My interest in Japanese toys has very little to do with actually playing with them.
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March 25th, 2013 by Corey A. Edwards
When I was your age the TV went:
“Raaaaaaatch! Ka-tchk-tchk-tchk-tchk!”
March 18th, 2013 by Corey A. Edwards
I recently saw a t-shirt (online, of course) that read: “When I was your age the internet went “Skawee Reweert!” I laughed out loud … and still find it odd that I must clarify that by adding: no, really.
But I can go one better: when I was your age the TV went “Raaaaaaatch! Ka-tchk-tchk-tchk-tchk!”
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Ghosts of Blogging Past
March 12th, 2013 by Corey A. Edwards
I’m sitting on the deck, having my nightcap and checking out the e-verse via my schmaht phone, when an email comes in from a friend: “Hey Corey, I think your blog got hacked.”
Before I can bring my site up to see what they’re talking about, I get a chat from another friend: “Has your blog been hacked?”
Oh, crap.
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Looking a gif horse in the …
March 11th, 2013 by Corey A. Edwards
Continuing the theme of a previous post, in late 2005/2006 I began to play with myself … in Photoshop using animated gifs. I used obscure Japanese toys and my own face as subjects most of the time because very little else in the world around me was as outlandish or as willing to be made to look so.
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Strange Toys I Have Known:
Sole of Godzilla’s Gang
March 4th, 2013 by Corey A. Edwards
A while back I brought Nokogirin and Godzilla’s Gang to your collective attention. What I didn’t mention is that Nokogirin was not the only of the series I’d managed to round up. Minus the eponymous member, I have managed to “collect them all!”™
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