Recommendations

So. Recommendations from me. Don't follow them if you don't want to, don't listen(?) to me if you don't want to.

First off, lunch. If I have the chance, I'll go off and eat some marinara sauce-pasta here at the UW. I don't know how they make it, or who their supplier is, but it's delicious. Really hits the spot when it's cold out, for some reason.

Okay, in a previous post, I wrote this - “We'll be fully Human and free. That's enough.” on page 531 (a page or so before chapter 2 of Imago) - and noted how it was funny. There's an anime out there called Big O (think Batman: The Animated Series with a Giant Robot), and it's set in Paradigm City, the citizens of which have lost their memories of everything beyond 40 years ago. Somehow they survive. In the last episode (13) of the first series, the protagonist Roger Smith meets up with an old man, a farmer, who gives him a tomato. It's not a real tomato - it's synthetic, made to taste like what the people who remembered anything thought it would taste like - but because it has been accepted as the real thing, it IS the real thing. It goes without saying that I highly recommend this show (I think it's on YouTube, and I know Netflicks has it), just for the atmosphere: it's one of the most film noir-y shows I've seen in a while, and there's symbolism everywhere.

As long as I'm talking robots, I also recommend a show called Megas XLR - an American cartoon, formerly of Cartoon Network. Big blue robot with a car for a head, catchy theme song (Chicks Dig Giant Robots - it's written so it could feasibly apply to any giant robot show, and there are a few Anime Music Videos on YouTube), and hilarious giant robot-related collateral damage. Pretty much the best American giant robot show, and I think it suffered from a total lack of toys - I know I'd pay for a Master Grade 1/100 scale Megas...

Oh, and this is a pretty good webcomic. Art geek jokes and Sci-fi jokes, sometimes both in the same strip. Also go here. The near-futurism is subtle, but it's there. Otherwise, this is a romance comic with Indie-geek overtones.