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A link before I turn in...
The Japanese "Seldomly Asked Questions" (opposite of a FAQ).
This made me cringe:
In Japanese mythology, the Tanuki's scrotum can be enlarged to as much as eight tatami mats (one tatami is about 6'x3') and they play them like a drum.
owowowowowww.....
And here's an interesting view on Learning Japanese. Quite pessimistic, but incredibly humourous.
And one more, an profile of the media-shy Bill Watterson (Calvin and Hobbes). If you have "The Collected Calvin & Hobbes" (I think it's called that) Watterson talks about how he managed to get the comic company to bend to his will for specific things - like making the wonderful one-panel paintings for some of this comics, where other comics of the same size had to be panelled or else they couldn't be cut and cropped by the individual newspapers.
While reading the article, I discovered that Jim Meddick was the artist who wrote Robotman, which has changed to Robotman and Monty, and eventually just Monty. I'd be interested in looking for those comic books. I loved the Robotman comic enough to write him way back when. My Mom still has the letter, I think. ^_^
Speaking of comics, anyone read Opus, the return of the Berkeley Breathed comic? There is talk that this specific comic is printed with an ink that will fuse to glass if heated, meaning if anyone tries to scan it, it will wreck the scanner... well, it hasn't stopped people...
The Japanese "Seldomly Asked Questions" (opposite of a FAQ).
This made me cringe:
In Japanese mythology, the Tanuki's scrotum can be enlarged to as much as eight tatami mats (one tatami is about 6'x3') and they play them like a drum.
owowowowowww.....
And here's an interesting view on Learning Japanese. Quite pessimistic, but incredibly humourous.
And one more, an profile of the media-shy Bill Watterson (Calvin and Hobbes). If you have "The Collected Calvin & Hobbes" (I think it's called that) Watterson talks about how he managed to get the comic company to bend to his will for specific things - like making the wonderful one-panel paintings for some of this comics, where other comics of the same size had to be panelled or else they couldn't be cut and cropped by the individual newspapers.
While reading the article, I discovered that Jim Meddick was the artist who wrote Robotman, which has changed to Robotman and Monty, and eventually just Monty. I'd be interested in looking for those comic books. I loved the Robotman comic enough to write him way back when. My Mom still has the letter, I think. ^_^
Speaking of comics, anyone read Opus, the return of the Berkeley Breathed comic? There is talk that this specific comic is printed with an ink that will fuse to glass if heated, meaning if anyone tries to scan it, it will wreck the scanner... well, it hasn't stopped people...
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