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Current Mood:  Snuggly

I’m sure you’ve all figured out that I’m a complete anime nerd, but did you know that I am also a complete dork for the holiday season? It’s true. I like it when stores start playing holiday songs, even when it’s the week before Thanksgiving. I like giving people presents. I like getting them even better. And I love hot cocoa and cider and eggnog and all those other goodies. And I like decorating. Especially decorating a Christmas tree.

I told a friend I wasn’t going to do this, and then I did it and blogged about it. I worry that I take geekdom to new heights sometimes.

So I managed to work my way over to that maid cafe here in San Jose. It wasn’t very big, but I did take some pictures and stuff. I went ahead and posted them to Japanator (they’re so quiet on the weekends!), so if you wanna see them (and read my report), it’s all here.

You may have heard of Black Snake Moan, the movie in which Samuel L. Jackson chains a nymphomaniacal Christina Ricci to a radiator or something, also known as my favorite dream. Anyway, the film is rarin’ to go in Japan, and Japan Probe has shots from a little promo in Shibuya, which they say may be a sign that the film will do well.

Let me just say it again: Christina Ricci as a nympho. Samuel L. Jackson as anything. Of course Japan’s going to eat it up!

Current Mood:  Huzzah!

To make up for being all gone and stuff over the weekend, I thought I’d share a few photos.

Apparently in the future of Final Fantasy VII, someone invented a holodeck or a time/universe travel machine, or something, because I can’t fathom any other reason for Tifa to be in a Renaissance village. On the other hand, it was technically a “Renaissance/Fantasy” faire. I just didn’t expect it to be a “Renaissance/Final Fantasy” faire. (There were a couple of Clouds there too, and neither appeared to be with this Tifa, which is kind of funny. Also, she seemed amazed that I recognized the character. Huh.)

Okay, we may not have full-on itasha, but I still love the fact that I live in a city where you can have an UltraMan sticker on your car and not only will other people (like me) recognize it, you also won’t have your windows smashed in and your car keyed for it.

They were out of chocolate T_T so I had to get “cream” instead. (Dirty!) it was super-yummy though. A lot bigger than Konata’s. (Dirtier!) Also, they ARE kinda hard to eat. I started from the big end but because of the spiraly shape it was hard to tear off a bite cleanly so it was kinda messy and the cream got everywhere. (DIRTIEST!) But it was super yummy. I also got a maple pan that I had for breakfast this morning that was pretty good. ♥

And yes, I do have a lot of posters. Even more now that I just got my shipment of newtype/animage/animedia/comptiq/megami. I AM OUT OF WALL SPACE. (And I can’t reach the cieling.) What am I gonna do? @_@

Current Mood:  Towel

It’s a terrible picture, but there you have it. And I’ll explain it after THE BLOODENATING.

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