The Simpsons do a Japanese CM

It's always struck me as odd how much the Simpsons get commercialized, but who am I to judge? And the rest of Hollywood secretly slinks out here to do commercials anyways (Youtube* Tommy Jones and Boss Coffee sometime), so it's about time we saw our favorite family in Japan.
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Yes I just made YouTube a verb. My friend used Wikipedia as a Japanese verb this morning (ウィキた, uikita is the past tense).

A Manzai Greeting is Catching On

According to Pink tentacle's explanation of this year's Top Japanese Phrases, トゥース! (tuusu, a greeting of some sort) is pretty popular this year, thanks to the manzai duo Audrey. So I thought I would introduce them to you with this conveniently-subtitled Nintendo DS-i commercial.



Speaking of comedian words, I still use "Sei! Sei! Sei!" It was given to us by Hardo Gay, and is kind of like "back off!". Oddly, nobody ever used it on him. Here's a conveniently English introduction for him in case you missed the pelvis thrusts of the mid aughts.

Japanese Grannies Left Behind on the Farm

From the archives:

Click to zoom/read the original Japanese article

Miyage prefecture (1963)-- With the post-war economic recovery if full motion, young people left the dreaded inaka (countryside) in droves, leaving their parents and grannies to do the farming, a trend you can still see the effects of today. Most farmers are old. I keep hearing about a "farming is cool! No, really! It's even cooler when it's organic!" boom happening, but have yet to see it for myself. I also keep hearing how Japan imports 60% of it's food. It's a problem the government may have to tackle. Oh, speaking of which, the guy in the photo is some unnamed politician doing the rounds after the breakup of one of the Ikeda cabinets.

Tentacle Lunch

This betenticled, canned, whole-squid lunch could be something out of Naked Lunch, but it's par for the course for your hapless ¥100 store adventurer of a blogger.



And no, I don't recommend this. There's still beak chunks in it.
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Oronamin C

First off, a video of mine. You don't have to watch the whole thing (it's about me being an extra in Takashi Miike's Zebraman 2, so you may like it after all), but know that the audio from a scene from a movie, Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl, plays over the end. You'll have to rent the movie to see the actual scene, but it really peaked my interest back in 2004 or so. What is that? I had to find out.


So this post (as threatened) is about the Oronamin C poster the characters talk about . Here it be:



And there are many more C posters here. As to the goofy man, he is Ōmura Kon. So to finish you off, here are some of his TV spots for the drink (note that it is marketed as some kind of health or sports drink). It's not as cool without the hat though.

Hopeless Romantic Album Now Accessible

You may have noticed if you tried to click-zoom on any of the recent mobile posts' images that the functionality was locked. This was a necessary step to give me time to remove my dwarf porn*. Now it's cleaned up and ready for the public. You can even see images from post I removed, like my failed tries at the 200 bad comics challenge and comment on them.

The Hopeless Romantic

*: Dwarf porn is the last refuge of a D&D scoundrel.

J Life Pic: Fiber Cola

I got a surprise the other night at the 7-11: Diet Coke with fiber added. It's not regular coke, but it keeps you regular. Oh, that was bad. I promise I won't dump such a crappy joke on you again.


In case you missed it, I vlogged a taste test of Coke's last special flavor.
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Spreading the Silly Dance Love

Fukuoka's cutest Canuk (Ciaela) and her friend made this video for a contest. So if you click through to YouTube, don't watch the related videos, because hits decide the winner.
I recognize this song, probably from my time in nearby Saga-ken.


Ciaela, I expect a chunk of the prize money ;-)