[Glass Wings] A couple things

This is a lovely review of an interesting Manga series that I wasn't aware
of (though I'm sure some of you will already be):

http://crookedtimber.org/2010/12/19/urasawas-pluto/

If you are a fan of DM Cornish, he has recently put an explorable and
zoomable map of the Half Continent up at his site:

http://www.halfcontinent.com/map/

Also, I don't know if my previous post about the election of a professional
clown to national legislative duties in Brazil got through? (It ended up in
Kat's spam folder...) Anyway, if you didn't get it, check out the blog post
here at the rather wonderful Andy Social:

http://andy-social.blogspot.com/2010/12/tiririca.html

Charmingly strange days.

Chris

Sat, 1 Jan 2011 13:25:45 +1100

Katherine Phelps <muse [at] glasswings.com.au>

On Sat, 1 Jan 2011, you wrote:

This is a lovely review of an interesting Manga series that I wasn't aware
of (though I'm sure some of you will already be):

http://crookedtimber.org/2010/12/19/urasawas-pluto/

You know, most of the robots in this story are somewhat stereotypical of how
people/the Japanese think of the citizens of that robot's country. The Swiss
robot is into mountaineering, the Scottish robot is a butler, the Turkish
robot is a family man.

So how does that explain the Australian robot:

"Epsilon, the effeminate, male, mothering, superstrong, solar-powered,
pacifist Australian robot."

hehehe How weird.

Peace,

Katherine

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A couple things

Sat, 1 Jan 2011 12:05:41 +1100

Chris Johnstone <c.p.johnstone [at] gmail.com>

Sat, 1 Jan 2011 13:25:45 +1100

Katherine Phelps <muse [at] glasswings.com.au>