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the_andyAuthorized the ER vet to run more te$ts to figure out what the hell is up. However, if his blood cell count remains ok (indicating he isn't still bleeding in ways we can't see, like he's swallowing it or something) we can take him home tonight. Also, turns out our old vet isn't 100% retired yet and will be in the clinic Thursday or Friday and we have been informed they will make time for Ed whenever we can bring him in. The only down side to him coming home is that I'm worried he'll start bleeding again and we won't see for hours. Maybe wrdnrd and I can work in shifts.
- Talk about FLCL at littlebufierce. Well, that was supposed to be a DW post anyway, we'll go back to that plan. Basically, I find it fascinating and flawed and fascinatingly flawed telling of a rather basic "small town boy introduced to puberty by beautiful stranger" plot. With good music and robot battles.
- Talk about names in Spirited Away and the, I think, erroneous assumption that Yubaba is tied to Baba Yaga. This may be another post, but essentially boils down to: unless Miyazaki has stated the connection it's just folk etymology and an example of deliberate ignorance of Japanese words and myths. My first thought on seeing the name was that it was either just baba (grandmother) or baabaa (crone, as in onibaba, everyone's favorite mountain monster). Yubaba's name literally explains who she is: "bathhouse old lady".
I've got more, but I'll stop.
-Wish I had been able to research more historical stuff for the gender binary in anime and manga panel. There were some interesting things in the 70's mentioned in Schodt's World of Japanese Comics (aka, a compendium of the best manga that still isn't translated widely) that we could have brought up and I would have liked (if I could find the resources) to have tied things back to the ero-guro-nansensu comics and literature of the 20's and 30's.
See, my degree is worth something!
-Diversity in superhero comics
Honestly, I felt that I and the rest of the panel would have been happy to talk for hours more. There was so much that wasn't discussed, and then everything dropped from my mind as I dashed off to hear from the vet about Ed. But now that I mention it, there isn't anything specific I'd like to have said but didn't. Well, aside from apologizing that we ended up with an all white panel. That was a little awkward.
- Talk about FLCL at littlebufierce. Well, that was supposed to be a DW post anyway, we'll go back to that plan. Basically, I find it fascinating and flawed and fascinatingly flawed telling of a rather basic "small town boy introduced to puberty by beautiful stranger" plot. With good music and robot battles.
- Talk about names in Spirited Away and the, I think, erroneous assumption that Yubaba is tied to Baba Yaga. This may be another post, but essentially boils down to: unless Miyazaki has stated the connection it's just folk etymology and an example of deliberate ignorance of Japanese words and myths. My first thought on seeing the name was that it was either just baba (grandmother) or baabaa (crone, as in onibaba, everyone's favorite mountain monster). Yubaba's name literally explains who she is: "bathhouse old lady".
I've got more, but I'll stop.
-Wish I had been able to research more historical stuff for the gender binary in anime and manga panel. There were some interesting things in the 70's mentioned in Schodt's World of Japanese Comics (aka, a compendium of the best manga that still isn't translated widely) that we could have brought up and I would have liked (if I could find the resources) to have tied things back to the ero-guro-nansensu comics and literature of the 20's and 30's.
See, my degree is worth something!
-Diversity in superhero comics
Honestly, I felt that I and the rest of the panel would have been happy to talk for hours more. There was so much that wasn't discussed, and then everything dropped from my mind as I dashed off to hear from the vet about Ed. But now that I mention it, there isn't anything specific I'd like to have said but didn't. Well, aside from apologizing that we ended up with an all white panel. That was a little awkward.
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Date: 2011-06-01 09:22 am (UTC)I don't get really robot-y though! Escaflowne & Brigadoon are about as robot-y as I go.