I’ve not been regular with the updates lately. And there’s a reason. The secret child I kept in the cupboardcage just starved to death and I’ve been learning how to type in his stead. Real life sure does suck.

In other news, I’ve taken a position up at the already-controversial Oi, Hayaku! (with a free hand topic-wise) and have been drafting some posts for the deranged overlord of said institution. My intro post will be up there quite soon. I command you to read it.

It’s a new Japanese culture site stuffed full of nifty writers, who promise to kick physics to the curb by being at once terrifically sharp and painfully blunt, united under a banner of furious ambition. This does not mean Claiming is dead, and this site will still be where the majority of my stuff will appear. However, over the next month-ish things here will likely remain noticeably slow on account of the whole settling into a new routine thing.

Oi Hayaku! is going to get posting of a slightly different style, with more concision and generally more of an attempt to attract those unused to the world of blog geeks. My hope is that conceptually-ordered updates and gratuitously inserted media titbits can make for something accessible and unique. Or perhaps just consistently excellent. Over here it’ll largely be the same old compulsively verbose chronicle of obsession. Though you might see some episodic coverage this season, likely of Michiko to Hatchin.