I will be on vacation here in the snows of the Rocky Mountains till November 25.

My favorite blogger-megababe, Geisha Asobi (aka geisha fun), has a great photo of herself decked as a samuri warrior of the Japanese kitchen. (Since Japanese junk kitchens are the worst in the developed world it is no wonder she has to be a warrior just to survive.)

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Starting from the top and moving clockwise, the Japanese kitchen gagets she is wearing are:

The 3Yen’s 30-day “REAL WORLD” ROAD TOUR is presently snowbound in Bear Creek, Colorado USA where it has not stopped snowing for two days. It’s almost Japanese snow, that is wet, heavy snow…about 80 cm has fallen so far…which thanks to our Globally Warmer World never falls anymore in Tokyo (20 years ago Tokyo would have at least a couple of snow storms each winter, which would melt in a day or two).

I think my getting “cabin fever” and they are going to strangle each other… but my dogs love it.

I think I will throw my black Halloweenesque cat out of the backdoor and into a 1.5 m snow drift to see how much he “appreciates” the snow, muhahaha.

Our sharp-eyed reader, “ECM”-san writes: This seems a bit much to believe and Suda sorta a bit of an oddball, but…

Bringing together Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima, No More Heroes director Goichi Suda, and Love Plus all into one story.

Somehow I don’t this Heidi would wear one of these Tyrolean dirndl, and I ain’t ever seen a kimono with any “cleavage.”

Oct. 23, 2009 – WWD.com….entitled “Dirndl Meets Kimono”, included Austrian designer Susanne Bisovsky's modern and sexy reworking of typical Tyrolean costumes replete with lace, tulle and rhinestones….Four Japanese designers used traditional Austrian dirndl fabrics to create modern, inventive looks, while the Austrians used kimono fabrics to do the same…more…

Here’s something everybody needs…

….a Swarovski CRYSTALLIZED®, Hello Kitty, MP3 music player.

This encrusted, Hello Kitty Pod has a 2GB memory capacity, a pink Audiotechnica earphone set, and the reasonable price of 13,800 yen or about $149.91USD.
Find more details on the Japanese Rakuten site (mega-funky machine translation).

For the past seven days, the tranny whore look has at the forefront of styling at Tokyo Fashion Week. For example…

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Via DayLife.com –October 23, 2009
The above creation is by the Japanese designers Cabaret Aki and Jackal Kuzu at the “Gut's Dynamite Cabarets” fashion show held on Thursday.

KYODO Press – Jan. 28 TOKYO, Japan…an artist impression of a 29-story building that movie producer Shochiku Co. plans to build after closing the 58-year-old Kabuki-za theater in Tokyo’s Ginza district. A new theater for the traditional Japanese stage entertainment ”kabuki” will be built in a Japanese-style building from the first to fourth floor. The upper part of the 150-meter-high modern building will mainly house offices. Shochiku plans to start constructing the building in October 2010 to complete it in March 2013.

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After six looooong years in Japan, Bobby Valentine, will now leave the Lotte Marines to drop back to the bottom where they naturally belong.

DayLife.com—
Bobby Valentine talks with the media Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009, in Cleveland. Valentine, the most experienced of the finalists for Cleveland’s manager’s job, got his second interview with the Indians…more...

I bet you didn’t know that Astro Boy, Phoenix, Black Jack, and other Osamu Tezuka manga characters are POWERfull.

The above photo of Osamu Tezuka manga characters emblazoned on the side of the wind generator is from ykanazawa1999’s photostream; better photos at pinktentacle.com’s Tezuka wind turbine.

Question:
I bet you don’t know the reason why Japan has fewer wind power generators than any of the other G-8 countries, do you?

Answer:
Though Japanese are universally deaf to right-wing sound trucks and blaring PA systems, wind power generators prohibited in most places because they make too much noise (or at least that’s what the Japanese nuclear power industry wants you to think).
The wind turbine has Tezuka’s manga characters on it is because the mighty forces of otaku/geekdom (2-Ch) can be marshaled to counteract the blanket refusal of use of such turbines by the local braindead-Japanese homeowners’ associations.