(urth) Re: urth-urth.net Digest, Vol 10, Issue 1

Maru Dubshinki marudubshinki at gmail.com
Wed Jun 1 17:57:32 PDT 2005


Um-hm.
Was it just me, or did that movie seem disjointed (and cut-off) as hell?  

I mean, truly awesome visuals, especially that street parade left me
astounded, frankly- We're a long way from "Kimba the White Lion", let
me tell you.
But then again, I was watching it on a seat-screen while crossing the
Atlantic, so my experience was probably sub-optimal.

~Maru
/is still waiting for his library to get the obscure books referenced
in the movie.


On 6/1/05, turin <turin at hell.com> wrote:
> 
> anyone seen ghost in the shell ii: innocence?
> 
> EOT;
> 
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>    1. Re:  "There Are Doors" Comes To Japan (Maru Dubshinki)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 21:56:20 -0400
> From: Maru Dubshinki <marudubshinki at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: (urth) "There Are Doors" Comes To Japan
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> ?
> I'm afraid I plumb missed the 'There are doors' connection- I don't
> see how it ties in. Explanation please?
> 
> ~Maru
> 
> On 5/23/05, James Wynn <thewynns at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > Japanese man gets jail time for 'kidnapping' dolls
> >
> > May 23, 6:12 AM (ET)
> >
> > TOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese man has been sentenced to five-and-a-half years
> > in jail for snatching mannequins used by a cake shop chain to tout its
> > wares.
> > "Peko-chan," a round-eyed doll around the size of a six-year-old, has been
> > used by Fujiya Co. Ltd. to sell sweets for five decades and her grinning
> > countenance is a familiar sight in front of shops around Japan.
> >
> > Recently, however, she has become a favorite of collectors, leading to a
> > rash of "Peko-chan" snatchings.
> >
> > Takeishi Shibuya, 31, was convicted of stealing 15 of the large dolls,
> > valued at about 1.1 million yen ($10,170), a court official in Yamagata
> > prefecture, northern Japan, said on Monday.
> >
> > In several cases, Shibuya used pepper spray and spray paint to fend off
> > store employees, leading prosecutors to demand a sentence of nine years in
> > prison.
> >
> > "But he has reflected on his crimes and feels bad about what he did, so the
> > sentence was lighter as a result," the official said.
> >
> > After a wave of "Peko-chan" disappearances last year, the company suggested
> > chaining the dolls down, but customers complained that this would be cruel.
> >
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> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 23:15:28 -0500
> From: "James Wynn" <thewynns at earthlink.net>
> Subject: Re: (urth) "There Are Doors" Comes To Japan
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> Just a general obsession with dolls...treating them like people ala the
> concern that chaining them would be cruel. My first thought when I read the
> article was TAD.
>  (shrug)
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Maru Dubshinki" <marudubshinki at gmail.com>
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> Subject: Re: (urth) "There Are Doors" Comes To Japan
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> 
> ?
> I'm afraid I plumb missed the 'There are doors' connection- I don't
> see how it ties in. Explanation please?
> 
> ~Maru
> 
> On 5/23/05, James Wynn <thewynns at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > Japanese man gets jail time for 'kidnapping' dolls
> >
> > May 23, 6:12 AM (ET)
> >
> > TOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese man has been sentenced to five-and-a-half
> > years
> > in jail for snatching mannequins used by a cake shop chain to tout its
> > wares.
> > "Peko-chan," a round-eyed doll around the size of a six-year-old, has been
> > used by Fujiya Co. Ltd. to sell sweets for five decades and her grinning
> > countenance is a familiar sight in front of shops around Japan.
> >
> > Recently, however, she has become a favorite of collectors, leading to a
> > rash of "Peko-chan" snatchings.
> >
> > Takeishi Shibuya, 31, was convicted of stealing 15 of the large dolls,
> > valued at about 1.1 million yen ($10,170), a court official in Yamagata
> > prefecture, northern Japan, said on Monday.
> >
> > In several cases, Shibuya used pepper spray and spray paint to fend off
> > store employees, leading prosecutors to demand a sentence of nine years in
> > prison.
> >
> > "But he has reflected on his crimes and feels bad about what he did, so
> > the
> > sentence was lighter as a result," the official said.
> >
> > After a wave of "Peko-chan" disappearances last year, the company
> > suggested
> > chaining the dolls down, but customers complained that this would be
> > cruel.
> >
> >
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