GAH!
Fifty dollar watermelon, anyone?
Queen (with Paul Rogers instead of Sir Freddie) played Saitama Shintoshin last night. Their fans were everywhere.
Har har har.
OK, my Mother made it to Japan (Dad's making the next one,) and we more or less exhausted ourselves in the week she was here.
When the crappy weather finally went away, we drove to Nikko, which is now the farthest North I've been. It's famous for its trees. This might not sound particularly impressive, until you see the trees in question.
(Click on any of the above for the full sized version.)
There's a very famous bridge. It's so famous, you have to pay to walk across it, and there's a wall on one side of it, so you can't actually use it to cross the river. And it's free to stand a few yards behind it on the bridge that you CAN use to cross the river.
I guess the bridge is special like that.
The place isn't that big, but it has all kinds of stuff.
(Click, etc...)
They also feature the black sheep of the Hello Kitty family, Shittpo.
What bugs me about that picture is that Hello Kitty, a character, is wearing a costume of another character (which looks like a squirrel or something.) If THAT combination becomes popular in its own right, it's perfectly reasonable to assume that someone would take Squirrel Wearing Shittpo Kitty and put it in a costume. Like, say, a chicken.
So then you'd have Chicken Wearing Squirrel Wearing Shittpo Kitty, which could then be dressed up to become Mongoose Wearing Chicken Wearing Squirrel Wearing Shittpo Kitty, which could in turn be made up to be...
...Rip Taylor or something. Who knows. But you'd have a seriously overstuffed marketing product that bore a striking resemblance to some kind of warped Japanese Matryoshka doll.
We can't let that happen.
Think of trying to dress up your kid as the Mongoose Wearing Chicken Wearing Squirrel Wearing Shittpo Kitty (Taylor Edition.) Halloween would be Hell on Earth. Or, more accurately...
The only solution is to Let's Music.
I think Japanese women are attractive and all, but I will NEVER be this lonely:
...or hungry...
OK, I'm gonna have dessert and go to bed.
As always, email me here. Until next time.
Fifty dollar watermelon, anyone?
Queen (with Paul Rogers instead of Sir Freddie) played Saitama Shintoshin last night. Their fans were everywhere.
Har har har.
OK, my Mother made it to Japan (Dad's making the next one,) and we more or less exhausted ourselves in the week she was here.
When the crappy weather finally went away, we drove to Nikko, which is now the farthest North I've been. It's famous for its trees. This might not sound particularly impressive, until you see the trees in question.
(Click on any of the above for the full sized version.)
There's a very famous bridge. It's so famous, you have to pay to walk across it, and there's a wall on one side of it, so you can't actually use it to cross the river. And it's free to stand a few yards behind it on the bridge that you CAN use to cross the river.
I guess the bridge is special like that.
The place isn't that big, but it has all kinds of stuff.
(Click, etc...)
They also feature the black sheep of the Hello Kitty family, Shittpo.
What bugs me about that picture is that Hello Kitty, a character, is wearing a costume of another character (which looks like a squirrel or something.) If THAT combination becomes popular in its own right, it's perfectly reasonable to assume that someone would take Squirrel Wearing Shittpo Kitty and put it in a costume. Like, say, a chicken.
So then you'd have Chicken Wearing Squirrel Wearing Shittpo Kitty, which could then be dressed up to become Mongoose Wearing Chicken Wearing Squirrel Wearing Shittpo Kitty, which could in turn be made up to be...
...Rip Taylor or something. Who knows. But you'd have a seriously overstuffed marketing product that bore a striking resemblance to some kind of warped Japanese Matryoshka doll.
We can't let that happen.
Think of trying to dress up your kid as the Mongoose Wearing Chicken Wearing Squirrel Wearing Shittpo Kitty (Taylor Edition.) Halloween would be Hell on Earth. Or, more accurately...
The only solution is to Let's Music.
I think Japanese women are attractive and all, but I will NEVER be this lonely:
...or hungry...
OK, I'm gonna have dessert and go to bed.
As always, email me here. Until next time.