Spam spam spam spam

We've got episode descriptions for all but two episodes of the anime made up out of spam titles. I have to say, I'm rather fond of our hapless Yuuta and I'm rooting for Haruka to go out with him in the final episode.

Someone's finally getting the idea!

Shogakukan, one of the major Japanese manga publishers, is taking steps to make authorized English version of their manga available online a few days after the publication in Japan.

Unfortunately for you non-U.S. residents, they say the site will only be browseable by people in the U.S. Time to find a proxy server! :)

Now you don't have to!

Don't have to read the romance book whose hero is a unicorn, because rachelmanija has thrown herself on the grenade for us all!

Advice from the past...

I took a break and went over to the cookbooks section of the library to grab a book or two to check out, and noted that we have a metric ton (approximately) of home economics textbooks from the 1930s through the 1960s. I'd idly been hoping to find something as culturally sensitive and insightful as the World of Parties book I posted on some time ago, but, alas, you'll have to settle for an excerpt from The Mode in Dress and Home from 1935, which explains the importance of going to the bathroom on a schedule.( Read more... )

Mmmmmm!

I haz maple sugar candy and maple cream now! OMNOMNOMNOM