HIP HOP IS THE BEST

March 7th, 2008 by Brack

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Like a sixties TV villain…

February 12th, 2008 by Brack

Posts have been sparse of late, as I managed to do something unpleasant* to my left shoulder blade that left me agony most the weekend and varying degrees of discomfort since then. It’s feeling OK to type with now, I’ll have to see how it holds up to driving tomorrow. Have to wait and see if it holds up enough to do a proper post tomorrow evening.

*Namely, I fell over backwards and stopped myself by grabbing something, unfortunately wrenching my shoulder in the process.

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The Ten Most Viewed Articles of Awesome Engine of 2007

January 5th, 2008 by Brack

1) Ultimates Volume 3 - this was mainly down to a link from the erstwhile Jog.

2) Superjail Is Super - This has been constantly hit from searches since the pilot aired. It’s blipping again right now after Adult Swim aired it again.

3) Cross Counter Of The Day - Blazing Transfer Student Episode 1 - This got a lot of hits from people looking for Cross Counters on Google Image Search. Also there are very few pages writing about Blazing Transfer Student on the web.

4) Giant Gorg Episode 1 - Likewise, very few Giant Gorg sites out there.

5) Top 100 Anime Addendum #3: Maicching Machiko-sensei - this gets a lot of hits from people looking for torrents of the recent live action version.

6) Denno Coil - Episodes 1 to 4 - Looks like I need to reload the images for this entry.

7) Cross Counter Of The Day - Gurren Lagann Episode 3 - More Google Image search traffic.

8) Kawaii Jenny - This was due to AICN link traffic, I believe. Though probably a lot of search traffic, as outside of “top 100 anime” (my static page of the 2005 top 100 anime list is the most popular page on this site) the top keyword was “kawaii jenny”.

9) HATE FUN? October Anime! Part 6~! - This definitely was Kawaii Jenny related AICN traffic. For a brief period there I was the internet’s source of Kawaii Jenny news.

10) It’s Environmental Cartoon Week! - Smoggies - Mainly google traffic. Often people searching for “funny environmental cartoon”.

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New Years Resolutions

January 2nd, 2008 by Brack

The past couple of years I’ve been pretty good and actually got at least one resolution done (set up a spreadshirt account, set up this website, run an event actually about anime at a UK anime convention), so let’s throw some ideas out there.

1. Self Indulgent Vanity publishing. I’ve been meaning to do this for ages. So inspired by today’s Achewood I’m thinking I should make the Awesome Engine Annual* for the end of the year. As my last two doable resolutions have been similarly self-regarding, I’m sure this is achievable. Terribly Xmas presents all round next year!

2. Make better use of the ridiculous amount of webspace I’m paying for. Thank god for the weak dollar.

3. Get all content I want to preserve for the ages off my livejournal and onto this website. There was some Hate Fun? stuff I had only there only when I was trying to keep this site all upbeat joyfullness. But people liked it and so the Hate Fun? thing came here too. There was some good stuff in that original Hate Fun? run of posts that should really be up here.

4. Change internet providers. I’m sure I’m paying more than I should be for the quality of service I’m now getting, so I need to change.

5. Get back into shape. My change of job totally threw out my lifestyle and I’m lot less healthy than I was mid-2006. I need to get back into doing daily 1-2 mile walks again to sort myself out. 2007 was stressful for oh so many reasons that I never managed to get myself into a routine for anything, let alone exercise.

6. Get back into the swing of things with eBay. Again, mid-2006, I was kicking ass on eBay, with one thing and another it fell by the wayside last year, and I still have plenty of junk that I need to unload. Plus my shelves are getting full again, so it’s time for a clear out of books.

That should do, as usual I’ll be happy if one gets done.

* For the non-UK reader, Annuals are a traditional Xmas hardback publication that were originally based on comics. But have expanded to cover magazines, sports, pop music, celebrities or TV shows. Normally they are full of comic strips, stories, quizzes, and text articles. The Doctor Who annual, clocking in at a measly 64 pages (note - this is the page count I’m aiming for!), is the current best selling annual.

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Awesome Engine Twitter

December 30th, 2007 by Brack

I got myself a twitter account so I can IM random thoughts to it as I see fit.

The latest posts to it should appear in the Awesome-Engine.com side bar or you can go to http://twitter.com/awesome_engine and follow it/RSS feed it to your heart’s content.

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My Voice…

December 19th, 2007 by Brack

Sounds like tomb doors opening. Can I get a refund on the last 5 days of my life?

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Sick Note

December 18th, 2007 by Brack

I’ve been laid out with a cold since Sunday afternoon. All things being well (well maybe not all things, I’d just settle for this cough to go away) the Awesomevent Calendar should be back on track tomorrow.

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Yig

November 16th, 2007 by Brack

Not been many updates this week as I have been “busy” watching Mononoke. I’m away from the internets for the next few days, but I shall be writing about how awesome this show is when I return Monday.

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EXPO NO GO

October 20th, 2007 by Brack

So I planned to go to this MCM Expo thingy today. I hear it’s a bit like the Peterborough Sci-Fi and Fantasy Fair, except without the great 15+ year-old poster of wizards and spacemen.

However, really I didn’t have much motivation for the shindig. The one earlier this year had Troma honcho Lloyd Kaufman attending and that one I’d have gone to had real life not interfered. Of this weekend’s guests only Dougie Braithwaite meant anything to me and he’d pulled out. So I was half heartedly dragging my ass to London. At least I’d get a change of scenery, some exercise and pick up a couple of manga volumes I thought.

Well I got to London and it hit me in the face this thing was on the wrong side of town for an easy trip. Especially as part of the Circle line was closed. I figured I’d get on the Central and go across town that way. Only Holborn had been evacuated, so I had to abandon that trip part way through. At this point I gave up on the whole Expo idea and got off at Oxford Circus and wandered along Oxford Street to Forbidden Planet and Gosh!

On the way I saw a man carrying a ferret. The ferret was wearing a high visibility lead. This suggests that the man has on occasion walked said ferret at night. Or it’s a professional ferret used for vermin control. I hope it was the latter, and it wasn’t an deliberately eccentric pet.

I picked up Monster Volume 10 but there wasn’t a Golgo 13 Volume 11 in sight. I grabbed a bite to eat, then figured I’d see about swinging by the Expo and seeing if I saw any faces I knew. So I got there mid afternoon, wandered around the ExCel centre for a bit, decided I wasn’t going to pay (especially as I was going to be charged to take money out) just to feel even more cynical and old than I was feeling already (the sight of Naruto headbands will do that to a man), took some photos of derelict riverside buildings and headed back.

So my Expo experience was all of 15 minutes!

So it was a lot like Peterborough Sci-Fi and Fantasy Fair, except without people I know dressed as vikings and hitting each other with real swords. And I bet there wasn’t LARPers trying to sell VHS copies of their own homemade Stargate film!

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Kick Colds To The Curb

September 28th, 2007 by Brack

Well that cold was absolutely horrid for about 24 hours, then I was back to just normal levels of malaise.

If you Hate Fun, then join me tomorrow, as I again review anime series that haven’t even aired in Japan yet based on my kneejerk reactions to their websites.

Oh, and howzabout that final panel in this week’s One Piece? I was picking my jaw off floor.

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