Nuclear Poop

Say what you will, the Japanese explain nuclear accidents better than any other culture on the planet:

Nuclear Boy うんち・おならで
例える原発解説

Nuclear Boy unchi - onara de tatoeru genpatsu kaisetsu
Nuclear Boy's poop - a commentary of farts likened to nuclear power


The really disturbing part is when they talk about Chernobyl and banjos start to play. Then the understatement: "Yes, it was quite an incident." Don't we always have a banjo soundtrack in our minds when we recall nuclear accidents?

Tsunami Inu

津波犬   Tsunami inu, tsunami dog (lit. "harbor wave dog")

"There is another dog right next to the one sitting down. He is not moving. I wonder.... I wonder if he is alright. The dog is protecting him. Yes. He is protecting the dog. That is why he did not want us to approach them. He was trying to keep us at bay. I can't watch this. This is very difficult to watch. Oh. Look. He is moving. He is alive."

After the video was shot, the dogs were both taken into care of the local animal shelter.

Vietnamese Dog Tree

I dreamed that Vietnamese people tied tiny toy dogs, or puppies, to the branches of small ash trees. They considered them to be holiday decorations, much like Christmas tree trimmings. But the little dogs kept slipping off the branches and had to scramble back up on their unnatural perches, lest they hang. The Vietnamese thought this was cute, but I felt very badly for the dogs. It felt similar to the tenuous struggle of my present financial and career situation.