Archives for December, 2006
Clan Durfee plots world domination
Or something . . . I’m not sure what they’re doing, sitting around the Christmas table and drinking champagne and poring over secret code books. I hope that’s what they are. Would be boring for them to end up yet another game to play at family get-togethers.
On the subject of those, we’re heading downtown to Yotsuya this evening to have our own on this side fo the Pacific. Stay up late, watch some idiotic television programming, maybe go to the local shrine after midnight. There will be plenty of food to plow through, as there usually is when you go to a dinner event prepared by the Enchante crew.
Happy 2007 to everyone (anyone? Bueller?) who takes a look at this blog from time to time. In the new year I’ll try to do more with this place. I swear! I will need to get active and share pics of the little one on the way.
Ninja holiday wishes


Make your own over here.
Japanese ads
Over at Japan Probe, a solid blog I recently found and stuck in my list of feeds, there’s a post giving out awards to Japanese commercials. Lots of these make for amusing watching.
There used to be a website (“the hall of shame”? forgot its name) that featured foreign celebrities’ appearances in Japanese ads—Sylvester Stallone selling ham, Charlie Sheen tied up on a sofa as a woman walks by in high heels. I think that was for some clothing brand. Can’t find that site now, but YouTube seems to be a place to go get those goodies these days. And one nice thing about watching ads online is that while TV program creators get upset when you view their stuff for free, without sitting through the ads that fund it, the creators of the ads themselves are quite happy to let you watch them over and over, in whatever medium you please.
So. Foreigners are still wandering over here and appearing in commercials for products they will never actually use in real life. Tommy Lee Jones drinking Boss canned coffee, Kiefer Sutherland shouting to the Japanese guy that YES YOU CAN EAT MY LAST PIECE OF CALORIE MATE NOW SHUT UP I AM DEFUSING THIS BOMB. Those are both available on the Japan Probe page linked above. Go check them out.
Durfee Theatre, Fall River MA
Kind of a cool photo, for obvious reasons.

