{"id":1823,"date":"2009-10-22T10:56:19","date_gmt":"2009-10-22T10:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=1823"},"modified":"2009-10-22T10:56:19","modified_gmt":"2009-10-22T10:56:19","slug":"something_yummy_for_your_thurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2009\/10\/22\/something_yummy_for_your_thurs\/","title":{"rendered":"Something Yummy for Your Thursday Morning Coffee Break"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the best efforts of a couple of well-meaning and enthusiastic friends, I still do not get the appeal of <i>anime<\/i>, i.e., Japanese animated films. I also don&#8217;t get &#8212; aside from a handful of titles &#8212; <i>manga<\/i>, or Japanese comic books.<br \/>\nBut I very definitely <i>do<\/i> see the appeal of Kirsten Dunst dressed in some kind of <i>anime<\/i> princess outfit as she wanders the streets of Tokyo&#8217;s infamous geek mecca, the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Akihabara\">Akihabara<\/a> district:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/images\/kirsten_dunst_cosplay.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, now that&#8217;s a pretty sight. Kirsten hasn&#8217;t exactly lived up to the hype of a few years ago that painted her as the Next Big Thing, but I like her. And I really like her in this get-up. The short skirt and the stockings are nice, of course, but weird as it sounds, I&#8217;m really grooving on the blue hair. I don&#8217;t know, it just works for me.<\/p>\n<p>From what I can discern, this photo is a behind-the-scenes candid from a video shoot. An artist named Murakami, in association with Hollywood director McG, filmed a short starring Dunst for an exhibition at the Tate Modern in London. Modern art is, of course, something else I do not get. But whatever, I can live with it if it gets me pics of Kirsten Dunst in a tiny skirt and blue hair. More photos and info <a href=\"http:\/\/arrestedmotion.com\/2009\/10\/video-murakami-x-mcg-x-dunst-akihabara-majokko-princess-in-pop-life-the-tate-modern\/\">here<\/a>; original source for this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2009\/10\/19\/murakamis-short-film.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Do I have to go back to work now?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the best efforts of a couple of well-meaning and enthusiastic friends, I still do not get the appeal of anime, i.e., Japanese animated films. I also don&#8217;t get &#8212; aside from a handful of titles &#8212; manga, or Japanese comic books. But I very definitely do see the appeal of Kirsten Dunst dressed in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-ramblings","category-music-and-pop-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}