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I have to manually do it that way. Why?
Why isn’t that a feature of WordPress to set comments off by default? Nowadays, it’s just spammers. No one comments. At least not here. I am not pleading for comments nor readers. I am just trying to figure out if there is a way to turn off the button by default.
Third month. Three is a magic number!
The first time I heard De La’s “Three Feet High and Rising” was senior year in high school and my friend Stan was playing “Me, Myself, and I” at some random party we were at. He was like saying, “So good. So good,” but I was high and just grooving out on this funky new shit. I did not comprehend what I was listening to. Just grooving and riding the buzz.
I’ve been riding the buzz with them for 35 years!
https://music.apple.com/us/album/3-feet-high-and-rising-35th-anniversary/1731021243
Not really having something today, I guess. I just want to post something for leap day. I also want to post something so that February 2024 has more than one post.
I just did a quick check of my favorite sites for this link and this one about Pluto’s orbit seems appropriate for the day. Does Pluto have a Leap Year?
Let’s start this with the sad news. Yamashita Mizuki, Nogizaka46’s ace, announced her graduation today. I woke up, found out, and now I have to quantify my feelings about seeing off one of my absolutely favorite Nogizaka members ever.
Here it is. This one hurts the most, and the loneliness is the most largest I’ve felt from a graduation announcement. Except, it doesn’t. As an idol fan, especially being one for almost a decade, member graduations come with the experience. Be it the least member to their aces, graduation comes for all, and you get used to it. So used to it, you are immune to them. But once one of your oshimen announce graduation, the feelings come back and hits you again. Overtime, it doesn’t hurt as much, but it still does.
It is what it is. You’ve been through them. You’ll come through them. You’ll experience it with them. You’ll celebrate with them. You’ll smile with them. Come the graduation date, you’ll see them off onto bigger adventures knowing that the time was well spent.
So, it is Mizuki’s time.
I have been her fan since August of 2016 during the third generation’s SHOWROOM auditions. “Shi-chan” caught my eye on the very first day. And to be honest, has never quite let it go. That’s almost eight years. Even as my original Nogizaka oshimen graduated, she was there to anchor my fandom for the group. Now, it turns into supporting her on her bright future.
I wish her all the happiness in the world. Thanks, Mizuki.
Gonna have to learn my dim sum, so here we are with two Asian chefs eating through everything on the carts at a dim sum joint in New York City. Before you go out to get dim sum watch this and hope that the place you are going to has just as many choices. Or you know, you can always get the shumai.
Analytics from my twitter feed say no one sees these when you post them so late in the day. So therefore, today’s comes up just about an hour earlier than yesterday’s. I guess maybe we’ll get an extra view?
Yeah!
But no one clicks through on their twitter feed. So no one’s gonna see this. But you’ll be missing out on something great.
A couple of weeks back, Nogizaka46’s TV show’s YouTube channel posted that they’re now going to include subtitles within a week of the showing. YES!
Yup, you too can now become as big a Nogizaka fan as me. The episodes go as far back as GomenFin back in 2021.
You’ve got a long way to catch up. What are you waiting for? Only click through!
I write this on a MacBook Pro, one of the latest forms of the Apple Mac. It’s been 40 years since its introduction back in 1984. Once again that iconic of years reminds us of the iconic introduction commercial. So let’s all celebrate the Apple Macintosh.
I guess I should post a blog post sometime this year. Considering that this year’s Academy Awards were announced this morning, my first post this year will be that list of best films from the past year. Like always, it’s a list of the films I thought were the best and achieved a rating of 4 or more stars. Unlike previous years during the pandemic, I did see a few more films this year, and it seems that I’ve seen more good ones than bad.
These are all 4 of 5 stars.
I enjoyed all these films. I did enjoy going to the theater. I want to try going to more movies this year.
With his return from retirement and with retirement seemingly forever suspended, Hayao Miyazaki brings about his latest film, The Boy and the Heron, ten years from his last. It is with a lot of anticipation that I went to the theater to watch. Is he still as great as story teller? Is he still one of the best anime directors, even film directors? Yes and yes. But.
The film is okay. It rehashes a lot of Miyazaki tropes. It felt like a mash up of Spirited Away, Howl’s Moving Castle, and Castle in the Sky. It was just fine. Glad he’s doing films, but sometimes I wonder if maybe he should retire for good. Let’s hope his next film, if there is one, may not be in another ten years.
3 of 5 stars.
