Into the Void

And others the [pe] it is dense the cat cat
Hungry Cats

“Harapeko Neko Neko” (“Hungry Cats”) is a Japanese stop-action animation in which two cats are trying to tell their rather dim-witted owner what they want for dinner. They are rather strange cats, as tall as their owner, with expressionless faces and and zippers in the back. The overall impression I get from my limited exposure to Japanimation is that the Japanese conceptualize animals as being little people in fursuits.

Even funnier than the video is the geeky deconstruction on a NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) TV show “Digital Stadium.”

Engrish translation by Yahoo Babelfish.

The person of motif and this movie, cat the feeling which has been made foolish going hand in hand (in good sense,) the [te] it was good. When you look at the collapse of last set, when “the lie where entertainment and the movie were after all made” is, the thought [wa] it is done keenly, (you think too much kana? ). You think two writers thinks that the head and sense are good, that and, also degree of completion of the work itself is high. We want becoming “the Cohen sibling” of the doll animation boundary.

Although expression of the cat does not change, the feeling which is gotten angry having come out enormously, it was even the excessively funny work. Also song is good!

While the cat, is a little larger than the human which to do, the bull bull the place where it approaches in the uncle does not accumulate!!

It can enjoy everyone, “the [u] of everyone it is” PV of the wind. The song which has the agitation just a little to be lovely weirdness the humorous place. Betraying development expectation in [ii] sense, it was funny.

See more incomprehensible videos at NHK “Digital Stadium.”

Thanks to kittehboi.

To my friends of the Canadian persuasion, here’s a list of Well Known Canadians to help you celebrate Canada Day.

And a nice video of the flag.

An oldie but goodie that will probably date me.

Roadrunner, Roadrunner,
Going faster miles an hour.
Gonna drive past the Stop-N-Shop
With the radio on!

This rather chilling video demonstrates through video clips and interviews that children’s programming can have a profound effect on them, from predisposing them to subliminal messages to changing their entire worldview. The depth of dark manipulation by Disney is a definite must-see for parents and professionals alike.

If you haven’t read Kay Redfield Jamison’s “Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament” run out and get a copy. She is a psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins and is bipolar herself.

“I believe that curiosity, wonder and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers; that restlessness and discontent are vital things; and that intense experience and suffering instruct us in ways that less intense emotions can never do. I believe, in short, that we are equally beholden to heart and mind, and that those who have particularly passionate temperaments and questioning minds leave the world a different place for their having been there. It is important to value intellect and discipline, of course, but it is also important to recognize the power of irrationality, enthusiasm and vast energy. Intensity has its costs, of course — in pain, in hastily and poorly reckoned plans, in impetuousness — but it has its advantages as well.”
Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison, Author and Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Johns Hopkins University
in “The Benefits of Restlessness and Jagged Edges”
NPR Morning Edition, June 6, 2005

There is a video of a speech she did about Exhuberance on YouTube that was quite inspiring. She wrote a great book about the love of life called Exuberance: The Passion for Life
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Happy Holidays!

Yah, this should have gone out in September. I’m printing it now because it is sweet.

*Warning: This will be offensive to the Politically Correct, fans of Fox News, white trash, and female porn stars. Just letting you all know.*

Heather Mallick’s Official Website – A Mighty Wind blows through Republican Convention

Ms. Mallick describes Sarah as having “a sturdy body, clothes that are clinging yet boxy and a voice that could peel the plastic seal off your new microwave.” And that’s the nicest thing she had to say about her.

Plus, Fox News hates Ms. Mallick. I can’t think of a better endorsement.

There’s a video on YouTube of a harpy from Fox News – whose name completely eludes me – attempting to castrate David Warren of the Ottawa Citizen. It really was quite pitiful. She was full of rage and venom at the CBC for allowing Ms. Mallick’s article to stay up on their site. To his credit Mr. Warren quietly explained to her that up in Canada they still have freedom of the press. And that everybody *knows* McCain picked up Palin to get white tr… errrr… the populist vote.

Letter to a Brit friend.

Are you interested in history and culture? Did you know that in the US we spell things like theater instead of theatre and color instead of colour because 19th century teacher and journalist Noah Webster wanted to create an American identity? He wrote a dictionary with his own spellings and pronunciations. Pretty silly if you ask me.

The US hasn’t really been a great place to live in many years. The switch from a manufacturing economy in the ’70s and ’80s to a service economy was a disaster.

There’s a rock song by Bob Seger called “Making Thunderbirds” that sums it up. Mind you, by the time I was in high school we were having gas crises. Gas guzzlers were a wasteful thing of the past. How the hell did SUVs get so popular? Did people really forget or is this some sick societal denial?

Makin’ Thunderbirds
Words and music by Bob Seger.
The big line moved one mile an hour
So loud it really hurt
The big line moved so loud
It really hurt
Back in ’55
We were makin’ Thunderbirds

We filled conveyors
We met production
Foremen didn’t waste words
We met production
Foremen didn’t waste words
We were young and proud
We were makin’ Thunderbirds

We were makin’ Thunderbirds
We were makin’ Thunderbirds
They were long and low and sleek and fast
They were all you ever heard
Back in ’55
We were makin’ Thunderbirds

Now the years have flown and the plants have changed
And you’re lucky if you work
The big line moves but you’re lucky if you work
Back in ’55
We were makin’ Thunderbirds

We were makin’ Thunderbirds
We were makin’ Thunderbirds
They were long and low and sleek and fast
They were classic in a word
Back in ’55
We were makin’ Thunderbirds
We were young and proud
We were makin’ Thunderbirds
We were young and sure
We were makin’ Thunderbirds

A free market economy doesn’t work because capitalism works to enrich itself, not to bring the American Dream to its workers. Trickle-down economics is the theory that if you give money to big corporations, that they will share the prosperity with their workers. In practice, this has worked to create a huge gap where there used to be a middle class.

The American Dream means getting lots of possessions. Start with a house. The powers-that-be wanted so desperately to keep the American Dream alive that they loosened requirements to buy a house. People bought, thinking that their salaries would increase. Salaries have been stagnant, there have been mass foreclosures, investors started pulling out of the U.S.. You know the rest. If there’s a worldwide recession, it is totally because of stupid foreign policy on the part of our government.

Oh, sorry about Bush. How can 59 million people be so damn stupid?

Don’t get me started on the ugly fact that the American Dream is financed by foreign investors, not by our employers. We are a black hole that sucks in products from around the world. Cash, dollar bills, are essentially an I.O.U. from the Federal Reserve Bank, a symbol of the Fed’s huge debt. They have no intrinsic value, so when international trust in the U.S. is broken, dollars suddenly aren’t so popular. Heh, don’t get me started.

It’s complicated. I could go on for hours. Are you bored? When I was a kid, engineers were quite prosperous. My husband and I are *both* engineers, but we can’t afford the kind of house I grew up in. That’s how much it has changed.

The guys who write the news are in the upper class. The lower class is invisible to them. Insignificant. Our best newspaper, the New York Times, is a bastion of the status quo.

“My morals got me on my knees…”

Yes indeed, morals must be a terrible thing. I wouldn’t know.

>:-)

Caught this song on an SNL rerun last night and looked for it on Youtube Mobile. Went searching for an rstp streaming video player for my Samsung Blackjack and wound up surfing the web for hours, finally quitting after running an internet speed test that says my phone is faster than DSL. Gotta love ADHD.

IE doesn’t seem to know what to do with the YouTube mobile video either. What, don’t I have Real installed???? Ok, installed Real and it seems I need a 3gp plugin. Actually what I need is a phone that supports streaming media.

Anyway, the song is hot. I may have to buy the CD.