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The Twilight Experiment pt 2: Cheerleaders

By Cuchlann on 24 June 2010 | Literature, Voice Module | 4 Comments

It’s time again for your dose of someone else’s agony. No, really, it’s all pretty fun. Except the actual reading. That’s terrible.

In this installment you’ll hear about the most terrible of omissions, stalking, and an old friend drawn up out of the mists of our childhoods for comparison.

Episode two!

Show notes are available below the cut. Please let us know what you think, or even ask questions! The moderators should be able to find a way to work them in.

Note: it’s a day late, sorry about that. A nine-ten hour drive caused that. It was actually ready on time, we swear! Next Wednesday… Cartesian dualism gone horribly wrong!

Audio Schadenfreude

By Cuchlann on 16 June 2010 | Literature, Voice Module | 3 Comments

Well… This is odd, I assure you. But, because of what I perceive to be professional obligations (I study the Gothic and I’m a populist), I decided that eventually I would have to read Twilight. Being a rotten bastard, I’ve decided to take as many people down with me as I can. Here’s the recording of that down-going. Thekittymeister, Pontifus, and OGT join me in a Voice Module series of pain and hilarity. Herein you will hear us discuss the first four chapters of Twilight and all the problems we can identify with the book so far.

We explain it in the podcast itself, but here’s a quick guide: Thekittymeister and I have not read the books; Pontifus and OGT are familiar with them through classes. Thekittymeister and I are on a schedule to read four chapters for each podcast, which should be weekly; Pontifus and OGT are acting as moderators/commiserators. Good times are had by all, where we take easy potshots at a big target and wrestle with the political implications of vampires that sparkle.

Here’s the first episode.

Comments are welcome.  Below the cut are the show notes, scanty as they are.

Memories of the Present

By Cuchlann on 8 April 2010 | Video Games | 4 Comments

or, the Always-Already Savior So I’m finally getting around to writing on Earthbound.  I mean, for cereals.  I wrote about it a little over on my personal blog, but I didn’t really have a driving idea, I just wanted to get some feelings out that I couldn’t phrase any better than that.  The simplest way start, I suppose, is simply to ask, Dude, what’s up with the time travel in Earthbound?

The Structure of Moe

By Cuchlann on 5 February 2010 | Anime, Literature | 27 Comments

Or, Whence the Urge to Burn and Protect?

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I’ve been having odd thoughts lately, mostly when I walk to and from class — but also in the shower (both places from which ideas emerge).  Where does moe come from?  That’s the question underlying our work here today.  I’m not going to quibble about the definitions of what moe is, I’m going to try to examine where it comes from.

Adventures in Criticism: Taking Root

By Cuchlann on 26 December 2009 | Anime, Art and Culture, Literature | 9 Comments

ffe2d5584890c80430230f0bc6c61745Augh.  Obviously, if you bothered paying attention to my efforts to engage in the now-traditional “12 moments” project, you know I failed.  Mostly I blame my too-busy semester, during which I watched almost no anime.  As my professor (who sometimes reads my blogs — hello, if you’re reading this one!) said, it was indeed true that I had to put my anime blogging aside for the semester.  I’m going to try not to take four full classes like that again…  it’s, uh, a little extreme.

But you’re not here to listen to me whine (or are you?  Maybe we’d get more hits if I just whined about things).  I’m going on an adventure through an essay by Robert Scholes called “The Roots of Science Fiction.”

12 Days 9: Sore!

By Cuchlann on 22 December 2009 | Anime | 1 Comment

[my 12 Days 6-8 are all compiled over here]

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Awwww yeaaahh!

12 Days 5: end of Endless Eight

By Cuchlann on 18 December 2009 | Anime | 3 Comments

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Oh Lord, you’re probably thinking.  This again.

12 Days 3: Shin Mazinger blah blah TV

By Cuchlann on 16 December 2009 | Anime | 5 Comments

[you can find my 12D2 post on my personal blog]

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Yes, MFing Mazinger. Burn it up!

12 Days 1: Rideback

By Cuchlann on 15 December 2009 | Anime | 2 Comments

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Sorry I am late with my first 12 Days post.  I had to spend yesterday studying for my final exam, which I took this morning.  So here I am, hat in hand, to do two posts in one day — as Pontifus and I are alternating, the even days I’ll be posting here and Pontifus at his site, then the odd days I’ll be at my site and Pontifus here.

So anyway.  Rideback.

Here are knockers indeed! [post 1 of the Cuchlann fanservice series]

By Cuchlann on 15 November 2009 | Anime | 10 Comments

If a man were porter of Hell Gate…

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Fanservice!  We all know it, we all, ah, have a strong opinion about it.  Is it good, is it bad?  Is it neutral?  Can we even say that about something so polarizing?

[note: I wrote this back in July. My semester continues terrible, and I should really be reading theory, Dickinson, and James Hogg right now.  But I've decided to post this, which is really unfinished.  I wanted to make this a post of three sections, examining a show in each.  As it is, it works as the beginning of a mini-series, and hopefully once the break arrives I can write parts two and three.]

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