Blogs and lost episodes

The Associated Press moved a neat article on blogging today, about how more authors are getting into it. Some, including Neil Gaiman, view blogging as a way of feeling more connected with their readers, others shun it altogether. I tend to fall in the view of the former. Sometimes, there are many amusing stories that I run across in my work that fail to make it to the printed page.

Such as my assignment yesterday. Earl and I went to see a stove called an AGA stove be demonstrated and I wore a dress. The lady I was interviewing has a very sweet and energetic Chinese pug. He reminded me of Jeff's dogs, but he didn't jump so high. Well, the dog took an instant liking to me - and liked me so much that he kept trying getting under my skirt and climbing up my legs. The lady was horrified and I laughed as my knees kept getting licked.

I attempted to start a blog just related to my journalism work a few months ago, but it fell by the wayside as life just got too complicated in general. So, I figured it would be best just to keep those stories and observations on this account.

While we're still on the subject of writing, for those who enjoy manga, I highly recommend reading the first "Slayers" novel, recently released by TOKYOPOP. It's one of the first novels (that was later made into an anime) that was brought over from Japan. ComicsOne had a poor showing with a horrible translation of "Please Teacher" last year, which probably gave a bad impression of novel translation from Japan. "Slayers" and "Clamp Paranormal Investigators" are a whole lot better and read like a normal book. I hope that the success of these works will enable other series such as "12 Kingdoms" and "Read or Die" to be brought across for translation.

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For fans of "The Honeymooners," another "lost" episode has emerged, this time from the Peabody Awards archives. Just how are these episodes lost? Many of them were originally aired live, television, in its infancy, did not back up a lot of these series to film. It's funny to hear the term "lost" be used, because the first tendency is to think that it never aired in the first place. Then you remember the era that it comes from and it makes sense. This episode hasn't been seen since my mother was 10-months-old. That's nearly 50 years ago now.