*pulls out incredibly large piggy bank*

E3 officially starts tomorrow, but the press releases are popping up now.

One of these press releases lists the price of the PS3.

or should I say PS3s, as, like Xbox360, they will be releasing two versions, one with a 20 gig harddrive and the other with 60 gigs. Das allotta hard drive. I wish they would tell us exactly what they plan to do so we can decide which one we really need.

So, I think I'll be putting this one on my christmas list.

okay, who's reading this?

Remember how I posted the other day about wanting to read manga? Well, I went into work today and there was a pile of donations sent to the library, and a bunch of them were manga books. And when I went to see if I could add them, we didn't have them in the system. Is it a sign? These could be horrible mangas for all I know, but hey, they were free. I'll put the titles up here so those of you in the know can tell me whether I should bother reading them.

Mermaid Saga by Rumiko Takahashi
Revolutionary Girl Utena by Chiho Saito Created by Be-PaPas
Immortal Rain by Kaori Ozaki

Also, looks like the spoils from last years free comic book day, a TokyoPop Sneaks with a bunch of random manga's (including a WoW manga??!! crazy!)

I stuck it to the man (or at least San Bernardino CA) and ordered the 'History of Manga' book that they just withdrew from their collection after almost 10 years on the shelf. Apparently some kid checked it out and found the one page with pr0n on it. (though it was hamster pr0n *looks at verdatum* is it what I think it is?)

I'm trying to figure out how I would have dealt with such a thing. I don't like censorship. It seems like taking a few minutes and maybe sharpie-ing over the offensive bits would have been less disruptive than just tossing the entire book out. It's a history of manga book, of course it's going to have naughty bits! But should you toss out the whole book? There had to have been a compromise they could have reached their. Black tape? black marker? Just color over the two graphic pictures and put it back on the shelf if it upsets you sooooo much.

Ugh, I hate censorship, it's such a frustrating thing. It's not like the entire book was dirty pictures, it was just the one section covering "adult" manga. And I know that writing in the book is probably worse because then people might start coloring over the naked indians in travel guides or marking up history books that say negative things about the united states or something. Snowball effect and all that. But is removing the book from the system any better? Talk about your knee jerk reactions.

Their defense is that the county next to them, that they have a recipricol borrowing agreement with, has the book on the shelf so it's still avaiable to their patrons. So at least it's still out there for people who just want to read about the history of manga and are mentally prepared to realize that just because it's a "cartoon" doesn't mean it's for children