“J・J・エイブラムスは大団円を生み出せるのか？ エピソード9では、「フォースの覚醒」のJ・J・エイブラムス監督にメガホンが再び託される。新舊キャラクターを巧みに織り交ぜ、新たなスタートラインの設定に成功したのはエイブラムス監督のプロデュース力が最大限生かされたといえる。しかし、これまでのフィルモグラフィを振り返ると、感動のフィナーレを描いてきたとは言いがたい。3世代にまたがる一大サーガをどのように締めくくるのか、天才クリエイターの真価が問われるだろう。” Can J. J. Abrams [Finish the Job | [Write | Produce] a Proper Ending]? For Episode 9, J. J. Abrams will be back in the director’s seat. [In | On] the “The Force Awakens”, he did a great job of weaving old and new characters into a satisfying tapestry. However, looking back on…
WTF Is Wrong With You? Why Do You Keep Asking Obese People for Diet Advice?!
by khatzumoto
Accept temporary ignorance, not permanent impotence Don’t ask fat people for diet advice Don’t ask panhandlers for family advice Don’t ask panhandlers for grooming advice Don’t ask panhandlers for farking anything. They done farked up. They should be the ones asking you how to shoot straight and fly right. Don’t ask dark-skinned people who aren’t…
[Random Linkage] Never Too Late
by khatzumoto
This entry is part of 6 in the series Random LinkageYou’re never too young. You’re never too old. You’re never too early. You’re never too late. If it’s today and you’re alive, then now is your time and here is your place. You are always the right age. You are always in the right place.…
Teaching Is Dead. Long Live Teaching: Why School Sucks, But (Some) Teachers Don’t
by khatzumoto
If you know the AJATT origin story well, then you’ll know that I once took an actual Japanese class. It was a newspaper reading class. One time I showed the instructor, a lovely older gentleman, a website that automatically puts furigana on Kanji. Nearing retirement, he was visibly crestfallen, and somewhat sadly remarked that students…
Too Clever By Half: Don’t Become So Smart That You Forget the Blindingly Obvious
by khatzumoto
“I decide to continue my own study of human behavior in the Mensan game room, which is down the hall in something called the Verrazano Room. Here I find an impressive stack of games: Scrabble, Boggle, Taboo. You name it, they got it. I watch a game where a gray-haired man is trying to get…
[Random Linkage] And Now, Time For Something Different
by khatzumoto
This entry is part of 6 in the series Random LinkageYou know, I love when hip-hop videos make brave and/or unique decisions without compromising on their musicality. It’s particularly awesome when this bravery/uniqueness involves embracing a non-standard “localness”, that is, an aesthetic that sits squarely outside of and sets itself apart from the traditional hip-hop…