September 2006

air

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“bring it on!”

freshly drawn today.

あ～　すっとした♥

colour pencils & paper♥mate ballpoint pen.

“nothing brings me more happiness when someone i love knows my sweet spot.”

that’s what i thought when paul brought me this spam museum brochure as a omiyage (souvenir) from his annual football trip to minneapolis.

i like this sort of present. probably he came across this brochure somewhere and picked it up because he knows i’ll like this sort of thing.

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this brochure for the austin (minnesota) spam museum promises hours of SPAMUSEMENT for the whole family. you can try out spam dishes, put on a lab coat and hairnet to make your own spam, and many other SPAMTASTIC exhibits. the whole brochure is written like that. it’s SPAMAZING! (sorry)

i’m very curious what’s in spam, exactly. i’ve never eaten it, or even opened a can. but everytime i walk down the spam aisle there’s a strong urge growing inside me to reach out and buy a can. but i can’t. i can eat a can of tuna, but a can of pork? that’s a whole new world, my friend. the catchy design always brings back the strong urge to just buy one and get it over with. my curiosity continues.

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besides this new addition to my spam collection, i also own a mini spam cookbook. i found it at a indigo bookstore in kingston. there were bunch of them scattered in a sales wagon AS IF no one would want them.

this “spam the cookbook” is a SPAMALGAMATION of recipes: spam casserole, spam macaroni & cheese, spam clam chowder and spamusubi (sushi). basically just by adding a can of spam, an ordinary dish turns into (bam!) a spam dish! how magical. can you feel the power of spam?

well, someday when i finally have the guts to buy one and actually open it, at least i know what to do with it. i’ll make spam-takoyaki!

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freshly drawn…over the weekend and finished this afternoon.

the girl on the left has three mouths. that’s because i drew the middle mouth first and didn’t like it. but it was too late to erase it. so i added the top one next. the third one… i got carried away :D

it’s been decided to use a new calendar for the world.

january has 28 days.

february has 37 days.

march has 9 days.

april has 205 days.

there’s no may.

june lasts 2 hours.

except in the US, july has 3 days.

there’s no august.

nor september.

nor october.

nor november.

december has 5 days.

there’s no (the 13th month).

(the 27th month) has 7343295687 days, four hours, nine minutes and six seconds.

(the world’s longest one-day-per-page calendar)

by rahmens

also learn about japanese tradition:how to eat sushi. (true story)

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…was an owl.

it’s an owl photo on a paper holder. it looked awfully wrong, but good that i had to have it. the holder had a magnet on the back so it was on my fridge door for awhile. what on earth the eerie owl is on a paper holder is a mystery.