felis_ultharus | (no subject)

Life

I thought I was on the mend, but I had to come home dizzy from work today. It was still too soon after the surgery. I hope I'm not coming down with a fever (my doctor was worried).

Politics

I flew off the handle yesterday when I discovered that hole in the government records. Turns out it's not something Harper's been plotting, but a procedural void. All four parties are responsible -- I don't think they even realize that their votes aren't being recorded in some circumstances.

I'm going to present an emergency motion to the NDP's convention in September. This procedural hole is fairly easy to fix, as soon as politicians notice the hole is there.

Even if Harper isn't responsible for the hole in the records, with his attacks on the press right now, we need accurate government records to keep track of what all the parties are doing. This is the worst time to have gaps in the records, and so far there's been a gap for every single vote this year on a government bill.

General Geekery

Everyone who's ever seen Neon Genesis Evangelion is actually required to go here. Yes, that's the law. I checked.

I'd issue a spoiler warning for everyone elese, but I think they'd all just be lost.

I love Evangelion. But it is really pretentious. I think I'd hate it as a book. Too James Joyce.

Maybe if Finnegan's Wake was done as an anime, it would be more enjoyable. If Joyce had giant cyborgs, badly-done quantum mechanics, and homoerotic subtext, I'd like him more.

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I like Joyce some times... not Finnegan's wake mind you. But I promise if it was made into an anime there would be more giant robots, cyborgs and homoerotic subtext than you could handle. Have you seen the anime adaptations of The Count of Monte Cristo and Seven Samurai (Gankutsuou and Samurai 7 respectively)? Both have all those things and more. ^_^

I used to think that I disliked Joyce because it's cheating to make up 90% of the words in your work. Then I got a hold of John Lennon's first two books, which are nothing but cheery nonsense, and I had to revise that: It's cheating when you make up 90% of the words in your work, and then get upset when people don't instantly know what the hell you were talking about. It's the author equivalent of when your SO stomps around the house all day, plainly angry, and when you ask what you did the answer comes back, "If you don't know, I'm certainly not going to tell you!"

I was not impressed when I had to read portions "Portrait of An Artist As A Young Man" in high school. My feeling is that no book that starts out with the author wetting himself is ever going to turn out well.

I had the misfortune to see all of the Eva movies before I finished the series. I remember perking up when Kaworu showed up in the series recap, because he had a personality and I didn't loathe it. Ahaha! That taught me a good lesson about getting attached to secondary characters in psychodramas.