Voted

broderic on November 9, 2016

Woke up at 4 because I’m still getting use to not Daylight Savings Time. But also quite nervous, because I wanted to vote early. Got up, got dressed, swigged some O.J., then headed to my polling place around ten ’til seven. When I got there, the parking lot had spaces, but the line was long. We piled into the building, which made the line turn into a Disney World special. I was close to the door to the polling place, but the line snaked around the corner which was a deep corridor.

It took about 35 minutes before I got my ballot. Five minutes to vote. Then another 15 minutes before I could scan it in the one ballot reader they had there.

About an hour to vote. Hope it turns out good. I’ll miss President Obama. I’m hoping his successor would be just as good.

Bookstore Haul: Vol 14 The Graphic Novel

broderic on November 6, 2016

Before each and every “Bookstore Haul” post, I put some preliminary sentences trying to sum up something I thought of as I browsed the aisles. This is one such sentence.

In reality, I don’t know what I am going to say about the group of books I bought this past trip. Yes, they are comics. I’m hoping that the blue monday one is also a slice of life comic. The Bride’s Story is sort of. It’s really good. I’m hoping that blue monday is as well.

This is a sentence to end this segment. Bye bye!

blue monday volume 1 by Chynna Clugston Flores
Bride’s Story by Kaoru Mori

Miss Hokusai

broderic on November 6, 2016

The Charles is winning me over because they show a lot of anime. One that I was looking forward to was Miss Hokusai. This one is about the painter of that famous Japanese painting about the tidal wave and Mt. Fuji and also about his daughter. She is also a painter and contributes most of the story to the film. What little it was.

The problem with this film is that it is a slice of life anime. Now I love me a slice of life anime, but as a movie, I’m not too sure. It sort of rambled on from one vignette to another in their lives. There wasn’t a story to tell. It started on a bridge, and it ended on a bridge. In between, there wasn’t much story.

Perhaps, I had to go into the Japanese mode of looking at the emptiness. In the empty space, I found some things to like. There was a sequence in a brothel which was interesting. There was the passage of time marked by the growth of a puppy. There was the comedic side kick who wasn’t the best artist. There was the sempai who the daughter had a crush on. Pieces of life that made some sense in the movie.

Hopefully, the next anime at The Charles is a good one, too.

3 of 5 stars.

The Girl On the Train

broderic on November 6, 2016

The Girl On the Train is similar to Gone Girl. It has crazy women bent on killing people. The men? They’re despicable, too. No one is good. Everyone is no good. And there are bodies.

The movie itself was okay. As a thriller, it did keep me guessing. Then when it ended I knew, I’d been had, because this one writes itself.

Now watch it. It seems we have a girl problem.

3 of 5 stars.