I won't bother with the lyrics, just the one-line description that's going to go into the Arsenal sticky:
Space Truckin', Deep Purple, written by Ritchie Blackmore, Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, Jon Lord and Ian Paice, copyright 1972 Mauve Music, Inc. (ASCAP), from the album Machine Head. Opens gateway from Fenspace (Fenspace shared-world) to ??? (???).

-Rob Kelk
"Read Or Die: not so much a title as a way of life." - Justin Palmer, 6 June 2007
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

www.amiright.com/parody/misc/gilbertand ... n114.shtml
A smush up of the Who's "Tommy" and "When I Was A Lad" from HMS Pinafore
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''

-- James Nicoll

Subbed by Your-Mom in LQ. Decent speed-subs, even if some liberties were taken in translation. ("wondrous sex with an eleven"?)
Needless to say, there are SPOILERS here.

So it looks like we'll have to wait until season 2 for the answers to nearly every single question we had. Details have been added concerning both CC and Marianne's death. Now why would Marianne order Cornelia to take away the guards? I wonder if there isn't some connection with CC there now that we know that she's been talking to Marianne this whole time.
We get a little insight into CC's past. Just how old is she? At least close on to 100 since we got confirmation that it was indeed she in the WWI photo.
And the confrontation at the end of 25... talk about a cliffhanger. I honestly don't see either of them dying. I'm not entirely sure Lelouch could really kill Suzaku (despite his past actions) and Suzaku simply can't; killing Lelouch would violate the Geass that was placed on him. It's entirely possible that Karen pulled the trigger and killed either Suzaku or Lelouch. I'm laying my money on either Lelouch or Suzaku maiming the other with a non-lethal shot in the leg or arm.
Thoughts?*********
Touched By His Noodly Appendage
www.venganza.org

Okay, y'all have noticed I haven't been on a lot.
The reason is very simple: It's too damn hot here.
Unfortunately, the way my house is set up makes my computer area quite warm in the first place, especially when I'm playing video card intensive games like CoH.
I live on the 3rd floor of a 3-floor walkup, so I get a lot of heat. Add onto that hot days with 7-10C Humidex, that massively overwhelm my AC (it's essentially a window unit, and it's working as hard as it can and can't keep up) and you essentially get a situation where I don't even want to be at the computer, let alone play games on it.
Until this lets up, don't expect me on the game much. I might play a bit at work, but that's it.--
Christopher Angel, aka JPublic
The Works of Christopher Angel
"Camaraderie, adventure, and steel on steel. The stuff of legend! Right, Boo?"

So, a while back I took a look at the first few chapters of the Fullmetal Alchemist manga, and was rather unimpressed. Ed seemed noisy and irritating and the whole thing rather shallow.
A recent fanfic binge, however, has disabused me of that notion, so I'll definitely be looking into this farther. ^_^
The crossover bunny comes into the question in my getting the distinct impression that this could fit into the Nanohaverse without even a ripple.
Thoughts?
Ja, -n

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"I'm terribly sorry, but I have to kill you quite horribly now."

I know there are anime fans here...
There's a question that's been nagging a few of us, on and off, over on the Usenet group rec.arts.anime.music (a rather specialized group, to be sure, and low-volume - the average month's on-topic posts can be counted on one hand).
The most recent posting of it was back on 13 November 2006, by the group's FAQ maintainer, ru igarashi:

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A long time ago, and a few times at that, there was a question about the music that plays in Love Hina, episode 12, as Motoko stands on the roof, about to face the uber-tama. I thought we had identified it, but I can't find any reference to it in Google (other than our inability to identify it). Does someone know who the composer is and the ID of the work? It isn't Night on Bald Mountain from what I recall.

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As I recall, there are either three or four classical pieces in that episode. Night on Bald Mountain is the one that plays just before the one you're asking about... and I don't know what it's called, either.
(Not the answer you wanted, but at least it confirms your recollection...)

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My company worked on the DVD for Superman: Doomsday and it was pretty good, but what really wowed me was the featurette included in the DVD.
And as the title of the post says, Darwyn Cooke's opus is being animated direct to video.
And with Stan Berkowitz is writing and Bruce Timm
producing.
With what I saw it's gonna be great. And the voices: Kyle Mclachlan as the voice of Superman, Lucy Lawless as Wonder Woman, David Boreanaz as Hal Jordan
The animation is distinctively DCAU but it also has noticeable Darwyn Cooke influences.

I actually got off my ass and wrote something.
This part is set just before SOS-con.
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"Oh, come on. You're supposed to be bringing us in to land, not reading."
I looked up from my current novel and turned to look back at the cockpit door at George. "We're in a holding pattern at the moment, waiting for Phobos control to get back to us and I have the proximity sensors on. Plus, the nav system will warn me if we start to drift from where we're supposed to be."
"Warn you how? I've seen how engrossed you can get in a good book, it takes a foghorn to wake you up."
"Har har, I'm not that bad. besides - "
The radio crackled to life, 'Starhawk, this is Phobos Control, you are cleared for approach. Transmitting vector and landing bay information now.'
"Roger, Control, receiving." I replied, hurriedly marking my place and putting the book aside.
We'd managed to arrange a pretty good deal on the docking fees, mainly because we are bringing in extra supplies for the Convention center. Whoever these SOS-dan people are, they didn't give Phobos much more warning about the con than they gave anyone else. This had resulted in the Center's management finding themselves short of various Con necessities like pop, microwave pizzas, coffee and so on. They weren't out of anything, but they usually had more lead time to stock up supplies before the crowds decended like a cloud of locusts.
Anyways, we'd been in Melbourne offloading cargo, when the convention center called Babylon.5 trying to find a cargoship that could get the suppies they were ordering and bring them to Mars fast. We fit the bill and promptly bounced over to grab the cargo before heading off to the red planet with a load of food and cleaning supplies (the cleaning supplies were more for _after_ the Con).
We had a few passengers too, people who had been on B.5 and sufficiently tied into the grapevine to appear at the airlock with an overnight and/or costume bag when the 'Hawk made a brief stop home. Actually, Rob, my copilot and navigator, was currently in his cabin with his wife getting into their costumes.
George was the ship's cook (and a damn good one), medic, and one of the 'gunners'. The latter job will be more impressive when we figure out how to run the power feeds without something melting or burning out. Currently the ships two quadturrets (partially a Millenium Falcon hommage) are little more than impressive looking laser pointers.
The other theoretical gunner is Susan, our cargomaster. She also pilots the APE unit we use for moving heavy cargo and EVA repairs.
The final member of the crew is JT, our engineer. He's usually in the engine room. I sometimes think he identifies a little too much with Kaylie from Firefly, I expect him to start sleeping there any day now.__________________
666-HELL The phone number of the Beast
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"I've always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific." - George Carlin

Here are a few snippets of fanfic dialogue that have bubbled up from the twisted depths of my imagination. Anyone disturbed enough to want to run with one of these is free to do so:

Well, sort of... according to this Inquirer story:

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Mitsubishi Heavy ... has canned its humanoid Wakamaru robot because it can't perform mundane tasks like washing the dishes or cooking.
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Plus expectations were high because of anime stuff like Astro Boy. The wire quoted an engineer saying that people thought Wakamaru would be able to cook or sweep the floor.

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