The Guilty Crown

At our age the imagination

   across the sorry facts

      lifts us

to make dere

   stand before yan.

Sure

   love is old

      and hackneyed

and totally trite—

   at least, slave to demographics,

      animated love is.

But we are older,

I to blog

   and you to be dissected,

we have,

   through cruel luck,

      by our wills survived

as NEETs

   the boxed prize

      always

at our finger tips.

We will it so

   and so it is

      past all accident.

- With apologies to William Carlos Williams.

NYAF 2009 karaoke showdown

Fulfilling a dread prophecy that I have become some kind of karaoke blogger, the most recent round of Twitter involved a curious sort of reverse trash-talk.  Upon being asked if he would karaoke, hisuiRT replied:

You say that now. You might regret those words if you hear me sing.

PatzPrime rejoined,

You are very likely to hear me sing as well and let me tell you that will make you cry it is so amazing.

Otaku Puns

Hisui of Reverse Thieves began a cascade of inferences that led inexorably to astrology and social commentary:

All the REAL anime fans have birthday in July. Everyone else are just posers. True verifiable fact.

OneGreatTurtle re: July birthdays: I share my date (July 6) with the Dalai Lama, Sylvester Stallone, and George W. Bush. One of them is an anomaly.

erinf So in astrology, otaku are born under the sign “Cancer” (June 21 to July 22)

hisuiRT So otaku are a cancer on society. I was wrong all along. My bad.

OneGreatTurtle Hence why otaku tend to be crabby.

hisuiRT Bravo good Sir. Bravo! It also explains why otaku only think of themselves. They are shellfish bastards.

Tune in next time, when we consult phrenological experts for more insights into the nature of otaku!