Here’s a cute family portrait of Lil’ Kim and Slick Willy making nicey-nice yesterday.

….via Korea News Service in Tokyo, former U.S. President Bill Clinton, seated left, meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, seated right, in Pyonggyang, North Korea, on Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2009…. daylife.com…

UPDATE!
Leave to my President, Slick Willy, to get the girls!

‘Our girls are coming home’
Reporting from Seoul and Los Angeles — The statement posted on the
Los Angeles Times–August 5, 2009 …The former president and the two journalists boarded a U.S.-bound plane Tuesday and were expected to arrive in Los Angeles after midnight...more…

AFP/Reuters–Mon Aug 3, 2009
The photo above is of a Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) supporter campaigning in freakazoid costume.
The DPJ is the main opposition party here has strong lead over the not-soLiberal not-soDemocratic not-so-funParty current lead by the wacko Prime Minister Taro Aso. Parliamentary elections will be held on August 30 and according to the polls, the LDP is losing by a large margin (ending the stranglehold on Japanese politics that it has had since 1955).

I was following Lil’ Kim Jon Il on twitter and he had this great music suggestion on his iTunes playlist:

Song of the Military and Political University of
Resistance Against Japan.

That cheerful tune is available for free downloads offered on the Chinese military’s website, which sadly may be overloaded with download traffic at the moment due to its “popularity” so try using the my podcast below.

Kim-Jon Il’s twitter

RT @ImKimJongIl Down 19 followers since my hiatus. Who are you people that you think you can just walkaway from me?

Amid all the Japanese election whoopla, this official campaign poster asking folks to vote for the GUNDAM Party was spotted by animenewsnetwork.com .

According animenewsnetwork.com, “….Yamagata Prefecture in northeast Japan has recruited Osamu Wakai, a comic talent most famous for “impersonating” Mobile Suit Gundam’s main character Amuro Ray…”

Personally, I want to vote for the original party animal, GODZILA!

Remember:

Let me share a strange observation from my shopping in Tokyo today…

Several stores in uber-trendy New Marunouchi district of Tokyo have moved their stock of Louis Vuitton bags to jumbled piles on folding tables on the street just like the final discounting of distressed stock.

For the past 20 years, not having an LV bag was like going out knaked for Japanese OLs (office ladies). According to one Financial Times report, 94% of Tokyo women in their twenties own a Vuitton piece.

Now all of a sudden, NOBODY, wants to buy Louis Vuitton. I have heard that this is because of the Great Recession: Japanese don’t want to be seen with flagrant displays of conspicuous consumption. Refer to FT.com, June 2.

So, to “stimulate” demand, Louis Vuitton has created a custom-order “Malle Mars” junk-in-the-trunk cum buttpluggery designed with a trip to Mars in mind.

I can imagine the only possible use for LV’s “Malle Mars” butty-plug is for preventing alien analismprobes, right?

For more info…

TinyArro.ws – Courtesy Preview for http://www.ilvoelv.com/2009/07/louis-vuitton-malle-mars.html

NEW AND IMPROVED!
SCUMBALL SODA NOW WITHOUT BALLS!

This year’s new pink guarana soda on the left features the ball-free character “Mokorin” which is said to be cuter than the tradional “Marimokkori,” the lake scumball character that is based on marimo lake algae balls of Hokkaido Japan.

The Marimokkori character is found in souvenir stores throughout Japan. This green little character is best known for his impish grin and famous bulging balls as the 3Yen reported about in:
–Buddha’s big bulging balls busted,
–Captain Hard-on of Hokkaido, and
–Goodness gracious great green balls of Japanese scum!.

Meet the Mori Girls, A New Japanese Subculture
By Rebecca Milner – Trend Researcher, Tokyo — fashionsnoops.com JUNE 17, 2009… Meet the Mori Girls, a new band of women with a penchant for layers of delicate vintage and DIY fashion. In addition to knitting, journaling, and haunting second hand bookstores, these urban dreamers can be found with their heads in the clouds—or literally in the forest. “Mori” means “forest” in Japanese.
….Just shy of three years later, the Mori Girls community is now over 30,000 strong. If the GothLolis have Harajuku, and the aforementioned Yamamba had Shibuya, then these figurative forest dwellers are colonizing an area of cyberspace with profile pages and blogs devoted to their yarui (loose and relaxed) lifestyle….more…

Although the ‘Forest Girls’ fashion has been gathering momentum for more than three years in Japan, the past couple of weeks the search term “Mori Girl” has massive numbers of hits as Google’s number one, “suddenly rising word,” despite an argument (machine translation) about the contradiction of defining “natural clothes and life.” It is also troublesome that now in Japan’s hellish summer this fashion trend is based on massively layered wools and cottons in a totally covered, burka-like, loose silhouette is going to be popular (machine translation of Nikkeibp.co.jp).

North Korea fires two short-range missiles –July 2 (Bloomberg) .

Nyah, nyah, nyah, missed me!

If you loved “Tokyo Gore Police” or “Machine Girl” you must watch this.

Link idea via a tweet from my friend, “Mulboyne.”

Leave it Japanese officials to inject a bit a humor into a death…

Japan gov’t spokesman retracts Jackson gaffe
abs-cbnnews.com 06/26/09
Japan’s top government spokesman hurried Friday to retract potentially controversial remarks about the late pop icon Michael Jackson, who he said did not appear to be black because of his pale skin. “My knowledge (on Jackson) was very poor, but I didn’t get the impression that he was a black man because his face was all white,” Takeo Kawamura told reporters…more…

Last moonwalk