Category Archives: Random Stuff

Lolicon’s Dream Come True

While perhaps the most pedo lolicons might not be satisfied, news like this is too crazy not to post.
Sullivan told Time that nearly half of the expecting students, none over 16, were involved. Sullivan said students were coming to the school clinic multiple times to get pregnancy tests, and “seemed more upset when they weren’t [...]

Anime Dads

Ah, it’s Father’s Day over here, so here are some good and not so good anime dads. I tried to highlight fathers in recent series, because we can’t keep milking Evangelion for inspiration. It’s surprising how few have much of a role in anime series. Most of the time they are just [...]

When Reading Season Previews

When I read through season previews and check out promo videos and websites, I notice that several triggers often toggle my interested/disinterested switch. So while I was taking an initial look at some summer previews for 2008, I wrote down some of the factors that triggered my flags. I guess as I become [...]

ABA Blogger’s Choice Winners

We won a silver for Best Team Blog. I also took the time to make this handy chart for you. The results are interesting, to say the least.

ABA People’s Choice Awards Released

Even though it’s 5 days late, I was pleased to finally see the results of the 2008 ABA People’s Choice Awards. All the winners were very deserving, and I’m glad Impz was able to turn the results around so quickly (after some pestering).

Win Some Shirts

I got an email asking me to inform SS!AB readers that New York-Tokyo is hosting a trivia-contest with Uniqlo manga limited edition t-shirts as prizes. You just have to answer three easy questions, and the winners will be randomly drawn from the pool of smart anime fans. The contest ends Friday, June 6, [...]

9rules Round 6 Results

Well that was fast. Some streamlining has apparently been done to the submission process and so it only took 2 weeks instead of 2 months this time. I’m happy to see that several anime bloggers were accepted this round, more than tripling the size of the subset. I also noticed Hung got [...]

9rules Submission Page Up

If you want to get listed, submit your page before midnight EST. The submission form is pretty short and sweet, and 9rules itself has been redesigned to be much more streamlined and user-friendly.

I Graph With Text

This doesn’t have anything to do with anime, but apparently you can use the Google Charts API to embed charts in your posts. I know this is just what you have all been waiting for.
I wonder if someone will make a plugin to make this process even easier on WP blogs, because that [...]

The Best Team Blog Isn’t a Blog

Since Kabitzin has been diligently pimping the ABA these past few weeks, I figured I’d better chip in with my own tearful and drama-ridden explanation of my voting choices. But that would have taken too long, so instead I’ll just grouse about who I believe should have been a nominee for the best team [...]

Anime Blog Awards Voting Begins

Please vote for Sea Slugs! in the Best Team Blog and Best Episodic Blog categories.

9rules Round: May 7, 2008

For 2008, we will be holding rounds on the following dates:

May 7, 2008
August 6, 2008
November 5, 2008

The round will open at midnight EST on those dates and close 24 hours later.
There was a lot of bashing back when 9rules tried to force members to participate in order to seed the community they later [...]

Get Your ABA Nominations In

There’s only 4 days left to get your nominations in for the 2008 Anime Blog Awards (nomination phase ends on Tuesday, April 22). So if you have an anime blog, please nominate fellow bloggers that you think have done an excellent job this year.
Think of this as the ABA primaries. Your [...]