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Tom Gauld

How can anyone hate Junji Ito 

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Jowls or just a shit week?

In this peer reviewed study, How to cope with getting older (badly) we are taking a closer look at how

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it’s-friday.avi

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Mliko - when the worst pour imaginable is deliberate.

What is Mliko? It’s Czech for “milk” but also a way of serving beer, namely fresh Pilsner Urquell. It’s a glass filled with beer-foam.

Why?

That’s what I wanted to know so when a friend’s birthday party ended up in a Czech pub we decided to try it. The barmaid made an expertly pour from the bottom of the glass, filling it to the brim with thick, frothy beer foam.

The verdict? Surprisingly okay!

It probably wouldn’t work with any pilsner or lager but the foam was light and creamy and went down like its namesake, milk. The foam tasted a bit sweeter than the beer and it is supposed to be served with dessert. Of course it settled into normal beer if you let it sit (and by not much, this is mostly air). Think a lighter version of the head of a Guinness. More taste than drinking. Was it worth it? Not really, but a pleasant experience nonetheless. If you get a superbad pour at your local pub, just say you’re drinking Mliko.

Want to get Czech head at the pub? Ask for Mliko.

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Brian Yungen

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I did a rewatch of a movie I only seen on VHS and it was marvelous!

This is Osamu Tezukas “Metropolis” made in 2001. See it now

Tezuka wrote the manga in 1949 loosely based on Fritz Langs 1927 silent movie SF-spectacular with the same name.

The 1927 movie follows a highly segregated society where the elite lives on the surface and workers lives underground and are worked to the bone. A revolution is brewing and to quell this a scientist is tasked to replace the beloved icon of the workers, Maria, with a malevolent robot to seed strife. It’s a classic in every sense. See it also.

Anyway. Tezuka’s version has little to do with the 1927 movie. Tezuka said that he based the manga of pictures from the creation of the Maria robot.

But it is a great and very evocative work. In it the humanoid robot is called Mitchi. It can fly and change sex. Mitchi doesn’t know its origin as a robot.

Now to the movie version. It is directed by Rintaro of “Galaxy Express 999” fame who used to work with Tezuka. Cool old guy.

But it is heavily rewritten by no other than Katsuhiro Otomo who made AKIRA, and it shows!

The city is a technical marvel dipped in neon and intricate cogwheels. Otomo deviated from the story in many ways, drawing more inspiration from the actual 1927 movie with more revolutionary themes (which I’m sure Tezuka wouldn’t mind). Mitchi is replaced with Tima who sadly can’t change her sex. Maybe that is the secret to flying. :)

He also introduces a new antagonist representing the dark side of humanity in the very Char-coded Rock.

The movie is joy to watch, if dark. The music is jazzy and brings extra flavor to the odd cutesy oversaturated style.

The score is what made me rewatch it. There is a scene at the end where they play Ray Charles “I can’t stop loving you” and it brings me chills just thinking about it.

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Not going to repeat myself

HEAT HAWK

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When I call in sick they never guess how sick I really am

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This picture makes me nervous and I know why.

The nineties animation "Blue Seed" was already odd, but it's extra bits were great. Plus it had a kick-ass intro opening with the line "Mysterious Tokyo, take it easy dangerous night. Mysterious Tokyo, pick me up foxy night game."

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Cattitude

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It is important to remember that the cuse of all of this is ancient Mesopotamian petroleum djinns. Which are sexual in nature.

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Something something Steven Universe

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