"Where are we going?" "Planet X!" "When are we going?" "Real soon!"

[larryhammer]

Five followups:

1. The promised picture of the western dragon origami -- now with less-crappy photography!
   
   
   
   
2. At work, painters are in the house, rebranding our building. The random walls of the old corporate color of dark purple are being replaced with random walls of the new corporate color of nearly distinguishable dark blue.
   
   
3. One thing that struck me, reading a lot of Kipling's poetry in close succession, is how much astronomy is in his theology. It appears in large, as in Tomlinson's journey:

   A Spirit gripped him by the hair and carried him far away,
   Till he heard as the roar of a rain-fed ford the roar of the Milky Way:
   Till he heard the roar of the Milky Way die down and drone and cease,
   And they came to the Gate within the Wall where Peter holds the keys.

   and in small passing, as in the vision of the saved in "When Earth's Last Picture Is Painted":

   They'll splash at a ten league canvas
   With brushes of comet's hair

   You can make argument for also counting the second line of "The Ballad of East and West" in this class:

   Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God’s great Judgment Seat

4. One more Yotsuba&! moment, from the recently published volume 5: While running rainy-day errands with her father, it becomes clear that to Yotsuba an umbrella isn't so much a tool for keeping yourself dry as something you're supposed to carry around when it rains. Dad: "You're all wet." Yotsuba: "Well, yeah, it's raining." Dad: "Your umbrella technique sucks." His solution to this is, of course, way adorable.
   
   
5. Tuxedo Gin volumes 2 and 3 exactly fulfil my expectations -- which is to say, we've settled sitcom-like into more-or-less static episodes with little story progress, and most of the jokes remain amusing-once. OTOH, we do get an image almost as beautiful as herd of stampeding penguins: surfing down a hallway on the back of a waxed penguin.
   
   Plus, yanno, ACTUAL PENGUINS. That may not be raised by pigeons, but it's still worth something.

---L.

Comments

[azang.livejournal.com]

That is one sweet dragon!

[larryhammer]

It looks sweet in the picture, but it leaves paper pellets all over the bookshelves.

---L.

[azang.livejournal.com]

I've heard they're hard to house train.

[dbborroughs.livejournal.com]

I really liked Tuxedo ..Gin However I gave it up rather quickly because it was too much for too fast a read.Instead I passed it on to someone who spent money getting all the volumes

[larryhammer]

If I'm going to spend the kind of money manga takes, I'm going to use it on the actually good stuff, like Yotsuba&! or Please Save My Earth.

---L.

[dbborroughs.livejournal.com]

did you ever see the way way too short anime of please save my earth?

[larryhammer]

No, though I've read descriptions. It's on my list of Things To Track Down Someday.

---L.

[dbborroughs.livejournal.com]

If I can get around to it I'll see about copying it,though I'll have to find it first

[larryhammer]

It's probably easier for me to torrent it. Which is ethical, now that it's officially out of print.

---L.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

What a lovely creation!

Loved the page from Yotsuba&! Such a wonderful manga!

The "brushes of comet's tail" makes me think of that exploded comet (http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/story/193730.html)

[larryhammer]

Volume 6 is due in February -- which means we finally reach learning to bicycle, my favorite arc.

---L.

[sarah-create.livejournal.com]

I like the dragon origami. :)

[larryhammer]

A woman with a dragon icon WOULD say that.

(Or is that the midgard serpent?)

---L.

[sarah-create.livejournal.com]

I don't know what it technically is.
I prefer dragon.

[sfmarty.livejournal.com]

Wonderful