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Stuff of legend
There's a Japanese urban legend called 口裂け女 (kuchisake onna 'split-mouth woman').
Translating freely, the common version of it goes like this:An elementary school kid is walking home from school, when a woman in a red coat calls out "Hey, am I pretty?". The woman's wearing a gauze face mask (like the Japanese wear), but still looks like a beautiful ( Read more... ) -
The white chrysanthemums, puzzled by the frost
Instead of simply writing about how everyone should read more Martin Amis, something else for a change.
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Fire
According to the 2003 edition of Oxford Dictionary of English:immolate/'ɪməleɪt/
verb [with obj.] kill or offer as a sacrifice, especially by burning.
-DERIVATIVES immolation noun, immolator noun.
-ORIGIN mid 16th cent. (earlier (late Middle English) as immolation): from Latin immolat- 'sprinkled with sacrificial meal', from the verb immolare, from ( Read more... ) -
Social commentary
To complement yesterdays long and boring textual entry, todays will be short, sweet and filled with pictures ( Read more... ) -
Whatever
I'm incredibly stressed out and not feeling very good. Probably the rhythm of not really eating or sleeping is finally doing a number on me. Yesterday was spent mostly compiling sources, and I feel stupid thinking how I could've been doing it for a year ( Read more... ) -
"Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat"
It looks like I won't have the time or funds to make that trip to Kumamoto I had been looking forward to. I'm feeling rather depressed.
So as not to make this entry a downer where I piss and moan, some more treasures from the vaults. This time with commentary.
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"La Raison c'est la folie du plus fort. La raison du moins fort c'est de la folie."
A medley.
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They say that Newsweek is number 10 on the list of worst newspapers, but Newsweek says that Finland is the best country to live in. Refer to these graphs.
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army_kitten flew back yesterday, and I went back to my usual rhythm of sleeping the day and looking at pictures of boobs until first light. Not that I did really look at pictures of boobs ( Read more... ) -
Joseon girls gone wild
I lack a good opening for this entry, so I'm just going to skip the formalities. This entry also will not have proper structure. It's hot. I'm jittery. Also, this entry will be about titties ( Read more... )
