Joojifish

Tuesday, December 24, 2002

I'm relaxing at home right now. It's been great seeing my family and chatting with friends, so I'm glad I took the 8-hour flight. I slept through half of it, but at one point I watched a little bit of Disney's Beauty & the Beast. I understood some humor that I hadn't when watching the movie as a kid, namely the lyrics in the "Gaston-is-wonderful" song. When Gaston sang about himself being as large as a barge, I nearly laughed out loud on the plane.

Speaking of cartoon humor, there's a fun kids' cartoon in Japan called Anpan Man. It's about a little superhero named Anpan Man, who has a red-bean pastry (anpan, in Japanese) for his head. His rival is the nefarious Baikin Man, i.e. germ man, who terrorizes Anpan Man's other bread-headed friends. When I was watching an Anpan Man cartoon with my labmates, I kept laughing at parts that weren't supposed to be funny. For instance, there was one character who had a giant cake for his head, and I thought it was the most hilarious thing. My labmates were quite amused.
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