I have a dream

Note: This article is a reprint.  The Moritheil Review wishes everyone a very happy Martin Luther King day.

In Iowa, a man was assaulted simply for being who he was. This is a troubling crime, all the more so for coming a generation after America fought so hard so that all its people could be free.

From the Examiner:

The victim was in the process or ordering food when a man came up to him, accused the victim of being a zombie, then punched the victim in the eye.

When the victim attempted to use his cell phone to call police, the assailant hit him again, this time breaking the victim’s nose. The assailant then fled out the back door of the restaurant.

My friends, I have a dream. Even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.”

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of humanity and the corpses of humanity will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood, and not consume each other.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Iowa, a state freezing with the bitter chill of injustice, shivering with the coldness of indifference, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the state of their animation but by the content of their character.

I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day, down in Florida, with its vicious animists, with its universities’ lips dripping with the words of ZBSD and nullification; one day right there in Florida, little zombie boys and little zombie girls will be able to join hands with little living boys and living girls as sisters and brothers.

I have a dream today.

And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all the Creator’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, living and unliving, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Zombie spiritual, “Braaaaaains! Braaaaaaains! Braaaains, Braaaaaaaains!”

The Stillborn Anime Revolution

I have never known an anime to start a revolution. – Godlen

Deb Aoki of manga.about.com asked,

I wonder who can claim to be the Lester Bangs of manga/anime criticism?

End the Hate

In Iowa, a man was assaulted simply for being who he was.  This is a troubling crime, all the more so for coming a generation after America fought so hard so that all its people could be free.

From the Press-Citizen:

The victim was in the process or ordering food when a man came up to him, accused the victim of being a zombie, then punched the victim in the eye.

When the victim attempted to use his cell phone to call police, the assailant hit him again, this time breaking the victim’s nose. The assailant then fled out the back door of the restaurant.

My friends, I have a dream. Even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.”

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of humanity and the corpses of humanity will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood, and not consume each other.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Iowa, a state freezing with the bitter chill of injustice, shivering with the coldness of indifference, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the state of their animation but by the content of their character.

I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day, down in Florida, with its vicious animists, with its universities’ lips dripping with the words of ZBSD and nullification; one day right there in Florida, little zombie boys and little zombie girls will be able to join hands with little living boys and living girls as sisters and brothers.

I have a dream today.

And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all the Creator’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, living and unliving, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Zombie spiritual, “Braaaaaains! Braaaaaaains! Braaaains, Braaaaaaaains!”

A Meta Revelation

My friends, I have seen the light.  For so much of my life, I have been going about things all wrong. Is this about my reviewing, my demeanor, or even my progress through life?  No, today I speak of a loftier topic, an activity with much higher stakes.

I have been commenting incorrectly on the Internet.

The Trolling Hour: Apathy for DKellis

Since we've shifted the frame to talking about people, as opposed to moe characters, I've extended the visual metaphor.

I’ve never liked Moe Check. This isn’t to say that I hated it or anything, but more that it failed to fully elicit any sort of severe response in any direction. I didn’t hate it, and I didn’t like it; I was just not interested in it.

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 Speed Dating to be unleashed at Sogen Con

Sepiroth of MaiOtaku.com has decided to help socially-stunted otaku hook up. He will host a speed dating event for 14 people at Sogen Con and, if it goes well, expand it to other cons.

Anime bloggers weigh in:

Moritheil: This sounds uproariously funny.

PatzPrime: That sounds like a awesome Idea.

Moritheil: Well . . . I generally see otaku as the type to either fail miserably at speed dating, or not require it at all.

lwelyk: Or the type that will be either too male or too absolutely nuts to do it.

PatzPrime: Which is why it sounds like a awesome idea.

An Indecent Proposition

Moritheil threatened otaku everywhere with a most Promethean fate:

Anime Diet panel at AX 2009: be there or I will eat your liver desu~!

But further news is afoot. Puppet Mistress DancingQueen_DQ and Benu, revered sensei of aniblogging, have released secret footage.