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I’ve been asked how to post a question about Cowboy Bebop on the blog. Well, that’s a good question! I haven’t found a good way of setting up general comments not related to a specific posting, so I’m going to try to use this posting. I made this sticky so it will stay at the top of the main page and easily found. Got something to say or ask? Please feel free to comment on this posting. If it’s something I can’t answer, I’m sure there is a reader out there who can. See you Space Cowboy… Tokyopop posted this Cowboy Bebop rap video to their facebook page and it’s so awesome, I have to share it!! In case the embed doesn’t work, here is the link. I upgraded wordpress to the latest version and noticed in my last posting that it was not displaying hyperlinks in the posts. I’m trying to fix that but don’t want to change the appearance of the blog (I kind of like how it is now). Unfortunately, upgrading to a newer version of this theme is not working out – it’s not reading the settings and is ugly as sin. Doesn’t even look like the preview says it’s going to look. There may be a change of appearance anyway if I’m going to fix the hyperlink erasure issue in posts. Sorry about that. If you visit the place and it looks weird, that’s why. I’m trying to update the theme and make it look pretty and WORK like it did before. It’s been reverted back to its original appearance. If you click on a posting and there is no hyperlink to another page like there is supposed to be, please leave a comment and I will provide you with the url. At least until I can get this working again. Apologies. Thanks to Pureblood-3 for showing me this! This particular blogger has other reasons to believe Spike survived Real Folk Blues that I hadn’t thought of. This person makes a very good case I think and I enjoyed the posting very much. Check out Cowboy Bebop vs. Ernest Hemingway; Harry dies, Spike Lives. EDIT: Well, MOSTLY painless… It didn’t take that long to get everything uploaded, then ran a script and ‘bang’ it’s done. xD I wasn’t expecting it to be done this soon, and I WAS expecting it to take much longer, but what do I know, right? Exploring the new wordpress… It’s been a long time since I’ve upgraded the software (and heck, the blog too. Sorry) and I think it’s about that time. I haven’t been able to do the automatic upgrades because of permissions errors and I don’t know why, so I have to do it manually – unzip the software, copy the pieces to my local folder the upload them to the site. It’s time consuming and the blog may not be available for a while, perhaps up to a few hours, while this is going on. Plus I will have to upgrade the widgets and all the other junk I’ve added on but I hope I don’t have to upgrade or change the theme. I kind of like how it looks. I wish I could say exactly when this is going to occur, it will be when I get the time to do it. It will be soon though, as I’m already making preparations and I would expect this to be done by this time next week. Chances are I’ll break something in the process. I hope not, but if there is an extended outage, that’s why – I’m a big, fat klutz. Just wanted to give y’all a head’s up in case you visited and found the place gone or in a jumble. It WILL be back, it’s just me trying to get everything updated. Thanks for visiting! Love you! Spook Read about it here on Anime News Network. According to the article he “Hana wa Saku” (Flowers Are Blooming) song’s instrumental recording is complete, and vocals are now being recorded. 33 singers, celebrities, and sports figures who hail from Miyagi, Iwate and Fukushima Prefectures — the prefectures hardest hit by the diasters — are contributing to the vocals. Kanno, as well as Iwai, are from Miyagi Prefecture, and their hometowns were affected by the disaster. The people in the affected area are still not out of the woods and still need help. Please see the links under the “Assist Japan” section on the right if you are able to help. In case you missed it, character designer Toshihiro Kawamoto will be at California’s AM2 convention from June 15 to June 17 at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California. You can read about it on Anime News Network in an item posted on Feb 17. What I wouldn’t GIVE to be able to go and maybe get him to sign my copy of “Cowboy Bebop Illustrations: The Wind”! Maybe someone could go and give him a message for me about how wonderful his art is and how enlightening and entertaining his comments are in that book. If anyone reading this does get to go see him, please come back and post a comment letting us know how it went. Pretty please with Spike on it? Thanks go out to @Cowboy_Dev for the tip! I thought this was exciting! Sakamichi no Apollon television anime was confirmed on Friday, and it will reunite Shinichiro Watanabe and Yoko Kanno. Anime News Network has the full story and even a link to the promotional video. Check it out! This is going to have a jazz soundtrack,and we all know how well Ms Kanno does jazz. Thanks to Pureblood-3 for the alert! It’s now 2012, another year closer to 2071 and the events depicted in Cowboy Bebop. I’m pretty sure the Earth should have been laid waste by now because of the gate accident, but we won’t let a little thing like THAT stop us now, will we? I’ve discovered that I am no longer compelled to watch Death Note all night every night and am finally able to get back to my first love, writing Cowboy Bebop fan fiction. I located the story I have started on my hard drive and am staring at it like a cave man at an iPhone. I’ll figure out where this is going and get this thing out there for you all to read and critique. Just going by how thing have gone with so many of my previous fics, I think I should just start typing and see what comes out. This one was started Memorial Day weekend last year (OMG almost eight months ago!), which was a difficult time for me personally, so it was going to be really dark. Not sure how dark it’s gonna be, but we’ll find out. I hope everyone reading this had a fabulous holiday season and enjoys all the best for this new year just born. God bless, and I hope to have this thing done for you soon! I found a link today that made me happy, an article about one of my favorite movies, the John Frankenheimer-directed Seconds. I provided the link above in case anyone else has seen the movie and is interested in reading a very cool article about it. If you HAVEN’T seen it, I think you want to. It’s… bizarre. “Haunting” is another very good adjective for this film staring Rock Hudson. For Star Trek geeks like me, it also has Salome Jens, who played the female shape shifter in Star Trek: Deep Space 9 during the Dominion War story arc. What does this have to do with Cowboy Bebop you ask? I will refer the reader to the final paragraph to the article, which I will quote here where Mr. Frankenheimer makes statements very similar to what I’ve been saying about a recurring theme in Cowboy Bebop.
I love being in such good company, and I’m all but convinced that this theme is a good part of what drew me to both Seconds and Bebop. |
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