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‘Unfortunately, the notion of marriage which prevails … at the present time … regards the institution as simply a convenient arrangement or formal contract … This disregard of the sanctity of marriage and contempt for its restrictions is one of the most alarming tendencies of the present age.’ –John Harvey Kellogg, Ladies’ guide in health and disease (1883)

My one regret is we never collaborated with the choir to bring this piece to life.

My quick and dirty efforts with Audacity which sounds good enough for me is here for you to critique. Though I hope someone with more talent will come along and make a better remix.

Japan is the country of fake food and almost every restaurant has a window that displays fake models of their menu to attract customers. So it was just a matter of time until someone would invent an umbrella that looks like food.

The VEGETABRELLA is a compact umbrella that looks like a romaine lettuce when closed. When opened it becomes a normal umbrella and in summer its UV filter also protects from suntan. It is delivered with a small umbrella bag in the same “salad” design and is delivered in a box that resembles salad cartons for wholesale.

It is sold and manufactured by Tokyo Noble – a small family owned company from Tokyo that specialized on the production of design and order made umbrellas. Customers in their Tokyo shop can choose umbrella components from hundreds of options and the umbrella will be assembled in front of the customer.

VEGETABRELLA was designed by Yurie Mano and the design company h concept.

At 4725 yen or 0.39596 bitcoins (at this time of writing), this is a tremendously expensive piece of functional art that is highly unlikely to be used on stormy days due to the possibility of being damaged by strong winds.

It would still be undeniably cool to own one.

I shall be returning to the show after giving it a miss since the disastrous Halloween gathering over nothing organised by Jon Stewart quite a while ago.

言の葉の庭 does not disappoint. You are definitely getting a Shinkai film with a storyline that’s moved more by atmosphere that by dialogue. The most objective way of measuring my satisfaction with this film is that I have already watched it three times in a single week; and like a good book, leaving with new insights after every round. It also greatly helps that the voice actress with the most charming voice on the planet (personal opinion), 花澤香菜, plays a leading role.

Yeah. One of my pay-cheques will be finding its way into Shinkai’s pockets.

Also, one of the reasons why I can laugh at people’s responses to the Red Wedding on Game of Thrones is because I can reason most of them are causing far worse pain and suffering through the food they choose to eat.