A nice new perk to living in my neighborhood – they deliver Cock™ (and Diet Cock™) now…

Sorry, but I don’t think this will make it into the ole “infinity thrush” chain.

In NYC this past weekend, 3FJ and I were stunned by these billboards all over the city. It’s hard to believe nobody at cingular made a remark about a possible association with the twin towers burning, leaving one to wonder what cingular’s motivation for running the ad is. I took a pic of one, but didn’t get it off my camera yet. This is from another blog.

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Here’s another helpful diagram. File this one away, for those unexpected encounters.

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I’m not saying the Japanese are uptight, but when I came upon this diagram in my study of the language, my brain just started turning to mush. No, it’s more a comment on the textbook which I’m studying. You have to see the whole chapter to appreciate the enormous collection of diagrams, which supposedly “explain” Japanese social hierarchy, in relation to verb usage. Just try to follow this one, for a taste. Yeah, you can do it, but did you really learn anything?

The earliest animation. Phenakistoscopes, thaumatropes, zoetropes, and more.

Sold seperately.

A collection of Japanese pharmaceutical advertisements from 1956 to the present. The picture above is part of an ad for Atarax-P