{"id":10286,"date":"2007-02-26T11:46:02","date_gmt":"2007-02-26T18:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/02\/26\/the-road-back-to-kiki.html"},"modified":"2007-02-26T11:46:02","modified_gmt":"2007-02-26T18:46:02","slug":"the_road_back_to_kiki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/02\/26\/the_road_back_to_kiki.html","title":{"rendered":"The road back to <i>Kiki<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img-shadow-right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0812589173?&#038;tag=davedoesthebl-20\" target=\"_blank\" alt=\"Click here to go to Amazon\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Issola by Steven Brust\" src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/B00005JM2O.01._SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>A while back, Katherine had a one-week love affair with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00005JM2O?&#038;tag=davedoesthebl-20\" target=\"_blank\" alt=\"Click here to go to Amazon\"><em>Kiki&#8217;s Delivery Service<\/em><\/a>, a charming anime tale.  She then turned around and decided she didn&#8217;t like <em>any<\/em> anime, or something, and certainly didn&#8217;t want to watch Kiki any more, or any of the other anime she had (or that we had &#8212; she had no interest in one of our faves, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0000B1ODT?&#038;tag=davedoesthebl-20\" target=\"_blank\" alt=\"Click here to go to Amazon\">You&#8217;re Under Arrest<\/a><\/em>, either).<\/p>\n<p>That was about a year ago or more, and her tastes have changed.  So Margie did a crafty thing.  Katherine was reading or doing something other than watching TV, so Margie put the first disc for <em>You&#8217;re Under Arrest<\/em> into the DVD player.  When asked what she was doing, Margie replied, &#8220;I thought I&#8217;d put in something I wanted to watch.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Whammo. Katherine was <u>glued<\/u>.  She watched it three or four times over the weekend, and started in on the post-OVA series discs (not nearly as good, IMO, but &#8230;).  We figure she&#8217;ll either ask for Kiki (if we don&#8217;t press it) or will be susceptible to the same &#8220;trick&#8221; when next we try it with that or something else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back, Katherine had a one-week love affair with Kiki&#8217;s Delivery Service, a charming anime tale. 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