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[scottobear]

Friday. I wanted to sleep, but couldn't.

Rainy night... seemed like a thick, wet typhoon. All I can think about is my brother out there.

Went out with Danny for a few hours after work. Mai-Kai and the club. I wasn't really into it. I didn't see Magda, but I may tomorrow. I got a new Tiki-mug with a rum-punch, but forgot and left it in Dan's car.

Talked for a bit with Holly, Candice and Julie. Took my mind off things, briefly, which was my goal.

Dan's definitely going to have to find another gig sooner or later.. he's not suited to teach for another 20 years... he's too much of a perfectionist... he puts in 80 hours a week between actual teaching, making tests, grading and etc. He's feeling the burn right now... between teaching summer school and taking two refresher courses in science & math at BCC.

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Downloading episodes of Cleopatra 2525 for no good reason at all.

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Moment of Lyric: Just watch the video.

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Japanese fast food chain launches whale burgers

TOKYO (AFP) - A Japanese fast food chain said it would sell 200 whale burgers a day to meet strong demand from its customers amid global criticism over the country's bid to expand whaling.

Burger chain Lucky Pierrot, which runs 10 shops in the northern island of Hokkaido, said the burger using minke whales caught under Japan's controversial "research" whaling program was selling like hotcakes.

"We fry minke whale meat and the burger really tastes like beef," manager Miku Oh said.

"We have decided to add a whale burger to our menu due to strong demand from our customers and feel very thankful to the whales for allowing us to make the burgers," she told AFP.

Twenty whale burgers, each priced at 380 yen (3.5 dollars), will be sold from Thursday at each of the chain's 10 outlets.

The launch of the whale burger came as the
International Whaling Commission on Thursday rejected a bid by Japan to resume commercial catches of minke whales in the Pacific Ocean.

Japan, which calls anti-whaling campaigners disrespectful of its culture, kills whales as "research" under a clause in a 1986 moratorium.

Japan is campaigning for a full-scale return to commercial catches, saying whale stocks have recovered sufficiently during the 19-year ban.

It also plans to double its hunt of minke whales and to resume killing endangered fin whales and vulnerable humpbacks, despite fierce opposition by an alliance led by Australia.

Oh said the restaurant was aware of global criticism over Japan's efforts to expand research whale hunting but argued eating whale meat was part of the country's traditional food and should be treated with respect.

"We value our whale food culture and would like to offer it to our customers. We have a long tradition of eating whale meat as a port in Hakodate used to be a major whaling hub," she said, referring to the major port city in Hokkaido, some 800 kilometers (496 miles) north of Tokyo.

Earlier this year, most schools in Wakayama, Japan's western whaling heartland, resumed whale lunches which had gone off the menu amid global anti-whaling campaigns.

Hoping children will take a liking to whale, the schools have served the meat in burgers and marinated it in sweet and sour sauce.

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1 year ago - gmail bids low, my nightmare '08 prez ticket, aventura mall w/danny (& pics)

2 years ago - graypumpkin / danny / rik update, blogpulse, vampire rank, gali, booth mgt sys, gaming memories,

3 years ago Scotto is.....(google), Francesco issues, Bed Sizes, Rate my kitten

4 years ago - evil news, game poll, fight poll... (One of my fave theoreticals), weather, crayon poll, a little mush, What's in the kitchen?, shaving poll. (I must've just discovered the poll feature)

5 years ago - no-thang

Comments

[rejectomorph]

I hope your brother can gather his wits long enough to decide on a sensible course of action. It may seem unlikely, but I've seen it happen that people will reach an extreme state, and then, from some still-rational spot in their minds, realize that they simply have to give up the unworkable notions that have been driving them.

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

I hope so. He's got a high survival-sense, and I hope that trumps any self-destruction on his part.

[juliabee.livejournal.com]

Nothing but the word "blubber" would come to mind, if someone were to force a whale burger on me. Blech.

"seemed like a thick, wet typhoon. All I can think about is my brother out there"

:( Yes...

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

"Here! Have this food that's not as good for you *or* as tasty, but other people want us to stop hunting it, so we're going to give ti to you out of a sense of history and to thumb our noses at outsiders"

blubber burger!

[wickenden.livejournal.com]

very cool video, and thanks for the tip on semagic.

d.

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

my pleasure! thanks for stumble! I've been having a ton of fun with it!

[wickenden.livejournal.com]

I'm, predictably, wickenden out there.

d.

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

likewise, scottobear there, too

http://scottobear.stumbleupon.com/about/

[blackhellkat.livejournal.com]

The whale burger thing reminds me of a book I just read---Fluke by Christopher Moore. It was a whale conservation-spiritual allegory disgusied as sci-fi----I think---it was a quirky book.

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

did you enjoy it?

[blackhellkat.livejournal.com]

I think I might have. Especially the bit where they go to an organic world where all the dwellings are made out of organic material--thus nailing pictures into walls was discouraged.

But it was no Pride and Prejudice. :D

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

hee... I'd worry about having an organic house! I'd be afriad if I forgot to feed it, that it'd eat me while I slept!

[blackhellkat.livejournal.com]

Well in the book the whale scientist is a bit freaked that the drain holes in the sink and shower look like *ahem* human drain holes.

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

pre-clogged with hair? ewww ;)

[blackhellkat.livejournal.com]

*shudder* fortunately not!