"Being his right hand instead of his girlfriend is a tiny bit disappointing"

[larryhammer]

Things that have amused me this week:

1. Every so often, if I arrive at work early enough,¹ I catch snatches of Indian flute playing in the stairwell. I don't know who it is, because it comes from the top floor and stops if anyone approaches. Haunting cedar woodwind in a vertical resonance chamber.
   
   
2. Midori no Hibi aka Midori Days, episodes 1-2: Compared to raised by pigeons or reincarnated as a penguin, having your hand replaced by a puppet-sized girl is pretty tame -- ... What am I saying? That's just as cracked. Especially since Seiji's a brawler with lots of enemies, and now he can't use his infamous Demon Right Hand attack. There's some stupidities here, but so far it's playing the comedic emotional consequences seriously,² which means I want to watch more pls.
   
   
3. Why had I not noticed before that Herrick's poetry is more than sensual Cavalier lyrics and 17th century tentacle porn? The man was obsessed with the True Significance of Appearances. Even the carpe diem flowers are meditations on True Significance,³ which gives them an interesting, not immediately apparent, depth. Also, the man just may have had the best poetic ear of his time. You can learn things from him about when and how to break syntax for effect.
   
   Not to mention how to write erotic poems about insect bestiality.
   
   
4. Rereading Omukae Desu (5 volumes complete), I like it more than ever. The otherwise ordinary college boy Madoka can not only see ghosts but has the rare ability to let them temporarily use his body, so he's recruited as a part-time worker by the spiritual agency that helps ghosts with, ah, Issues cross over to the Other Side. Very episodic and quirky -- his boss is dead, wears a bunny suit overlaid with a theme costume of the month, and ferries the departing spirits by flying scooter -- but I really like Meka Tanaka's characters: they are not insane, nor jerks. Screwed up, sometimes, and a little demented, but pleasant to spend time with.⁴
   
   
5. Two words: Psychadelic Tyrannosaur.⁵

Footnotes of amusement:

1. That is, on time.
   
2. Okay, aside from Seiji's inability to notice that Midori wears a dress embroidered "I ♥ Seiji." But otherwise.
   
3. Specifically, on the transient nature of the apparent world.
   
4. Almost as nice company as Sakura Tsukuba's.
   
5. ObBonus for chibicharybdis: Flowery Struthiomimus.

---L.

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Ooh, lovely dinosaurs!

[larryhammer]

I was right to choose the Tyrannosaur, when the poll tied. The moose would not have worked, and the scorpion is kicking my ass in really large paper.

---L.