“Be it so. This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them, and confiscate all their property. My carpenters shall therefore erect gibbets on which to hang all concerned when the widow is consumed. Let us all act according to national customs.”
— General Sir Charles James Napier GCBCultural Appropriation
Last seen showing off practical applications of Ribbon Theory, here’s Doctor Nekomu Otogi, NSFW, demonstrating the proper technique for respectful cultural appropriation.
Spots
An odd day
First I get a phony cruise offer on my cellphone (which has been on the national do-not-call list for years), then I get a call from an annoyed woman asking why I called her cellphone. It seems the cruise-spammer is faking caller-id using the same list of numbers it’s calling.
The polite young black man in a three-piece suit peddling The Watchtower almost didn’t register after that annoyance.
Rena Matsui's Pet Rock
For some reason, people rarely take pictures of this Maneki Ishi from an angle that shows off its resemblance to a cat in the classic pose.
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Of course, I’m less interested in the rock than in petting 24-year-old Rena, now “graduated” from her idol career…
But what I want to know is...
…what’s so different about charm?
Bomb magazine has been around for quite a while, as this cover from 1984 shows. The thing I find most striking about it is that all of the photoshoots have English titles, but only one is written in Katakana: “charm color”.
On second thought...
First response: this picture of Maria Makino makes me want to find more pictures of her.
Second response: her Wikipedia entry makes me want to wait a few years before I do that image search. Idols really need warning labels.
