Untested ideas

Notoriety

Well, it's nice to finally get some attention, I guess. I wish the authors had done a bit of research first.

Pumpkin season

A day's thaw
only the torsos of snowmen remain

Before the storm, and after

Bands of frost obscure the moon
one after another
A frisson of awe
Nature's power triumphant:
The malls have shut down.

Signs of the season

Just like home.

November proceedeth

Last week, my coat first felt the air
Today I want long underwear.

At a bus stop in November

My apartment was warm this morning
so deceptive

Nico Suave

Shadow of the Colossus feels like a research prototype of an absolutely world-beating RPG.

On a stopped bus in July

Outside, a cooling wind
and lightning

Also, big walking things

In most ways Howl's Moving Castle and War of the Worlds are very different films, but they share a couple of distinctive features; first, a presumably timely obsession with war and mass destruction; second, an unabashed determination to have things Come Right in the end, without excessive respect to consistency or narrative logic. (Yes, the fate of the Cthulhu-Martians was there in the novel, but the scenes before and after it belong to a much more upbeat movie.)

I assume Spielberg and Miyazaki are trying to keep our spirits up. I still can't help being reminded of the end of Brazil.