reina_t_1111: Oh, look, it’s the prodigal Amerikajin. Where have you been for the past month or so?
minimoniotaku: Trying to write.
reina_t_1111: That badly? You’ve been like friggin’ Thomas Pynchon these past couple of weeks.
minimoniotaku: Yeah, well, remind me when I start a new project never to start in the middle of the story and try to add pieces from all directions.
reina_t_1111: Oh, don’t even worry about that.
minimoniotaku: I should be worrying. I was hoping to get the first draft of Here Is The Wonderland finished this past week. I’ve been on vacation since the 3rd.
reina_t_1111: Stop! I know where this is going. You’re going to bitch about how little time you actually had ’cause folks were bugging you, right?
minimoniotaku: Right.
reina_t_1111: Let me give you another reminder, Ceej: June 26, 2010. Did you guys start making plans yet?
minimoniotaku: Tara and I drew up our first version of the guest list last Monday. Already we have over 125 people and we forgot a lot of names.
reina_t_1111: That I can believe.
minimoniotaku: Then the next day in between writing stints I was playing phone tag with my half of the bridal party we had pencilled in.
reina_t_1111: Oy vey.
minimoniotaku: Fortunately, everybody accepted.
reina_t_1111: Geez, you’d think the wedding was this year.
minimoniotaku: That’s the funny part. My cousin Nick called me back on that and he thought the wedding was this past Saturday.
reina_t_1111: If it had been, you’d have a decent excuse for not being in touch with me the past few weeks!
minimoniotaku: Yeah, seriously.
reina_t_1111: What was so important about wanting to get your first draft finished during your vacation anyway?
minimoniotaku: Because I wanted a taste of what it was like to get up in the morning and actually work on a manuscript all day for this past week.
reina_t_1111: Ohhh. Now I get it.
minimoniotaku: Yeah, and although I did get some progress in, I still have a long way to go, and this weekend is pretty much when I discovered the disadvantage of writing a long-form piece like a novel the way I’ve been doing it.
reina_t_1111: Well, Issac Asimov said something to the effect of, “Start with the end first, then the beginning, then how you get from one to the other.”
minimoniotaku: I’ll have to keep that one in mind.
reina_t_1111: Put that in your Funk & Wagnalls next to all the advice you’ve gotten from Stephen King’s On Writing

AUTHOR’S NOTE: Thanks to Jim Haku for the Asimov quote.

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It’s Reina. It’s her new column. And she’s in a kimono (just in time for the natsu matsuris to happen)… and I love seeing her in kimonos. What more do you need?

Oh, another dialogue? Yeah, “we’re” overdue for another one. Come back tomorrow.

While the thought of any Morning Musume member in Playboy wearing as little as your average Hugh Hefner protege would be a good thing to the average red-blooded male (Japanese and Western), these pictures of Her Royal Hotness and Ai Takahashi from the latest Weekly Playboy prove that leaving some things to the imagination is just as, if not more, erotic.

(Unfortunately for all of the assmen out there, there’s no shots of Tanakachii and Takitty facing their badonkadonks at the camera!)

I heard about the punk rock outfits Morning Musume wore on Haromoni@ this week and had to look for pictures. Unfortunately, a solo Reina shot hasn’t turned up yet, but I don’t think my YODC brother Langdon Alger will have a problem with this pic of Her Royal Hotness alongside Sayumi Mishishige (aka So Sweet She Shits Sugar). Do Reina and “Sayummy” realize that the gesture they’re doing is considered to be an obscene gesture in England?

minimoniotaku; Hey, Happy Two Years Of Tanakamesen, Reina.
reina_t_1111: Hehehe. Thank you, Ceej. ^___^
minimoniotaku: The photo shoot here reminds me of a certain Whiteberry single.
reina_t_1111: I know you don’t mean “Tachiri Kinshi” after my teasing you the other day.
minimoniotaku: Heh.

ETA 5.22.08: Fellow magnificent bastard from YODC, Langdon Alger, found a bigger scan of the page, which I just uploaded. Thank you very much, brother!

AUTHOR’S NOTE: Much thanks to the lovely miss Vee for finding the pic used to illustrate today’s dialogue.

Since the 24th installment of Reina’s CD Data column, which came out since the last time I did a post here, will probably end up online any day now, I might as well post #23 while I’m thinking of it.

As for comments on the T-shirt Reina is wearing in this installment, I’ll leave those up to my blogging brother and fellow Magnificent Bastard at YODC, Langdon Alger. For more Engrish T-shirt caption fun (including a couple of classic pics of Her Royal Hotness), there’s always DJ Mai-Mai’s latest post at H!P Fangirling.

reina_t_1111: Hey, when in the heck did the single and videos for “Resonant Blue” leak?
minimoniotaku: Apparently, sometime yesterday when we were both away from our laptops.
reina_t_1111: Isn’t that always the case? ^__^ Are you trying to DL them as a tideover like you said in your last post? I know you’ve been waiting for the single to come out since I first played it on Five Stars.
minimoniotaku: Yeah, but this morning there was a big backlog on them.
reina_t_1111: That bad, huh? Hopefully you’ll get them DL’ed before Wednesday.
minimoniotaku: I’m actually not surprised that there’s a high demand. Anticipation seems to have been high for the single. I’ll probably have an easier time getting them later tonight.
reina_t_1111: Well, all I have to say is I hope everyone that’s DLing the torrents did like you and already has a pre-order filled out.
minimoniotaku: I wholeheartedly agree. I’m sick of this “music should be free” mindset.
reina_t_1111: Anybody that thinks that music should be free should be referred to that piece you wrote at the Pagoda last October.
minimoniotaku: Bless you. Speaking of blogs, you see any of the reactions to the “new” video?
reina_t_1111: I’m not too amused by the “whore” jokes.
minimoniotaku: I wouldn’t be either if I were in your shoes.
reina_t_1111: *sings* I’m a streetwalking cheetah with a heart full of napalm…
minimoniotaku: At least you’re showing a sense of humor about some of those reviews.
reina_t_1111: Yep, but part of me still feels like sewing Yoshimi’s asshole shut and then keep feeding her and feeding her and feeding her.