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Chinese and Japanese vintage posters
These are not 'Geisha Girls'.
These are not 'Eastern Philosophies'.
Maha Kali : Kali is the goddess of dissolution and destruction. She is known for destroying ignorance, and she helps those who strive for knowledge of God.
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The festively endearing Daler Mehndi; Tunak Tunak Tun, music video.
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AR. Rahman is a modern Indian composer whose music is remarkably beautiful.
This compilation is an excellent place to start.
The soundtrack to Zubeidaa is also recommended. Mr. Oni can't get through it without getting teary eyed, that doesn't happen to this salty dog often. I haven't seen the film (it's an interesting story and was well received, but I'm a bit timid when it comes to tragedies).
Also on the Raaga site is this CD length remix of AR. Rahman songs that is a lot of fun.
Notes on the Raaga site; when the player opens you can fast-forward past the opening advertisement, also a pop-up add blocker is recommended.AR. Rahman, is often spelled as AR. Rehman. There isn't a standard transliteration of vowels, one often has to try different spellings when searching. Also if you start investigating Indian culture, names are alphabetized by first name. It's frustrating to remember the last name and then be lost when looking for information.
Time to breaking down the computer network...I'll be back soon, hahaha.
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An Oni tea shop in Osaka.
After an evening spent researching the sake pubs of Osaka's Dotonbori neighborhood, the unexpected sight of a 12-foot-high mechanical crab with thrashing claws and swiveling eyestalks can be an unsettling experience. Here are some other sobering sights from Osaka and nearby.
Mr. Oni has interests besides Japanese culture and perversion, and makes these listening suggestions for the Moroccan Mint fans at Maximum Verbosity.
A nice mix of pop songs.
stew44cd
Amazon page with fewer samples
Older songs, displaying humor and a blues sensuality.
528257-2
Copy the catalogue #(stew44cd or 528257-2)>Click on the image> select catalogue>search by catalogue #>paste the #(stew44cd or 528257-2)> click the thumbnail and when the album detail window opens, click on the lg. CD image to play all samples.Sorry, I can't direct link the pages. There is a wealth of music selections at Stern's, so it is worth the trouble of following my confusing instructions.
Contrary to SDB's feverdream;
There are many Arabic CD suggestions that I'll post on in the future; be one of the few, the proud, the clueseekers.They make little or no cultural contribution to the world. Few seek out their poetry, their writing, their movies or music. The most famous Muslim writer of fiction in the world is under a fatwa death sentence now and lives in exile in Europe.
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Mr. Oni knows that expression. In fact he just got quite a few of them while he was out getting a coffee in his NBF tee-shirt.
Well, the woman behind the register had a good laugh. Mission accomplished.
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Berlin's twinkling buttocks update:
At cloudcuckooland;
" Harmony awaits them at Europe's first feng shui rest stop."
Oni pionts you to Bill Whittle's 4th of July post;
Three: Rest Areas are For Emergency Use only. There is nothing scenic and interesting about them. Stopping anywhere other than to get gasoline and food is to admit failure and defeat. Real Americans judge their progress by the number of Rest Areas they can pass in one shot. That sign we just blew past – Next Service Station 96 Miles – means that you can go to the bathroom in a little under an hour. I told you to go before you got in._________________
A skeleton in the closet is discovered by Project Apollo (who shows sound judgement regarding Kofi and discerning taste in links).
"Today on Behind the Typeface, Cooper Black."
"Pretty Big Dig, a ballet of heavy machinery."PA has been added to the Blogroll.
Mr. Oni knows some of his readers are interested in typography (thanks for forwarding Behind the Typeface). You might enjoy perusing Underware (hey, I'm not being perverted, I don't even like hentai, honest....well, I'm a bit of a pervert).
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Mr. Oni has been nominated in the New Blog Showcase at Truth Laid Bear. I'm not a competitive type but ........... link me up! ;)
Do bloggers "vote" for a specific post, or for the whole blog?[...] The contest, however, only counts the links to the specific, submitted post. So if you want to help a blogger win the week, make sure you link to the post, and not just the main blog!That would be this post;
Weebl and Bob do Super Cute hentai!
It also has a link to a wonderful photography site.
For votes to count you also have to be in TLB's ecosystem.
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I might be down due to network changes tomorrow. If it goes poorly I'll initiate operation; Backup Secret Lair. Bwahahaha!
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Human Descent is an amazing site. It is currently down, but I'll keep you posted.
Octopuses and squids, usually of the giant variety, have long figured prominently in movies.
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Monday is micro photography day, but I'm posting a 'micro' Photoshop image instead. It is from an article noting China's body painting trend. It was a spotty 10kb file, but I liked the color balance and put it into psilocybin vision. Nice to see that I learned something from my youthful experimentation with
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Today's best headline, from a crummy article on the Chinese and Harry Potter.
Chinese Writers Not Yet Prepared to Write Fantasy
Reporting fantasy......no problem.
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I have a lot of questions about beauty. I find almost all natural shapes beautiful, and most people agree that flowers, especially, are beautiful. But why? I’m interested in what happens when you isolate familiar things and look at them with unfamiliar closeness and clarity, or from unfamiliar perspectives._________________
Weebl and Bob do
Super Cutehentai!Hentai is used to describe hard-core deviance and perversion, or a pornographic work . For hundreds of years, Japanese pearl divers have been depicted being ravaged by octopi, and tentacles have continued to be featured in hentai anime. So, if you didn't get the tentacle joke, now you know.
One will often hear it's abbreviated form ecchi, which is the pronunciation of H in hentai, and can be milder in meaning, comparable to "fresh." Sukebe, falls in between and means pervert, but without the deviance of hentai. All three are usually accompanied with a slap to the man's face.
The root hen, means a change or transformation, thus henshin can often be heard during the physical transformation scenes in anime. Hen later came to mean weird or abnormal. The phrase hen na gaijin for example, refers to weird foreigners. Both those whose customs make them seem odd, and those who have become proficient in Japanese custom and language, which is also considered to be rather potty.
As far as the "sell the panties joke," this blog is young, and I'll leave that for another day.
Update (7/28); added the link to the Planet Swank post on tentacles in Japanese art that I had linked earlier.
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"He's sooo cute, he's Super Cute Pet!"
"We made him a Super Cute lunch,"
"And let him have our Super Cute kitties"
"And took a Super Cute sexy snapshot"
"We love Super Cute Pet!"
Guys, we do have to do something, fast. But what? Bwahahaha, saved by Super Cute bandwith consumption. Phew, that was close.
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Emily Fox's cup stacking, is a more impressive world record than this bit of asinine ego fawning.
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Gloria Helfgott
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Betty Ragan at Maximum Verbosity links to this interesting address on why "A Group Is It's Own Worst Enemy."
For current geopolitical articles that relate to this, see David Warren and Daniel Pipes, both are linked at untold millions, here.
The summer issue of City Journal, theme; downward spirals.
John H. McWhorter How Hip-Hop Holds Blacks Back Violence, misogyny, and lawlessness are nothing to sing about.
Theodore Dalrymple Oh, to be in England What’s Wrong with Twinkling Buttocks?
Germany could learn something from reading City Journal. Viewing narcissistic hedonism as the saving grace of society is confusing stardust with sand.
Speaking of Berlin's twinkling buttocks;
"The underpants landed on the driver's face, causing him to ram the truck ahead from behind,"
Picture via Kimochi-ii.com a new Asian cheesecake site.
Update; This explains it.
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Thanks to the reader who sent an update to my Darwin Award letter.
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I'll be updating yesterday's topics
later todaytomorrow.Off to the land of air conditioning, ice water, and anime.
The Googler who was looking for "cheese ruins lives," I hope you found Weebl and Bob in time to prevent another tragedy.
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I watched the new Tommy February 6 videos on "Heavenly" last night. She is rocking on these. Sony has a short clip.
You can find more samples, enter and the link will be at the bottom in English.
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Time to finish Furi Kuri,............ Key words; "Weird, Surreal, Sci-Fi, OVA, Modern, Mecha, Comedy, Action, Acquired Taste, cyberpunk." Reviews
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Deleted the earlier prank phone call post, it was just too obnoxious. I apoligize to those who read it. Someone just shoot me. ,=(
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I told you I was offensive (scroll down to "Signs of Intelligent Life" and see my belated comment. Also, regarding the title "Signs of Intelligent life" , all emails that contain references to 'coattails' have been blocked.) The above was found at Maximum Verbosity that Pixy Misa linked. The google searches are funny. I especially liked this one;
futurama "hidden messages": I hear that if you play the theme song backwards, you can hear the words "Fry is dead.
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Updates, and not a day too soon; I figured out what day it is and corrected yesterday's date.
Also changed the snarky line in the Gweilo Dairy post to; "Conrad puts the con in Ghengis Kahn."
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Still trying to get the phone line fixed;
Tech; Are you receiving calls, I mean has anybody told you they called and couldn't get through?
Mr. Oni; Yes, my roommate has tried calling from work and hasn't gotten through.
Tech; Why would he care?
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Hi, since 1973 night and day sky have been my inspiration in photography. These pages show sample images of 50000 entries in my archives. All pictures are © Pekka Parviainen.
I spent a couple of evenings going through his photos, and will frequently be posting my favorites. I really love this image of an aurora borealis, and hear the wonderful Sharon Apple tracks "Pulse" and "A sai en" when I view it. Pekka, has taken down the high resolution images to make room for interesting videos of atmospheric phenomenon, I'm checking to see if he will let me put up some of the larger photos. I'm living up to my new classification in the ecosystem as a Lowly Insect, by being a pest.
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I would like to thank some of the bloggers who have been very pleasant and helpful over the last few days.
Gregory Harris of Planet Swank whose definition of fan service I linked, sent this question;
Thanks so much for taking note of my definition -- since it was back in February, I'm curious as to how you found it (of course, it is linked on my front page...).
I had come across it when I was perusing his archives about a month ago. First, it was an amusing story. Secondly, he made the astute observation that fan service "can also refer to any more-or-less unnecessary tidbit thrown in to please anime fans, such as character cameos or needlessly elaborate mecha." And that stuck like over cooked spaghetti on a refrigerator door (a bachelors method of timing pasta, not recommended). I had come to Planet Swank after a google search led me here. While investigating this.
I added Pixy Misa's Ambient Irony to my blogroll. Pixy's responses to my inquires were as funny and sharp as AI's blogging and were done during a very busy day. Thanks, for the link today. I hope those who visit will have fun.
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I've abandoned the practice of updating blog style. Since my pages are small and not time sensitive I prefer to treat each day as one remix project (watch video).
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Posting will be spotty today. My telephone line has become an international party line. I'm also waiting to hear about employment, nice timing. Oni, are gods of misfortune after all.
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Update on yesterday's fan service discussion
I checked back to take a look at Stephen Den Beste's updates......
Conrad of The Gweilo Diaries has warned Den Beste that he is trespassing. Not by talking about anime, but Conrad has laid claim to all Asian T&A. Well, Conrad puts the con in Ghengis Kahn . Good luck with the new romance. I hope it works out for the sake of men around the world, and if it doesn't could we at least have our cartoons back?
Conrad Megaplayboy
Nice cell of Karin for sale at AA
Pixy Misa had some good comments and a funny, previously posted fan service joke.... Zoom, Pixy is very funny, and another sign of smarts, Pixy Misa's top 25 anime picks do not include Neon Genesis Evangelion (hmmm, the top 25 seems to have gone missing, I hope Blogger didn't decide to have a midnight snack). The top 25.
Puggs comments; [....] Some people say it's a bad thing, but I never could control my whims very well. So like it or hate it, anime boobs are here to stay. And thongs, don't forget the thongs.......................
I for one would love to forget thongs...they are responsible for one of the great aesthetic missteps in history. The icing on the cake of tattoos, piercing and fake boobs...and that is women shaving their hair into a slash. Stick with the triangle, a micro triangle will work fine. Arrrrghhh, I just had a nightmare thought, the trend of woman wearing male briefs because they are durable....... is that going to morph into women wearing jock straps. It would be just as attractive as thongs.
ummm...Thanks to the reader who suggested that I trim my comment above, but if you like the look of thongs, your baseball cap is on too tight.
Oh, what the hell, since I had to bring up baseball caps, tattoos and fake boobs..... it's not hard core but it's not safe for the office either...Lick it the music video
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Thanks to untold millions for originally posting the Ghengis Kahn/DNA article why back on February 7th, and many of the articles that I link too. That guy knows how to pick them. Remixing posts is fun.
OK, I no sooner posted the above than untold millions passed this along, ummm this is so bizarre that you need a this is not a parody warning.
Metallica Sues Band Over Usage Of E, F Chords
But it is a hoax.
see a related post here
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I should also note that Puggs' punchline had nice style. But, as they said in Hyper Dolls, I'm more of a bikinis, thighs.... bikinis and thighs, kind of guy.
This goes too far however, and if they check my site they will likely go further. Yar, be gone ye wholesome wenches!
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Eugene Volokh has more bizarre legal 'flyspecking' and a wonderful link to The elements, as featured in comic books, forwarded to him by Eve Tushnet
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