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[wildebeasting]

Well, I've been doing all right lately.

Friday, though, turned shitty real fast for a couple hours -- oh, at about 3:15. I was preparing to print off the fifth-year intern proposal I had been working on all week.  Since I would have had to print it off at the library because my printer is out of ink, I dragged the file from desktop to the network

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[drawma_boy]

oh the tanuki, the tanuki!!

they're frickin' everywhere here -- testicles the size of bowling balls hanging out for all to see! grandma's, pregnant women, missionaries, down-syndrome babies.... is there any shame?!?!

and i once saw a real tanuki -- NOT like the cartoon. it really was like a mix between an oppusum and a racoon. oh, and if you thinking about the size of the scrotum -- never has there been a more legitimate case for false advertising. i'm suing sanrio!!

[wildebeasting]

So they don't really have huge balls? Where the hell did that come from then?

What do the Japanese think of those statue things? Is just like some dirty joke there?

Also good to hear from you, Cody! I'm sorry about the little problem you had and all that awkwardness in the hospital.

[drawma_boy]

well, aaaaaactually, tanuki is a mythological, mischievious, shape-shifting practical-jokester. he is also a symbol of prosperity -- particularly for commerce. that's why you see his statue mostly outside of restaurants. often times, he holds a sake bottle and (according to my coworker) a notepad, which during the edo period, was an actual notepad that people wrote their orders on.

and of course, some people think it's kinda funny (what kid or dirty-minded man wouldn't?!) but for the most part people DON'T think it's funny.... it's just an old symbol. and the japanese have lots of traditional symbolism having to do with feritility, penises, vaginas etc. so seeing shit like that isn't odd.

also, interestingly, tanuki's pop up all over... super mario 3, anyone?! mario turns into a tanuki (or racoon -- pffft!) and can shapeshift into a stone statue (which looks like a traditional "jizo") and uses a leaf to fly (apparently another reference to mythology).

[wildebeasting]

P.S. You should email Chiba-sensei. She's always asking about you when I see her.

I Heart Katamari

[dpubassguy]

Is it just me, or does this game have intense homoerotic undertones...the king is always surrounded by rainbows and shit...he's totes a homo...ps. bet you didn't know I would know anything about Katamari...p.p.s. remember when the whole point of the game is to make your BALLs real big...you do the math.

Re: I Heart Katamari

[wildebeasting]

Hey! Yeah, how do you know about that?
And the King! He wears tights and is sporting a strangely prominent bulge. Plus do you ever see the prince's mother in any of the clips? If she's there, she's always somewhere way in the background behind the King. It's fucking hilarious.

[akronohten]

I want to play the Bible game with you. But then again, I'm afraid it will make me feel stupid by pointing out just how little I know about the Bible. Unless there are questions about the four-source hypothesis. I can answer that. But I kind of doubt that.

[wildebeasting]

No, I think the questions are more like, "How many of his own sons did Noah try to sleep with?"
Oh wait, they probably wouldn't have that question either.

[akronohten]

I thought it was the sons that tried to sleep with Noah? And the one that did got banished and was turned black and that's why we have Africans now.

I can imagine the people that made that game holding on to that beleif. Ugh.

[wildebeasting]

They So would. And yeah, I think you're right about the sons being the instigators of the incestuous sodomy.