weird japan
Weird Japan (renting "friends"; starting a "smell club"; paying $104k for a tuna)
Evidently, you can rent almost anything you need in Japan, even face time with "professional pets" at cafes (dogs and cats, of course, but also a rabbit, a ferret, or a beetle). Or you can rent face time with a hot college co-ed (no sex, just an effervescent young thing acting interested). Or you can rent people to play your relatives at weddings and funerals, even expertly pretending to recall your favorite moments growing up. Or single mothers can rent dad to help with the kids. And more. BBC News
A Smell Club website (no English version yet) is a gathering place for "smellists" who submit what to them are distinct aromas of such and such (like "old sneakers after a three-hour workout"). You can't get the actual smell by Internet (yet!), but the idea is to have a database of everything that smells different than anything else. The Guardian
Two restaurants in Japan each bought half a bluefin tuna at auction for the equivalent of $104k. A high-end joint cuts its half into larger slivers, for which it charges about $22 each, and a popular dive cuts its half into 3,000 tinier ones, for about half that price. Buried Lede: People in Japan will pay $22 for a bite of fish. Wall Street Journal
Evidently, you can rent almost anything you need in Japan, even face time with "professional pets" at cafes (dogs and cats, of course, but also a rabbit, a ferret, or a beetle). Or you can rent face time with a hot college co-ed (no sex, just an effervescent young thing acting interested). Or you can rent people to play your relatives at weddings and funerals, even expertly pretending to recall your favorite moments growing up. Or single mothers can rent dad to help with the kids. And more. BBC News
A Smell Club website (no English version yet) is a gathering place for "smellists" who submit what to them are distinct aromas of such and such (like "old sneakers after a three-hour workout"). You can't get the actual smell by Internet (yet!), but the idea is to have a database of everything that smells different than anything else. The Guardian
Two restaurants in Japan each bought half a bluefin tuna at auction for the equivalent of $104k. A high-end joint cuts its half into larger slivers, for which it charges about $22 each, and a popular dive cuts its half into 3,000 tinier ones, for about half that price. Buried Lede: People in Japan will pay $22 for a bite of fish. Wall Street Journal
Comments
I don't know why but this reminds me of "The Lonely Guy" with Steve Martin. He buys cardboard cutouts of people to help fill up a room for a party. Also, at one point, he pretends to be a jogger and uses sweat in a can to make it seem like he's been jogging. Great movie!
Posted by Madd Maxx on 01/13/09 at 10:15 AM
Charlie Tuna is coming up in the world!
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 01/13/09 at 11:01 AM
Come to think about it, Chuck, bury this item. If StarKist ever gets wind of this us po'folk will never get to eat another tuna fish sandwich. The the pickle relish company will go out of business, bakeries will close their doors, and the US tax payer will have to foot the bill for the $100B bailout required to keep America in debt!
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 01/13/09 at 11:03 AM
Nice work outeast. (Hope it didn't keep you up all night though?)
I love the 'fartsnapping poppycock' comment.
I love the 'fartsnapping poppycock' comment.
Posted by Madd Maxx on 01/14/09 at 07:25 AM
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