tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3434291.post117401156846609296..comments2024-01-24T18:18:13.919+09:00Comments on PureLandMountain.com: Robert Bradyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12299574758004022747noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3434291.post-1174090219544144092007-03-17T10:10:00.000+09:002007-03-17T10:10:00.000+09:00Well Eric, I guess folks like us are just gonna ha...Well Eric, I guess folks like us are just gonna have to take up the reality slack... it's an ecstatic job, but somebody's gotta do it.Robert Bradyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12299574758004022747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3434291.post-1174087282813459842007-03-17T09:21:00.000+09:002007-03-17T09:21:00.000+09:00Wasn't it Baudrillard who wrote that in America, s...Wasn't it Baudrillard who wrote that in America, sex was everywhere except in sex? Which I always took to mean that the culture is dripping with sexual imagery and language, but that if you actually touch someone chances are that you'll get sued. <BR/><BR/>No doubt the late lamented philosopher was exaggerating (as usual), but it may be true in Japan.<BR/><BR/>My local drugstore, in addition to the usual posters of drop-dead gorgeous women, now features a life-size cardboard cutout of a bikini-clad girl thrusting her pelvis at me. The local video store is of course half porn. The computer shops offer software for dating virtual girls. Near where I teach there's a maid-kissa where ugly men can pretend that the waitresses like them. Fancy underwear stores flourish. And on the streets hemlines are as high and jeans are as low as they can get. And yet statistics show that NOBODY'S ACTUALLY DOING IT. <BR/><BR/>Perhaps it's not so different from your earlier observation that nobody walks in the woods anymore. People really do prefer the artificial, and the simulacra...Eric Pylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09935889793466928092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3434291.post-1174055067167680292007-03-17T00:24:00.000+09:002007-03-17T00:24:00.000+09:00Not out in the country like this; their proximity ...Not out in the country like this; their proximity was a monument to the urgent ardor that once prevailed...Robert Bradyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12299574758004022747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3434291.post-1174031464360585072007-03-16T17:51:00.000+09:002007-03-16T17:51:00.000+09:00"...something the government needs to look into ur..."...something the government needs to look into urgently": Well, seen the latest string of gaffes, next year does not look bright, and certainly not pink.<BR/><BR/>By the way: do love hotels always come in couples?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com