monday morning zero fight

[davemerrill]

I have a bunch of writing to do, but I didn't do it yesterday because it was time for me to do my weekly ZERO FIGHTER strip! Also we watched the VHS of "Maris The Chojo", which is actually called "Supergal" but DC's lawyers are mean. This 1986 Original Video Animation was based on a manga by Rumiko Takahashi and is pretty much everything everybody thought Japanese cartoons were all about circa 1987 - girls in abbreviated costumes firing bazookas at spaceships. And wrestling. I know I'd seen it, before but the only thing that stood out for me was the end credits song about poverty, it's got a little hook that stays with you for 20+ years. The USMC dubbing was indifferent; one character has a Southern accent, except when she doesn't. I picked this up for $2 at AWA's SuperHappyFunSell last year and it didn't get home until this Xmas. It might go back to the SuperHappyFunSell from whence it came.

Friday I updated my drivers license and my health card, and it was really cold out so we didn't go to the 11pm show of "Spirited Away" at Cinematique. Saturday we did some driving around looking at stores that were closed for the day or closed permanently. We saw one mall that is about 80% abandoned. Last holdouts include the ubiquitous beauty supply place, always the last to leave the mall. Anchored by a grocery store and a Shoppers on either end, though, so you'd think they'd get some kind of traffic, but I guess not.

Yesterday was lunch at the George St and a little more shopping and then I had to get to work. Those of you in Tennessee and North Carolina will be happy to know that apart from a few flurries, we haven't gotten any snow at all recently. I predict we'll get spanked in a late-season dumping in a few weeks, but for right now conditions are dry.

Comments

[tohoscope.livejournal.com]

I know I saw Supergal but for the life of me I can't remember any of it. Not a thing. For some reason that makes me feel really old.

[tohoscope.livejournal.com]

Hey, if you get a moment could you scan the covers of that VHS for the HELLblog? Please? Thanks!

[davemerrill.livejournal.com]

I can do that, sure... you can probably gank it from Amazon if you need it right away.

[tohoscope.livejournal.com]

Amazon is a good source for VHS, Right up there with Goodwill.

[gyopi.livejournal.com]

I don't think I've seen "Supergal" for at least 10 years. Probably more. I forgot it existed.

[animejump.livejournal.com]

Awww, I liked Maris the Chojo. Probably because it was one of the first things I saw in a club setting. And yeah, at the time it was exactly what I thought anime was supposed to be.

[(Anonymous)]

We got it because, well, at the time we were just expected to get a copy of every crappy OVA that came out just in case someone else wanted it.

RWG (and, believe me, there were at least a dozen crappy OVAs worse than this one)

[davemerrill.livejournal.com]

Oh, I like Supergal fine. Nothing wrong with the Rumik World.