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I noticed recently that Funimation is now streaming a couple of essential anime series, Serial Experiments Lain<\/a><\/em><\/strong> and Haibane Renmei<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. The latter will finally be available again on DVD<\/a> next month, and for a very good price, but as far as I know, there are no plans to reissue Lain<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n Update<\/strong>: As Mikeski mentions in his comment, Lain<\/em><\/strong> will be available again in November, possibly in much higher quality<\/a> than the original release.<\/p>\n *****<\/p>\n Quotes of the week:<\/p>\n … I do wish the media would stop calling Leonardo da Vinci just \u201cda Vinci.\u201d It\u2019s like calling St. Francis just \u201cAssisi\u201d or me just \u201cNew Jersey.\u201d<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Pro tip: when framing your opponents as intolerant hate-filled bigots, try not to showcase your own hatred, intolerance, and bigotry.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n *****<\/p>\n Hollywood is the wrong place to look for heroes worth emulating<\/a>. Try anime<\/a>, instead. Seirei no Moribito<\/a><\/em><\/strong> is a good place to start.<\/p>\n *****<\/p>\n Jack Vance’s novel The Chasch<\/em><\/strong> is free for the downloading<\/a> during August. (Via Aliens in This World<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I noticed recently that Funimation is now streaming a couple of essential anime series, Serial Experiments Lain and Haibane Renmei. The latter will finally be available again on DVD next month, and for a very good price, but as far as I know, there are no plans to reissue Lain. Update: As Mikeski mentions in … Continue reading “Odds and ends”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime","category-culture-and-anti-culture","category-decline-and-fall"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-23k","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7894","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=7894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}