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Forgot to mention… I’ll add more about the “worshipping of raw beef” soon, when I get some images.
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We mentioned this in the magazine, but I finally will get my own Yoshitomo Nara candy container and gummies in light blue! At first I was ok without it, and it went to Wendy, our magazine’s designer, but then the rest of the colors went to everyone else, leaving me with a brown one! The brown is ok I guess, but in the end, it’s the ugliest. So now, I have a blue one! So it comes with gummy candies with the same shape as the container. The question for this $40+ item, when do you eat the candies? Limited edition all around, I almost don’t want to eat it, but in the end, it’ll just go bad… Wait, will it? It’s all sugar. The container looks sort of “just ok” but once it’s in your hands, it’s a nice item. The plastic is thick, and the container feels substantial. Even the box it comes in is cool. Get yours from Omotesando Hills. But you’ll have to go there. No shipping to the USA.
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I’m suffering from a crazy dinner. I don’t usually eat beef, but when going to a place that’s “famous” for it’s beef, you have to try it if you’re a true fan of food. So there’s a place in west LA, where the chef at the end of the meal say, “thanks, but don’t tell anyone!” with a big grin on his face. This place is not decorated, it’s expensive, it’s not lit well, there’s no sign, and no way of knowing a thing about it. Even the neighbors have no idea what happens there. So long story short since I’ll try to add pics later… Ate a meal of many courses of raw meat (raw liver too), bbq meat, and more. Posse: Cousin Dan, and two filmmakers. More of the story later, when I get the pics!
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I have this cough that’s been going on forever. Maybe over a month! I thought it was going away, but then it came back. So looking for a cure… I go to web m.d. No cure for a cough. So now I’m taking antibiotics. These aren’t great for you either. All the technology, brains, etc, and the doctors and scientists can’t figure this out? This seems to happen every year or two and the antibiotics seem to work. 10 days, 20 huge pills and soft stools.
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Unreal on how you defend what is obviously a racist symbol. Why don’t we put swaztikas on Nikes? That’s a cool artistic symbol too. I bet your friend could draw real cool shackles or a noose. When Mr. McGee puts his logo on a shoe, nobody gives two cents about his background and how respected he is in the underground. If he drew something racist, then the thing he drew is a racist symbol. What could possibly be a more racist symbol than a buck-toothed, bowl headed, pig nosed asian? What he did with his hand is a hate crime. Yes, it’s art. Racist art. I guess there’s such a thing.-Dennis Martinez Dennis Martinez, thanks for writing. Since you say it, let’s say there’s a Savastika, the Japanese buddhist symbol on a Nike. (It’s literally a reversed Swastika, and it’s been around for hundreds or perhaps 1000s of years). My guess is 95 or more Americans of 100 would confuse it for the Nazi symbol. But nonetheless, the exact Nazi symbol is different from a Ray Fong. (I’m sure you’re saying no it isn’t… but it is in this case. Think how one is about pure genocide, and one is a mocking image.) – you know, this is like a puzzle of a paragraph. I apologize. It’s about context. People won’t know the difference, unfortunately, but for those who do will know it’s fine. Those who don’t will never understand. That said, if there was an artist who did nothing but non-racist swastika art (if this is possible – see how it’s different?), and then he was asked to do a shoe, it would be part of his art. This is a farce, but if it’s art, it’s art. The Fong image solo, sure it can be seen as a racist image, but in context and how it’s used, isn’t a racist statement. Imagine African American artists use black-face type images as their art. It’s in tons of folk art from the south. Manuel Ocampo does have Swastikas in his art. Are these hate crimes or racist? Wait until you see his Keds! I’m sure there is a such thing as racist art, but this isn’t it. Thanks for writing, and sorry you’re offended. I doubt I’ll be able to convince you. At the same time, I’ve lost control of all this for myself. Time for it to sail away.
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