December 3, 1998
Now begins the race for succession!
Dear Members,
I was lazy and didn't do a newsletter over
break, but there wasn't a meeting either, so it works out. Yes,
there will be a meeting this week, and on the eleventh, which is
the Friday afterwards. What will we be showing? Well, we could
show our archived collection of Power Puff Girls footage
along with whatever else comes along with us. You'll have the
chance to vote for it.
I'm supposed to tell you that if you register
for Neko-Con sometime before March or something, it's only $25.
Check out the web site for more and better information. There are
a couple other conventions coming up sooner, which you should
also focus on if you plan on going to them next semester. They
are Katsucon and Animazement, respectively. Talk to us for more
info.
As you all know, I'm ditching this swamp for
the birthplace of anime after exams. So now you get to be in a
no-holds barred deathmatch to see who takes my position.
Seriously, I need someone to do this newsletter, which doesn't
entail that much, but it A) has to be weekly and B) has to do
with whatever happened at the club that week, so you have to be a
pretty regular club goer. You also have to be C) considered at
least partially funny by the club hierarchy. All trivia questions
go through the Triumverate, which in my absence will be Aaron,
G'xqlx, and Ryo-Ohki. If they cannot reach an agreement, Tina's
Ryo-Ohki will be contacted. Websites are usually found by rooting
around on the anime web turnpike.
It's been a great year with you guys. I have
enjoyed being your newsletter writer, enjoyed spending meetings
with you, and I will miss doing the voting each week. I'll try to
write from Japan, but if the Dragons of Earth break the seven
seals, I won't be able to. And run for elected anime club office;
as much as we love our inanimate members, we need real ones.
Those would be you, especially if you're not at the club meeting
this week.
Oh, and before I forget, the anime society
wanton has a name. Say hello to Hinako, everyone. She's cute,
red-haired, and is the shrine maiden for our club homepage. No,
she does not have the powers of the Mima women. They're more of a
Sailor Mars type (in my opinion, anyway; Aaron does her concept
work).
If anyone is interested in playing Killer next
semester, we may be trying to destroy the William and Mary
Science Fiction and Fantasy Club for scheduling stuff during our
meetings. We will be using only simulated versions of anime
weapons and cheesy science fiction weapons. Aaron will be Washu
for both sides, providing weaponry of various sorts.
Meetings will be in Blair somewhere-or-other
at 7 PM on Friday and the Friday afterwards. We have Washington
Hall next semester, unless you want to hold the room people at
gunpoint. We're working on it, but there's not too much optimism
in Club Central.
- Ben
last week's answers: (e.e. cummings style)
hard: energon. it's edible for transformers, and it does not melt in one's hand. rob gets a compensation point for making the unicron comment.
easy: tanya is much more gymnastically inclined than merle.
HARD: Which Key character most resembles late singer
Jimi Hendrix?
EASY: Better staff-like object - Ifurita or Sailor Pluto?
HINTS: We've all seen Key the Metal Idol. It had a lot
of music and musically minded people. Which one was the most like
Hendrix? It's not necessarily one who's musically minded.
Sailor Pluto is one of the Outer Senshi. She
was introduced to the US on national TV today. She has a big
silver key which manipulates spacetime. Ifurita, of course, has
the staff key which is both power source and really big gun.
Remember: this is not a contest about who is cooler. Just who has
the better staff-like object.
http://members.xoom.com/SailorCanuck/ - Sailor Canada. Cracks me up every time. Just go. Check out "Molson" while you're there.
http://users.vei.net/jng/fcp/main.htm - The Food Court. This man is a genius with paint programs. Look at "who killed Kaji" first. Lee Harvey Oswald never looked so good.
http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Towers/1139/nbgcindex.html
- the only existing mirror site of AIC's new Bubblegum Crisis
page. A godsend for those of us waiting for it to arrive.
You have two weeks. After that, I will no longer be at X6232 and will not necessarily receive e-mail at this address. Send mail to my CS Box, which is 0401. I have that forwarded somewhere where I will eventually receive it, although not quickly.