In a message dated 6/1/2000 7:14:07 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
gd_himes@yahoo.com writes:

<< Does anyone out there, know what the heck is going on,
 especially since many of these were from posts more
 than a week old?>>

        It was way, way too early in the morning for me when these started 
coming along, and I was so whacked I panicked.  Oh no, I thought, all these 
messages, gems-of-wisdom and idiot-speak-I-should-never-have-posted, all 
didn't make it.  Then, I stopped, took a deep breath, and realized they did 
make it.  Thankfully I just got a new prescription of betablockers, heart 
attack prevented, and y'all 're forced to deal with many more of my posts 
from now till... whenever I don't make it, I guess.
        Woke up to catch the last portion of the Clerks cartoon last night, 
which was funny and subdued simultaneously.  Anyone else watch?  I have a 
question though, regarding the "new ending written by the Korean animators" 
riff, intended to kindly pull the collective legs of anime in general; and 
boy, it was funny too (I thought so, at least).  Why whenever you see anime 
parodies like this, or the South Park ripping up Pokemon, etc., is everything 
dramatically sped up with way too many super-short cuts?  In general, modern 
American animation cuts are just as fast as yer standard Japanese cartoon, 
and only in action-based stuff do you get the ultra-speed storytelling, 
something also done equally here inna States.  Flipping channels yesterday I 
came upon Thundercats (oh, nostalgia, how I love thee), and realized, egads 
the action scenes were done terrible.  So, am I blinded and obscured by too 
much Japanese stuff and not enough American (hey, wait, I watch way too much 
American animation as it is, so that can't be... can it?)?  Am I desensitized 
to the speed at which some things go?
        Maybe my perspective's just warped.  I just finished watching Woo's 
The Killer, and Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove (two, in mine unhumble opinion, 
perfectly crafted beauts of filmmaking), and I think both of those flowwed 
very, coolly, amazingly fast.  Yet, both, I hear from people all the time, 
are slow films.  So... I don't know, somebody got an answer for me, it'd be 
'preciated.