{"id":1996,"date":"2009-12-09T19:51:06","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T01:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tancos.net\/wp\/?p=1996"},"modified":"2026-03-27T19:40:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T00:40:55","slug":"odd-and-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/odd-and-ends\/","title":{"rendered":"Odds and ends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"lightbox\"  title =\"Mecha Moon, by The Lantiis\" href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Mecha_Moon_by_The_Lantiis.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Mecha_Moon_by_The_Lantiis-312x500.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Mecha Moon, by The Lantiis\" width=\"312\" height=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1997\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since there is a series of <a href=\"http:\/\/tancos.net\/wp\/2009\/05\/23\/henshin-gone-horribly-wrong\/\">Sailor Moon Gundams<\/a>, it&#8217;s inevitable that there would also be a Gundam Sailor Moon. This is one of the entries in the current <a href=\"http:\/\/news.deviantart.com\/article\/101734\/\">Sailor Moon Redesign contest<\/a>. The styles and quality of the entries vary wildly, but some are quite eye-catching. I rather like this Sailor Mercury:<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"lightbox\"  title =\"Sailor Mercury Silver Mill, by Le Artist Boheme\" href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Sailor_Mercury_Silver_Mill__by_Le_Artist_Boheme.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Sailor_Mercury_Silver_Mill__by_Le_Artist_Boheme-269x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Sailor Mercury Silver Mill, by Le Artist Boheme\" width=\"269\" height=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1998\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>Recent searches:<\/p>\n<p>japanese duck cosplayers \u2014 <i>11 times<\/i>.<br \/>\ninhaling the universe<br \/>\ntancos ???? \u2014 <i>(Chinese for &#8220;Air Force Base&#8221;)<\/i><br \/>\n3d stereoscopic cross-view babes \u2014 <i>I recommend anaglyphs instead, like the ones in this classic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.studio3d.com\/pages\/anaglyph.html\"><b>Sports Illustrated<\/b> swimsuit edition<\/a><\/i>.<br \/>\nthis is not fun anymore in japanese \u2014 <i>It probably isn&#8217;t much fun in English, either<\/i>.<br \/>\nis daffy duck a boy or girl<br \/>\nlain piano sheet music yoshitoshi abe \u2014 <i>I don&#8217;t think ABe did the music for Lain<\/i><br \/>\nraymond scott lain \u2014 <i>I don&#8217;t think Raymond Scott did, either<\/i>.<br \/>\nserial experiments lain the three stigmata of palmer eldritch \u2014 <i>There&#8217;s a term paper there<\/i>.<br \/>\nadopt a miku hatsune<br \/>\nshoujo anime 2008 they put milk in a saucer<br \/>\nkawaii gif queen of dorks<br \/>\nutena gnosticismo<br \/>\nadults that watch kaiketsu zorori \u2014 <i>Hey, it beats <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.toonzone.net\/blogs\/129\/toons-of-the-2000s-anime-we-hope-never-come-to-america\/\">these<\/a><\/i>.<br \/>\nhatsune miku christmas album \u2014 <i>Probably more listenable than Sailor Moon&#8217;s, or Bob Dylan&#8217;s<\/i>.<br \/>\nguu hale feminist<br \/>\nkawaii critical analysis<br \/>\nanthropology kawaii<br \/>\nhorror kawaii \u2014 <i>Look <a href=\"http:\/\/notcliche.com\/kowaijapan\/\">here<\/a><\/i>.<br \/>\nouran satire not \u2014 <i>Ouran, satire, is too<\/i>.<br \/>\npriss asagiri armpit<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p><i>Toon Zone<\/i> is publishing a series of posts on <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.toonzone.net\/blogs\/108\/toons-of-the-2000s\/\">animation during the past ten years<\/a>, including anime. I would have chosen <i><b>Kaiba<\/b><\/i> over <i><b>Kemenozume<\/b><\/i>, but I fully agree with the #1 choice on this list of <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.toonzone.net\/blogs\/135\/toons-of-the-2000s-anime-that-still-havent-made-it-to-america\/\">shows that ought to be licensed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>For any Chestertonians out there, here&#8217;s G.K. Totoro:<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"lightbox\"  title =\"G.K. Totoro\" href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/gktotoro.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/gktotoro-445x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"G.K. Totoro\" width=\"445\" height=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2000\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; or is that Totoro Roosevelt?<\/p>\n<p>(From <a href=\"http:\/\/smallpax.blogspot.com\/2009\/11\/totoro.html\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/?p=3077\">Gaining something in translation<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since there is a series of Sailor Moon Gundams, it&#8217;s inevitable that there would also be a Gundam Sailor Moon. This is one of the entries in the current Sailor Moon Redesign contest. The styles and quality of the entries vary wildly, but some are quite eye-catching. I rather like this Sailor Mercury: ***** Recent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/odd-and-ends\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Odds and ends&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[68,666,502],"class_list":["post-1996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whatever","tag-art","tag-lists","tag-searches"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-wc","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189227,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996\/revisions\/189227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}