Firefly | SerenityStuff » Blog Archive » Steven Brust reads him some Firefly at Oasis 19
Topic: Arts
1:16 pm EST, Jan 21, 2007
It may help you to know that the audience broke out laughing more than a few times. Brust is known for his sarcastic dialogue and his cheerful violence, and it serves him well here.
An audience member asked if Brust could get rights to publish it. Brust: “Good question. I’m workin’ on it. It’s a complicated question because of the question of, Universal having the rights, Joss having ideas on what books he wants, if any. Latest rumor is that there aren’t going to be any books because the movie didn’t do well enough. So I have no idea. What I am hoping, what I am sort of expecting once I figure out how this works is to publish it as fanfic. Just cuz I like it, I wrote it, I wrote it because I wanted to, and I’d like to have it out there for people who want to read it.”
Brust's writing style would suit this series like a glove. I hope this finds its way to a book store or a tracker sometime in the near future.
Bumping Cypherghost's link through to BoingBoing, but this burning Elmo video is one part of a three part series that starts with this video. Watching the chared, burning robot flailing its metal limbs against the ground and laughing manically evokes some of the moredisturbing scenes from the Animatrix. The future is machines that don't break down, they die.
Youths arrested for 'otaku hunting' - MSN-Mainichi Daily News
Topic: Arts
12:02 pm EDT, Oct 12, 2006
Eight youths who engaged in what they called "otaku hunting" -- mugging geeks on the streets of Tokyo's Akihabara district -- have been arrested in three separate cases, police said Thursday.
The teens all targeted junior high school students they referred to as "Akiba-kei," or geeks who like the otaku culture found widely in retail outlets throughout Akihabara.
Police said there have been 25 reported incidents of "otaku hunting" since the start of the year, with victims losing a combined 350,000 yen between them.
"Otaku are weak and they've got money, so we went after them," one of the arrested youths told the police.
Police said one of the cases involved three boys waylaying a 14-year-old boy who was headed to Akihabara to buy an anime doll and demanding he pay them money or he would be bashed. The boy handed over 3,000 yen, the police said.
In two separate cases in July and September, two groups of boys threatened two other boys, cajoling them into handing over 1,500 yen in cash. (Mainichi)
haha! I wonder if this will spawn an Otaku civil rights movement.
Before you begin practicing kino mutai, you must learn the essential principles. First is how to bite. You should always be cognizant of how much flesh is in your mouth. Typically, the average person will try to use all his teeth and take too much "meat" in one bite. To avoid that pitfall, you must angle your face so the pressure is applied directly on the incisors. The actual motion of the bite is a repeated circular ripping of the flesh, resulting in numerous smaller bites which, when applied cumulatively, inflict considerable damage.
The art of biting and eye gouging. Someone needs to make a Karate-Kid-esque movie with a master of this style.
