Personal Note: Milton, thou shouldst be living at this hour, that I might kick thee!

After three days complaining about how much I hate cataloging barely distinguishable nineteenth-century editions of The Complete Poetical Works of John Milton and sighing for some eighteenth-and-earlier-century stuff because it's documented so much more thoroughly, the Fates granted me my desire. You think I'd've learned by now: of the first six pre-1800 copies of Comus to cross my desk, I've managed records for two. The other four have yellow Post-Its headed "PROBLEM" attached, and I've put in an ILL request for yet another Milton bibliography (to keep the three currently sprawled uselessly all over my workspace company, I suspect). And of course my boss is on vacation for the next two weeks, so I can't even spread the misery with a consult. Nnngh. I'm glad it's Friday; I'm going to need a Milton-free day or two to re-psych myself up to this task.

Fandom: Funimation announces FMA:B Dub Cast

From animenewsnetwork.com's coverage of the New York Anime Festival (to which I would've gone, if I hadn't bought the car, argh) comes the following news regarding Funimation's dub of FMA:B:

Funimation has also announced the English dubbing cast for the ongoing Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood television series version of Hiromu Arakawa's fantasy adventure manga. Bryan Massey will play Isaac, J. Michael Tatum will play Scar, and Maxey Whitehead will play Alfonse Elric. The other characters will have the same voice cast from the earlier 2003-2004 Fullmetal Alchemist television adaptation. Alfonse Elric's former voice actor, Aaron Dismuke, will have a "big role" later on. Caitlin Glass and Mike McFarland are the ADR directors for the English dub.

My bet's on Dismuke returning as Ling, heh. Maxey Whitehead did a reasonable turn as the young Antonio in Romeo x Juliet, so no worries there. Must get around to putting the dub of the FMA OVAs in the player to check out Tatum's Scar, since I quite enjoyed Dameon Clarke's take. The original FMA dub is one of my favorites, so I'm pleased by the return of the rest of the cast (FMA, along with Princess Nine, Full Metal Panic and sequels, Death Note, Spirited Away and Porco Rosso, is one of the few anime I'm as likely to listen to in English as in Japanese). If Glass and McFarland can pull performances of similar quality out of their VAs this time around, they'll have another winner on their hands. (Can't hardly wait for the scene in the alley ... oh, I'm so preordered on this one ... :-)