Shelf Life

Jane Air

Shelf Worthy

Air DVD 1

Rental

Slayers Season 1 Set

Xenosaga DVD 1

Perishable

BVUSA's release of Wings of Honneamise

Punching walls and destroying my own stuff has always been a good source of anger management for me. During my sophomore year of undergrad, one of the texts we had to use for an advanced math class was Mathematical Analysis: An Introduction by the highly damnable Andrew Browder. I later discovered that he once taught at my university; had I known that, I would've walked by his mailbox every day, just to shake my fist. Unfortunately, his emeritus status is also probably the reason why that book was used so often by the math department.

Anyway, I wracking my brains over a particular proof one day, when I became so enraged that I grabbed the book, started beating it against my desk, and in a maelstrom of hate, hurled it across my room. The book ripped apart on impact, contents scattering everywhere. Most of the cover had been torn off, several of the pages were clinging to the binding by mere threads of glue, and suffice it to say, the book was in terrible condition. Now, I'm the kind of person who keeps all my books in pristine condition, and never even marks in my textbooks. After my anger abated, I started at the tattered remnants of my book, realized what I had done, and burst into tears.

As you mull over the last thing you destroyed that you totally regretted, I welcome you to Shelf Life.

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Since I started this column with Slayers, I can only move up in video quality, because seriously, all nostalgia aside, the video looks like ass. Comparing the transfer on that show to that of the next title is like watching one of those Claritin commercials that show you drastically your vision improves when you no longer have crippling sinus problems.

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And onwards we go, from wanting to fly, to actually flying. From junky Slayers transfers, to pretty Air art, to the majesty of High Def.

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Well, that's that. Saying goodbye is always sad, but we'll reconvene in a week, so it's okay.

This week's shelves are here courtesy of Josh Habel, who hit my weak spot with a baah-ing goat. It's no secret that those Last Exile plush goats are maybe one of the cutest things ever manufactured by man. Well, this guy's girlfriend just one-upped them. She cut a hole in one of the goats (;__;), and stuck in one of those noise-making cylinders that they sell to kids. And tadah, a real bleating goat!

A Youtube video of the goat in action is available.

Oh, and he has shelves, too.

I'm still thinking about that goat. So cute.

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