Cross-Sections of Pointlessness
Oct. 21st, 2004 08:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sub_divided1) Yakitate Japan!! the manga = crack
The story of one boy's heroic quest for "the ultimate bread, a bread the Japanese can display proudly to the world!" The genius of this show is that it takes itself seriously while at the same time pretending to take itself seriously. Also, puns.
2) The Tibetan Buddhists' favorite metaphor? Yogurt. You see it all over their lyrical poetry: "with a face pale like yogurt", "lying all in a heap like yogurt made of white silk", "with the steadfast consistency of yogurt", etc etc. Also my Lotus Sutra proffessor knows I wasn't taking him seriously and that's why he spent half an hour today describing a few of the (many) times he spoke to the Dalai Lama. (It worked, too.)
3) Notes for Death Note, since I liked![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
pornkings's so much:
- Middle school Family Ed taught Misa that when different people do different things in the same room it's a sign of closeness. Her father was more often present in trinkets or as flowers on the table than in person; sometimes we cling hardest to the things that never existed at all.
- Misa has always hated silence more than anything, and stillness more than that.
- Raito doesn't believe in second tries.
- Claustrophbia and Agoraphobia: opposites, but in certain situations they're hard to tell apart. This creates a false sense of sympathy.
- You're wrong, L tells him. This isn't the second time this has happened. It's the first time something different has happened.
- There is a significant difference between playing not to lose and playing to win. All modern team sports are played not to lose, which means they emphasize minimizing failure over maximizing success. Only individual competition encourages risk and the elimintion of alternatives (until the only way left to go is forward). Raito quit the tennis team; he never stopped playing tennis.
Heavy-handedness! Yay! Ugh, I swear I'll pretty these up before I do anything with them. Right now I'm dead.
4)A Question, for those interested in fannish things. (The rest of you will probably want to ignore this the way you probably ignore most of what goes on here.)
-Think about your favorite character(s). Do you like them because you identify with them, or because admire them? In other words, choose one: you ARE them, or you are WITH them. If you HAD to pick one, which would it be?
The story of one boy's heroic quest for "the ultimate bread, a bread the Japanese can display proudly to the world!" The genius of this show is that it takes itself seriously while at the same time pretending to take itself seriously. Also, puns.
2) The Tibetan Buddhists' favorite metaphor? Yogurt. You see it all over their lyrical poetry: "with a face pale like yogurt", "lying all in a heap like yogurt made of white silk", "with the steadfast consistency of yogurt", etc etc. Also my Lotus Sutra proffessor knows I wasn't taking him seriously and that's why he spent half an hour today describing a few of the (many) times he spoke to the Dalai Lama. (It worked, too.)
3) Notes for Death Note, since I liked
pornkings's so much:- Middle school Family Ed taught Misa that when different people do different things in the same room it's a sign of closeness. Her father was more often present in trinkets or as flowers on the table than in person; sometimes we cling hardest to the things that never existed at all.
- Misa has always hated silence more than anything, and stillness more than that.
- Raito doesn't believe in second tries.
- Claustrophbia and Agoraphobia: opposites, but in certain situations they're hard to tell apart. This creates a false sense of sympathy.
- You're wrong, L tells him. This isn't the second time this has happened. It's the first time something different has happened.
- There is a significant difference between playing not to lose and playing to win. All modern team sports are played not to lose, which means they emphasize minimizing failure over maximizing success. Only individual competition encourages risk and the elimintion of alternatives (until the only way left to go is forward). Raito quit the tennis team; he never stopped playing tennis.
Heavy-handedness! Yay! Ugh, I swear I'll pretty these up before I do anything with them. Right now I'm dead.
4)A Question, for those interested in fannish things. (The rest of you will probably want to ignore this the way you probably ignore most of what goes on here.)
-Think about your favorite character(s). Do you like them because you identify with them, or because admire them? In other words, choose one: you ARE them, or you are WITH them. If you HAD to pick one, which would it be?
