Welcome to my world.
I'm SomeGuy, 29 years old, residing in Vancouver, BC, Canada. I've studied English Literature, Chinese Martial Arts, and am currently pursuing careers in writing - possibly even in the anime industry itself.
And I work for this site.
And you should be watching Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad.
Or watching Ranma 1/2.
Or learning about the Shinsengumi.
Or planning to visit Vancouver, The Best Place On Earth (actual marketing motto).
Here at the "Smallville" page, I have my personal blog where I'll post about anything and everything. If ya need me or otherwise need to know anything from/about me, here's where I'll be.
If you're really looking for my more professional, site-type stuff, you wanna head over my "Metropolis" world.
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My dad linked me to a story (originally in the newspaper proper) today. We had talked about it before, but he found the photo evidence:
http://www.theprovince.com/business/Series+police+takedowns+ends+foreign+student+kidnapping+drama/1306473/story.html
Neat story, huh? Nice to know that the police are doing what they can in a really vicious rush of kidnappings and gang activity. Wanna know what else is neat?
See the one ERT officer on the far left? I've mentioned him before . . .
That's just plain awesome. Like, Michael Bay awesome.
Also, since I didn't blog about it, don't forget to remind me to blog about that thing I asked you guys to remind me about.
Hey look what someone linked:
http://contemporarylit.about.com/b/2009/02/05/stephen-king-calls-stephanie-meyer-not-very-good.htm
Hehe. Nice.
Also, I royally pissed off a coworker the other day because I wouldn't let his brother use his 10% discount card. This may or may not come up later in life, though if it does I probably won't care. I never see the guy anyway, and the fact that we WOULD let his brother use the card is more the exception than the rule (the rule being quite explicit about card usage being ONLY by the staff member).
Remind me to blog about personal philosophy about "I don't ask a lot of favours, don't start asking me for them now" some time. I bet it'll be fun.
I don't have to close tonight! Means I can eat at home tonight! Also means I can talk to people on Skype tonight!
So Heroes last night . . . I've already seen one diehard Heroes fan already turning away from where the show's gone this past while, so they're definitely at a kind of make-or-break period of time. There's a lot of idiot balls being carried on all teams across all fields, so it's very frustrating at times and I respect that. Nevertheless, I very much want to know what's going to happen next. That's gotta be worth somethin', I guess. On the plus side, at least Maya's not there anymore? Not that she sucked, she was just not as interesting as the others - kinda like Matt in season one before he took a level in badass.
Also . . . I'm about halfway through The Watchmen, and it's extremely well done. I'm loving it so far as something both new and retro to me all at once. It's nifty like that. Naturally, Rorschach steals the show; I'm not surprised.
EDIT: I spent an extra few hours last night reading Watchmen instead of going to bed - with a work shift starting this morning, this is gonna cost me.
On the plus side, though, Watchmen was crap-your-pants awesome, so there's consolation in that. It's really hard to see a lot of things coming in the book because it subverts pretty much every superhero trope and expectation into a rather interesting moral situation.
Heh . . . this movie's gonna piss off a lot of people next month. And I don't even mean the poor people who won't be able to handle the adaptation, either. The final message of the story's gonna mess with people . . . aaaaaaand . . . that should be fun to watch . . .
