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  1. "Top 60 popular Japanese words/phrases of 2008."

    "Top 60 popular Japanese words/phrases of 2008."

    Althouse - Nov 19, 2008

    Including "sabupuraimu" -- get it? Another one like that is "Arafo." Then there's "hime-den" -- which is this... ... can you even see what that is? And there's "ea-gei" -- "air performance": This refers to a recent …

    Also tagged: birds, mascots

  2. Beauty secret: nightingale droppings.

    Althouse - Oct 17, 2008

    The Telegraph reports: Shizuka cleaned my face with two cleansers - one clay and the other containing green tea, ground pearls, sake and Mount Fuji water, bottled at the source. Following that, she mixed the …

    Also tagged: birds, grooming, excrement

  3. Monkeys working in a restaurant.

    Althouse - Oct 8, 2008

    "Yatchan and Fukuchan serve customers hot towels and drinks, and are given soya beans as tips." (Video at the link.) blog advertising blog advertising

    Also tagged: labor, monkeys

  4. "Run! It's Gosarah!"

    Althouse - Oct 3, 2008

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    Also tagged: comedy, debate, sarah palin, biden, monsters

  5. "Like Kafka's 'Metamorphosis' in reverse, the giant, hideous beetle that was the GOP has suddenly been reborn as a vigorous youth...."

    Althouse - Sep 9, 2008

    Gary Kamiya riffs on Sarah Palin, calling her a "dominatrix" and saying things like: For the die-hard Republicans who lusted over Palin at the convention, her whip-wielding persona was a turn-on. You could practically …

    Also tagged: movies, sex, sarah palin, insects, kafka, paglia, gary kamiya

  6. "Goodbye, metabolic. Let’s get our checkups together. Go! Go! Go! Goodbye, metabolic. Don’t wait till you get sick. No! No! No!"

    Althouse - Jun 14, 2008

    Fighting metabo in Japan. blog advertising blog advertising

    Also tagged: health, fat

  7. "J. Edgar Hoover is to be found at the far part of the Cub Room with his aide, Clyde Tolson."

    Althouse - May 22, 2008

    Why do people go to nightclubs?... in The Year that Blog Forgot: 1945. But there was still war going on, and here's the way the headlines looked this day in 1945.

    Also tagged: blogging, history, war

  8. Calm.

    Althouse - May 5, 2008

    Also tagged: photography, brooklyn, trees, plants

  9. "Are we to look at cherry blossoms only in full bloom, at the moon only when it is cloudless?"

    Althouse - May 4, 2008

    Wrote Yoshida Kenkô in one of my favorite books "Essays in Idleness." "To long for the moon while looking on the rain, to lower the blinds and be unaware of the passing of the spring—these are even more deeply moving …

    Also tagged: history, photography, philosophy, death, war, flowers, brooklyn, trees, aesthetics, city life, off blog althouse

  10. Waza waza and uja uja.

    Althouse - Apr 21, 2008

    Japanese onomatopoeia is incredibly cool. But if you don't already know, can you figure out which of the 2 words above is supposed to sound like "many small things gathered together and moving, such as a swarm of …

    Also tagged: animals, language

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