Summer's here!

School is coming to a close, and the movie schedule is being jostled around other events--but we will still be showing films! Expect a couple of game nights on Friday as well!

The Anime Afternoon was a great success, with more attendance than any previous time. A fun time was had by all, and nobody died of the Japanese curry cooked by me. Since then, we've added the disrespected but still amusing anime, Trouble Chocolate, to the library shelves. Featuring the greatest love story between a Frankenstein and a vampire ever told. (Heh!)

No news yet on any outdoor movies, but we generally have a few around August, when it gets dark early enough and is not yet too cold. I will keep you posted!

Anime afternoon! Wheeee!

Instead of a Friday evening movie, this week is our thirteenth Anime Afternoon, a special event where we watch a marathon of Japanese cartoons. It lasts from 4pm to midnight, but anyone can leave when they want and arrive when they want, because the shows are all around half an hour long.

We do advise that anime is intended for teen to adult audiences, as these programs might contain anything fom mild swearing and disturbing foreign customs to full nudity and extreme violence.

We will have some door proizes--mostly back issues of Shonen Jump--and as always will have some snacks and sandwich fixin's. This year I am attempting to make the infamous Japanese-style curry rice for all--whee!

This Saturday should be entertaining, because in addition to our old favorites, many new titles have been added to the library system. Seymour's newest addition is the full series Negima! (Rightstuf had the $90 box set on sale for $24! Woo hoo!) The Appleton library has added Shin-chan and Moribito, Guardian of the Spirit to the mix, and I'll be bringing some new weird stuff from my personal collection, including The Legend of Black Heaven, Kujibiki Unbalance, Genshiken and Gatchaman.

Hope to see all you smiling, happy Otaku on Saturday!

New non-fiction videos at the Muehl Public Library

We try to keep 'em interesting and informative! This month we are adding:

Ricky Tims presents Grand Finale--Machine quilting and finishing.

Arctic Dinosaurs--from Nova. We know you love dinos!

Escape to Chimp Eden--about abused and abandoned pet chimps being rehabilitated.

Drop-Shot Secrets Revealed: Most Effective Fishing Technique for Bass, Walleye, Crappie, Trout, Perch, and all fish that swim!

Fishing with Roland Martin

And in response to a request for videos about whales:
Whale Wars--environmentalists confront whalers on the open ocean!
and
Whales: an unforgettable journey

Whew! We had a big movie night yesterday--nearly 60 attended Madagascar 2! Everyone agreed it was a great movie. Thanks for coming!

This month I've gone a little hog-wild with the anime budget. Yes, of course, we are still ordering a variety of family movies and new releases!

But I have recently added two classic anime series. Love Hina is a famous 'harem' anime. Keitaro, who failed his college entrance exams, becomes the manager of an all-girls' dormitory as he studies to try again next year. Most of the girls have crushes on him, a few beat him up regularly, and one of them may be his mysterious childhood friend, to whom he made a promise that they would attend Tokyo University together.

Also, after an intense Ebay struggle, we got both seasons (and the Extra Class disc)of School Rumble, the classic high school romantic comedy. The main character is a goofy girl named Tenma. She has a crush on Kurasawa, who doesn't know she exists. Meanwhile, Harima, the school delinquent dropout, has returned to school because of his crush on Tenma (who doesn't know he exists.) And so it goes...

Movie lineup change

After previewing City of Ember, I've decided to bump it off the lineup of upcoming movies in favor of a newly released animated film I just discovered.

(Not saying anything's wrong with City of Ember, the new film will just make a better all-audiences movie.)

See you Friday!

It's the season for big, hot, green movies!

When March rolls around and snow is dumping down everywhere, that's when I crave jungle movies and tropical island movies! Anything to get lots of green on the screen.

CONGO is one of my favorite winter-busting movies. An expedition to return a sign-language-trained gorilla to the wild is used as cover for the actions of a communications company searching for their lost employees and an unscrupulous adventurer seeking King Solomon's diamond mines. Jungle hikes, whitewater rafting, and even an erupting volcano ought to warm your winter-ridden heart.

Disney's Tarzan is another favorite. Disney's most expensive animated movie of all time, so far. You might never again see the kind of care and detail that was lavished on animating the jungle envionment. The warm Hawaiian setting of Lilo and Stitch makes it another great cartoon for the winter.

What are your favorite winter movies?

Friday Night Movies at the library

They are free
There is free popcorn
There is free soda (in limited amounts)
There is NOT free babysitting: stay with your kids if they're too young to be alone.
We have movies about every other week, though the schedule is flexible.
The movies are projected on the wall of our meeting room.
Movies are not always pre-screened. We will warn you on the posters if it's rated PG-13 or higher.
We usually show a cartoon or short film before the actual movie for people who show up early (or late!)

Hope to see you at the movies!