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Gah, I hate the opening theme song to the fourth season of Major. Thank god I only have to suffer through this for one more episode...

But I'm surprised at how into this show I am. I was a huge fan of the earlier seasons but somehow, my interest in anime waned in 2008 and I got about a third of the way into the season and lost interest. But I always kept those episodes on my external hard drive for that mythical day that I thought I might come back to it.

And seriously, I never thought I would. But I seem to be getting back into anime after such a long absence... Maybe it was Nodame that spurred me back into but I find myself wanting to get back into the game. And what's better than one of my most favorite sports animes? I do love a good sports anime.

And there's Ookiku Furikabutte! I had no idea they were doing another season! Which is good because I always thought the last season kinda ended at an awkward place. And then there was nothing for the next two years... Weird, I know, but when people started mentioning they've been seeing Ookiku Furikabutte posters in Japan, I was surprised. And happy because I definitely wanted to see more of the show and never really got the ending that I wanted. Or really, an ending that felt like an ending, which would have been nice. At the very least anyway.

I've also steamrolled through K-ON! and am caught up on K-ON!! It doesn't seem to have much in the way of a plot or character development and seems to be made up of only happy things but it's not horrible. After this, I'm going to try Angel Beats since there has to be a reason why so many people would be downloading it... And maybe I'll work on Bleach. But gah, there's so much that I've missed...it makes me not want to start watching it again at all... Or One Piece but frankly, I've never really liked the anime as much as I liked the manga so maybe I'll work on catching up on that instead. It certainly makes me not want to kill myself before I attempt it which is what thoughts of both those animes kinda makes me want to do.

And yay, Doctor Who today! In a few hours! ^^

I'm still not convinced the 11th Doctor is as awesome as the 10th (David Tennant is my god!) and while I do kinda like Matt (he is very cute and very young), he doesn't seem to have the same sort of power and darkness that David brought to the Doctor. I get scared when David does his pissed off Doctor -- not so much when it's Matt. I just don't think he does angst all that well. But still, new DW gets me excited. I promises to be a very interesting season so I'm hoping for the best.

edit x1: Goro and Toshiya together makes me squee so much! It's like "kya, kya, kya!!" all the time in my room... My neighbors probably think something weird is going on... ^^;;;

edit x2: MAJOR MAJOR HIGH!!!!

Bwhahaha, Brothers & Sisters!

I love Canadian TV that shows shows earlier than the US. And this time I didn't miss it! ^^

Apparently DramaQueen is back...

Oh dear.

I'm not sure what that means yet. Maybe I shouldn't work on that oneshot after all?

Sex Pistols OVA!

I don't even know why I'm still interested, especially when there's new V and Glee but somehow, I am. Gah, they've managed to make both Yonekuni and Shiro (considering the fact that they're rather awkward in the manga) very cute! I can feel myself falling in love just a bit.

All I'm hoping for is just a bit more... I can't help but feel unsatisfied when it comes to the two of them... And of course the OVA will just rehash the manga but I'm hoping for some sort of emotional depth that I've always felt was lacking in the manga.

But having seen the first episode, I can't help but want more... Finding raw scans are a bitch, especially anything that's more than just photographs of the pages... I'm practically tempted to translate it myself just so I could read chapters 31-34... But since finding scans are impossible, I'll just have to wait until someone out there decides to scanlate it themselves. In the mean time, I probably should work on that oneshot of that one manga... I can't even remember if I had started it yet... Or what it's really about aside from doctors...I think... :\

At least it's of normal length. That last one where it was 60+ pages long kinda killed me... Masha is apparently chipping away at it so I should probably do my part and chip away at the oneshot. It's the least I could do...

I had a dream abut NPH, David Burtka and prom. Well, David Burtka was catering the prom and NPH was there showing support. And I had facial hair (which I don't in real life -- it was very freaky) and was scrambling to shave it off to go and meet the two of them. And I won't even mention the semi-erotic part about me, another girl, a cat, a shower and A LOT of soap... Let's just say, it was different...

This is what happens when you play Pokemon for an entire day. You just get warped. The fact that I might have checked NPH's latest tweet might have sparked it off... But only the NPH and Burtka parts. I can't even begin to think of where the other parts of the dream would have come from.

So, right now I'm munching on seasoned popcorn. I went a little heavy with the chili powder and cayenne that my nose is actually running. But it is damn tasty. Why haven't I tried seasoning popcorn before? It makes it so much better. And pretty, even if I seem to be getting spices everywhere...

After this more Pokemon! I caught myself a nice little Lapras (took two trips to the Safari Zone) and a Rhyhorn (another full trip) to catch both of them but I have them and I'm going to use them. Apparently my Slowbro couldn't learn Waterfall. Not cool. So it's been replaced! And I was getting tired of Onix so I went and got myself a Rhyhorn! A rock and ground Pokemon! I just want Earthquake -- that's a damn awesome ground move and I want it! So I'm going to be leveling them up today and then I'll probably beat the eighth gym. Hopefully anyway.

Ugh, why did I not notice the 18th episode of Brothers & Sisters already aired in Canada TWO DAYS ago? I've been waiting forever for this episode! Ugh, I fail, totally fail. It was on EZTV and I totally missed it. Bad Sherry, bad, bad Sherry!

edit x1: Oh god... This is... oh god... *hugs Kevin*

Of all the characters...

Boston Legal just made me cry. It's official -- this was an amazing show. It's insane how this quirky, weird, at many times creepily uncomfortable and awkward show can manage to be so moving and emotional.

And now I have a new song courtesy of BL. Billy Joel's And So It Goes has been absolutely haunting me. It's such a sad but soothing song at the same time. It's played several times on various monumental BL episodes (Son of the Defender being one of them) and the piano just lends itself so well to the show.

Anyway, aside from that, I'm trying to decide if I should make oatmeal rum raisin cookies or just normal oatmeal raisin cookies. My problem is that while rum raisin ice cream is absolutely delish, I'm not sure it would work with oatmeal raisin cookies. And since I adore oatmeal raisin cookies above all cookies and I don't want to ruin them. *sigh*

Pokemon SoulSilver is coming along nicely. I got a bit stuck at Olivine (seriously, a hole in the wall in the lighthouse -- how exactly are you supposed to see that?) and ended up going to Mahagony and then realized I made a mistake. This was after like an hour spent exploring Mt. Mortar and fighting every damned Geodude and Zubat in the place. It was so frustrating and annoying and it really made me rethink my policy of not using Repels but eventually I made it to Mahagony. Fun, fun. And then I realized I could have just surfed there and skipped all that crap.

Yeah. Pokemon is getting to me a little bit. My recommendation? Don't play it for more than five hours straight. Somewhere along the line, you start to go insane. Still, I'm not stuck. At least I don't think I am. Currently I'm in the water on Route 41 and am on my way to Cianwood. I think that's where I need to go to get the medicine so I can take it back and finally fight the Gym Leader over there in Olivine. But I'm not quite sure if I'm hitting on the swimmers and as they are good for leveling up, I am endeavoring to find them all. All the while being attacked by Tentacools. I think I would like them a lot more if they were poisonous...It's such a bitch being poisoned.

Success!!!

Look at that cake, just look at it! It's perfect! It's amazing! It's how my first cake should have been but wasn't. I tried making it for the first time by myself (it's usually a cake my mother generally makes for the family) and I messed up. It was an unmitigated diaster in the truest sense of the word. It was only partially cooked, inedible at parts, and the pan leaked like all hell. I made an absolute mess and I fucked up the recipe.

And actually, this wasn't the absolutely perfect cake that I had wanted. I forgot the last two ingredients of water and oil and had to try and mix them in while already int he Angel Food Cake pan... That was not good. It started to leak after that so I can only assume the water and oil did not incorporate as evenly as it should have. Still, I placed a baking sheet under it and hoped for the best. And it turned out perfectly! ^^

It wasn't as soft and bouncy or light as the first cake that was partially inedible but the part that was was absolutely divine. I'm not really sure it would be possible to have that light, soft and bouncy cake, at least not baked in an Angel Food Cake pan and not have it get ruined. But I'll take my perfectly cooked Chinese Sponge Cake.

Boston Legal, season 3, episode 18, Son of the Defender is quite possibly the best episode of Boston Legal I've seen so far. I can't imagine any other episode topping it. Even Death Be Not Proud, that amazing finale to the first season might not beat it. Why? Because this episode shows you just how good of an actor William Shatner really is. You forget that, especially in the last two decades...

The music was good, both storylines were good, and you got to see Denny Crane be more than that yucky old man. And it used old footage from a show Shatner used to do back when TV was black and white! I was so shocked when I first saw it... Was that really a young William Shatner? Why, yes, it was! Damn, he was cute back then...

Not only that, but Paul (played by the always awesome Rene Auberjonois) had an actual substantial part! The part where they were all deliberating was amazing. Even Miss Some-Southern-State-That-I've-Already-Forgotten offered up some relevant insight! Even though Alan was not up front and center, it was an amazing episode.

Hmm...Okay, maybe Death Be Not Proud is up there with Son of the Defender but for different reason. Best Alan episode and best Denny episode. Overall, which is best? God, I don't know. Maybe I should reserve it for the future Supreme Court death penalty episode... I have no idea when it's coming aside from sometime in season four but hopefully it comes soon... I can't wait! Hopefully it's a good Alan episode since it's been a while since I've felt like I've seen one. At least one that isn't somewhat formulaic. As it is, after this season, things change... And after that, things get sad and serious in season five with Denny, whom somehow I've managed to come to care for despite his being rather yucky. I can't say I want to see him deteriorate... But it's a short season and hopefully it'll all end with somewhat of a happy ending...Rather than The Practice where everyone was split up...

Yet another one of my knives have disappeared. :\

I think someone threw it away accidentally. Which is what I think happened to the last one. It probably was in a pastry box and when it was empty but with the knife still in there, it was probably thrown out. God damn it. I'm down to only two knives now, two! :(

This totally bothers me on the most basic levels.

Did my taxes today. Hopefully I got them right... I always feel like I'm doing something wrong each time I do them (like that one year where I did do something wrong) but I think it's all good. Hopefully anyway. And Making Work Pay is kinda awesome.

Right now I'm treating myself with Hackers. God, I haven't seen this film in so long... I've seen it so many times and it's on my favorite films of all time list...It just makes me giddy just watching it. I mean, it calls to my geeky self. Mess With the Best, Die Like the Rest. I used to adore that phrase, literally obsessed with it. Why have I let so many years go by without watching it again?

After this is the so-called Hackers 2, Takedown and then Antitrust. It's a hackers themed movie night!

edit x1: Woah, just saw Washington Square Park and NYU in Hackers. Too cool. But somehow, I don't think you can rollerblade from NYU to Grand Central Station all that easily or quickly...

Oh my god, this: http://www.doctoroctoroc.com/8-bit-dr-horrible/watch.html is quite possibly one of the most awesome things I've ever seen. If you love Dr. Horrible, you'll adore this!

The blatant liberalism in Boston Legal delights me.

I've missed that from The West Wing... Although, with The West Wing, it was much more blatant and it resonated with my own liberalism but you get these moments in Boston Legal where Alan makes absolute sense and you get the feeling of self-righteous arrogance that Left-wing liberals are known for. It's absolutely wonderful.

Huh. The Practice was filmed in LA. It's funny how you watch enough shows filmed in the same general area that eventually you start recognizing buildings and other locales. I think this is the third time I've seen the JAG Headquarters from JAG outside of that show. It's such a beautiful building, so hard to forget and so distinctive. I just love that lovely brick color.

And I went into watching Boston Legal without any intention of watching the last season of The Practice. I think I stopped watching that show a season or two before its last... Or I decided to skip it because they axed Bobby. No Dylan McDermott? Why keep watching? But then I started falling for James Spader... Man, if only I kept on watching because how could I not? He was the original Daniel Jackson! And I still see hints of him in Alan Shore. I think that's one of the reasons why I'm so absolutely captivated... He's nice when he wants to be, mean when he needs to be, and just generally odd all the time. I kinda like him a bit more in The Practice when he seemed less scrupulous but I do love those speeches he's prone to giving. They're so compelling and they resonate so well with me (well, I'm a die-hard liberal so it's almost a given). I can't wait to see his Supreme Court episode but I think that's two seasons away...

Anyway, I adore Alan Shore. I just fall more smitten with him with each and every episode. I wish there were more of his antitrust work... He called himself the best antitrust lawyer in the state and I don't really see much of it. He apparently has many corporate clients who apparently follows him -- I want to see one of their cases. I want him to be awesome at what he's most awesome at. So awesome...

Eurocommunism?

Eurocommunism?!

My god...I just got that word in a captcha. I've seen a lot of different words, a lot of different words that weren't really words at all but this is the first time I've ever gotten something like this. I'm befuddled.

Just finished the first season of Boston Legal.

Wow.

They really ended it with a bang. I was almost in tears and all I wanted to do was wrench my eyes away but at the same time, I was compelled to continued on watching. Alan's impassioned speech before the High Court was so remarkable, so true that it made you just hate those judges when they decided against Zeke. My god, I know this is all make-believe but seriously, are people in Texas that crazy? Not to mentioned stupid? All I could think when Alan was hitting his stride, was "Go Alan go!" and "Thank god for liberal media!" Biased as it was, thank god it put a highlight on Texas and the Death Penalty. It made me just sick watching it and that ending where Zeke is fighting and everyone is too ashamed to watch so they turn their heads away and they just fade to black with the credits, all the while we were left wondering whether or not the hula girl Angela was able to find the Texas governor to stay the execution... It was beautifully well crafted. While I hate the fact that we weren't shown whether or not Zeke truly died, I'm also glad we don't know. It would have surely ruined it otherwise. Plus, I'd like to think there is still some hope left by just cutting away.

( Cut for depressing anti-Texas and anti-death penalty talk )

And oh, on a much lighter, unrelated note, GO MOUNTAINEERS! If WV wins today, my NCAA bracket will beat Kent's and that's all that really matters in the end. ^^

Oi...FlashForward is a dead show walking...Damn shame but I seriously hope there is an end to this show. I would be disappointed that I invested so much in a lagging show that was always on the verge of cancellation just to have it end in a stupid cliffhanger that would never be resolved.

SGU comes back tonight and I'm surprisingly interested. I didn't think I would be but after the last episode before the hiatus, it hooked me, which probably was what it meant to do. I'm not sure I like it but I'm still watching. And now that I think about it, that's a bit how I feel about Caprica... *sigh* I used to love Sci-Fi... Now Sy-Fy seems to be the channel with shows that I watch but don't quite like. Now, if only Eureka would come back -- that's one show that I actually do kinda really like.

Right now I'm watching Boston Legal. Why, I'm not really sure why. I think it has something to do with Mark Valley since I've started watching Human Target recently. Human Target seems so much more of a guy show -- lots of action, not quite as much on other stuff. Me, I think I watch it for more Guerrero because he's one interesting SOB. I really do enjoy his craziness, even if Winston doesn't seem to appreciate it.

Anyway, back to Boston Legal. Back when this show was on, was there slash? Between who? I like Alan Shore and Mark Valley. And of course there's the clear rapport between Alan and Denny...especially since I know they get married at the very end... But, they're just so weird... I like quirky personalities but they're a bit too much for me. Maybe I shouldn't think about slashing anyone in this series. It's certainly stranger than The Practice which I really liked although not quite as silly (I think, but there are moments that make me wonder) as Ally McBeal which I also liked.

Nodame Cantabile Finale is over and it feels like Nodame has truly ended. *sigh*

I was hoping the anime would expand on the manga but it didn't, not really. Although, I think I feel a bit better after watching the anime than I did when I finished reading the manga...

Jezebel's Dessert Bracket? Awesome! I'm still trying to figure out what wins between the ultimate cake (ice cream) and the best pie ever (pumpkin). Hmm...ice cream is so yummy and cold and can come in so many delicious flavors... And is good for all occasions! No one can refuse an ice cream cake! But pumpkin pie is so yummy... You can eat it with whipped cream or without, it's good both cold and hot, not to mention the fact that it reminds you of home and of Thanksgiving. And the spices -- they're all so warm and comforting...

Agh, it's so hard to choose! They're two totally different desserts! Can't they both win? :(

Okay, I've made my choice...

Ice Cream Cake wins! (Oh, this was totally stolen from hydr0phobia)

When I really thought about it, I just couldn't get over the wonder and excitement that an ice cream cake brings. We never really had many ice cream cakes growing up (probably too expensive since we were really, really poor) and that never really changed even after our circumstances improved. I guess that has made me want to latch onto each and every slice of ice cream cake I could get, just to make up for the past.

And the fact that it's a cold dessert also swung it into my favor. If I had to choose from anything that was either hot or cold be it dessert or drink, I would most likely go for the cold option.

Great...this has made me hungry for sweets now.

Haha, Topeka Google actually had me fooled for a moment there.

Ugh, it's too early for this crap. Another year's April Fools. Yay.

w00t!

There's a patch for Pokemon Soul Silver~!

YES!

*crosses fingers* I am desperately hoping this works because if it does, no more black screens, no more incessant, paranoid saving after every event...

It's times like this, that I'm sincerely grateful for all the brilliant programming people out there and I desperately wish I had an AceKard2i like my brother does. It works on the DS Lite, DSi and the DSi XL! How cool is that? But there'll probably be a new Nintendo handheld soon so is the investment worth it?