And from waaay out of left field...

I dunno if you'll find this interesting or not, but this struck me as a thoughtful response to a singularly puzzling question:

Why is so much of the fan fiction online that's about romantic or sexual entaglements usually about male characters but written by women?

What exactly are they trying to teach these kids?

Stop me if I'm repeating myself, but I just found this photo again.

Last year there was a highly publicized kidnapping in Japan. Some guy snatched a elementary school girl and sent pictures and ransom demands to the kid's mom using her mobile phone. So naturally, all the elementary schools started putting up PSA posters warning kids to be wary of strangers. Pretty standard stuff. But the poster they put up in all the public schools was this one, which claimed that sometimes bad people will act like nice people to try and trick you. But the bad people in the picture ALL looked like foreigners. Stereotypical, round-eyed, big-nosed foreigners. Even though most Japanese cartoon characters tend to look sort of, well, non-Asian, there are a couple of standard cues used to mark which characters are supposed to be non-Japanese. Big noses or prominent nose bridges being the most obvious.

And for the record, the kid was taken by an ordinary, run-of-the-mill, regular looking Japanese guy. He wasn't half-anything, he wasn't from Okinawa, and he wasn't even that strange-looking.

Testing the waters...

I'm starting to get a little curious about who's on the other side of this blog. I mean, I know that the Nerd Hater is out there, a former Grade School Role Model, and sometimes even some other people who I've actually met face to face.

But who else is out there? Who am I talking to?

Pikachu's a Lush!

There's nothing Pikachu likes better than that first cocktail of the day.

Sorry for the inconvenience...

But on the off chance you want to make a comment, I've had to activate a word-verification system because of a sudden torrent of bot-produced spam comments.

The worst part is that none of them were for stuff I'd be interested in buying, looking at or mocking. It was just for boring crap.



Kind of like most advertisements, now that I think about it.