4 unrelated things: church, false advertising, yard sales, and Bleach

[edenfalling]

Service rehearsal went well last night. We hashed out who's doing the various connecting bits between the items on the order of service, and we practiced our mini-sermons. It seems to be drawing together.

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The people who make the signs listing the official Noyes community center summer hours have obviously not actually talked to the people who open and maintain the building. I know this because the computer lab was supposed to be open 8am-5pm yesterday and today. Yesterday the lab was locked. Today, the whole building was locked.

Therefore, I am in Olin library, where I can't eat or drink. Bah.

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A number of families on Auburn St. hold coordinated yard sales in August. (August is the prime yard sale time in Ithaca, so as to catch all the returning students who need to furnish their apartments cheaply.) This year, the sale was today. I bought Octavia Butler's Kindred, Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, and a very nice picture frame, for $4 total.

Of course, this means my stack of books to read is now well over 20 books deep, but whatever. I'll get around to them sooner or later. Heck, I'm currently 1/3 of the way through Walter Miller, Jr.'s A Canticle for Leibowitz, which had been in the pile for about two years! (And I like it so far, too.)

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I've been reading Bleach scanlations online. I think I'm near the end of volume 6, and, so far, I like it. Nothing earthshaking, but definitely good entertainment. I confess that I like the beauty and delicacy of typical shoujo art, but I also really like the clarity of typical shounen. Tite Kubo does not disappoint in that respect (though his people are all so damn thin...).

Anyway, it's kind of weird reading the manga after vaguely stumbling through the fringes of the fandom for a year or so, because suddenly a whole bunch of things I'd skimmed in passing make sense.

Also, Orihime is LOVE. :-)

Comments

[missmurchison.livejournal.com]

I loved "Canticle for Leibowitz." I think I first read it in high school, and I was ridiculously tickled by the misunderstandings of "ancient English." I especially liked the part where the cluesless monk found a fallout shelter with a sign that said "occupancy 16," and he thought that fallout was a kind of monster and he'd stumbled on the home of 16 of them. It's a good example of why it can be such a bear to learn English as a second language.

[edenfalling]

I did not like Francis (the clueless monk) at all at first, but he grew on me. I think it was his earnestness that won me over -- that and how careful he was in researching blueprints before beginning his illuminated copy. I was very upset when he got killed!

I really like the way the monks preserve knowledge even though nobody knows what any of it actually means anymore. And the way they use words like thingumbob and dohickii (the Latinate plural cracks me up every time) as serious labels instead of catch-all nouns for things whose actual names you can't remember.

[missmurchison.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Miller had his tongue so firmly stuck in his cheek when he wrote "Canticle," it must looked like he was hoarding peanuts for winter.

I haven't read it for years. I need to put it on my "to be re-read" list.

[yuenoclow.livejournal.com]

Also, Orihime is LOVE. :-)

Oh, she *so* is! ^^ That girl cracks me up so bad sometimes... hee!

[edenfalling]

I empathize with her spacy flights of fancy, because I used to do that all the time. Granted, mine were a bit more coherent, but still. :-)

[soc_puppet]

Thirding the Orihime sentiment. Pretty much any day can be improved by a dose of Orihime antics.

[edenfalling]

Yes! And she's sweet, too, and more intelligent and observant than you think at first glance. *hugs Orihime*

[iponly.livejournal.com]

Oh, I just read A Canticle for Leibowitz a few weeks ago. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. And I'll ditto that sentiment for Bleach. I'd love to hear your opinion about plans vs. retcons vs. damn clever since I've heard several people weigh in on Tite Kubo's work in relation to that. Only when you're done of course, if ever. Shonen Jump titles get so long! :)

[edenfalling]

Hmm. Clearly I will have to get further into Bleach before that will make sense to me.

At the moment, I'm mostly being amused at the way the scanlations mistranslate various names. It's understandable, since they didn't have official translations at the time, but it's kind of funny to read after the fact. :-)

[bewize.livejournal.com]

I admit that I love Bleach. Not the love that I have for Fruits Basket, but a different, if equally valid love.

Orihime is fantastic, but all of the characters are *interesting* to me. They don't draw me in and make me cry and hurt and bleed for the quite the way that the Fruits Basket cast does, but I eagerly await each new installment and look to find out what happens. And things get much more interesting in the Soul Society, in my opinion.

I very much like the art. It is what kept my interest in the beginning. Well that and the twist on the "ghost story" basis for the manga. Plus, I have a thing for bad tempered orange haired kids. ;)

[edenfalling]

They are interesting. I particularly like the sense of the high school group as an actual group of people who had lives before all this shinigami and Hollow stuff popped up, and the way that some of those relationships trace back into the past.

I've reached the Soul Society arc, and yes, the plot does seem to be picking up speed and there's a sense of a unified story rather than a series of related shorts.

[(Anonymous)]

Ohh, Bleach. Would you please tell me where to find the scanlations?

[edenfalling]

www.stoptazmo.com

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks!