Posted on December 1, 2025
the curious medievalism of redwall
“What want you here, young beast, young beast,
What want you here at my feast, my feast?”
“O stripedog, great guardian, some food for us all,
For we are good young ones who live at Redwall!”
as december is thus upon us, I now begin the second year of what I believe I can officially call a ‘tradition’, started just last year – listening to all of Brian Jacques’s Redwall series in chronological order.
Read MorePosted on October 15, 2025
hiroshi kamiya and the tower of youth
recently I was chatting with a friend about old-school fansubs, and we laughingly recalled those heady days of youth where you’d have to wait months at a time for an episode, or how subbing groups might even disappear all together without finishing what they started.
an anecdote of mine rose up from the depths, which I recounted without a second thought: a voice actor in a show I loved had been injured before being able to finish recording his lines and had to be replaced by someone else for the final episode – and how out of devotion, I waited to finish the series until the fansub group was able to tackle the DVD version, with the original actor’s voice.
afterwards, I wondered – this would have been nearly 20 years ago at this point, but – was it even true? read on to find out…
Read MorePosted on October 6, 2025
setting the stage for chandler and nabokov
when a raymond chandler postscript short enough to almost go unnoticed had me dredging the archives, I realized I might have to reopen a case from my past – one that may be impossible to solve…
