Here's a little high culture in a low place to lift your spirits this post-Valentine's Day. Our Man was frequenting a newly discovered haunt by the lake this afternoon - the Saizeriya "Italian" family restaurant (famed for its ¥500 lunch sets and poisonous Chinese-made pizza dough) when he happened to notice the ceilings. Yes, every bit as impressive as the Vatican's originals, Our Man is sure you'll agree. There was even that famous picture, whose name Our Man has forgotten, where God is touching fingers with man (help me out here Anon...) Our Man would have taken a picture of it too, but it was in the smoking section and he didn't fancy soaking up the nicotine with the culture. What is it with Japanese restaurants and tobacco?
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http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2009/02/asias-export-economies-in-free-fall.html
completely off topic,far eastern econmies i9mploding in a country near you.
There is going to be big trouble in China sometime soon methinks.
you're lucky they'll still let the smokers see it.
in the UK that sort of thing gets you time in jail-for the painter
magistrate to da vinci
'I don't care who you are!'
edit to add,word verification
lawyerml------you couldn't make it up.
As you know, Our Man is pretty easy-going, except when it comes to smoking - not that he has anything against smokers, it's the tobacco companies he's more upset with - love the smoker not the smoke, according to the gospel of St Ourmani Nabiko.
It's a bit of a phoney war over here re the economy imploding - everyone knows things are bad, but we're waiting for the real bloodshed to begin.
I asked a few people about Abiko because it is close to were I live. Yeah, they said it has a famous lake with some decent restaurants.
Was that a call for help to this particular Anon of Botha fame? (Who's decided, in the meantime, to adopt a more specific identity.) The painting is "The Creation of Adam" by Michelangelo. OK, now that I've obliged, let me gird my loins and watch that Nakagawa video ...
Bless you Motsamai, you're the answer to Our Man's prayers. Didn't have you pegged as a Saizeriya regular though.
M'lud, I wish to plead non compos mentis, or – if I may resort to plebeian vernacular – I don't geddit. Must be that cold medicine. What, pray tell, does God's creation of Adam, or my blogger ID, or the girding (or ungirding) of loins have to do with pizza? What vital clue have I failed to pick up?
A good question. Don't ask Our Man why the powers that be chose the Creation of Adam for their ceiling, he just enjoys eating pizza and staring into the middle distance. You'll have to ask Saizeriya your very good question. In journalism school they say there are no stupid questions, only stupid answers. They don't have much to say about loins though.
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