“She knew how to embroider and milk a cow.”

— Connie Willis, Doomsday Book, via Thog

Yuzu Matsumoto


This photo shoot of 20-year-old Yuzu Matsumoto stands out because it doesn’t rely on any of the common glamour-photography tropes, or any of the common fetishes. She’s just a fully-dressed, extremely pretty young woman, in a little “daily life” sketch.

Yuzu Matsumoto

(most of the other shoots in this series from Weekly Georgia fall into the “ideal girlfriend” category, of course)

It's always Monday somewhere...


Conveniently labeled


I presume the back of her skirt has a giant “A” on it…

Alice Hirose, Kamen Rider

(via)

Foreigners! Don't be tricked!


Hey, at least it’s not a tattoo.

Cold Tofu

It reads 冷奴, hiyayakko, which means “cold tofu”.

(via)

Fear The Cute Ones!


'Karate girl, by Vincent Ricco

(source, via The Kimono Gallery)

Bakuon: Eternal Schoolgirl Lime


So far Bakuon!! is a lot of fun, and seems to be the only thing worth watching this season (streaming on Crunchyroll). Perhaps the best part is that the motorcycle manufacturers are on board, allowing them to use actual make and model names rather than resorting to the time-honored art of “making shit up” (although I think the misreading of Ducati as Zucchini should be treated as canon).

Bakuon

The characters are bright, cheerful, and generously drawn, the art and animation are well-done, and the music is stuck in my head. Very promising.

I hope the writers don’t reveal too much of the mystery behind the senior member of the Bike Club, Lime Kawasaki (“The Stig”), who of course rides a lime-colored Kawasaki. Ghost? Kami? Middle-aged woman who’s really kept her figure? Doesn’t matter; she’s still cool. Sadly, the only girl&bike figures announced so far are Hane and Rin; here’s hoping the whole set is on the way. I could line them up next to the scale model of my bike…

Pop quiz...


Kitten or ice cream?

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Graffiti X


If this was done with a dry-erase marker, I approve completely. If it was done with a Sharpie, I’m willing to look the other way while the janitor beats the crap out of the perpetrator.

“Need a clue, take a clue,
 got a clue, leave a clue”