Need More Hours In The Day...

I so very do.

Finished up Ergo Proxy and Reideen. Both good, will write more formal reviews of 'em in a few days. I want to do it now, but have to do things that are important so I can afford anime, like work.

Short bits-Ergo Proxy feels like a longer, longer version of Serial Experiments Lain, but with the whole world as the laboratory. Characters were interesting, but occasional bits of the whole Refrigerator Problem shows up.

Reideen is what it is-a post-Evangelion, giant robot anime. More like RahXephon (which is not an insult, I like and still watch RahXephon, unlike Evangelion-which I watch when I need to suffer), Reideen's plot both moves fast and slow, and it is the synchronization of these plots (the plot about what Reideen is and why the aliens are after it is slow, the "robot stomping" plot is fast). Tho, the Really, Really Huge Sword at the end was a fun thing, too...

Recent Anime Watching Habits...

I haven't, sad to say, been seeing a lot of anime lately. Mostly due to work schedule, and there isn't a lot that I've been interested in. So...my very short list of series I've watched or been in the progress of watching...

• Ergo Proxy-This has been a good series, so far. Very much in the whole vein/genre of "giant conspiracies", some of the moves have been telegraphed miles away...but, damn it, I'm still watching.
• Grenadier-If there was any MORE fan service, they would have to cut into the plot...such as there is. Rushuna is most certainly doing cinematic gun shooting effects...
• Reideen-Apparently, this is a remake of a much older series. It isn't bad...just that the way it was written, there were so many opportunities for plot and character expansion.
• Bleach-I'm honestly watching it because the fights are good material for Exalted. I'm trying to figure out how to stat out the Ichigo/Kenpachi fight...
  

After Six Years Of War...

...I have to seriously wonder if Al Qaeda is the Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight...

Let's see. Osama tried to crash the American economy with the 9/11 attacks, and the American economy went up about the equivalent of five Saudi Arabias.

Iraq and Afghanistan are lurching towards something that can be called "reasonable" in a bad light. Considering where we're talking about in the world, that has to be progress.

There hasn't been a major terrorist attack outside of the Middle East in at least three years, unless you count the Keystone Kops attack in London with the flaming SUVs.

"But, other than that, how was the play Mrs. Lincoln?"

And, the response of the critics of the war is little children antics in Gen. Petraus' hearing.

I'm scared that our enemies may save our government because they just can't do anything right...it's like watching one of those sitcoms where the entire cast is made up of morons, with one token sane person.