Addendum: Senator Unicorn is TM SanFranLefty. NEVER FORGET.

Years ago, on a visit to an English coastal town, we had dinner at the “Kennedy Palace Hotel”. Part of the offbeat charm of the dining room was a giant wall painting of Our Beloved President, sitting at his Oval Office desk, pen in hand. Alas, near as I could tell, his eyes didn’t move.

Ah yes, the quaint hamlet of Iwaki, which would still be living under a tyranny had it not been for Operation Iwaki Freedom. Bush’s foresight knows no bounds.

@Be.Right.Back: Oh, I think we can move on and drop the (TM-SFL) to (TM) around here. My concern over the TM was related more to the new chick on Brand W who is left to deal with the frat boy/Paultard crowd stealing my nickname for Barry w/o proper acknowledgment.

Props on the Waits reference, but I now can’t get “Lost In Translation” out of my head.

“Lip them? LIP them?”

Barry is holding out for the crucial Godzilla and Mothra endorsements.

Be.Right.Back: Excellent work, comrade. I love Hello Kitty almost as much as I love Sen Unicorn (TM). I try to pass off my Kitty accessories as “ironic”, which sadly could come to describe my Obama-love as well.
hotsauce: You win the coveted “coffee-spew” award.

In my only visit to Japan, my family toured by train and on the way to Hiroshima, we made a stop to the Japanese city of Usa (pronounced Yousa). Allegedly when anti-Japanese sentiment was high in the 1920/30s, many Japanese products were labeled MADE IN Usa. Apparently it worked.

And I’m surprised no one said it so I will. Sen Herro Kitty. Well, there I’ve said it but I’m being ironic and all that shit.

@manchu: Thank god for pictures at bento stands, or I would have starved during my visit.

“President Hello Kitty.” It works. I can roll with that. Even if it costs an extra syllable over “President Unicorn”.

As Barry gets marketed in Japan a la the “Hello Kitty” franchise, the mind boggles at some of the product possibilities we may soon be able to purchase. I am thinking, of course, of the wildly popular Hello Kitty Black Rocket Dildo - “NOT a knockoff VERSION sold in most stores and internet sites. Don’t be fooled by Cheap Imitations or products claiming to be the same. They are made with sub-par materials!”

Can the Barack Obama version be far behind?

It’ll have to come in a larger size, of course.

mw: Meh. ALL exports from Nippon are miniatures.

@Pedonator - Mrs. Clinton, however, is desperately trying to pry loose the Mothra chicks (the little tiny ones who sing the Mothra song, called shobijin) and is also going for the King Gidorah endorsement. As a superdelegate (has has three fucking heads that spit lightning) his/their vote(s) is/are more heavily weighted than a rank and file kaiju’s would be. Mechagodzilla, a true machine politician if there ever was one, has not yet indicated a preference.

In a strategic counter move, the O is guesting in a special episode of “Naruto” tentatively called “Power of the Unicorn.” The Naruto episode, to be available over the internet in Japanese by the end of the month, is expected to gain support among the highly coveted 10-14 male otaku demographic. An English language version will be broadcast by The Cartoon Network in the Fall of 2010. Talks over a similar effort in the “Avatar” anime collaped due to confusion over which of two competing projects would proceed to production.

Also, an early draft of the forthcoming “Iron Man” movie featuring the armored superhero featured a Democratic President named “Barry Hussein”. The character’s name was later changed to a GOP head of state named “Rick Dickman” to make more plausible the Administration’s ties to Iron Man alter ego complex military industrialist and alcoholic Tony Stark.

@nojo,

Yeah, I miss the bento too—I found the railway stations always had the best stuff. Too bad there’s no NA equivalent.

@redmanlaw: I don’t know whether to be impressed or frightened.

@ redmanlaw: Awe. Some.

@redman: I am awestruck by your geek-cred. Some of those references went way over my head, but I do understand that “shobijin” is Japanese for “cankle-biters”.

@redmanlaw: Gawd, I miss MST3K.

Rodan is not getting any love here. He could take Mothra any time.

Uhhh, which one looks like a turtle again?

@FC: Keep circulating the tapes.

@flippin: I was a student at UW-Madison when Jim Mallon (producer of MST3K), as Student Association President, delivered this gem to his minions.

@Fresh Cliches. I LOVE that story. I went to college in Wisconsin (fairly close to Madison) and nothing about that surprises me.

@flippin: I’m missing the turtle, too. Godzooky must die, however.

@Jason Cox: If it’s Whitewater…..Jeebus, I live 10 minutes from there….

BRB…..This was charming. Bravo!

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Wait — Barry is fucking will.i.am? I guess I figured he’d be a top, but I had no idea he’d go this far to pander to teh gayz.

@redmanlaw : WOW.

Japan has a beach? Who knew?

@LLD: I told my son about that post and he said “you’re retarded, Dad” and he went back to watching a subtitled episode of Naruto in Japanese on the net.

Little Boy in Shorts: Gamara is a good turtle! He’s just misunderstood!

Gamara: GARRAAHHHH!!! ::destroys Tokyo::

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