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A while ago my friend Phil was over and we had a rummage in my wardrobe and found my old action figures. When I say this I mean the stuff that my mum didn't throw out or give to charity, which leaves me with very little. I still mourn how I lost so many of my Ninja Turtles stuff. At least I still have my SNES, minus the cables. I found one of the coolest things ever, a transforming Rocksteady, that dumb mutant rhino whose brain would make a pea look ungainly. This guy could transform into his human form and back, the human form looks suitably retarded. Anyway we were playing about when Phil broke his leg. The action figure's leg, not his own. So much for 'steady'. The only way you could really break a leg in my house would be to dive and tumble down the hard wooden staircase, then again life's too good so why would you do that? What the hell Phil?! How would you like it if I broke your toy, your PS2 for example? I got over it.

My friend Tony recently asked me if I was interested in joining his Manga workshop. He's really into manga and wants to gather some people to publish home made stuff online. I said yes. The only problem is that I haven't drawn pictures in a long time as I've devoted the larger portion of my brain cells to concentrate on my Pharmacy degree. Which is coming along fine in case anyone wants to know. I'm quite good at drawing but haven't applied pencil to paper in a while, the exceptions being when I drew a turd on my classmate's notebook when she wasn't looking then I struck again and drew a Ninja Turtle. Cowabunga Gail! Anyway back to what I was saying. I'm interested in this workshop but I'm going to have to flex my atrophied drawing muscles. Also I've been thinking about work arrangement. Is there going to be a dedicated story writer or will it be a more mixed arrangement? The same applies to the artwork. Personally the best thing would be to throw ideas around the team and share them. I'm interested in coming up with a storyline of my own devising, but haven't really got much done yet. What I will steer clear of is a story reminiscent of the ghastly Tenchi Muyo. My gods can an anime/manga get any more pointless? To finish on a good note, dinner was good.

Well that's me finished episode of 11 of Battlestar Galactica. I'm on Season 3 at the moment, possibly the last season. This is the remake I'm talking about, not the campy 1970s affair. The plot's quite convoluted and the style of the programme is quite distinct, everything looks gritty and worn out which sets it apart from other sci fi (Star Trek springs to mind). For those of you who have never seen Battlestar Galactica it's basically about humanity living on 12 planets then one day the Cylons, robotic creations made by humans, rebel and they fight a long war. Afterwards the Cylons isolate themselves for 40 years but return, having evolved and upgraded, and destroy humanity by nuking their planets. The survivors, numbering 40,000, escape in a ragtag fleet of spaceships led by the Battlestar Galactica (that's why the show is named so). People believe there is a long lost 13th colony of mankind and so they set off to find it. Pursued by the Cylons of course, otherwise it'd be a rather boring fifty something episodes. The 13th colony is called Earth by the way.
Generally the show is excellent, as I said the earlier the plot is good with a few twists and turns. Some of the characters are interesting. Gaius Baltar, for example, seems somewhat demented as he has conversations with a blonde woman who only he can see. Many of the main characters, who used to be male in the original, have been rewritten to be female. This includes Starbuck and Boomer as well as the President of the colonies. I think this is to reflect the more modern and egalitarian times we live in in contrast to the dark and primitive 1970s that my parents lived through, when space invaders was the most exhilirating video game you could play and people were unaware of the dangers of asbestos. My friend Manson said that eventually half the crew of Battlestar Galactica will be revealed to actually be women disguised as men. This sent a shudder up my spine especially when I imagined Admiral Adama wearing a dress. Adama also has a gravelly voice, which would be rather disturbing in a woman. It would suggest she smokes, tobacco smoke is one thing I hate more than boy bands. The only thing I could possibly hate more is when people tear bits off a banana and eat it in tiny bites. Anyway back to the subject of BSG (I'm using this abbreviation to save time even). The revelation that most of the crew are actually women would make a terrific plot twist. Forget about finding Earth or revealing the final 5 Cylon models, this would be the greatest idea ever! Manson, you are a genius, you must become a full time writer. Any how try watching BSG. It's really good even if you're not really into sci fi. To catch up on what you've missed try alluc.com