O seven apples on a witch's tree
With seven seeds to plant inside of me
In springtime I grew a magic song
Then skipping along, oh I sang the song to everyone
I looked at the world through apple eyes
And cut myself a slice of sunshine pie
I danced with the peanut butterflies
Till time went and told me to say hello but wave goodbye
A thousand sugar stars
Oh put them in a jar
And then whistle round the world
Oh whistle round the world
I'm a little wolf inside a girl, you say
And off I'll go from June to May
Oh whistling round the world
I met a golden swan upon the road
Who was a handsome prince, so I was told
I asked it the way to yesterday
Then I was a sailor, and through the day I sailed away
Bluebird seas I sailed
With mermaids riding whales
Oh whistle round the world
Oh whistle round the world
I'm a little wolf inside a girl, you say
And off I'll go down Wonder Way
Oh whistling round the world
Through apple eyes
Oh there are rose-coloured skylines
Where flying silver spoons
Eat melting marmalade moons
Through apple eyes
I see for millions of miles
The sun's a diamond shining
In the nighttime of a summer day
A thousand sugar stars
Oh put them in a jar
And then whistle round the world
Oh whistle round the world
I'm a little wolf inside a girl, you say
And off I'll go (I can not stay)
Oh whistling round the world
Let's whistle round the world
Whistle round the world
Heads up! It seems Horo's having a bit of a rough time dealing with the fanboy hoards voting for Moka in FAKKU's first round of MOTEMOTE finals. To be honest, though, I expect this much of FAKKU's circlejerking (literally?) fanbase nowadays. They wouldn't know a good animu if it took their virginity.
I, personally, don't care too much about the outcome. A victory for Horo here will just prolong her eventual, guaranteed defeat at the hands of some other series' idiot fans. A defeat this early in the finals wouldn't bother me either, it would just showcase the power of FAKKU's senseless fapping masses.
Fuck. This is the big package I paid about $100 to get shipped, due to how much stuff is inside it. Tons of Spice and Wolf stuff, you'll see. For now, share my pain. We'll have to wait until Monday.
I went to work today, which is why I missed it. Fuck. Now I've got a migraine.
Not long ago I posted Chapter 7 of Spice and Wolf's manga on /a/. I understand not all you doods troll /a/ 24/7, so here's a repoast in a glorious resolution: one hundred and fifty dots per inch. The original resolution was six hundred dots per inch. I halved the dimensions and resolution of the color and grayscale jpegs simultaneously, so no artefacts should have been artificially introduced. The magazine pages were debound using a Proctor-Silex electric iron and scanned using an Epson Printer/Scanner/Copier, model CX3810. I hope you enjoy my efforts.
Rapidshare.DE (Because .COM sucks and Germany is pretty analogous to where Spice and Wolf is set, anyhow.)
Pretty Anon Scanlations plans on translating and editing that chapter, and if enough people bother me to scan Chapter 8 I might do it soon (I've already debound it once and scanned it really sloppily, but I wasn't happy with the results). Leave a comment if you want to be sure of getting my attention!
I've never done one of these before, but there's a first time for everything. Wish me luck, alright?
Today, while out picking up some things for dinner from the Publix up the street with my sister, home from UF (the University of Florida) for the weekend, I happened to notice this unfortunate bottle on the wine aisle's endcap, threatening glassy suicide if someone didn't buy it soon.
Suffice it to say, the bottle ended up in my basket along with two lemons and a gallon of milk (dinner was salad, salmon, rice, and crab cakes). I tossed it in the refrigerator for an hour or two for it to chill, as I prefer my drinks cold. Yes, I know, most wines and other alcoholic beverages are meant to be drank at room temperature, but this isn't wine (obviously). It's just carbonated juice, and the bottle itself says to drink it chilled. Here's the list of ingredients, for conscience's sake:
Ingredients: Pasteurized Apple Juice, Carbon Dioxide, Potassium Metabisulfate and Potassium Sorbate to maintain freshness, no added sweeteners.
Let's get to opening this sucker. Normally, my old, poorly-aging bottle opener always takes two or more valiant efforts to dethrone the damn caps on Martinelli's sparkling juices (its edges are rounding, that says something). I really ought to get a new one, but who buys bottle openers? No one, that's who. You always, always get them for free from business conventions. No business conventions near you to sneak into? Too bad, steal one from a local restaurant. Chili's won't miss one little bottle opener, trust me.
Unlike Martinelli's, Meier's, in their glorious wisdom, uses a threaded cap! It's simply the best damn way to cap sparkling juice I can think of, since I can just seal the bottle back up and throw it back in the 'fridge, knowing that the carbonation will still be present when I need another glass in an hour. Martinelli's expects you to have a cork handy, or an artificial re-corking contraption, both of which I do not have. Threaded caps for the fucking win, goddamn.
Upon opening the bottle you're immediately greeted with the stereotypical hiss and fizz of soda, except quieter. The sounds are seemingly distant and muffled; not as loud as your regular Coke or Dew or whatever caffeinated liver poison you habitually ingest. You can smell the juice from at least two feet away nearly immediately, such is the carbonation. The apple smell was strikingly sharp and sweet, but short-lived. Is this an ill omen, or a warning of potential awesome? Let's see...
Yep, tastes like apples. Sweet on the tip of your tongue like normal juice, but biting down after half a moment on all sides. While I'm not well versed enough in the secret, ancient ways of the apple to tell just what kinds they used (most bottlers use a mix of juices from different apples), I can say with certainty that their choices weren't bad ones.
Having said that, once the juice reaches the back of your tongue, the area most elementary school level books on the "five senses" denote as specialized in "bitter" tastes, you'd be hard pressed to tell this beverage apart from a lightly alcoholic one. Try this: hold the juice near the back of your throat and don't breathe for a moment, then swallow. See? Eh, maybe I'm imagining things or trying too hard. Such is the nature of tripfags. Is my pinky extended far enough for you guys?
The bottle cost about $7, which isn't too bad (same price as Martinelli's most of the time, pretty much Meier's only real competitor). Try it if you see it and have had enough Martinelli's to last you a while. I'll do a head to head, back to back (bottles may be touching, beware of gay) comparison sometime in the future to see if I can discern any immediate difference. Right now I can say definitively that Meier's caps are superior to Martinelli's in every way other than nostalgia.
Note: Those videos up above are both HD, so add &fmt=22 to the ends of their Youtube URLs if you want to see them in their proper quality (completely unnecessary, I know, but my camera's awesome so I like to use it).
Holy shit, they're finally here! It's like Christmas all over again, but less giftcards and more Horo! The two posters I ordered from FullSizePosters.com AND a box full of stuff I bought from Japan have finally arrived! Stay tuned, tonight I'll "unbox" them both, another first for me.
Sorry this took so long. A day or two of no updates really bothers me, but it probably doesn't bug you a bit, right? I fucked up the encode once and had to start over. Even now I'm not sure if the encode is proper, but it's the best I'm going to bother with. Pictures of all the Horo swag will come later. Here's the unboxing video on Vimeo for now!
Coming up: Izze softdrink review and scans of the doujin covers, along with pictures of my current collection (new things and old).
EDIT: The last two posters (the ones that came out of the poster tube, not the box) were printed by FullSizePosters.com. I've directed a ton of business at them the last few weeks; they're probably flippin' out about all the animu their printers are spittin' out now. ;)
