At least BBC has backed off a little with the promos, retrospectives, specials, webisodes, etc. Not a lot, but it's at least possible that 2014 will have more hours of actual Doctor Who episodes than hours of Amanda Palmer and Scott Adsit talking about why they like Doctor Who. Unlike 2013.

I heard a review of Boob Wars on an eroge podcast, and it sounded atrocious. Guess I'm not the only one who mistook the title of this article for having something to do with that game.

Somehow this series slipped through the cracks of early TV Club—only season four was ever reviewed regularly. Now we’re going back to the start, so that The A.V. Club has our thoughts and feelings about Battlestar Galactica on record, forever, so say we all.

Obligatory anime nerd answer: lately, my feel-good show has been Yowamushi Pedal, an anime about a high school cycling team.

Does anyone ever get a vaguely Doctor Who feel from Buckaroo Banzai, the idea that the idiosyncratic hero has no super powers or weapons and instead battles with his wits and his friends? The timbre of the two is miles apart — Buckaroo is much more loopy fun, while the Doctor leaves a trail of dead innocents and…

I still need to get myself to watch more KLK and get to the stuff everyone loves so much. I'm up through ep 6. It's like watching someone else's favorite show: I can tell it's good, but it's just not my thing either.

Returning show: Mad Men, although these bite-size mini-seasons followed by a year's absence are annoying. Not everything has the shelf-life of The Venture Bros.

Where is Sora no Woto streaming? Or do you have DVDs?

Biked with my daughter to the local theater to see Malificent before it leaves town. Good things about this movie: Linda Woolverton's script and Angelina Jolie's performance. Bad: pretty much everything else, particularly the rest of the cast. That Woolverton could get any kind of a compelling story out of the corner…

"We are not helpless girls /
who need men's protection"

Seems like this would be better and even more patriotic with more singing and dancing.

Just checked out an English sub of "Kagerou Days" on YouTube, and… yeah, this is nice and messed up.
EDIT: A later version of the same song has more animation, more teens getting killed repeatedly.

I did an iTunes affil link to the album because I'm greedy, but I'm told you can find pretty much all the Kagerou/Mekakucity songs on YouTube and/or NicoNico. I need to check out the ones with videos anyways.

Went to the local anime con and did crossplay for the first time. Had intended to do this at Chicago's Anime Central in May, but my costume didn't show up in time. People were really supportive, almost entirely positive comments, although I was the only M2F crossplayer I saw, which is weird because guys-as-girls was…

Is there enough drama in the New Pornographers songs to sustain a story, though? I actually got into NP by way of Katherine Calder's old band, Immaculate Machine, and their stuff is just built of desperate, serious intensity. Imagining the damaged characters behind "Broken Ship" or "Death of a Rock Star" opens up all…

Apparently, there was a theatre group called the Boston Rock Opera that would stage some of these concept albums and rock operas back in the 90's and early 00's: they did Preservation, The Point, S.F. Sorrow, etc. Would dearly love to have seen any of these.

Season 2: SEND MORE CHUCK BERRY.

Late to the party, but there's a nice time jump in the 2003 anime Rumbling Hearts (originally Kimi Ga Nozomu Eien), which starts off as a cute high school romance with a timid girl (Haruka), her sporty pal (Mitsuki), the nice guy protagonist (Takayuki), a bratty sister (Akane), etc. At the end of episode two, sporty…

I always thought it was jarring in The Lion King that they age Simba to adulthood in about eight bars of "Hakuna Matata", set against two or three match dissolves as he, Timon, and Pumbaa stride across a log bridge.

I think when you come in on an angle from the bank shot, being a little off to the left or right doesn't hurt you as badly - it's like, oops I'm too far left, so I hit 50 instead of 40, darn.