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Premieres Jan 6 in Japan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDPV6pOMI3s

from the LA Times: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/la-et-ms-diy-panel-20161216-story.html

article here https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/dec/18/hidden-gems-2016-best-books-you-may-have-missed

I think my bubble would be like - hm 50s/60s. My perfect region would be 20-80 range. I'm good with cold, but teens gets a little bitey. and about 75 I start to think it's getting too hot.

still about -6 here in the upper-midwesterly region. It's supposed to warm up to the mid-30s though after tomorrow.

we should all go outside and investigate. for best results, we should split up into single person groups.

I've always had better luck with local providers than with cable companies. seems like I tend to have fewer outages and a more consistent connection with local providers. Cable seemed to fluctuate greatly speedwise, and went out a lot. The local provider I'm using now doesn't quite hit the highs that the cable did, but the highs never stayed high for long before the speed would tank again or crash altogether. It's just a consistent, reliable, connection. It's not spectacular. But I know what it can do and it does just that. It'd be nice to have something much faster for downloads. But what I have works well enough.

saw Train To Busan. A nice mix of nostalgic survival/horror/disaster movies. It's not like some groundbreaking deal, it's very mainstream with the spfx and the heartwarming social messages and such. But it was kind of nice to watch a movie like that on a nastily cold winter night. I enjoyed it.

I think they took off immediately. I mean, even before they knew technically that they were going to be a block again. The April Fools' stunt really was them hitting the ground running. And they really had a pretty clear blueprint of what Toonami was and what they wanted it to be. Certain shows have been hit or miss. But the block basically hit the ground running and really hasn't faltered much as a whole. The worse thing was probably running low on domestic programming and having to scale the block back, which in the long run really doesn't seem to have hurt the block or the fans. I have personal ideas of stuff I would like to see them do and quibbles here and there about "more of this - less of that" but overall, the block has been pretty consistently successful and I enjoy almost all the shows they've picked on some level or other. The danger for Adult Swim right now is complacency and resting on the comfy cushions of mainstream Fox shows. Toonami, even at its most commercial/mainstream, is still something of a counterbalance to that. Which I think is something of a blessing and a curse for Toonami programmers. Ultimately I would like to see a Toonami that remains alert to good stuff. I don't mind the necessity of mainstream stuff, I think it would serve the block to continue to occasionally drop in adult material, odd things, and an occasional nostalgic pickup. It serves the block well to stick to that path of mainstream long runners and proven/popular new shows (especially if they can get good deals on those). But I also hope there is space to throw bones to mature sensibilities, those seeking something different, and maybe that occasional bit of nostalgia. If they can keep a toe in those waters as they forge a solid schedule of new/proven shows chosen with the Toonami audience in mind, I see no reason the well should ever run dry (at least for the forseeable future).

I finally got the S1 DVD. Still have to sit down and watch it. (already seen the episodes, but haven't actually watched them again on the dVD w/features and whatever all.

Ash was kinda - popier than I usually like maybe?, but I still loved "1977" and a lot of their other stuff.