tough they aren’t in english you can get the gist of them, or make up your own dialogue. Oh yeah, and Yellow Baguette’s weapon is the best.

Thomas’ English Muffins suck. I recently discovered Matthew’s All-Natural English Muffins. I’m not sure if they are a local MA thing or what, but they are SO much better. First off, you get two equal halves. With Thomas’ you end up with one half that looks nice like the picture on the package. And then you get this other half-assed half that ends up half burning in the toaster. I was just recently reminded of this because when I went to the store the other night they were out of Matthew’s, so I got Thomas’. I’m most unthrilled. Oh yeah, and Trader Joe’s also has their own brand of English Muffins that are pretty damn good.

Matthew’s also makes a kickass Honey Oatmeal bread.

So I’ve been watching a lot of buffy this weekend and it got me thinking about how the show has progressed these past seven years. I’ve been trying to figure out what’s been missing for me for the show. The reason I don’t like it as much as I did. I’m just having a hard time putting my finger on what it is. I don’t know that I’d go as far as to say that the show sucks now, but I just don’t enjoy it as much. It just seems to be missing a certain subtleness that it had.

I think back to the third and fourth seasons, where you saw a lot of what was going on, but the overall story wasn’t center stage the full season. You’d get a taste here, a taste there, slowly pulling you deeper in. The last two seasons of Buffy have just felt kind of abusive. I just saw episode 18 of this season and a new character has been introduced. The thing is, it sounds like he’s been responsible for a number of things that happened (like blowing up the Watchers). I just feel like if it was earlier on in the show’s life we would have seen this guy before. Or at least seen a hint of him.

So that’s my early morning can’t quite sleep bit of Buffy musing that will probably only make sense to me later on when I’m half asleep.

William Goldman: “Life isn’t fair. It’s just fairer than death, that’s all.” [Quotes of the Day]

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Well, the good news is that someone has licensed Shaman King. The bad news is that it’s 4kids are the ones who have it (along with Sonic X). This just about assure a dub only release (and probably cut). Someone needs to let these folks know how much they are annoying anime fans. I’ve only really just started watching Shaman King, but it’s quite fun (even though definitely more kid oriented).