Homeless people seem to really like me. I guess these days I’m really approachable or something. Today I was standing on the sidewalk, where a semi-truck was turning the corner. A woman pulled me back from the edge of the sidewalk, because it “wasn’t safe.” At first I must have given her my look of incredulity (copyright 1985), but I quickly gained my composure and thanked her for her good deed. Who cares if there was a good yard or two between me and the truck? Never let it be said that Nana lets someone go unthanked for an act of kindness!

*note, to my mother: I wasn’t in any danger to begin with!

I am not sure all you who come and go here are the sons and daughters of 80s and 90s gaming generation, yet I have to tell that the generation of Super Robot Wars is somewhat unique and must stand up for its cumulated culture.

(breath)

Yes, I said something about Gaming and Super Robot Wars, and of course, you do not need to know everything about them just to understand what I would post down here today. This is just a short four-cut pan art which uses the characters of the game.

Dr. Hell is a boss villain originally from an animation called “Mazinger”. And the little girl, Irui, is Dr. Hell’s grand-daughter. The robot that’s in the first cut is the “Mazinger”, the ‘anti-villain’. The Japanese TV animation show has seven different series of the kind, with all kinds of suffix. (like those of Gundam series). I won’t leave all the detail just to introduce, so enjoy.

Please read from right to left.
Copyright Annonymous….

“You Fools… would never realize her TRUE power!!”

I love this song. It’s sung by Jeff Magnum, the frontman of one of my all time favourite bands, Neutral Milk Hotel. I got it from the amazing music blog You Ain’t No Picasso, some time in December. I figured that since Valentine’s Day is coming up, and I have something else planned for that day blog wise, I’ll post this now.

I like this song because it shows a side of love that isn’t often sang about or talked about. Sure, it’s awesome to have unconditional love for something or someone, but it’s nice to know that you’re loved in return.

Neutral Milk Hotel – I Love How You Love Me (Phil Spector Cover)

Also, happy belated birthday blog (alliteration!). You’ve gone through some cosmetic changes, but like the parents of an ugly baby, I will always love you.

to Pleasant Interruption!

I just realized that I(well, all of us) totally missed our own 1st birthday. Looking back in the archives, the first post was made January 29, 2005.

Hmm…a whole year of blogging. And not much to show for it. That’s what we here at Pleasant Interruption strive for and I think we’ve done a damn fine job of it. Not doing much that is. After all, we are just an interruption right?

Unlike other 1st birthdays, there won’t be any promises made, no new direction, no new goals. Just more of the same old. And that’s the way I like it.

I don’t know about you, but I think Pavement’s Slanted and Enchanted is more accessible than Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain. Most people think it’s the other way around!

(and for Canadians I guess since I’m assuming our networks didn’t air these commercials like every other year)

Google has conveniently made every commercial available on Google Video.

It takes about 20 minutes to watch em all but if you don’t wanna spend that much time, here are my favourites:
Stunt City, Emerald Nuts, the infamous FedEx commercial, Hummer – Monsters, obligatory Pizza Hut ad with Jessia Simpson, Crime deterrent, a cool United Airlines commercial and the trailer for a new movie from the Wachowski brothers starring Natalie Portman.

DISGUSTING! I was looking at the picture for awhile and I got seriously freaked out. It was like I had an anxiety attack or something.

How can that man stand having something so terrifying living in his home?

If anyone says that that rabbit is cute, I will lose all credibility in their opinions, both past and future.

Well, here I am at 1:23 in the morning, reading “Lenin’s Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire”, by David Remnick, and all I hear from the apartment upstairs is alot of loud banging, no, I don’t think its some midnight delight…or anything of the sorts…at least I think it isn’t. But its getting damn annoying it wasn’t like this before, but I think we got new tenants a few months ago and at the oddest times of the day we can hear loud bangning, and sometimes music (they played a Radiohead song one day).
The noises could be anything, and its always fun to speculate what the folks upstairs are up to.

Sigh…back to the Perestroika and Glasnost, school why are you so boring?

Welcome to February! The shortest month of the year, which contains a terrible terrible day for those of us frozen and jaded by interpersonal relationships!

Groundhog Day is tomorrow, let’s hope for an early spring. But with global warming and a crazy jet stream, we don’t really need to do much hoping do we?