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1918: HENRY G. SAPERSTEIN, who produced the stateside releases of "Frankenstein Conquers the World", "Godzilla vs. Monster Zero", "War of the Gargantuas", "Evil of Dracula", and "Terror of Mechagodzilla", is born in Chicago. He also produced "Gay Purr-ee", "The Big T.N.T. Show", "Hell in the Pacific", "What's Up, Tiger Lily?", and the "Mr. Magoo" cartoon and feature film, and was also a licensing agent for Elvis Presley.

1921: SHINICHI SEKIZAWA is born in Kyoto. He directed the film "Fearful Invasion of the Flying Saucers" before writing or co-writing the scripts for "Varan the Unbelievable", "Battle in Outer Space", "The Secret of the Telegian", "Mothra", "King Kong vs. Godzilla", "Atragon", "The Lost World of Sinbad", "Agon the Atomic Dragon", "Godzilla vs. the Thing", "Dogora the Space Monster", "Ghidrah -- the Three-Headed Monster", "Godzilla vs. Monster Zero", "The Killing Bottle", "Godzilla versus the Sea Monster", "Son of Godzilla", "Mighty Jack", "Latitude Zero", "Godzilla’s Revenge", "Godzilla on Monster Island", and episodes of "Ultraman". He also contributed to the stories for "Godzilla vs. Megalon" and "Godzilla vs. the Cosmic Monster" and wrote the animated films "Gulliver’s Travels Beyond the Moon" and "Jack and the Beanstalk", as well as the lyrics for Mothra's theme song. He died at 70 in 1992.

1941: JEFF WINKLESS, who was the voice of Yoshinari Kato in the U.S. dub of "Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis", is born in Springfield, Mass. He also lent his voice to the "Zeiram" dub.

1944: SEI HIRAIZUMI, who played Hajime Chiba on "Fireman", Chiba on
"Ultraman Gaia" and "Ultraman Gaia: The Battle in Hyperspace", and Dr. Koichi Matsudo in “L: Change the World”, is born in Aichi, Japan.     
 MIYUKI UEDA is born. She played Fumie Kamamoto on Episode 29 of "Kamen Rider", Toshiko Mayata on Episode 31 of "Kamen Rider V3", Namie Nakahara on Episode 6 of "Kikaida 01", Yoshie Ogawa on "Robocon", and Shizuka Shiratori on "Superhuman Barom-1".

1946: TOMOMICHI NISHIMURA, the voice of Jum-bowhale on "Engine Squadron Go-onger", "Engine Squadron Go-onger: Boom Boom! Bang Bang! GekijoBang!", Engine Squadron Go-onger vs. Gekiranger", and "Samurai Squadron Shinkenger vs. Go-onger", is born in Chiba, Japan.

1949: MACHIKO WASHIO, who played Midori Washio in "The Red Spectacles", is born in Kanagawa, Japan.

1959: "Gigantis: The Fire Monster" is released in the U.S.

1960: MIKI JINBO, who played Kunfuu in "House", is born in Japan.

1963: JANE KILKENNY, model builder on "Godzilla", is born in Atchinson, Kan.

1968: Episode 36 of "Ultra Seven", "Moon-Struck", debuts on Japanese TV.

1972: Episode 9 of "Transforming Ninja Arashi" debuts on Japanese TV.

1973: Episode 4 of "Kikaida 01", "Mystery! The Ghost Robot Vanishes!?", debuts on Japanese TV.    
 Episode 16 of "Kamen Rider V3", "The Missile-Carrying Gecko
Mutant!", debuts on Japanese TV.
 Episode 8 of "Storm Cloud Lion Maru" debuts on Japanese TV.

1975: Episode 10 of "Condorman -- Symbol of Justice" debuts on Japanese TV.

1977: DEREK LISCOUMB, special effects technician on the U.S. version of "Dark Water", is born in Newmarket, Ont.

1979: Episode 18 of "Battle Fever J", "Hurry to the Pigeon's Evil
Nest", debuts on Japanese TV.

1984: Episode 18 of "Super Electron Bioman" debuts on Japanese TV.

1984: KEVIN DUHANEY, who played Ethan James the Blue Dino Thunder Ranger on “Power Rangers Dino Thunder” and “Power Rangers S.P.D.”, is born in Whitby, Ontario.

1985: MIYUKI SAWASHIRO, who was the voice of Kivala on "Kamen Rider Decade", "Kamen Rider Decade the Movie: All Riders vs. Great Shocker", and "Kamen Rider x Kamen Rider Double & Decade: Movie War 2010", is born in Tokyo.

1995: Episode 14 of "Superpower Squadron Ohranger", “I Love
Pinocchio”, debuts on Japanese TV.

2002: HERMAN COHEN, who produced, co-wrote, and appeared as the first man buying a newspaper in "Konga", dies from throat cancer in Los Angeles.
 Episode 16 of “Ninja Squadron Hurricanger” debuts on Japanese TV.

2003: "The Best of the Power Rangers" is released on Region 2 DVD.

2004: "Versus" premieres in Australia on DVD. 
    
 Episode 9 of "Ultra Q: Dark Fantasy", "Temptation at 2 A.M.", debuts on TV Tokyo.

2006: YUSUKE TOMOI, who played JSDF 2nd Lt. Hayama in "Godzilla
Against Mechagodzilla" and "Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S.", marries Mika Katsumura.

2007: KENTARO HANEDA, composer on "G.I. Samurai", "Virus", and "Sayonara Jupiter", dies in Tokyo. 
  
  
 "Dai-Nihonjin" ("Big Man Japan") is released in Japan.

2008: Episode 15 of "Power Rangers Jungle Fury", "Bad to the Bone", debuts on U.S. TV.

2009: “The Grudge 3” is released in the Netherlands on DVD.

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Sinfest
Tatsuya Ishida

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To whom it may concern: You are no longer allowed to have incorrect information on your companies Facebook page.

This is 2012 for fuck's sake. Get your shit together.

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This happened to me every single week I worked at the library. It happens every now and then now, and almost did today.

Why is it all week I have trouble getting to sleep, but when I can stay up Friday nights I'm too damn tired?

Current Mood: confused

We have some evidence that the house was struck by lightning recently. Not directly, of course. If it had been we wouldn't need evidence. There was a house in the development struck by lightning last year and that's extremely striking, what with how four-fifths of it wasn't there anymore, and the sides of the houses beside it were either burned or melted.

However, over the weekend and the start of this week we accumulated pieces of data that suggest something happened. The first was with my parents' television set. The set itself has been a little wonky for ages --- the picture flutters and distorts like an alien energy being on the original Star Trek, at least until it sufficiently warms up --- but now the cable box wasn't showing anything but an error code which their technical support people couldn't identify. Their guess was that the access card had shorted out, and they promised to send a replacement priority mail which should fix everything.

Then, too, was the DSL. It's been prone to suddenly failing, yes, but over the weekend it went from blacking out on occasional Fridays to going through intermittent hours of service with intermittent hours of blackout. While working through the issue with their tech support --- and a surprisingly responsive person who actually listened to what I was saying --- we tried replacing the DSL filter thingy and found that there was just a steady source of static from something on the phone lines, with our modem the apparent cause. But it also sounded like something fried at least one DSL filter.

The other piece of evidence was the other phone, from which we swiped a DSL filter in order to test the first filter. That phone unit's dead. No dial tone, no signal, no nothing. It was plugged in and the base station was fine, but, the phone itself wouldn't respond to any button anywhere. No great loss since the phone wasn't very good and the clock would lose its timekeeping every few days (and it was the answering machine, so we kinda wanted to know what time calls came in). But the phone needs replacing certainly.

All this could be coincidence, certainly. Our DSL has never been very good and the modem being faulty is a good guess, as is the filter being faulty. Phones do die. And access cards can short out anytime. But all these did come to a head in short order after a severe thunderstorm, one producing over 82 inches of rain in two minutes before it got heavy. It's a possibility, at least.

Trivia: The New York Mutuals baseball club of the late 1860s was packed with secretly professional players nominally employed by the city's coroners. Source: But Didn't We Have fun? An Informal History Of Baseball's Pioneer Era, 1843 - 1870, Peter Morris.

Currently Reading: Undersea Quest, Frederik Pohl, Jack Williamson.

PS: One Way To Fall Over, as I start figuring out how to make a box fall over.

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Andy Samberg is leaving ’Saturday Night Live’

I especially miss her today. Nothing special about today, I just miss her today and I feel particularly lonely.

Will probably hit the bed in about 30 minutes or so.

Have a good night all.

Peace.

ETA: Weekends are just hard in the first place. Few distractions so wallowing can occur.

I had this really awesome SCP story idea about a woman becomes a different woman from history physically if no one pays attention to her. (She has to be secured because she could have say, the Black Plague or be radioactive as hell or...)

But a really similar SCP was just uploaded yesterday.

Oh well.

r/firstworldproblems.

So, Charlie's playing with her writing...thingie. And Sam says "Charlie's writing". I look at it and say "What does it say?" Charlie says "It a bee and a gee". It looked kind of like one. Then I turned it over. And damned if it isn't a B and a G! Go Charlie. :)

( Proof )

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Best Absence note *ever*.

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Spiked Leggings. So, those exist...

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The Tony Awards are next Sunday. Good thing I checked...I thought they were the 20th, not the 10th.

Current Mood: busy

banana and milk break at Peet's, a photo by marymactavish on Flickr.

He used to be a baby!

June, be a Lady.