reina_t_1111: Hey Ceej. Sorry to hear about your Mac.
minimoniotaku: Thanks, Reina. I think I can deal with “Windoze Blister” for a few months until I can get a new MacBook Pro.
reina_t_1111: There you go. At least you’ll be getting your work done.
minimoniotaku: Yeah. I had a busy weekend and need to catch up on blog posts and write one for Stuck In A Pagoda when I’m finished here.
reina_t_1111: Are both sites ready for IW’s first anniversary?
minimoniotaku: Oh yeah. Been ready since last Friday, in fact.
reina_t_1111: Cool. Speaking of blog posts, I’m going to catch up on a few myself.
minimoniotaku: Yeah, there’s still ones being written on “Resonant Blue” from what I’ve seen.
reina_t_1111: OK

[a few minutes later]

reina_t_1111: What in the flying motherfucking fuck?!?
minimoniotaku: That’s what I was thinking when my Mac died.
reina_t_1111: Did you see this fucking review Yoshimi did?
minimoniotaku: Um, no, I didn’t… *reads”… Oh shit!
reina_t_1111: This bitch called me “Reina Winehouse”! What a fucking insult!
minimoniotaku: That was lame.
reina_t_1111: That’s an understatement! My hairstyle in the PV hardly looks like Amy Winehouse!
minimoniotaku: You’d need ridiculous tattoos, excess eyeliner and a bloodstream full of drugs to complete that comparison.
reina_t_1111: Tell me about it! Suppose I went on Five Stars this week and said “Yoshimi does as many drugs as Amy Winehouse?”
minimoniotaku: Exactly.
reina_t_1111: I’ve got a good mind to fly over there and kick her ass so badly that she’ll be needing a different kind of “Rehab”!
minimoniotaku: Whoa.
reina_t_1111: No, better yet, what’s that Public Enemy line from “Don’t Believe The Hype”? “All the critics, you can hang them, I’ll hold the rope”?
minimoniotaku: I don’t think Chuck D meant that literally.
reina_t_1111: Even better — I should go find her, strap her to a chair, and rip her cunt hairs out one at a time with tweezers!
minimoniotaku: I’m not even going there. o_O
reina_t_1111: Goddamnit, it’s not my fault that Tsunku and Daichi Suzuki thought that Takitty and I should be the lead singers on the song!
minimoniotaku: Right.
reina_t_1111: I mean, I’d like to see JunJun and LinLin get some more lines on singles, but they’re still getting used to the language, and…
minimoniotaku: REINA! It’s OK!
reina_t_1111: I’m sorry, Ceej, I just gotta vent.
minimoniotaku: I think this week it’s your turn to get off of IM and put a Miles Davis album on.
reina_t_1111: I’d better make it something like On The Corner or Black Beauty Live At Fillmore West, I can use the mental floss.

AUTHOR’S NOTE: I wish no harm or ill will whatsoever on Yoshimi whatsoever. I happen to like her as a person, and her worship posts for Li Chun, by her open admission, were inspired by my worship posts for Reina on Stuck In A Pagoda, something by which I am extremely flattered. Yoshimi is entitled to her opinion, right or wrong. My point here, however dark-humored and satirical, is that if I were in Reina’s shoes, I wouldn’t be too happy with what Yoshimi wrote.

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