Deciding on what pictures to use for thsi little countdown to Reina’s big day is one of the hardest things about doing this blog because there’s so much good material to choose from. This pic stood up and waved for this post, partly because Reina’s reproduced handwriting on the photo references one of Morning Musume’s catchiest and most underrated B-sides.

Once thought lost thanks to copyright disputes between YouTube and Universal Music, the infamous video where the trailer to Reina’s Alo! Hello video from 2006 is was set to the equally infamous unedited version of Snoop Dogg/Akon song “I Wanna Love You” came back online a few months ago, once Universal stopped being so tightassed when it came to fair use of their recordings. I had put this together in iMovie in early 2007 just for shits and giggles, but when a couple of the lines in the song synced rather coincidentally well with the footage, I just had to put it up on YouTube. My YODC brother Langdon Alger loved it (I think Drifoy did as well) and another now-former contributor posted the video there, but one guy with little or no sense of humor got really upset when he took the clip at face value and posted in reaction, “Wow…you perverts…Reina in NO WAY a stripper of any type, and you guys are jackasses to associate someone like Reina with a [song] made? by Akon+Snoop Dogg.” For the record, I think it’s already been established here at SHSSF that even though I adore Reina, bedding her is another story entirely!.

I don’t know what happened to Drifoy, who used to run 100% Wonkyfied (which he moved from Wordpress to a domain name that has since, regrettably, expired), but some of his OPV tributes to the Wonkylicious One still live on at YouTube, including this piece set to the English version of Edward Chun’s “Give My Love”. Drifoy, if you’re still out there, give your boy a holler!.

Sorry for being a couple of parts behind. I’ll be making it up in the next 24 hour period. In the meantime…

One of the few things that actually still survived the loss of MotokoAoyama.com v1.0 to an inept hair-metal drummer who is equally inept at running a webhosting service and a real estate company… a wallpaper I made of Her Royal Hotness back in the spring of 2006 on my (now defunct) Mac PowerBook G4, derived from a scan from her second photobook. (Clicking on the image will bring up the wallpaper in all its 1024×761 glory!) That would mean that this wallpaper has seen four different computers since then, including my computer at work and the laptop that originally replaced my Mac. Ironically, there’s a 13″ PowerBook to Reina’s left. In the years since this photo was taken and this wallpaper was made, computers have gotten cheaper and faster, and Reina has gotten prettier and sexier.

Going back to the early days of my Morning Musume fandom, here’s a pic of Reina from the photo/video shoot for “Namida ga Tomaranai Houkago”, scanned from my personal collection. I think Ray Mescallado gave me this photo along with a few other ones from Reina’s early days with the band.

One of the easiest things about doing this site is visual material – there’s plenty of eyecandy of the Wonkylicious One to be found online. Coming up with witty things to say with these pictures is another thing – I’ve probably thrown out more ideas for “dialogue” posts than I have used on here. Not that I expect too many people to be visiting this site for the text…

The temperature is starting to dip and the daytime hours are getting shorter where the TGML/SHSSF/My Sweet Meetan headquarters is located, but what’s a good cure for that? A picture of America’s Favorite Musume in a bikini from the most recent Morning Musume Alo Hello! photo shoot… a wholly appropriate choice for this series as well, given that Reina shot her solo Alo Hello! photobook and DVD around her 17th birthday in 2006!

Things were a bit of a circus for your humble webmaster at his day job, and I almost forgot to post Monday’s installment of this series. Given my hectic day, this snapshot of the Wonky-Eyed Sex Bomb riding a carousel makes for a good illustration of the aforementioned metaphor regarding my personal business.

The days of neglecting this blog are over. With Reina’s 20th birthday coming sooner than later, the time is nigh to get back to regular posts. The next week-plus leading up to November 11th, there will be a considerable ramping up of the eyecandy, followed after that by more regular posts. And no better way to start off than by posting a recent pic of the Wonkylicious One getting her inner Ramone on, black leather jacket and all. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, you can indeed put “Kira Kira Fuyu” and “Gabba Gabba Hey” in the same sentence.

I’m sorry – both to the woman who this blog is dedicated to, and to my fellow Tanakachi wota. With much of my time dedicated to working on my novel and on my forthcoming nuptials, SHSSF has been quite neglected since I posted last, for which I profusely and infinitely apologize. I shall try to make it up to everyone in the weeks to come.