あけましておめでとう[akemashite omedetou]

[hazliya]

Words cannot describe the New Year's I just had. But ima try.

So I made us a huge New Year's dinner of okinawasoba and tempura and we watched Fright Night until 10:30, then switched on NHK to watch a Japanese celebrity impersonator competition which included a male Lady Gaga and a Simon and Garfunkel manzai duo. Hilarity. Japanese TV is awesome.

Comments

[mneme]

That? Sounds awesome!

My opinion is that writing about it after the fact is qualitatively different from taking pictures. When you take pictures of a thing you're hitting it as a remove, and not really experiencing the thing as deeply as you could.

But when you write about it afterwards, you're experiencing it fully when you do it -- and then the writing is giving you an opportunity to go through those mental paths again in order to recount it. It's kinda the reverse of taking a picture (except, obviously, for the thing being completely ephemeral).

[hazliya]

Oh! I thought of you the other day when we were in the bookstore - they had that manga you like!

[shogunhb]

This makes me stupidly happy. You're awesome and the world is a beautiful place. Thanks for the reminder :)

[hazliya]

I miss all y'all so much. I hope your new year's was equally awesome. :)

[mindways]

Wicked. Damn. Cool.

(Even at one remove, the story has power. Kind of like the echoes of bells.)