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Yesterday Yoon and I got to hang out! We baked a pluot cake and a non-pluot cake, because I became paranoid that the pluots were a bad idea, not being specifically cooking pluots, and also we hadn't bought enough of them for two pans. They came out delicious and the pluot cake especially looked beautiful. Yoon has photos, linked below.
We also went to a used bookshop. I bought book two of LJ Smith's The Forbidden Game in the hope that eventually I'll find book one. I also bought a book which I initially pulled from the sf section because I thought it had been misshelved. It is The Legend of Tarik by Walter Dean Myers, a very respectable mainstream author of usually serious, sometimes comic, but always realistic YA novels, and also of nonfiction on African-American topics. But no! It actually was fantasy!
"Tarik was just a boy when he saw his family slaughtered by the evil tyrant, El Muerte." Hmm. There may be a reason why I never heard of this book.
We listened to a little Sweeney Todd in the car ("It's about a homicidal barber who cuts throats, and his accomplice Mrs. Lovett, who bakes the bodies into pies! You'll love it!") and had burgers at the famous Pie n' Burger. They were pretty good. Sadly, we had to skip the pie, as we had previously stuffed ourselves with pluot cake.
But all that is mere prelude for the real reason for this post: to alert you to Yoon's hilarious report on one of the most bizarre animes I've ever seen-- and that's saying a lot-- strange '80s anime Aura Battler Dunbine. Kind of like Escaflowne, only even more insane-- Yoon aptly described it as "incomprehensible exposition punctuated with explosions"-- and featuring random naked jogging pixies and characters named Lord Weapon Shot ("He's from California," someone explains) and Marvel Frozen (no explanation given.
Must be seen to be believed. But luckily, Yoon has screencaps!
We also went to a used bookshop. I bought book two of LJ Smith's The Forbidden Game in the hope that eventually I'll find book one. I also bought a book which I initially pulled from the sf section because I thought it had been misshelved. It is The Legend of Tarik by Walter Dean Myers, a very respectable mainstream author of usually serious, sometimes comic, but always realistic YA novels, and also of nonfiction on African-American topics. But no! It actually was fantasy!
"Tarik was just a boy when he saw his family slaughtered by the evil tyrant, El Muerte." Hmm. There may be a reason why I never heard of this book.
We listened to a little Sweeney Todd in the car ("It's about a homicidal barber who cuts throats, and his accomplice Mrs. Lovett, who bakes the bodies into pies! You'll love it!") and had burgers at the famous Pie n' Burger. They were pretty good. Sadly, we had to skip the pie, as we had previously stuffed ourselves with pluot cake.
But all that is mere prelude for the real reason for this post: to alert you to Yoon's hilarious report on one of the most bizarre animes I've ever seen-- and that's saying a lot-- strange '80s anime Aura Battler Dunbine. Kind of like Escaflowne, only even more insane-- Yoon aptly described it as "incomprehensible exposition punctuated with explosions"-- and featuring random naked jogging pixies and characters named Lord Weapon Shot ("He's from California," someone explains) and Marvel Frozen (no explanation given.
Must be seen to be believed. But luckily, Yoon has screencaps!