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August 23, 2006
Corrections to the Last Post
* There are essentially no panty vending machines in Japan at present - at least in Tokyo.
* Nyutai mori - eating sushi off of a naked woman - ranges from ultra-rare to nonexistant.
* Wanikuge is not a word.
* Neither is "ristolance."
* Miyakayi and awogavi are impossible in the Japanese language.
* Kurozaruo is far from brazen.
* There is no American TV show called Bear Bactor.
* Nobody has ever mounted a cow for a cross-country trek on Japanese television - not yet anyway.
* Everything that was in italic should have been in bold, and everything in bold should have been underscored.
* There is no word "synecdoche."
Posted by marxy at August 23, 2006 10:46 PM
Comments
And yet, the emotional truth was real to me!
Posted by: check at August 23, 2006 11:40 PM
Oh ho! And what have we all learned from this experience?
Somehow I think that if you had used this same technique to write a less, um, positive essay that things might have turned out differently.
Posted by: lauren at August 24, 2006 1:00 AM
The "last post" has just proved that Momus and Marxy are actually Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker in disguise.
Posted by: dzima at August 24, 2006 1:27 AM
Me being Darth Vader, right?
Posted by: marxy at August 24, 2006 10:19 AM
I was wondering why my TiBo missed Bear Bactor...I thought I was high on axion-jaxons or some such.
Posted by: Rory P. Wakeboard at August 24, 2006 11:06 AM
you spoiled it. left hemisphere strikes again. now we have to wait another 4 months or so. cry..
Posted by: alin at August 24, 2006 11:35 AM
Everyone likes Japan more when it is fiction.
Posted by: marxy at August 24, 2006 12:28 PM
But I've watched Bear Factor, and my wife's maiden name is Wanikuge. What's going on here? I feel like a narrator in a Murakami Haruki story.
Posted by: Duffy at August 24, 2006 2:20 PM
Cant find your contact on the web so i tell it here : your music is amazing. 60 acid pop inspired i guess but personnal at the same time. nice.
Posted by: french melomane at August 24, 2006 8:44 PM
think i'm switching over to rob pongi. the fun never stops there.
Posted by: alin at August 25, 2006 1:07 AM
your music is amazing.
Thanks! More coming soon.
think i'm switching over to rob pongi. the fun never stops there.
The cleverness starts with the name and NEVER ENDS.
Posted by: marxy at August 25, 2006 1:42 AM
Neomarxisme: the MEMRI of the nippophile set.
Posted by: pingu at August 25, 2006 8:05 AM
And here I went scouring the net looking for my very own crocodile court noble (or court noble that can be placed on/in a ring).
Damn you.
Posted by: shiny floor occupant at August 26, 2006 9:58 PM