Slowly getting back up to speed...

[matrixrefugee]

I'm still horribly congested because of this cold, but right now, it just feels like nasty allergies... which were troubling me before I came down with the cold in the first place.

Got the latest of the small packages I was expecting from Amazon, namely the third and final volume of the manga version of Gankutsuou. I've been tempted to look for the manga version of Kyou Kara Maou! but given how I missed an entire week of work this week, I simply don't have the funds right now. Still watching the anime, which is keeping me laughing and may have helped with the healing process.

Also discovered the second season of "Life After People" on Hulu.com: I'm only on the second episode, but I'm enjoying it as much as the first season, perhaps even more, since they featured an especially heart-warming bit of speculation, namely, Anatolian sheepdogs continuing to guard flocks of sheep for generations, and one comical segment involving raccoons scavenging in a house, helping themselves to the vanished humans' cookies and fruit bowls and rummaging in the drain of a sink! (I love raccoons anyway: they're clever little rascals with permanent bandit masks and inquisitive little hands). Then there was the Great Lakes freighter going over Niagra Falls -- and come to find out some of those boats can be longer than the falls are tall, which somehow made it funnier. And is it me, or does the narrator sound like the late, great voice-over/announcer Don LaFontaine channeling the late, great Shakespearean and horror movie actor Vincent Price? I find the series humbling and thought-provoking, a bit nightmarish (when the fates of animals are involved) and yet a bit funny at times: some of the segments of Things Falling Apart and Going Smash are probably amusing because there are no humans around to be injured or killed, but sometimes there are cases of Conspicuous CGI involved; the bit involving a methane gas explosion under the MetLife building in NYC was an especially obvious case: they seemed to have simply copy-pasted an explosion with a fireball (it was going in the right direction and it was angled properly, but the play of light and shadows didn't quite match up) over some footage of the building. Also very surreal and interesting: the deserted desert town of Kolmanskop, Namibia, featuring buildings with rooms half full of drifted sand (made me think of the Village in the Jim Caviezel version of "The Prisoner").

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[sagemuraken.livejournal.com]

Kyou Kara Maou makes people feel better - scientific fact! XD Well, at least it often did cheer me up when I watched it. ^_^ I should rewatch again... Haven't seen it for a while.