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Anime of the decade: #9

23Dec20092000

Black Lagoon
The first two epis­odes of Black Lagoon are a car­ni­val of ridicu­lous­ness. The cli­max of the open­ing story sees a boat use a ramp to launch tor­pedoes at a pur­su­ing heli­copter while the instig­ator of the plan flips off the doomed pilot. To say the series is quite silly would be an under­state­ment. Even […]

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ef — a tale of memories

06Jan20081913

Given such an aus­pi­cious and con­fus­ing open­ing three epis­odes, it would have been easy for ef to fall into obscur­ity and abstrac­tion with deep sym­bol­ism and obscured plot; thank­fully this is not the case and the series man­ages to make the absurdly styl­istic sym­bol­ism part of itself while still a some­times unique, […]

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Day 11 — Zeds, Zeal and Zen

01Jan20081153

Wak­ing up late and miss­ing the first dive of the day, we booked our trans­port­a­tion out of Trin­idad for the next day and headed to the beach. While Matt dived I was hassled by over-zealous secur­ity guards fol­lowed by a lazy even­ing in reading.

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Day 9 — Carnal, Cleaning and Casa

25Dec20072208

Our time in Trin­idad con­tin­ued with two fur­ther dives out on the boat and a hast­ily con­struc­ted late sea­food lunch. Feel­ing slightly queasy I excused myself from the evening’s fest­iv­it­ies and relaxed in the casa.

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Day 8 — Weight, Wait and Want

24Dec20071038

My first day diving out at see had its ups and downs — lit­er­ally. That even­ing we drunk and partied around the dive hut before try­ing to get a taxi back into Trin­idad with mixed res­ults. My sun­burn cul­tiv­a­tion had begun.

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