Jason Byrne: You talk about Muhammad Ali in your latest DVD and how frightening it was to be in the ring with him. But do you reckon you could beat him now that the two of you shake like maracas?
Richard Pryor: That’s your fuckin’ question?
— Richard Pryor, demonstrating how presidential candidates should handle interviewsAn odd day
First I get a phony cruise offer on my cellphone (which has been on the national do-not-call list for years), then I get a call from an annoyed woman asking why I called her cellphone. It seems the cruise-spammer is faking caller-id using the same list of numbers it’s calling.
The polite young black man in a three-piece suit peddling The Watchtower almost didn’t register after that annoyance.
Rena Matsui's Pet Rock
For some reason, people rarely take pictures of this Maneki Ishi from an angle that shows off its resemblance to a cat in the classic pose.
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Of course, I’m less interested in the rock than in petting 24-year-old Rena, now “graduated” from her idol career…
But what I want to know is...
…what’s so different about charm?
Bomb magazine has been around for quite a while, as this cover from 1984 shows. The thing I find most striking about it is that all of the photoshoots have English titles, but only one is written in Katakana: “charm color”.
On second thought...
First response: this picture of Maria Makino makes me want to find more pictures of her.
Second response: her Wikipedia entry makes me want to wait a few years before I do that image search. Idols really need warning labels.
Seems legit...
Glamour Photography Tip
If your model ends up looking like a RealDoll or the setup for Chobits, you’re doing it wrong.
Also, go easy on smoothing out her skin with filters and photoshop until she looks like plastic. The Uncanny Valley is a two-way street.
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Prediction
After the events of New Years Eve, future “slutwalks” in Europe are going to look like NRA conventions.
