Supermeow!

Note: I originally wrote this on September 19 and didn’t get around to publishing this until now. Oops. Tomorrow is my husband Christian’s birthday. He doesn’t know this yet, but I am planning to surprise him with some dinner! I’m making him a meatloaf an’ mashed potato dinner with gravy and creamed spinach as a…  Continued »

Since my father’s got my camera and my cell phone battery is dead (and the charger is at work), I had to use the camera on my iMac to get this picture of my super-fragrant, super-delicious lunch. My mother recently discovered Daisy Martinez’s cooking program on PBS. She’d fallen in love with Daisy’s food and…  Continued »

Eight years ago today, I found out that I probably had multiple sclerosis.

Stop me if you’ve heard this before, but the reason I became interested in Japanese cartoons and comics was because I was first interested in Japanese Barbie. In the early eighties, Barbie was not so well-received over in Japan. Nobody was keen on the toothy smile and big boobs of Superstar Barbie. Takara acquired the…  Continued »

A lot of anime nerds will say that Hayao Miyazaki is their favorite anime director. Not me. If you were to ask me, I’d say that my favorite director is Satoshi Kon. It was with great shock and sadness that I learned yesterday, right in the middle of one of the worst migraines that I’d…  Continued »