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November 11, 2011 by CJ Marsicano
And so, Reina Tanaka, aka Her Royal Hotness, aka The Wonkylicious One, begins her 22nd trip around the sun today. (Yeah, I know that technically, she’s already been celebrating it for at least the past 12 hours as this is being posted, but since this blog is based in the Eastern Time Zone of the USA, we’ll go with this writer’s location chronologically.) And the 4th Anniversary of this worship blog is today as well. Did I ever think I’d be doing this blog or even my music blog for this long? Quite honestly, I’m glad I am – Reina and her band are one of the reasons this blog and the mothership The Groove Music Life exist in the first place. I am forever in my debt to them.
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November 10, 2011 by CJ Marsicano
Words may sometimes fail me (don’t call it writer’s block – more like writer’s constipation) but my fanhood for my favorite MoMusu will never fail.
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November 10, 2011 by CJ Marsicano
reina_t_1111: OK, Ceej, level with me here.
minimoniotaku: Oh, you saw what Langdon posted today at YODC?
reina_t_1111: Yeah, nice Photoshop job… NOT!
minimoniotaku: Hey, he’s entitled to his sense of humor.
reina_t_1111: True, but part of him is entitled to something else as well…
minimoniotaku: And that part would be?
reina_t_1111: The part where we have to remind him of a certain legal document from 2008 
minimoniotaku: Ouch!
reina_t_1111: Hey, there’s still Risa and Sayumi for him to chase…
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November 8, 2011 by CJ Marsicano
For a little break in our action, I thought I’d show off the view to the left of my usual workspace in my married abode. As Ray so accurately put it when he wrote about my Summer Mixtape for the Intl Wota Summer Refreshment Program, “You knew Reina had to be in there somewhere.” This is what I see when I stretch my neck during short breaks from writing (or lately, from practicing guitar as well.)
The Reina item in question is a curious little ID card (blank) with Her Royal Hotness’s picture on it. On either side is a picture of AKB48′s Mariko Shinoda from the recent AKB single senbatsu campaign, and three guitar picks from Greg Hetson (Circle Jerks/Bad Religion), Yngwie Malmsteen, and Hank Williams III. (Coincidentally, guitars named after both Reina and Mariko are below the shelf in question, on a stand out of frame.)
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November 6, 2011 by CJ Marsicano
…Wherein, Reina shows Aiki Mitsui how to goof around in front of the camera…
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November 5, 2011 by CJ Marsicano
My favorite MoMusu (gee, who would that be?) and Brother Langdon‘s favorite MoMusu (aka “So Sweet She Shits Sugar”) in another candid moment.
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November 4, 2011 by CJ Marsicano
One of the many self-portraits that Reina has been fond of posting on her blog, here in a hoodie that almost looks like a burqa. Then again, not many burqas would be lavender with dark purple starts… (Who here remembers when I used to call Drifoy’s site 100% Wonkyfied “The Tanakachi Mosque” over at IntlWota.com?)
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November 4, 2011 by CJ Marsicano
Not that it was delibrate before or since, but admittedly there hasn’t been at least one time during the leadup to Reina’s birthday where I had missed a day by minutes and often ended up posting a few minutes after midnight on the next day. Oh well, I always make up for it. I wouldn’t want Reina to show up mad at my front door with a few angry bandmates along for the ride!
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November 2, 2011 by CJ Marsicano
I don’t think I have to remind anyone how Reina has been getting better with age. Or how seeing live pictures of her performing makes me want to see the band come to the States and tour (a tangent better left for the mothership). So I’ll just post this recent pic here without comment. Oh wait, that was a comment…
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November 1, 2011 by CJ Marsicano
Yes, it’s been a long while since I posted on here. And in the time since the last post, I discovered to my horror that some douchebags had snuck some spam links within the HTML of this site, something I discovered when looking at this site via an iPad reader and saw the screen overloaded with unauthorized links. Apparently said scumbags found an opportunity to take advantage of some sort of crack in the WordPress code. No matter – the site’s system has been updates (as will this site’s template by 11.11.11) and things are back under control. No better way to restart SHSSF than to post a pic related to recent talk of Maki Goto’s visits to her old musical alma mater. Reina has often acknowledged that Maki was one of her inspirations, and with recent rumors/speculation of Maki making some sort of return to the Up-Front Works stable added with her earlier stated desire to take a “hiatus” from performing (until her contract with Avex is up, perhaps?), this pic (found by essential brother Langdon Alger) pretty much begged to be posted.
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