May 18, 2003
Those Wacky Japanese!
From the Nicholas Kristof school of reportage on Japan comes some pictures from my friend Jane, who swiped them from engrish.com:
Yes, there's the not just faint whiff of racism about it. But it's funny. And I'd bet that "auto rock" photo will make it onto the cover of a Sebadoh album one day, if not some other oh-so-ironic indie band. Maybe some Stephen Malkmus album. Yeah, that's it.
On the site there's also a photo of a woman wearing a T-shirt that says "Spread Beaver." I thought that was funny for some reason.
("Spread Beaver" -- good lord. Google is indexing this practically as I write. This reminds me of the time when I checked my "link to" pages and found that someone reached my site by typing "filipino+boys+fucking" in Google. Who are these people?? Bet they were disappointed, though.)
Posted by the wily filipino at May 18, 2003 07:52 PM