I was downtown near the Central Branch of the Multnomah County Library, waiting for a streetcar to take me home. It wasn’t the most visually interesting or elegant thing to place Rex atop, admittedly. And the old phone didn’t take very good pictures; let’s just get that disclaimer out of the way now because there’s a slew of old-Nexus pics to queue up…
Originally posted to social media accounts on June 17th, 2014.
Tiger shows the value of being a literally-pocket-sized duck by letting me snap this spur-of-the-moment pic. Posted to social media accounts originally on June 17, 2014.
I was still getting the hang of doing the social-media version of this project when this picture appeared on Twitter and Tumblr on the 13th of June, 2014.
Here is the start of my project to pull in the archived My Duck On Stuff entries I’ve made elsewhere… along with a few that never made it to social media.
This one went up on Twitter on the 12th of June, 2014.
Sometimes you need something short and sweet. Or perhaps four really short things. Who live in bottles.
Bottle Fairy is a 13-episode anime series made up of half-length (12 minute) episodes.
Such as it is, here we go: Four very small fairies (who live in… jars, really) adore their keeper, who they refer to as “Sensei-san,” and they regularly visit the not-actually-helpful next-door neighbor girl, Tama-chan.
Each of the first twelve episodes is themed on a month of the year, with the 13th bonus episode being a special kind of thing all its own. The fairies try to learn about the world, and through their thorough misinterpretations we gain entertainment and the occasional bit of knowledge. But mostly entertainment.
This is a pure comedy series, but not in a sitcom vein. It’s like a short-form anime sketch comedy show. The Monty Python troupe, only in cartoon-girl form, as it were. It’s imaginative and occasionally laugh-out-loud funny, though a lot of jokes rely on just enough knowledge of Japanese language and culture to help them land.
Mind you, part of my fondness for the show derives from the time my daughter and I spent watching it when it came out. Hey, it’s a valid source of nostalgia value, right? Right.
The humor is definitely culturally derived, there’s very little in the way of an overall plot, and the episodes are short. (I actually count that in Bottle Fairy‘s favor, but there you go.)
To this day, I still get a chuckle out of “o-bento-sensei-san.”
And “Narita divorce.” (Really, the entire “June bride-oh” episode.)
Perhaps I’ve revealed too much.
Given the impending demise of the “daisuke.net” experiment you’re pretty much stuck with picking up the DVDs, I’m afraid…
I didn’t think much of it at the time. “Hey, the Pacific Science Center has an exhibit about the Terracotta Warriors.” “Oh, that sounds neat.”
Some days later: “You need to put in for three days off in early August.” “Why’s that?” “Remember that exhibit I told you about?” “Ah. Neat!”
So last Wednesday morning, we departed by train for Seattle.
