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That network executive has a REALLY cool typewriter....

the only serious alternate reality book I can think of right now is Philip K. BADWORD's The Man in the High Castle "BADWORD's" ?! When the heck did this start happening? Rather than leave people with the impression that Strongbad's literary cousin wrote diverse works of speculative fictio...

Search around under "tanka" as well-- it's a grown-up haiku (7,5,7,5,5, repeat if needed). As for original sources, though, I'm useless.

Have a peek at this guy's site: http://www.lambiek.net/ European comics have followed the "graphic novel" concept for a while-- often aimed at an adult market (that cat detective Ziritiron shared is an example), usually in a 8"X10", 30-50 page format with a story entirely contain...

I notice no one's mentions Rob Leifeld. OH OH OH! Right! GREATEST artist. What was I thinking of? I incline toward Will Eisner for reasons given above. I would support Stan "The Annoying Old Man" Lee despite his current place in my world-view :evil: if he hadn't shared the century with Eis...

Of course, that was at the time of the Meiji restoration, when Japan was in transition from Feudal to Imperial Monarchy in the 19th century European use of the concept. From the intro of firearms in the 16th century, the trend was to make smaller weapons (Shogun's peace = no need for cannon, but occ...

That's pretty much it-- if there were still a Shogun around who you could impress (a la Will Adams the english navigator in 1600), you might have a shot. In a modern, and I assume North American context, all you can really do is properly research the lifestyle of the samurai class ( here's a good pl...

I concur. The trauma in PTSD comes from the shock of something unexpected, and in Japan at that time, it wasn't uncommon for people of Usagi's class to cut people open like wet grocery bags. Alternatively, you could declare them ALL to be suffering PTSD, and the mechanism of its expression is outbur...

Wow. Not just a fan-site. a valuable resource for learning modern languages!

I'm looking out a window of my house and contemplating with some joy the -16c (3f) wintery weather. Joy? Last week it was -37c (-35f), but thanks to the wind it felt like -52c (-62 in your tiny fahrenheit units!). That's brisk!

For those of us older folk, comics were pretty much "verboten", were they not? I remember a pile of mid- to late-60's Action comics appearing in my Grade 4 room as a thing to do when finished an assignment early-- that would have been 1975 or so. Of course, I'm in the place where socializ...

Firearms as we know them (the Chinese were using rocket-powered spears in the 12th c. or so, but I've never seen a reference to that sort of thing in Japan) were introduced to Japan in the first half of the 16th c. by Portuguese traders. By the middle of the century, there was a production plant goi...

Official notice-- Flunky: There have been reports of travellers robbed by near Dinky Seaside Town! Han Metsuke: Really? I just received a report from that town's headman that all was well... although there is a ronin staying with some peasants there. Flunky: I heard Silk Trader Ishimura lost 27 ryo ...

I dunno... Harlan Ellison might ACT like a god occasionally, but I don't think he's ever claimed it.

Traditions were put aside in favour of going to bloody work at 7am on the first. :evil: On the other hand, by avoiding some traditions, specifically... We also ate soba (buckwheat) noodles for long life. ...I avoided dying of an allergy to buckwheat :D H even goes on the Polar Bear Campouts -- sleep...