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May 17, 2024

Friday Notes (May 17, 2024)

I’ve been a semi-surreal mood lately. From a combination of things. It’s an election year. Politics these days is bad enough, but the last few Presidential elections seem to have written a weird new normal. Now, one candidate is in a criminal trial and potentially could be jailed before the election.

I spent winter wondering if I’d have wasps in the house again come summer. I’ve found three so far. Still no clue how they get in. Looks like I need an exterminator. Another surreal bullet point: this past winter kinda… wasn’t. Oddly, I missed it.

The surreal aside, however, Friday Notes marches on.

4 Comments | tags: Assassination Classroom, big bang, Copernican Principle, faith, inflation, logic puzzle, universe | posted in Friday Notes

March 14, 2018

Assassination Classroom

By Wyrd Smythe

I want to tell you about Assassination Classroom, an amazing Japanese anime series I discovered, but it’s going to be a bit of a challenge, because I just don’t know that much about anime — it’s not something I’ve ever watched a lot of. In fact, the anime series (as is often the case) is based on the manga series, and I’ve never gotten into manga at all.

But I was so enthralled by this anime series that I have to give it a best effort. If you like anime, or even just animated storytelling, and especially if you like hard science fiction (the good kind), you have got to check this one out.

For one thing, it’s surprisingly deep! And it made me weep.

4 Comments | tags: anime, Assassination Classroom, Cowboy Bebop, Dark Matter (TV series), Fairy Tail, Final Fantasy, Ghost in the Shell, Hayao Miyazaki, Japanese anime, Tachikoma, The Devil Is a Part-Timer!, The Expanse (TV series), Yoko Kanno, Zoie Palmer | posted in Opinion, TV

March 7, 2018

Fresh Off the Boat

By Wyrd Smythe

Last post I mentioned the ABC sitcom Fresh Off the Boat, a show I’m currently mini-binging^[1] on Hulu. When I wrote that, I was still very much on the fence as to whether I even liked the show. In fact I was puzzled about why I liked it at all, since it’s a fairly standard sitcom in many regards.

Ever since I’ve been paying more attention to my reactions while watching, and I’ve come to realize that it’s not a matter of being undecided — it’s a matter of having developed a strong like/dislike for the show. As I wrote with Halt and Catch Fire, my feelings are mixed, not vague.

And it turns out to really tap into what attracts or repels me to sitcoms.

7 Comments | tags: 30 Rock, Assassination Classroom, Community (TV series), Dan Harmon, Fresh Off the Boat, Futurama, Matt Groening, Rick and Morty, Scrubs, South Park, The Good Place, The Office, The Simpsons | posted in Opinion, TV