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Just a reminder that Summer Coup starts tomorrow, at 7pm. We'll probably be in Hamilton 101 as usual, but our reservation isn't finalized yet, so if we're forced to go wandering we'll try to leave a note.
Our new season kicks off with Basquatch, which is at the least extremely pretty looking, and features backetball-playing robots, plus continuing with a few more episodes of Tytania and Kurozuka which we sampled in the spring. For regulars we're going to finish off Moyashimon (the show with the adorable microbes), and bust out sci-fi classic Bubblegum Crisis in glorious remastered HD. We'll also probably pop in some more Library War later on in the summer when the aforementioned series start running outof episodes.
I've been a bit slack on the updates around here, but we had a planning meeting for summer session and a schedule will go up soon. We don't actually have a room yet, but we'll see what we can do about that. Or we'll just wander around and steal A/V equipment or something.
Edit: and it's up.
Quick update: the dedicated COUP line-sitter brigade has successfully procured Hamilton 100 as our room again for every meeting this semester. Starting tomorrow, every Tuesday at 7pm. Be there!
So! We got through some voting action without too much bloodshed, and we have a shiny new schedule to show for it! Check it out. Unfortunately, since the system Events Planning currently has for reserving large rooms is terrible, we won't be starting meetings until February, and we won't be able to tell you where they are until like one day before the first one. But watch this space, or the mailing list, or the schedule page, and we'll let you know.
This semester we'll be continuing Daughter of Twenty Faces and Macross Frontier which we left off in the middle over break, and starting some new show about a guy with a magic hand and... a nun? I don't know much about it but there seems to be some demon smiting involved. Also on the docket are a bunch of cool movies, including the new one from Hayao Miyazaki, which is not to be missed. Then along with a few more espisodes of Zetsubou-sensei and Natsume Yuujinchou from last semester, we have a bunch of shiny new stuff to sample which looks good. And one ridiculously old thing too, because that's how we roll. Onward!
Ok, thanks to intrepid members sitting in line for ridiculous amounts of time, we have once again acquired Hamilton 100 for our regular meeting space this semester. There's going to be a couple weeks in a different room though - check the schedule page for details. For you new folks, Hamilton is just north of Davis Library, next to Manning. There's a map link on the schedule page too.
The first fall Coup meeting is tonight! Unfortunately, we can't get a solid room reservation until next week at the earliest, but we need to get this party started. So the plan is to gather around 6:45pm tonight in the Pit, from where we will valiantly set forth to claim a room for the evening. We'll proceed to show the regular first metting as on the schedule.
Just a quick note to let you all know that I posted the descriptions for our Fall lineup. We're still working on that whole having a room to actually meet in thing. Stay tuned.
Ok, sorry for the lack of updates around here, but it's time for a new semester and that means a new schedule. We don't have our room reserved yet, so we haven't put dates on everything, the the shows are set as you can see on the schedule page. There was an unusually huge amount of great stuff out in Japan over the last year, so this should be a lot of fun.
For any new victimsrecruits reading this, here's the lowdown: COUp meets at 7pm Tuesdays throughout the semester. As mentioned above, the location is being worked on; watch this space. During the first half of the meeting we put on a variety of rotating shows you can look up in the schedule, then a short break followed by our three regular series for the semester. This fall that means Macross Frontier (Transforming space planes! Idol singers! Shiny!), Genshiken season 2 (COUp: the Animated Series continues), and Daughter Of Twenty Faces (Action and Adventure with a master theif, his girl apprentice, and their awesome zeppelin). Good times.
And now that we have new shows, I'm really going to update that top banner. Gimma 'til the weekend or so. New banner is up, woo. Of course, the previous banners are still around.
Holy crap, it's time for summer session already. I have no idea where we're meeting, but we're doing it at 7pm this coming Tuesday, May 13. We may not know where we're showing it, but we do have a shiny new schedule for you. There's a bunch of new stuff out in Japan this spring which could be quite good... so we're not going to show it to you. Because we're saving it for Fall, which should be awesome. Meanwhile, though, we're catching up on a lot of shows people dug that we've seen bits of but never finished. We'll be doing a bunch more of NHK, Denno Coil, and Kaiji, along with refresher courses of Zetsubou Sensei, Bartender, Hataraki Man, and Gallery Fake, before plunging into some crazy 80's stuff and other random fun.
Also, we have new officers. Everyone pretend to listen to them occasionally!
UPDATE 5/13: We should be in Gardner 105 all summer. Unless someone else is using it tonight. But after that for sure.
Oh, and that top banner? Yeah, I know it's horribly out of date. I'll make a new one for next year once we figure out what we're watching in the Fall. Honest.
So that room in Bingham... kind of musty smelling, not terribly comfortable? Yeah. So our tireless and awesome El Presidente Sarah has procured for us an awesomer room on our off-days when we're not in Hamilton. The new room is Hanes Art 121, we are there TOMORROW and April 1st, and if you've never heard of it before you can find it on this old map. Also now noted on the schedule page in bright red for your remindering convenience. Hooray!
Not sick anymore! Yay. Consequently, the schedule page has been updated both with notes as to where we'll be each week (reading comprehension goal: we're in Bingham tomorrow) andwith a slightly late copy of the show descriptions for this semester.
Also, apparently Alicia has procured COUP an artists' alley table at this year's Animazment, from which we can rake in phat loot in exchange for odd craqfty items of fandom. If you're interested in participating you should probably track her down at a meeting or on the mailing list.
Oog, I've been totally sick all weekend. But I am now valiantly updating to let y'all know that we actually have a new room, officially, for coup this semester. Well, new rooms, technically. This week (i.e. tomorrow, Jan 29) and most weeks we'll be in Hamilton 100. But some weeks, including next week, we'll be in Bingham 103 instead. We've used both these rooms before and they're nice places. I'll put up some handy reference notes on the schedule later when I have actual energy to show exactly which weeks are at which room in the future; meanwhile I'm sure the info will go out on the listserv too.
Yes, we're still alive, the new schedule is up, and we're diving right back into meetings starting next week (Tue, Jan 15), probably in the same location (Chapman 125) as last semester. So what's on tap for the new year? More suicidal teachers, shinier giant robots, microscopic organisms, Ursula K. Le Guin (sort of), deadly gambling, demonic teachers, several girls piloting spacecraft, more bread baking, live-action otaku, an American show, more deadly angels, crazy april fool's hijinks, more VR kids and talking motorcycles, a train girl, and a trippy movie with yakuza. Please to be enjoying it.
And I'm gonna find some time this semester to update the title banner, dangit.
I imagine most everyone has found COUP by now, but since we are in a building that was just built, Phil has whipped up this handy map which shows both where Chapman Hall is located, and also the nearest reliable parking at the belltower lot. There may sometimes be other ninja parking slightly closer, but watch out for the numerous 24-hr reserved spots; the marked lot is safest.
Meanwhile, don't forget next Tuesday is Halloween meeting. Come in a costume! We don't care if it's lame! No, really.... we don't.
...since trying to reserve a weekly room with a large projector didn't suck completely? I forget. Anyway, as you may have gathered, we're still working on securing a room for official COUP meetings starting tomorrow. As usual, there will be info here and on the mailing list as soon as we know. We may be back in Hamilton 100, or we may have a different room that Events Planning hasn't suddenly decided they want to charge actual moeny for the privilege of using with no warning. Oy frickin' vey.
UPDATE: We're meeting in Chapman 125 again. Chapman is the brand new building between Sitterson and Carroll.
A while back COUP Faceless Minion #52 made a video to famous filker Tom Smith's song, "Return of the King, Uh-huh", using footage from the Rankin-Bass and Ralph Bakshi movies. It's pretty awesome. At Dragon*Con recently, he had a chance to show it to the man himself, which resulted in it getting pimped on Tom's blog and posted to YouTube. Awesome.
Although official meetings won't start until Sept. 11 due to room-reservation shenanigans, we'll be doing some venerable "not-COUP" meetings to get things started, which I'll post here:
Fall Not-COUP #1: Tues. Aug 28, 7pm, in Gardner 105 errrr, actually happened in Carroll 111. We tried.
Update 8/29: Descriptions for this semester's shows are up, courtesy of Phil.
Fall Not-COUP #2: Tues. Sep 04, 7pm, in Chapman 125. We think. Chapman is the new building between Carroll and Sitterson.
Welcome, new victims recruits! As some of you may have seen, COUP was out in full force at Fall Fest with the largest loligoth maid brigade yet seen in these parts. If you signed up for the mailing list, you should be hearing from us shortly. If you didn't but want to, follow the mailing list link above to get up to speed.
So, new semester! Scheduling will happen this Tuesday, so I should have a new Fall schedule up by the end of the week. We will, of course, be meeting at 7pm on Tuesdays, as always. Unfortunately, since the people in charge of rooms are still following the same horrible plan as last year wherein clubs don't get to sign up for permanent rooms until several weeks late, we don't yet know where we'll be meeting. As soon as we do it'll be announced both here and on the mailing list. Party join us!
Update 8/23: The exciting new schedule is up. Descriptions forthcoming. Meeting location still forthcoming also.
Ok, well, the On Stage page is updated with a Jet! page now anyway. I haven't got a final script yet, but I do have a few pics and pictures, including the totally sweet poster by Lici featuring the main cast. Also, bonus get! We have the audio track for the very educational film shown to prospective Jet program teachers.
Animazement '07 happened, and I think we all survived somehow. COUP staged another rousingly successful musical entitled "JET! or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Kancho", about teaching English in Japan. I've got some materials I'll post soon; meanwhile you can check the COUP On Stage page for links to stuff from previous years' productions. Er, excpet I see we haven't got anything but the logo up from last year still. I'll see what I can do about that. But there's some EVA! stuff, at least. I also have some minor revisions for that script that someone just sent me, which I'll post up whenever I find time to get around to all the aforementioned stuff. Stuff!
As people who attended yesterday noticed, we had a few schedule changes. We ran out of subtitles for Skull Man, so Bakamatsu is in its place. (Maybe we'll try again next semester.) Also, we dropped Sangokushi because, well... it wasn't very good. Gintama will fill in for it. And we do seem to have Hamilton 100 for the summer, in case anyone reading this is still wondering.
Two days 'til Connnnnnnnnnnnn!
New schedule up! New notes up! New suckersofficers up!
We're hoping to be back in Hamilton 100 but stay tuned for confirmation. Of course, Tuesdays at 7pm like always. Meanwhile, don't forget Animazement is just a few scant weeks away. And yes, there will be a new COUP musical because apparently we are that insane.
Speaking of Spring, it's time for the annual sakura-viewing picnic. The Sunday! Around noon, on the lawn in front of Carroll with the two big cherry trees. Potluck, bring stuff. See the mailing list for details.
Time for another year of COUP, it is. Scheduling is done and the new schedule will be up in a little while. Unfortunately, the new room reservation regime means we can't get an official room until after the 24th (ugh), so official COUP will start up on Tuesday, Jan 30th. But fret not, young bored otaku, for we are tentatively planning otaku-no-bowling and perhaps some location-roaming not-COUP meetings to tide you over. I'll post here if I get a chance, but since these things may be planned at the last minute it's best to watch the listserv - follow the link in the intro paragraph above if you need to subscribe.
Update 1/17: Otaku-no-Bowling was awesome, and hey look, I got the new spring schedule posted.
Update 1/24: An admirable group effort has successfully obtained the venue of Hamilton 100 for our meetings this semester. Also, I've posted new show descriptions courtesy of DFS.
Last updated by Kirin the Weblemur, on the date of the top news post.
