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Because Savage Steve Holland is a genius....
From Eek! The Cat, Sharky the Shark Dog offers a solution to these "hurting" people.
I was sitting in my mother-in-law's house, after our first flight with little "Stinky", who did fine. I was going through her TV channels, something we don't have, when I came upon someone showing an old, circa 1969 Billy Graham "crusade" from Lubbock, Texas.
And Billy Graham blew me away.
Somehow, I had gotten the popular press's opinion that Dr. Graham was a country boob. The press are wont to report his response to Pres. Nixon's "secret tapes" was "Richard! Such language!" rather than anything about coverups or other things that all of us were interested in.
The Billy Graham I just saw was no idiot. Or country boob. This was one of the finest orators and rhetoricians that I have ever seen. Graham was intelligent. And extraordinarily skillful in his oration. He was masterful. I mean, this was probably the best delivery I've ever seen.
This was a man who was vital, forceful, potent. It's not a thing that people mention about Graham. He had power. I can see why he had the rule that he would never be alone in a room or car with a woman other than his wife. Or perhaps he never would even be in a car with a woman. He had one of the others always come into his hotel room first, because there have been journalists who would try and trap him with a naked woman in his arms.
I used to laugh at this. What would a woman want with Billy Graham? I had only seen later Billy Graham, when he had gotten older and was tired. (Developing Parkinsons? Something, if I recall, late in life.) This guy, this charismatic man, was someone who would be extraordinarily attractive. Nobody ever mentioned this. Dr. Graham was manly, and he had to have been extremely attractive to women. He is much more impressive than any other TV celebrity I've seen, and how many of them had but one wife, much less but one woman? The amazing thing isn't that Billy Graham became famous (he had the chops) but that he maintained a by all accounts spotless record with the opposite sex.
Think of the many other powerful men who have not. What was it about Graham that he had something different? Maybe he really believed in what he said, really believed that he had encountered the very living Increate in Jesus.
Or maybe he really did encounter it.
Whatever you believe about Graham, he was nobody's fool, and no country bumpkin, or some weak-kneed pansy. This was a man's man, a powerful man, powerfully committed to his God.
Really, Yule, is there anything better?
Although I'd argue that Ressel is the real reason for the shows success. Vasquez had the weirdness but the strangeness of the animation seems to be from Ressel's direction. Having read JV's Johnny The Homicidal Maniac (which is alternately hilarious and deeply disturbing, often all at once), I can assuredly say that JV's got the market cornered on weirdness. And biting the hand that feeds him.
The two pilots aren't nearly as good as the later episodes. But why this ever got on Nick I'll never know. What were they thinking? Still, so funny, so very funny.
The Global Organisational Design Society has released Lord Wilfred Brown's excellent management videos from the earlyt 1970s, Explorations In Management. I keep another blog about Requisite Organization, a management theory that has a great deal of support in the literature. But it's a complex theory, it seems, and it gets a bit too much support from those of us who don't actually run businesses.
(Well, actually I do run a business, but it's closing down, and it never had more than three employees.)
Lord Brown ran the Glacier Metals company in the United Kingdom and made a good deal of money, before becoming the Minister of Health (I think). His accent alone makes it interesting — he pronounces "hierarchy" as HEAR-arky — but his focus on real life management makes it priceless. There's even some wonderful storyline between a general manager (CEO) and his personnel officer that is embarassingly accurate.
Hands down, the most informative management film I've ever seen. Lord Brown has something to say, something that's hard to grasp but worth the effort. He even describes a method for handling staff roles to make them clear and accountable. Hard to believe, I know, but he pulls it off.
The Global OD Society has been given permission to disseminate the DVD for non-commercial use. You can watch it but you can't charge for showing it or sell it. But you can use it in your factory or company.
Send them an email and ask for a copy. Let them know that manasclerk sent you: I need the PR. I don't know what the shipping and handling fees will be yet, but they can't be that much. If I get permission, I will burn copies them myself and slap on the Global OD Society label and pass this out like water at a marathon.
I'm really impressed. Some of you can expect to get a DVD in the mail as soon as I get a stack of them to send out.
Wow. I mean, wow! Oh, wow!
I just made it through episode 14. Trey is going to flip.
It's the best anime series that I've seen thus far. I'm not a traditional fan of anime so perhaps this explains why I am like this and so many anime fans do not. But the design work! I'm even enjoying the storytelling. And the design! Glorious!
Range Murato, the series designer (but not director), says that they designed even the spoons and saucers so that the world would be immersive. (Emersive?) Fabulous job.
Unbelievable. Restores my hope in Japanese pop culture after Pink Lady.
Also up, Zipang, the What If? story of a Japanese JMSDF Aegis cruiser finding itself back in time at the battle of Midway. Looks very interesting. It's in Japanese but someone made a subtitle track for it. Thank you, friend!
Special thanks to Vanship Soaring fansite!
It's out! It's out! It's out!
There's even a trailer from Disney, the magnificent company that has finally allowed me and Trey to stop having to suffer bad Korean copies that only he can understand because I don't speak any Japanese.
Yes, we're geeks. But this is anime from the master. All hail Miyazaki!
Of course, I now have to wait until the copy gets shipped to us....