2012-03-22, 16:40 | Link #2301 |
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Japanese America: From All-American Girl to the Femme Fatale
In my The Japanese Diaspora, Part 2 post, I have added more info and videos on two sexy, attractive, part Japanese women in American entertainment, actress Chrishell Stause and singer/dancer/actress Jessica Sutta, formerly of the Pussycat Dolls.
The couple of additional videos featuring the Missouri-born and Kentucky-bred Chrishell Stause in that post, project the image of the wholesome All-American girl. On the other hand, the couple of music videos by Jessica Sutta in that post portray the bad girl, the nasty b**** ("I wanna be the b****!"), and the femme fatale.
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2012-03-25, 18:54 | Link #2303 | |
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2012-03-25, 19:42 | Link #2306 |
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Back in the days when I was reading the James Bond novels, some of Fleming's female characters were often described as "Eurasian." It sounded exotic and sexy even if, at fourteen, I wasn't entirely sure what such a woman might look like. Now that I'm older and know what they look like, exotic and sexy still seems right.
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2012-03-26, 00:58 | Link #2308 | |
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Former Playboy Centerfold Teri Harrison: "Sushi and bratwurst — that’s my life!”
Since my lost post, I have added a number of more part-Japanese entertainers and celebrities to my The Japanese Diaspora, Part 2 post, which started with the beautiful Bárbara Mori and incuding one of old-time favorites, the sexy Teri Harrison.
What I like about most all of the part-Japanese women I discussed in that post is that their beauty is natural, especially their facial beauty. They may dye or bleach their and use makeup on their face, but they not do cosmetic and plastic surgery on their face, which is all too common in Hollywood and endemic in East Asia (China, Taiwan, Japan, and especially South Korea). On Japan's 2-Channel (2ch) forums, I have seen posted before and after pictures of a number of Japanese entertainers and celebrities, including some voice actresses, who have undergone cosmetic and plastic surgery on their face. You can tell Chrishell Stause and Teri Harrison's facial beauty is natural because they are more than willing to show pictures of themselves when they were young and they look the same, maybe just less dolled up. I have seen photos of Bárbara Mori without makeup and she still looks hot. Mori was accidentally discovered while working as a waitress in a restaurant in Mexico City at the age of 17 by an agent from a modeling agency. And, believe it or not, Mori has freckles, which she has talked about and I have seen in some photos. These women still use makeup, they still do their hair (including bleaching and dyeing it), and they still do other things to make themselves more attractive on and off screen. Heck, even male actors use makeup on screen. Actress and model Alice Greczyn has a small bump on her nose. And the lovely actress Aya Sumika (born Aya Sumika Koenig in Miami, Florida) - whose mother is Japanese American and whose father is Caucasian American (I think the father may be Jewish because of the Koenig family name) - and who played FBI agent Liz Warner in the popular NUMB3RS American television crime drama series, which ran on CBS from January 23, 2005 to March 12, 2010, has more than a small bump on her nose. Many people on the Internet have commented on the striking beauty of singer/songwriter Jhené Aiko. And yet Jhené Aiko has written this about herself: Quote:
The legendary actress and beauty Marilyn Monroe, on the other hand, reportedly had a nose job and a chin implant. She was beautiful to begin with, but made even more so after her alleged rhinoplasty and almost certain chin augmentation.
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2012-03-27, 01:25 | Link #2309 |
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look @ this 15 y/o 'human doll' put up (what looks like and sounds to me...) a Japanese minstrel act... with bunch of hella creepy kimo-otas on niconico douga live.
http://kotaku.com/5896366/when-your-...line/gallery/1 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...n_1365798.html |
2012-04-03, 11:31 | Link #2310 | |
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Tokyo chefs huff and puff over looser blowfish laws
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2012-04-03, 23:12 | Link #2314 | |
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But seriously though, this is worrying. Even if they say the number of fugu poisoning is little, as they say 'hardly any', that doesn't mean it won't happen in the future. Especially if you start taking away the license...
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2012-04-04, 09:38 | Link #2317 |
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Being a paranoid and skeptical person, I think I'll steer clear of poisonous puffer fish for the foreseeable future.
For one who has tried it, what makes it a delicacy? Just the cool-factor, or does it truly have a unique taste? I love trying exotic flavors (as an Irish-American, Japanese cuisine is full of 'alien' flavors I've come to love), but I wonder about the puffer fish. |
2012-04-04, 21:28 | Link #2319 |
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I've always wondered how the correct way to prepare fugu was discovered. I mean, how many people did they go through to find the correct way? One would think that after the first couple of people keeled over, they would realize that it's a dangerous fish not fit for consumption.
~hands fish to guy #21~ Here, try this. ~guy #21 eats it and dies~ Hmm...let's try this way. ~hands fish to guy #22~ Here try this. ~guy #22 eats it and dies~ Hmm...let's try it this way... Endless "I'll stick with rice" Soul
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