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Re: The Non Sequitor Thread New Casey is finally open.

Re: The Non Sequitor Thread You can spell cinema with a K

Re: Announcing Kazei 5, Second Edition Good news Bill!

Re: The Non Sequitor Thread I have been up since 4:30.

Re: "Neat" Pictures We are just specks about the size of Mickey Rooney!

Re: The Non Sequitor Thread I think I will have Chinese for lunch, Maybe Mexican, Maybe Both. MMM Both.

Re: The Non Sequitor Thread These are my tiles E H J K L O W I need a seven letter word with this on the board __ __ C __ __ A __

Re: Champions Sneak Peek #2: The Superhero Gallery! I wasn't planning on getting it but now my mind has been changed. Darn you Steve my wallet can not take this;)

Does this not cry out to be a fantasy world. http://strangemaps.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/calendriamap.jpg

Re: The Non Sequitor Thread Talk about a mood breaker.

Re: The Non Sequitor Thread Ssh! The Clowns are gathering.

Re: "Neat" Pictures No rainbow but I was lucky on mine. Friday we had fog and that is what frosted the trees so nicely. The rainbow is cool.

Re: The Non Sequitor Thread I have never received my Hogworts letter.

Re: The Non Sequitor Thread My cats like their cat treats.

Re: "Neat" Pictures Trees were really beautiful this morning in E-burg.

Re: Announcing Kazei 5, Second Edition Yes. Yes it does.

Re: Announcing Kazei 5, Second Edition Is it early February yet? Is it early February yet? Is it early February yet? Anxiously awaiting early February. Also teh Bunneh is on my side of the car.

Re: Announcing Kazei 5, Second Edition Thanks Bunneh! I have not seen the preview but from the sample pages, it looks great.

Re: What Non-Fiction Book have you just finished?

Re: Announcing Kazei 5, Second Edition Coolness! Does this mean the book will be soon? I can hardly wait:D

Re: What Non-Fiction Book have you just finished?

Re: What Non-Fiction Book have you just finished? Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan by Jake Adelstien Rating 4.5 starts out of 5 So often when we see some of the films of Beat Takeshi, the movie Onibi, the movie Sleepless Town or even Koji Yakusho's noble gangster in Bounce Ko-gal we are lauded into an illusion of the Yakuza as noble men walking a path of the shadows so that the common man can walk in the sun. Also in some cases we see violence is something the noble yakuza does to ignoble yakuza as in Onibi or several of the Beat's film. Even Sonny Chiba's Kage no Gundan is a yakuza TV series where the yakuza name is not used but are replaced with ninja. But all the themes of the yakuza is there from several of the cast members having jobs associated with traditional yakuza jobs (construction and peddling) to the whole we are shadows so that others may live in the sun. But that is an illusion created by the Japan film industry (who has heavy yakuza control through ownership and pressure often violent) and only touches upon what the yakuza want to show. What we do forget is that there are victims to the yakuza's action. Peoples whose whole lives are destroyed. Tokyo Vice reminds you of this. Jake Adelstein takes on a journey of him starting as the first American reporter for Yomiuri to the bringing down of one of Japan's most nasty gangster: Tadamasa Goto. It is a journey from a young and idealistic reporter to burn out numb reporter and then to man reawaken to the suffering of other. Along the way we meet people who through Mr. Adelstein's writing become memorable individuals. Some are noble and brave while others are scary and deplorable, we see them all. As I said we see the victims and they linger in your heart after reading it. I think it is a valuable lesson for us here in the west that see they are not noble criminals of the movies but dangerous greedy and violent people and seeing the results on normal people, you can not look at those films the same way again.

Re: Announcing Kazei 5, Second Edition I have just posted an order for some pre-ordered book from some company:D Soon the long wait will be over.

Re: Announcing Kazei 5, Second Edition So when will the pre-order be up Dave?

Re: What if superheroes only appeared in a limited region? Especially if the beam was designed to wake up something deep within the Earth, something that would threaten all of mankind.