(Title is a Controlled Bleeding reference.)
- I just grabbed the new Windows Live Writer beta, released literally only minutes ago. So far it's pretty good — it uses the new Office 2007+ ribbon interface, something that's been trickling into the Live Essentials apps one by one. Still looking forward to the full release version for all that fit-and-finish stuff, but the beta's usable. MS's recent public betas have all been extremely stable, just not always feature-finished. Case in point: Windows 7 itself, which was stable enough in its first public beta that many people (me included) were using it on production systems within a month of its release, and haven't looked back since.
- Another movie I confess having a goony, adolescent fascination with, Ralph Bakshi's Wizards, has been released on the other side of the pond in a region-free Blu-ray. No word about a Stateside release, though, but I imagine the all-region BD market will be fruitful enough to dip into from time to time as taste and budget permit.
- Picked up a go app for my 'Droid phone and found to my utter humiliation that I cannot beat the machine even at the lowest setting on a 9×9 grid. Hikaru Shindo would laugh in my face. Obviously this problem must be rectified ... in time.
- The July issue of Sight & Sound does the Kurosawa thing. (Don't forget the upcoming Eclipse set!)
- Got the new Black Lagoon volume under my belt. Review coming shortly.
- Vertical has copies of Chi's Sweet Home out to reviewers but mine hasn't shown up. Cat lover that I am, this series is mandatory, but it wouldn't be the first time stuff got lost in the mail on its way to me.
- Something else really excellent is in the works but it's not a sure thing, so I can't talk about it yet.
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I ought to bring my go board to AFest and we could throw down. I'm pretty lousy myself.
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Strangely enough, I've never seen WIZARDS in its entirety--just bits and pieces. Hope to rectify that.
Haven't read the new volume of BLACK LAGOON; I'm behind on the manga volumes (gotta correct that!) but the new anime series is on the horizon--or it might be an OVA.
Also, if you haven't checked it out yet, the new GOLGO 13 series is out now, at least the first collection of 13 episodes (how appropriate....). It's pretty good--and what was even better was to see that they adapted the story "The Impossible Hit" (called "Room 909" in the series; perhaps that was also the original title). That happened to be one of the earliest Golgo stories adapted into english, albeit in the American comic book format, back in the late 1980s.
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