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1. Tom Cruise auditions for New Moon. Video. Hilarious.

2. Stupid Callous Homophobic Hateful Legislation. Video. The best new version of Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. Is that spelled right? Who knows.

3. Tori Amos has a Christmas album coming out! You can stream it here, along with her thoughts on writing the songs.

4. Monday's Dinosaur Comics was the BEST THING EVER.

5. So, there's another tankobon of Yami no Matusei coming out! Probably? But it's just material from serials that had not yet been collected. But this may indicate a renewal of the series? yami_no_matsuei is suddenly very active. People seem to be really upset about potential changes between the serial-version and the tankobon-version, but, um, it seems to me that it's always that way. Every serial-to-tankobon comparison I've seen has had changes; it's not really that big of a deal, you guys.

These have been my thoughts!

Comments

[ranalore.livejournal.com]

On the one hand, I get the worry, and you better believe I will be ranting with the best of them if volume 12 comes out and I disapprove of the changes (either to plot or to art). On the other, whatever Matsushita and her publishers do really isn't going to shake my personal take on the source, especially not after so many years to build my version. So I may gripe about disliking it, but either it'll confirm my take or it'll make me dig my heels in and keep my version out of spite. The outcome is pretty much the same.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah, I have no problem with people comparing the actual changes and making an argument for one version over the other. It's just that some of the discussion I've seen has the same feel as if one were suggesting editing Shakespeare to increase his profit margin. All manga series continue to work on the art between serial and tankobon and many also add to/change the writing or plot! It is not Censorship of Art.

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

Same here. And hell, we'll have something to talk about!