Anime Movie Night

Arrive at the end of You're Under Arrest. Put on glasses. Note my vision seems extra blurry, assume it's grease. Go into the corridor, heading for the bathroom, take off glasses. Note that the frame is loose and one of the lenses is missing. Return to case, find lens there. After several minutes, manage to put lens back in, close frame, and screw tiny screw with fingernail. Make note to go to a glasses store anyway for checkup. Hope they do that sort of thing.

My Neighbor Totoro: happy cute movie, of a couple of girls moving to a new place and their relationship with the big "troll" mountain spirit and a giant cat-bus. Japan has the funnest religion ever.

Nausicaa of The Valley of the Wind: Good, but felt very different from the manga, though color made many of the visuals more intelligible. I think the plot is 1/4 of the manga, plus some God Warrior stuff which ended up being very different by the time Miyazaki finished the later volumes.

Josh showed us a title picture of Warriors of the Wind, some horrible Disney edit-dub of Nausicaa wherein they tried to turn it into an action flick; the picture has three men astride a God Warrior head, with the actual main character relegated to the upper right corner. This is why Miyazaki films didn't come to the US for a decade, I'm told.

Analysis of religions in Congress

http://www.newhousenews.com/archive/tilove120806.html

Baptists underrepresented, Jews and Episcopalians and Presbyterians massively overrepresented, Methodists over at 2-1, unaffiliateds massive underrepresented. We have two Buddhists now, one from Hawaii, one a black from Georgia.