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Sagas of Saga: February 2010
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Scary Japanese Toys 日本の怖いおもちゃ. As seen in a claw vending machine at a mall near you:. Bits and pieces of Gloomy the magic bear! No idea what these are, but they look like blood parasites of some sort. Maybe actual size. Not sure about this fella either, but he seems to be a communist. I wanted him SO BAD (not in that way) but I suck at claw games, and they only give you one chance. Anyway, like I said, I've never seen it but I've worked out a pretty complex back-story in my head that I'll share sometime.
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Sagas of Saga: December 2009
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How about a bottle of Marie Antoinette's placenta? Yes, it looks gross, but the name has a definite article, so you know it's quality. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Experiences lead to experience.
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Sagas of Saga: October 2009
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On Host Clubs, Racism and Robotics. This is a pretty snazzy little documentary by Japanese-American Adam Yamaguchi for the show "Vanguard". Usually when I see Westerners talk about Japan about TV, especially when they talk about major cultural differences like femmy men pouring drinks for yuppie spinsters, or the emergence of robots in the workplace, they present it as being extremely weird-yet-common place (in a "that's so Japanese". Ie the boonies), but I've never seen a robot in. Japan Not once, ever.
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Sagas of Saga: May 2010
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London 2012 Mascots Look Like Vortigaunts. Former Saga resident Charlene posted in her blog. About London's lovable. eh. well, shiny Olympic mascots for the 2012 games, Wenlock and Mandeville. Which I believe are named after the finger puppets from Salad Fingers. I realized, though, that I'd seen them somewhere before. It's been bugging me all day, but as soon as I got home today it hit me like a sack of oranges. Wenlock and Mandeville, Mascots. Game series aliens, the Vortigaunts.
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Sagas of Saga: How to Count Flying Bunnies in Japanese
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How to Count Flying Bunnies in Japanese. Of 'em. There's nothing outstandly difficult about learning these besides volume, but there are a few irregularities. One such irregularity is the counter for birds. Which is 羽. One bird is 一羽, two is 二羽, and so on. This counter, however, is also used by one mammal: rabbits. And why is that? According to anglo Wikipedia. Ever heard 'You can't eat rabbits, but if it's a bird, it's okay? Rabbits, cows, pigs, birds. And fish: you can't eat any of them! 12300;仏教的にR...
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Sagas of Saga: October 2010
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How to Count Flying Bunnies in Japanese. Of 'em. There's nothing outstandly difficult about learning these besides volume, but there are a few irregularities. One such irregularity is the counter for birds. Which is 羽. One bird is 一羽, two is 二羽, and so on. This counter, however, is also used by one mammal: rabbits. And why is that? According to anglo Wikipedia. Ever heard 'You can't eat rabbits, but if it's a bird, it's okay? Rabbits, cows, pigs, birds. And fish: you can't eat any of them! 12300;仏教的にR...
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Sagas of Saga: Big Daddy America and His Taste for Those Oishii Japanese Hamburgers
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Big Daddy America and His Taste for Those Oishii Japanese Hamburgers. I haven't really paid attention to Adbusters since I left Canada- well, specifically. Before that, when I went from being a poor student to really. Poor student who couldn't afford to buy a copy, but McDonald's Japan's ongoing. uh. somewhat racially insensitive advertising campaign. Involving much stereotypical gaijin boobery) and the flood of offended middle-class white people. If you want to get really theatrical (you then should mak...
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Sagas of Saga: JLPT N1 Textbook Quick-Caption Reviews
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JLPT N1 Textbook Quick-Caption Reviews. Since the last time I posted- last November(! I've been in Canada, to Japan, and then back and am getting ready to start a *nasal voice* graaaaaaaad school program, and as part of my prep, I've been going a bit hardcore with Japanese. Grind-studying Japanese when you're out of Japan is kind of weird because it doesn't take long before you completely separate the language from the country and kanji and grammar become abstract concepts. The grammar textbook, 日本語総まとめＮ１.
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Sagas of Saga: Senkaku Island Notes
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I've been going through a huge time line. Of the Senkaku Islands conflict which I found online in order to prepare for (maybe) having to write an essay for a grad school application. (We'll find out about that part soon enough.). But I was reading through the time line and through some essays and newspaper articles and was thinking back to conversations I was having with Ikumi about it and what she was saying about extremely patriotic- and sometimes just very extreme. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
