February 4, 2010
Neko Funjatta
The name of this delightful toy is taken from an old kids’ tune, and the Japanese title means, roughly, “I stepped on the cat.” There are all kinds of versions of the song on YouTube, some exceedingly cute, including cartoons! If you just wanna learn how to sing the song and don’t care about aesthetics, try this one. That melody is maddening! No wonder Japanese kids grow up to be insane adults who make a livelihood from manufacturing disturbing novelties.
Anyway, I’m glad my kitty stays indoors. Children can be very cruel.
Photo c/o Bali Hai’s Eye of the Goof.
Rick at 3:44 am
January 28, 2010
Oh Boy and How
“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
“In general, people experience their present naively, as it were, without being able to form an estimate of its contents; they have first to put themselves at a distance from it – the present, that is to say, must have become the past – before it can yield points of vantage from which to judge the future.”
- Sigmund Freud
“Life is a dead-end street.”
- H.L. Mencken
Charlie Spand & Blind Blake – “Hastings Street”
(In addition, a fine article about Blind Blake.)
Rick at 2:40 pm
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