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Oct. 30th, 2003 11:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
scottobear Vendetta #5 is here! (Making Fiends episode #5)
→ back episodes 1 | 2 | 3 | 4
Amy Winfrey (producer of both Making Fiends, Big Bunny and Muffinfilms)'s Making Fiends episode 3, is going to be in competition next month at the Chicago International Animated Film Festival.
(via wurzetod)
I'm glad for once that I live in an area with not a lot of kid-foot traffic. I don't think I'll be up for a lot of trick or treaters coming to the house.
Aum Shinrikyo's Shoko Asahara is currently pleading religious innocence in a Japanese court, eight years after the Tokyo sarin attacks. I hadn't even realised the trials were still ongoing.
Lawyers for the Japanese cult leader accused of masterminding a gas attack on the Tokyo subway in 1995 have insisted he is not guilty.
Shoko Asahara faces the death penalty for allegedly ordering the use of sarin gas which killed 12 people and made 5,000 others ill.
In final arguments, his legal team blamed Mr Asahara's disciples for the killings and a number of other crimes.
Mr Asahara, who led the Aum Shinrikyo cult, will hear his verdict next year.
Defence lawyers will take two days to read out a document of more than 800 pages asserting their client's innocence.
"This series of crimes could never have been committed under instructions from a genuine man of religion," Japanese media quoted a defence lawyer as saying.
Mr Asahara himself has remained silent throughout most of the trial, even when questioned, though he did manage to raise his fist once and shout during Thursday's proceedings.
Ten other members of the cult have already been sentenced to death, including Tomomasa Nakagawa.
He was sentenced on Wednesday after being found guilty of helping to make the sarin gas and participating in other crimes by the cult.
Mr Asahara has been on trial for seven and a half years.
Aum Shinrikyo
Prosecution lawyers concluded their case in April last year.
They demanded the death penalty, calling Mr Asahara the "mastermind" of the crimes and Japan's "most heinous criminal."
As well as the deaths caused by the subway gas attack in 1995, Mr Asahara is also charged with the 15 other killings alleged to have been carried out by the cult.
They include ordering a separate nerve gas attack in the central Japanese city of Matsumoto in July 1994 that killed seven people and hurt 144.
The date set for the verdict is 27 February 2004.
If found guilty, an appeal by Mr Asahara is possible - nine out of the 10 Aum Shinrikyo members sentenced to death have appealed.
I highly reccomend the Nightmare Before Christmas DVD. I can't believe it's 10 years old this year.
Check out Halloweentown Website for a good media library from the film, too.
Dreamt last night of being in an ampithesatre with dream-friends. People I don't know in real life, but nice enough in dreamtime. We were finding seats in a mostly empty ampitheatre for some sort of live show. We had to hang on to our tickets for some reason... maybe a raffle by seat number? We got to talking about websites, and one of the girls there mentioned that she wanted to set up an adults-only site, because she was a dancer. I was surprised, because she looked to me to be at least 50 or more years old. We talked a while about it, and she decided instead to do a dancer's resource site.
I had my first good bowel movement since surgery this morning at about 11am, and it went well enough. Quite a relief and not forced. Considering I'm a very regular guy, holding off for a few days is long enough. I think that the sushi Dan brough by for dinner last night helperd it along nicely.
Current Vampire stats - You have drunk 12988 pints of blood.
You are sire to 178 other vampires, including: LdySaphyre (8932 pints), MissV (4578 pints), Liliana (2997 pints), Nathanael (1728 pints), Morgoth (1657 pints), gilbella (1546 pints), mixedresults (1246 pints), night_flyer (1013 pints), xerxes (962 pints), wchmum (911 pints) Want to play?
→ back episodes 1 | 2 | 3 | 4
Amy Winfrey (producer of both Making Fiends, Big Bunny and Muffinfilms)'s Making Fiends episode 3, is going to be in competition next month at the Chicago International Animated Film Festival.
(via wurzetod)
I'm glad for once that I live in an area with not a lot of kid-foot traffic. I don't think I'll be up for a lot of trick or treaters coming to the house.
Aum Shinrikyo's Shoko Asahara is currently pleading religious innocence in a Japanese court, eight years after the Tokyo sarin attacks. I hadn't even realised the trials were still ongoing.
Lawyers for the Japanese cult leader accused of masterminding a gas attack on the Tokyo subway in 1995 have insisted he is not guilty.
Shoko Asahara faces the death penalty for allegedly ordering the use of sarin gas which killed 12 people and made 5,000 others ill.
In final arguments, his legal team blamed Mr Asahara's disciples for the killings and a number of other crimes.
Mr Asahara, who led the Aum Shinrikyo cult, will hear his verdict next year.
Defence lawyers will take two days to read out a document of more than 800 pages asserting their client's innocence.
"This series of crimes could never have been committed under instructions from a genuine man of religion," Japanese media quoted a defence lawyer as saying.
Mr Asahara himself has remained silent throughout most of the trial, even when questioned, though he did manage to raise his fist once and shout during Thursday's proceedings.
Ten other members of the cult have already been sentenced to death, including Tomomasa Nakagawa.
He was sentenced on Wednesday after being found guilty of helping to make the sarin gas and participating in other crimes by the cult.
Mr Asahara has been on trial for seven and a half years.
Aum Shinrikyo
- Renamed Aleph and claims it is now benign
- Has about 1,000 lay followers and 650 followers in cult communes
- Predicted an apocalypse that only cult members would survive
Prosecution lawyers concluded their case in April last year.
They demanded the death penalty, calling Mr Asahara the "mastermind" of the crimes and Japan's "most heinous criminal."
As well as the deaths caused by the subway gas attack in 1995, Mr Asahara is also charged with the 15 other killings alleged to have been carried out by the cult.
They include ordering a separate nerve gas attack in the central Japanese city of Matsumoto in July 1994 that killed seven people and hurt 144.
The date set for the verdict is 27 February 2004.
If found guilty, an appeal by Mr Asahara is possible - nine out of the 10 Aum Shinrikyo members sentenced to death have appealed.
I highly reccomend the Nightmare Before Christmas DVD. I can't believe it's 10 years old this year.
Check out Halloweentown Website for a good media library from the film, too.
Dreamt last night of being in an ampithesatre with dream-friends. People I don't know in real life, but nice enough in dreamtime. We were finding seats in a mostly empty ampitheatre for some sort of live show. We had to hang on to our tickets for some reason... maybe a raffle by seat number? We got to talking about websites, and one of the girls there mentioned that she wanted to set up an adults-only site, because she was a dancer. I was surprised, because she looked to me to be at least 50 or more years old. We talked a while about it, and she decided instead to do a dancer's resource site.
I had my first good bowel movement since surgery this morning at about 11am, and it went well enough. Quite a relief and not forced. Considering I'm a very regular guy, holding off for a few days is long enough. I think that the sushi Dan brough by for dinner last night helperd it along nicely.
Current Vampire stats - You have drunk 12988 pints of blood.
You are sire to 178 other vampires, including: LdySaphyre (8932 pints), MissV (4578 pints), Liliana (2997 pints), Nathanael (1728 pints), Morgoth (1657 pints), gilbella (1546 pints), mixedresults (1246 pints), night_flyer (1013 pints), xerxes (962 pints), wchmum (911 pints) Want to play?
