It's that time again! No, it's not time to spin the Wheel of Morality (TM), it's time to select panelists for the Anime Central 2008 Fanfiction Panel!
Anime Central (www.acen.org) will take place on May 16-18 at the Hyatt Regency O'Hare in Rosemont, Illinois. If you're going to be attending Acen and you're interested in being on the panel, please send the following information:
1. Your name or preferred handle.
2. Your real name, if different.
3. A list of your preferred works, including any you may have written in the past year.
4. The URL of your website, if any, or where your works can be found.
5. If you've been on a fanfic panel before, and if so, where.
6. (OPTIONAL) Why you'd like to be on the panel.
Please private mail me at pmui1@PLEASENOSPAM.prodigy.net by March 21 if you're interested. The panel will be selected shortly after that.
(I'm sure you know what part to remove...it's in caps.) :-)
Hope to hear from you soon!
--Pearson "Doc" Mui

Linky.
Just thought this was a well-done bit.
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''

-- James Nicoll

Bizarre TV Triva with photographic proof:
1930s Chicago in the Star Trek: TOS episode "The City On The Edge of Forever" is actually a redressed Mayberry from The Andy Griffith Show. I Kid You Not. Click through all the way to the last page to spy Kirk and Edith Keeler in front of Floyd's Barber Shop.

-- Bob
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I intend to be a freak for the rest of my life, and I shall baffle you with cabbages and rhinoceroses in the kitchen and incessant quotations from Now We Are Six through the mouthpiece of Lord Snooty's giant poisoned electric head. So theeeeeere....

"So, who is she?"
"That's Nym-*oww*. Fine. That's Tonks."
"I suppose that means your full name's the Secret of Nym."
...

Somehow, that seemed funnier in my head.
*sigh*--
Christopher Angel, aka JPublic
The Works of Christopher Angel
"Camaraderie, adventure, and steel on steel. The stuff of legend! Right, Boo?"

Offered here because damn, maybe its just empty rhetoric but why can't every leader sound like this guy? I wish he was Canadian. The Liberals could use somebody this charismatic.
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Epsilon

In Japan, if a "teen idol" type of singer is disgraced, her single act that tarnished her is her last appearance in the media.
Unlike Britney Spears who is yet again having as breakdown....
Grrr.
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''

-- James Nicoll

Saw this one on Usenet (no Google thread yet) and thought folks might want to play...
(Edit: There's finally a Google thread.)
David Damerell wrote:

Quote:

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Recently, in discussion here (uk.media.animation.anime - RK) and at Anime Night, it's been pointed out that yes, Yokohama Shopping Log technically is "post-apocalypse gun-toting lesbian bikers". So, the question is this - what's the best description you can come up with for any anime/manga which is completely accurate but wildly misleading?
I'll kick off with;
Bubblegum Crisis: "Secret Adventures of a Tokyo Lingerie Saleswoman"

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www.tv.com/uservideos/?ac...iduservids
Mainly KOS-MOS vs. T-ELOS, but some ES bashing as well.
- CDSERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
For the next 72 hours, Itachi intoned, I will slap you with this trout. - Spying no Jutsu, chapter 3
"In the futuristic taco bell of the year 20XX, justice wears an aluminum sombrero!"hemlock-martini
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows

May 2, 2008
Premiere of Iron Man...
He can outrun an F-22?
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Into terror!,  Into valour!
Charge ahead! No! Never turn
Yes, it's into the fire we fly
And the devil will burn!
- Scarlett Pimpernell

I kid you not.

-- Bob
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I intend to be a freak for the rest of my life, and I shall baffle you with cabbages and rhinoceroses in the kitchen and incessant quotations from Now We Are Six through the mouthpiece of Lord Snooty's giant poisoned electric head. So theeeeeere....