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» Books
A Mouse and His Child
When I was little, the Disney Channel would show a variety of animated films that weren't from its parent company (that's where I saw Nausicaa for the first time and didn't realize til decades later--the color-changing Ohms gave me nightmares for years!) One of the films I saw was a Sanrio-produced film called "The Mouse and His Child", a strange, often dark but touching story about a mouse father and son wind-up toy that are plucked from the safety of the little toy shop they inhabit and expelled into the dangerous wide world outside.
I found out years later that it was based on a children's novel by Russell Hoban, the author of the Frances the Badger series and apparently also Emmet Otter's Jugband Christmas. It was out of print for years, and when it was finally republished in 2001, I rushed out to buy it. Murder, robbery, deceit, philosophy, pathos, "science", adventure and the desire to become self-sufficient makes "The Mouse and His Child" one of my favorite stories.
(Sun 8th Jan 2012, 17:42, More)
A Mouse and His Child
When I was little, the Disney Channel would show a variety of animated films that weren't from its parent company (that's where I saw Nausicaa for the first time and didn't realize til decades later--the color-changing Ohms gave me nightmares for years!) One of the films I saw was a Sanrio-produced film called "The Mouse and His Child", a strange, often dark but touching story about a mouse father and son wind-up toy that are plucked from the safety of the little toy shop they inhabit and expelled into the dangerous wide world outside.
I found out years later that it was based on a children's novel by Russell Hoban, the author of the Frances the Badger series and apparently also Emmet Otter's Jugband Christmas. It was out of print for years, and when it was finally republished in 2001, I rushed out to buy it. Murder, robbery, deceit, philosophy, pathos, "science", adventure and the desire to become self-sufficient makes "The Mouse and His Child" one of my favorite stories.
(Sun 8th Jan 2012, 17:42, More)
» The Best / Worst thing I've ever eaten
Chocolate-covered dried shredded squid
Is one of the worst things I've ever eaten in Japan.
Shredded, dried squid is pretty good snack food, it's like a yummy, fishy teriyaki jerky. And while chocolate-covered bacon = heaven, giving dried squid the same treatment yields much stranger results.
If you're currently over there and curious, Japan has a chain of stores called Village Vanguard which carries this odd confection in various chocolate-covered flavors, including butter-garlic, kimchi, and hot curry.
Tastes (and smells) better than natto, at least.
(Mon 30th May 2011, 21:14, More)
Chocolate-covered dried shredded squid
Is one of the worst things I've ever eaten in Japan.
Shredded, dried squid is pretty good snack food, it's like a yummy, fishy teriyaki jerky. And while chocolate-covered bacon = heaven, giving dried squid the same treatment yields much stranger results.
If you're currently over there and curious, Japan has a chain of stores called Village Vanguard which carries this odd confection in various chocolate-covered flavors, including butter-garlic, kimchi, and hot curry.
Tastes (and smells) better than natto, at least.
(Mon 30th May 2011, 21:14, More)
» Good Advice
Dad always said...
"Hurry up and wait." Taught me to be more punctual if anything.
And his favorite catchphrase around the house is:
"I do what I'm told, unless I don't want to." Which I think is good advice in any case!
And of course there's "The uninformed telling the unwilling to do the unnecessary," though it's really more social commentary on our family events than advice...
(Tue 25th May 2010, 12:44, More)
Dad always said...
"Hurry up and wait." Taught me to be more punctual if anything.
And his favorite catchphrase around the house is:
"I do what I'm told, unless I don't want to." Which I think is good advice in any case!
And of course there's "The uninformed telling the unwilling to do the unnecessary," though it's really more social commentary on our family events than advice...
(Tue 25th May 2010, 12:44, More)