Birthdays, candy, manga

[louiselux]

Happy birthday luthien67!  May you enjoy much cake and booze!

*slaps heads* And belated happy birthdays to lebateleur and emungere!

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Interesting yet pointless fact of the day: apparently the word candy has its root in the Dravidian word for lump. 

The English word candy was adapted from French candi in the Old French phrase sucre candi. It was zucchero candi in Italian, azucar cande in Spanish, and assùcar candi in Portugese. All of these words derived from Arabic sukkar qandi 'candied sugar', meaning sugar that has been cooked and forms a ball when dropped into cold water. Arabic got the word from Persian qand, which came from a Sanskrit root khand 'to break'. The ultimate origin was probably the Tamil (hence, Dravidian) word kantu 'ball of candied sugar', and that is related to a word meaning 'ball' or 'lump'.

I'm feeling knackered after too much red wine and a large Indian meal last night. The week stretches ahead, like a wombat etherised on a table. This is the week I turn my remixredux notes into a proper story, stop thinking about sex so much (what is wrong with me - I blame Spring), post things to permetaform, post things to daegaer (unless someone else has sent you Samurai Champloo already? Also - do you want any Saiyuki?)

sexsexsex sorry.

Last week I read Taimashin vol 1. The hero, Dr Taima, is pretty and red haired and is a sort of demon acupuncturist. Not demon as in good, but literally. Not having read any HP Lovecraft, the relevence of Dunwich didn't hit me until Yog Sothsoth and his sons appeared. Um. There are three of these mystical demon fighting acupuncturists in the world- we get to meet a cute blond one in Dunwich and I'm guessing there's a moody dark haired one around as well.  He has a disturbing assistant called Ms Togetsu. I wasn't expecting the demon dog rape though, and was forced to snap the book shut in a hurry on my train home, scared of attracting bad stares.  It's not graphic, but still... not nice. 

Legal Drug by Clamp is funny.Two young men have strange psychic powers and work for a mysterious chmist shop owner, who also has psychic powers. The plot is a bit odd - the three (I think) chapters  seemed very lightweight and disjointed but at the same time had some quite nifty ideas.  I don't like Clamp art much, but it was worth it just to see Crowley apparently making his manga debut (as the pale, dark-haired lover of the chemist shop owner-- he's never seen without his sunglasses)

Comments

[luthien.livejournal.com]

Thanks! :-) Though, sadly, I'm in no condition for booze this time. I'm giving myself an IOU for the birthday drinks. *g*

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hear that :( But here's to much booze in the not too distant future.