The password is afro and sergeant

Well, I've spent quite a bit of the past few days working in the yard. We have a virulently robust weed vine growing in both our front and back yards that we think is probably euonymous. My stepdad has suggested we call it "eu-ominous," because that's what it is. Seriously, we've pulled up wrist-thick vines and roots - the kind that Tarzan could have swung from - and still haven't gotten to the source of it. I never understood the way Southerners talked about kudzu, but now I DO. I'm constantly expecting to pull up a tuft of it and find a bleaching, skeletal corpse of an unaware mailman or UPS driver that got sucked in and swallowed by the vine. It's EVIL. x_x

Also, I got a haircut, because my hair was getting to mini-'fro length. And unlike Sergeant Keroro, I DON'T like afros. XD

And speaking of the good sergeant...while I don't like the new Keroro Gunsou opening and ending songs as much as the old ones, I like the opening animation more. And the ending animation? IS <3 <3 <3. Gigantic golden Afro Keroro stomping around Tokyo! And the booty-shaking dance! :D

Let's Positive Linking!
- Apparently Pom Poko is finally going to get a U.S. release, by Disney no less. It'll be interesting to see how they handle that, given the amazing shapeshifting tanuki testicles that play an integral part in the movie. O_o

Also, I'm already saving up for the Amano art books.

- Oh my God, an Uryuu Ishida sewing set. I'm not sure I'm emotastic enough to carry one, but I'm certainly wussy enough to. <3

- Conservative magazine Human Events lists its "ten most harmful books of the 19th and 20th centuries. (Link from shinkun.) Of course, there's the expected OMG RED MENACE books like The Communist Manifesto and Quotations from Chairman Mao, and OMG SCIENCE MENACE books like The Kinsey Report, and OMG THINKY MENACE books like John Dewey's Democracy and Education ("it encouraged the teaching of thinking 'skills'" - GASP) and Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil. A couple of Darwin's books get honorable mentions, as does John Stuart Mill's On Liberty (that pinko commie) but some that surprised even me, like Ralph Nader's Unsafe at Any Speed or Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. After all, grabbing all the power in the world won't do you much good if your national bird is dead from DDT-thinned eggshells and you're dying of lung cancer caused by environmental pollution.

And a meme I've been tagged for by gedrean:

List five songs that you are currently digging...it doesn't matter what genre they are from, whether they have words or even if they're any good but they must be songs you're really enjoying right now. Post these instructions, the artist, and the song in your blog along with your five songs. Then tag five other people to see what they're listening to.

1. Ryan Cabrera, "On the Way Down" (STFU)
2. Donna Lewis and Richard Marx, "At the Beginning"
3. David Hasselhoff, "Pingu Dance" (it's all jantalaimon's fault)
4. Joy Gruttmann, "Schnappi, das kleine Krokodil" and various remixes/spinoffs (ditto for the fiendish surlykitty)
5. Party Ben - Green Day vs. Oasis vs. Travis vs. Eminem & Aerosmith, "Boulevard of Broken Songs"

Umm, let's see, to tag...rathershady, courters28, anchan218, ahebert and ryuusama, assuming none of you have been tagged already.

...I think that's it for this entry...I have a feeling I'm forgetting something, but it's very late and I have to get up early to take out the trash, so que sera sera. If it was important, it'll come back to me.

x_x;

Oh, fuck a duck. The Kansas City summer has officially started - now even a window air conditioner going at full blast isn't enough to keep you from getting hot. NOOOOOU~

...I can deal with our winters pretty well, but this heat just kicks my ass - I feel all wilted and I get pissy with everyone. And apparently things in Iowa are pretty much the same, but the winters are worse too. Joy.

( Random anime nattering, about Keroro Gunsou, Marmalade Boy, and Gilgamesh  )

Oh, speaking of Gilgamesh, I got the new translation of the Epic of Gilgamesh from the library. I'd never actually read it before, so my expectations were pretty amorphous, but...wow, Gilgamesh and Enkidu are totally gettin' it on. XD

...Let's see, what else? Oh yeah, my graduation pictures came today. I may see about scanning one and putting it up eventually, if I can be bothered.

HELP!

I am being attacked by flying ninja moths. This is not good.

However, something that IS good? Howl's Moving Castle is opening on Friday. :D

*is insanely jealous of jokersama, who already got to see it*