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Anthropological u-turn mirrorPosted August 3rd
I don’t know what that means. No I have not been frequenting poetry slams. It refers to the clips below of a Japanese TV newsmagazine documenting a group of American otaku trolling Tokyo for their piece of the super-deformed, scantily clad nihonjin dream. Something about us looking at them looking at us. I’ll break the Noisy Balloonist Prime Directive (no self-reflexive internets) for this. Torpedos can, under exceptional circumstances, be damned. This from Offering Booze to a Deity in Kowloon by way of BoingBoing, a long time ago.
[Editor's note: For some reason—we've confirmed it's not a hex—Flash video plus this Wordpress theme breaks Firefox. Thus, the links to video, rather than actual video, that appear below. We'll find a remedy; I'm sure of it.]
And then there’s the game where you must stop the 50-foot tall bikini model from trampling breastfully across Okinawa. Try sweet cake. And you thought Japan was nothing but horseflesh ice cream and panty vending.