We interrupt my attempts to succeed at NaNoWriMo for the second year in a row to bring you a public service announcement…

Radicalpatriot’s recent blog postings on wanting to see Morning Musume and Hello! Project on United States soil resonated with rather loud familiarity. Last year around this time, I wrote a piece where I, at length, argued for the case of bringing MoMusu and H!P to America. Unfortunately, that article, which was posted on MotokoAoyama.com v1.0 and on a slightly modified form at Ikimasshoi! during my all-too-brief tenure there, no longer exists (Ikimasshoi! did another remodeling job and bounced every non-news poster in December of 2006, not long after I posted the article there; Loyal readers of this blog already know what an arrogant hair-metal drummer and sometime web service owner did to MotokoAoyama.com v1.0, while a link to that horror story lies elsewhere on this blog for you newcomers). My belief that Morning Musume and Hello! Project would make a considerable positive impression on mainstream America still does exist.

Let’s step away from the trees and look at the whole forest, shall we?
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reina_t_1111: Good morning, Ceej. Thank you for the birthday tribute
minimoniotaku: Hi Reina ZZZZZZZZZ
reina_t_1111: Did you pull another all-nighter again with your novel?
minimoniotaku: I wish I had. I’m behind on the word count. Went to bed early but some assholes next door were throwing a party until all hours of the night.
reina_t_1111: Oh good grief.
minimoniotaku: A half-dozen cop cars show up, then about quarter to two a cop flashes a flashlight in my front window and rings my doorbell looking for I don’t know what…
reina_t_1111: That sucks. Well, it’s a new week. You’ll be caught up on your novel before you know it.
minimoniotaku: Yeah, that’s true.
reina_t_1111: So, all of the worship posts are going to be at SoHotSheShitsFire.com from now on?
minimoniotaku: Yep. I’ll be back to more prose-oriented stuff inbetween novel writing sessions.
boss_takitty: Good, maybe he can get that goddamn “Mikan” review finished!
minimoniotaku: Aw Christ.
reina_t_1111: Aw Christ.
kohar_pinku: And the “Chance!” review!
minimoniotaku: Another prefecture heard from!
mikitty_2007: Did you ever finish that review of the GAM album?
minimoniotaku: Lost with all of MotokoAoyama.com v1.0
mikitty_2007: That’s lamer than a Warrant reunion.
boss_takitty: That’s lamer than Warrant, period!
reina_t_1111: Death to hair metal!
ayaya_gam: Have you even LISTENED to my new solo album yet?
johnson_iida: Betcha it’s sitting on his iPod waiting.
gocchan_was_here: Along with how many other albums?
reina_t_1111: Hey, guys, cut Ceej some slack, he’s been trying to finish a novel!
nacchi_og-momusu: He’s been doing that since LAST NaNoWriMo!
reina_t_1111: OK, two novels…
minimoniotaku: The first one’s on hold.
ayaya_gam Aw hell that’s right
minimoniotaku: Shit, I gotta hit the shower and get to work. Later, ladies…
reina_t_1111: OK take care hun
kohar_pinku: ttfn
ayaya_gam: c-ya
mikitty_2007: Don’t do anything I wouldn’t do!
johnson_iida: Is that a case of ‘do as I say, not as I do?’
gocchan_was_here: LOL
minimoniotaku: I’ll have my Mikan piece up later tonight, I promise. Bye.
minimoniotaku has logged off
aibon_nyc: Hello? Does anybody realize that I’m in America now?

Her Royal Hotness, The Wonkylicious Sex Bomb, the woman my girlfriend is probably the most jealous of, and most of all my favorite MoMusu, Reina Tanaka, is finally legal!

As seems to be a tradition amongst H!P fans, I have to offer a piece of cake (vicariously) to my favorite idol… in this case, a piece of cheesecake:

But now, here’s something that you DIDN’T see coming…

reina_t_1111: Good morning, old man
minimoniotaku: What’s so good about it?
reina_t_1111: The caffeine hasn’t kicked in yet, huh?
minimoniotaku: Just had to pour a third cup.
reina_t_1111: I’ll take that as a yes.
minimoniotaku: What’s up, Wonkylicious?
reina_t_1111: I’ll be blunt – what do you think of “Mikan”?
minimoniotaku: I haven’t heard it yet.
reina_t_1111: You WHAT?
reina_t_1111: Don’t tell me you’re going to wait until you get the single in the mail on Thanksgiving Eve!
reina_t_1111: Presuming that CDJapan will ship it to you on the Monday beforehand, of course.
minimoniotaku: Perhaps.
reina_t_1111: The video’s all over YouTube, no surprise. There’s even a subtitled version out already. Here, look: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C6kgOlns9g
minimoniotaku: OK, Wonkylicious, I’ll check it out later and get something posted tonight.
reina_t_1111: You know your homegirl Vee has screencaps up at Pink Wota, right?
minimoniotaku: Yeah, those I saw. I posted the link to the article over at IW, remember?
reina_t_1111: Oh, that’s right, I saw that yesterday. Then again, that’s how I saw Vee’s piece in the first place.
reina_t_1111: Speaking of writing, how’s the new novel coming?
minimoniotaku: Over 15,000 words already and I should have 20,000 by Monday morning.
reina_t_1111: Fantastic. I can’t wait to read it.
minimoniotaku: I can’t wait to get this one AND Play It All Night Long finished!
kohar_pinku: Hey there, fuckfaces! Hey there, fuckfaces!
reina_t_1111: Oh, that’s what happened to my copy of Hex Enduction Hour! Koharu, you little thief!
minimoniotaku: Miss Kusumi, watch your fuckin’ language.
kohar_pinku: Shit, I’m sorry, Marsicano-sempai.
reina_t_1111: Hey, Koharu, what brings you to IM right now?
kohar_pinku: I wanted to ask CJ what he thought of my new solo single now that he’s downloaded it off US iTunes.
minimoniotaku: *headdesk*
reina_t_1111: Well, it has been mostly worship posts of me on his blog for the past month, save for when The Ruts’s guitarist died…

reina_t_1111: Hey schmuck.
minimoniotaku: Hey yourself, Wonkylicious. What’s on your mind?
reina_t_1111: Are you still trying to bust my ovaries over playing the Spice Girls on Five Stars Wednesday the other day?
minimoniotaku: What makes you say that?
reina_t_1111: I had a peek at your advance posts, the title of the 11.9.07 post was a dead giveaway
minimoniotaku: Well, I couldn’t use “Red Is The Colour Of My Favorite MoMusu” twice in the same week, now could I?
reina_t_1111: No, but this is the third worship post in a row that you’ve done of me where I’m wearing something red.
minimoniotaku: I didn’t even realize that until you pointed it out. The caffeine hasn’t kicked in yet this morning.
reina_t_1111: One of these days you’re going to have one cup of coffee too many and you’ll turn into Henry Rollins.
minimoniotaku: I’ve been trying to do that for about fifteen years now.
reina_t_1111: I rest my case.

“Hey, Koharu, big news: Your new solo single is available on US iTunes!”

When you’re at over 10,000 words after only five days (at the time this post was composed) on your second NaNoWriMo project, it’s a little hard to come up with funny captions for pictures of your favorite MoMusu, especially when you do these in advance at 8:30 in the morning on a day when the caffeine hasn’t kicked in…

reina_t_1111: Hey, how’s Pennsylvania’s answer to Haruki Murakami doing with the new novel?
minimoniotaku: The Spice Girls?!?
reina_t_1111: Oh, you heard the show today?
minimoniotaku: The fucking Spice Girls?!?
reina_t_1111: Shaddap, they’re on a reunion tour. I have an excuse.
minimoniotaku: Avril was bad enough.
reina_t_1111: I know, I know, but I can’t pull off mixes that go from my band to Black Flag to King Crimson to Yukidon’s new single and have it all make sense like a certain MoMusu-loving punk rocker I know.
reina_t_1111: At least, not without InterFM’s higher-ups looking at me like I’m out of my fucking mind, anyway
minimoniotaku: This is true.
reina_t_1111: I promise I’ll play some Stooges soon, or at least some solo Iggy. I had to fight with them to get goddamn Paramore on my show. Oi vey!
minimoniotaku: You’ll need to play some TLC to atone for playing the Spice Cunts this week.
reina_t_1111: Yeah, but which one? There’s too many good ones of theirs to choose from out of their singles alone. Don’t even get me started on album cuts.
minimoniotaku: Bless you.
reina_t_1111: You’d better bless me, old man, my b-day is coming soon.

“Um, I’m not going to be of legal drinking age in Japan for another two years yet, and even if I was, I wouldn’t drink anything alcoholic before going onstage… this was a bad idea…”

“This next song Courtney Love stole from Stevie Nicks… we’re stealing it back.”