©2009, Made in DNA


It was the year I turned seventeen; late summer, sometime at the end of August. The night air under a moonlit sky had that heavy, intoxicating smell of festivals, high spirits and the onset of fall. Officially the obon season was finished and school activities had begun once again, yet there was a pervasive recklessness in the season that would not be contained and regulated to next year; as if our ancestors were still drunk from all the sake offerings left at family alters and gravesides.

Being a weeknight, I was on my way home from cram school, still dressed in my summer school attire, one of the retro sailor uniforms in powder blue and white so popular until near the end of the century when blazers came into fashion. In a fit of youthful flirtatiousness and rebellion, I had rolled the waist of my skirt up into several folds so that the hem of my skirt teased my slender, fair thighs and more than a few of the boys practicing baseball on the school fields earlier that day.

I walked through the dead of the business district to a large park, where upon reaching the opposite side, I would catch a bus home. The city was quiet as I approached the park and the interior still quieter. I often enjoyed my silent walks through the park despite my mother’s worried warnings of perverts. It was true that there had been an incident or two every year, but volunteer patrols of older men in the neighborhood had reportedly brought those numbers down. I was hardly worried.

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This is probably what we would really seeing if our brains were polluted with blipverts.



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Nutcracker Sweets... that's what I've dubbed those delicious Japanese SM mavens who punt the brainpans of rope-restricted men.

I'd be a liar if I said I didn't go in for it.

Whether or not the ladies are a product of society is moot. They boot because it suits. The men deserve it. They deserve to deserve it.

And what of me? Do _I_ deserve it? ... Maybe. Maybe we all do.

Maybe it's part of the job of being a 'Man'. We men 'pound that pussy!!!!!' Yeah! YEAH! We do... But it doesn't make us gods. It shouldn't

Kurara. That's her name. No last name.

Her business card listed her as a 'Professional Sessionist'. WTF!? But what's in a title when you crush people's nuts for cold hard cash?

She claimed to be the byproduct of a society gone divorce dysfunctional, youth obsessed, and junk mad.

Mating that with incestuous parental units, designer drug binges, and petty theft arrests... she makes for a real gem.

Her days are filled by frothing, rabid, lunge kill-crazy, brand-name consumers. And her nights by power sickos lost in that lovin' feelin'.

I admit; I'm strung out on her. One step away from overdose, and three from a sharp boot in the 'nads.

Kurara has a body, and a body of 1700 AV titles. Each one a block ball buster. Her resume reads like a dirty magazine ad. As it should.

I don't know why she chose me. She's that kind of woman. Nothing for nobody but herself. Everything on her terms.

My invitation to the industry party was an afterthought. A spot filler. An applause-fluffer.

She leeched on to me at the catering table between the couscous and jambalaya. But I didn't know her from the faceless on the streets.

"Have you ever eaten sashimi from a naked woman's body?" Her tone was conversational, sincerely inquisitive, bizarrely honest.

I've heard better pickup lines from JunkDNA addicts trolling donation clinics for unsuspecting first-timers.

But in her clodhopper pumps, she was an Amazon. I didn't want to fit on her plate next to the yakisoba, and I was afraid to look at her teeth.

"I'm sorry?" was the stumbling lunacy that I coughed up.

"Sashimi off a naked woman." She popped a gyoza and cocked her head at me. "Frankly, I'd rather just eat the girl."

"There is that. But you have to watch for pubic hair." I tried to chuckle off-handedly. Non-chalantly? Can you do that!?

She eyed me. "She shaves first." Mental head-desk. "I would never eat a woman or off her, unless she shaved first." That's the fact Jack.

And that was that. She hounded me down the rest of the table, invited herself to my table, and helped herself to my plate. She bitched me.

When I tried to excuse myself to go to the pisser, she followed me down the long, twisting hall, and camped, cat-like in a tiger-print top.

I bolted! But tweaked to the gills, she had enhanced strength and speed. I fret-pondered if she'd installed a cannibal gene.

Her left hand reaches up under my neck and using my own momentum against me, she plows me into the wall, lifting me off my feet.

She rubs her body up against mine. A petite, dark nipple pops from her halter top as she leans in to phero-snif my mandible barcode.

A wet sigh betrays her lips. It is quickly followed by a creek of blood that rivulets down her neck after she takes a hunk of my earlobe.

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MEDIA WHORES is short, minimalist fiction originally written for SMS subscription. SquarePlus is hosting a collected and edited version of the original with more material and covers by Japanese hentai artist 4D Heaven.

Full version on sale at http://www.squareplus.net (hentai manga section)

 

BATH DADDY
© 2008, Made in DNA

"Bath Daddy! Bath Daddy!" The toddler jumped up and down in joy at the prospect of bath time once more.

Daddy chuckled, pleased the little boy enjoyed bath time with him. It was, after all, the only time he ever got to see his beloved.

After his mother had undressed him, the little boy bound into the room that was a combination shower and bath. Swirls of lazy steam whirled dizzily in the boy's wake.

Daddy had prepared two plastic stools on which the pair sat down and began washing each other. Daddy took particular fatherly care to wash behind the child's ears, under his armpits and all the spots a boy the age of three himself would miss.

After rinsing well, the pair jumped into the waiting hot water of the tub with its flotilla of multicolored monkeys, whales, dogs and associated animal shape outlines of plastic.

They sang songs and talked of the boy's day. It was a good bath, as all baths are meant to be, but not all are everyday. On a scale of one to ten, Daddy rated this a ten. Bliss.

When the time was appropriate, Daddy pressed the Call button on the bath tub controls and the boy's mother came with towel to bundle the boy off to his jammies waiting in the other room.

Daddy stepped back into the water, sat and waited.

Half an hour later, when the boy's mother returned, his was there for her. And he was there for her.

With a sigh of contentment, the boy's mother stepped from the bath, kissed Daddy, and pressed the Drain button on the bath controls.

Gurgling contentedly the bath finally slipped away, Daddy lay down in it, and closed his eyes.

The boy's mother pulled the slide-top over the bath up to Daddy's neck. "Goodnight Bath Daddy. And thank you again."

Bath Daddy opened his eyes and replied, "This Bath Daddy is pleased to serve you Ma'am. May you have a pleasant tomorrow."

A smile fell on her lips, she pulled the cover over the top fully, and pressed the Clean button.

First Warren Ellis pimps me on his blog, then his livejournal, now Gene Generation writer/director Pearry Teo has been kind enough to as well. Thank you gentlemen, and thank you m1k3y for all the head-ups, kind words, and pimpage of your own!

I passed one of my (Japanese) coworkers in a tight area between desks today and we both said 'Sumimasen' (Excuse me) at the same moment. The first thought that came to my mind immediately after was 'Jinx!' I was rather delighted that I had dredged up that old childhood memory that I wanted to share it with her. However, I had no idea if there was a Japanese equivalent. Most likely not as those kinds of gems are cultural, not essentials like saying you're sorry.

I hit my English-Japanese dictionary and looked up jinx. Lo and behold, there it was. And not only was it there, it was listed in katakana as ジンクス! SAY WHAT!? Could it be possible Japanese people might know this word in its original form? No way.

Jumping over to a collegue fluent in English, I asked her. 'Oh sure,' was her reply. 'Jinx is jinx. I know what it is.' An older coworker next to her, said she did too! Get out of town! The older lady could have been my mother!

So we looked it up in one more dictionary, and sure enough, there it was... jinx. Listed as an American slang term in reference to superstition. Holy cow.

But that wasn't the best part. I then began to explain to the younger coworker how I used to use it as a kid to solicit free favors from people ala 'JINX! Buy me a Coke!' (Or simply 'jinx'. There are probably as many ways to say it in the US as there are Americans.) And she then said, 'OH! HAPPY ICE CREAM!'

Come again?

'Happy ice cream' is what people in this part of Japan say in lieu of the word 'jinx'. The idea being that the loser must pony up said ice cream.

Happy ice cream. Indeed.

According to the article (below), 35% of the tourists to Japan could give a rat's ass about the culture; they wanna shop!

Well no kidding. And while Japan has some cool shopping going on (can't deny it) here's my opinions about why:

EVERYTHING IS TOO FUGGING EXPENSIVE - Japan, yo, you gots to figure this out... by the time people have finished paying for their airfare and hotel accomodations, no one has any money to jump on the Bullet Trains that lead out of the greater Kantoh metropolitan area. Thus, tourists figure, fuckit, let's shop. PLUS, after the first day of shopping in Tokyo, they don't have any money left anyway! CLUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUE FONE.

And now a word for those of you coming to Japan to shop? Are you stupid?!?!? This is not Thailand, China, Taiwan, Korea, or any other part of Asia. This is Japan. You can't just drop in and buy anime and manga and go see the sights. It is NOT a vacation spot. Never has been, never will be. Sorry. CLUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUE FONE for you too.

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/ed20071116a2.html

Oh man. I've been here a decade now, and I know about Japanese suicide websites*, but I have never heard of a REVENGE website. That shit is crazy!

Read more from the Mainichi Daily News site:
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/national/news/20071114p2a00m0na018000c.html


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* - sites where registered users can seek out others willing to commit suicide WITH them (or in one case, take their life).

Okay... where can I get (or who can I pay do design) a flash scroller that reads an RSS feed? This is the technology I have been waiting for.

Something a little like this: http://www.metrolyrics.com/rasetsu-koku-lyrics-dir-en-grey.html

Police man's family COULD have collected his retirement pension even after he fatally shot a woman he had been stalking for months, and then took his own life. Thankfully they were smart enough not to. But check the reasoning. It's a real kicker:


Under the regulations, [the officer] was considered "retired" the moment he died and could not be fired, which would have allowed the police department to refuse to pay the retirement allowance. -- From the Japan Times Online, http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20070903a5.html


So let me get this straight, this guy stalks a woman for months on end (crime) and fatally shoots her in her own apartment (crime), yet is still eligible for retirement pension because he killed himself (does firing his weapon outside the line of duty constitute another crime?) before he could be fired. Would it sound weird if I said I wanted a job with bennies like that?

MEDIA WHORES is now available at my Lulu store: http://www.lulu.com/dnafiction .

It features new material (ohlahlah!), an excellent 3DCG cover (included in the document itself) by Japanese 3DCG illustrator 4DHeaven Terrace (http://heaven4d.babu.com/) and retails for a whopping $1 USD.

MEDIA WHORES -- a bizarro story of sex, zombies, and a mediamatrix looking to step on your nuts -- now on sale at Second Life: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Publishing%20Island/63/187/36

Hello, and here's a bomb for you...

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Read the rest of the story at http://www.twitter.com/junkdnafiction

Considering that the sun comes up at 430am and sets at 6pm, I think that a full 1.5 hours of daylight savings is required. In fact, I think Japan needs to revise the timezone it has been placed in completely. Not only would it save energy, but it would allow for more productivity and enjoyment in everyone's personal lives as well. It's just silly the way Japan wastes the daylight hours. This is something I have been mentioning for years now.

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20070602TDY01005.htm

Hey, I've become a WEAPON OF MASS DISTRACTION over at Twitter for slits and wiggles:

http://twitter.com/mopedronin -- for the inane semi-daily blow by blows

http://twitter.com/junkdnafiction -- which gets mentioned at Warren Ellis Dot Com (Thank you Mr Ellis): http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=4394

He didn't even write anything. He let me speak all for my self. (Fear that!)

http://twitter.com/japaneseword -- a fun little Japanese/English SMS courier.

and last but not least,

http://twitter.com/harakirific -- my first EvAR short story in Japanese (currently on hiatus).

If you ask me, it sounds like we have this year's winner for the Darwin Awards. Too bad his buddies got away. You can bet they won't pull a bullshit stunt like that again.

The poor crocs really got the short end of the stick.

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BEIJING, China (AP) -- A crocodile shot to death in south China during a search for a missing 9-year-old student was found to contain the child's remains, the official Xinhua News Agency said.

The crocodile was shot Saturday in a park in Beihai, a city in the Guangxi region, by investigators looking for the missing child. Investigators confirmed that human remains found in the reptile were that of the student, the report said.

The child, surnamed Liu, disappeared Friday after Liu and three other children climbed over the fence around a pool in the park that had been used to stage crocodile shows, Xinhua said.

"The children shot the animals with catapults and beat them with wooden sticks," the agency said. "One of the irritated crocodiles bit Liu's clothes and dragged him into water, where he was eaten by a swarm of crocodiles."

Snipers used pork to lure the reptiles from the pool on Saturday and shot the first one that crawled ashore, the report said.

No other details were given, and it wasn't immediately clear what would happen to the other crocodiles.

Local residents said the park's owner had hired a keeper for the crocodiles, but it was not clear why the man was not at the site when the students broke in, the report said.

The manager and the keeper were being held by police.

Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

I caught the immediate aftermath of this; there was a cameraman on the scene. It was extremely heartbreaking.

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TOKYO, Japan (AP) -- The shooting death of the mayor of Nagasaki by a gangster has shocked Japanese accustomed to gun-free streets, sparking calls to stop crime syndicates from evading the country's strict gun-control laws.

Nagasaki Mayor Iccho Ito, 61, was shot twice in the back outside a train station Tuesday evening and died early Wednesday. Tetsuya Shiroo, a senior member of Japan's largest crime syndicate, Yamaguchi-gumi, was captured at the scene and admitted to the attack, police said.

"This murder, which took place in the middle of an election campaign, is a threat to democracy," Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said early Wednesday. "We must eradicate violence firmly."

The shooting was rare in a country where handguns are strictly banned. It was the second attack in the last 20 years against a mayor of Nagasaki, which was flattened by a U.S. atomic bomb in the closing days of World War II in 1945 and whose leaders have actively campaigned against militarism.

The attack shook the sense of safety among Japanese, and comes on the heels of Monday's shooting massacre in the United States that killed at least 33 people, including the gunman.

"The use of guns is increasing among gangsters. I want Japanese laws to protect the general public," said Shinichi Tada, a 44-year-old manufacturing company worker in Tokyo.

"I do not want Japan to be like the U.S.," he said as he read an extra on the mayor's death handed out at a Tokyo train station.

Trivial matter
Tuesday's attack appeared to involve a trivial matter.

Shiroo reportedly clashed with Nagasaki city officials in 2003 after his car was damaged when he drove into a hole at a public-works site. He tried unsuccessfully to get compensation from the city after his insurance company refused to pay up, according to Japanese broadcaster NHK.

Shiroo also sent a letter to broadcaster TV Asahi to protest recent money scandals linked to Ito, including hidden accounts and public works contracts, Kyodo reported.

Backed by the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, Ito was campaigning for his fourth term in office before Sunday's elections. He was an active figure in the movement against nuclear proliferation.

"We are truly saddened by the passing of Mayor Ito," said Nobuhiro Uchida, vice mayor, in a statement issued Wednesday. "We could never forgive such a cowardly act and we feel strong indignation," he said.

Commonly known as yakuza, Japan's organized crime groups are typically involved in real estate and construction kickback schemes, extortion, gambling, the sex industry, gunrunning and drug trafficking.

The yakuza also have had a long-standing political alliance with right-wing nationalists in Japan, although authorities did not indicate that Tuesday's attack was politically motivated.

84,500 gangsters estimated across Japan
Organized crime groups are behind most shootings in Japan, with two-thirds of the country's 53 known shootings last year being gang-related, according to the National Police Agency. Police estimate there are about 84,500 gangsters across Japan.

Attacks on politicians in postwar Japan have been rare.

In 1960, Socialist leader Inejiro Asanuma was killed in an attack by a sword-wielding 17-year-old that riveted the nation.

In 1990, then-Nagasaki Mayor Hitoshi Motoshima was shot and seriously wounded by a right-wing extremist after saying that Japan's emperor bore some responsibility for World War II.

"This has brought such a sad and unfortunate ending for the people of Nagasaki and for Japan. Violence should not be tolerated no matter for what reason or no matter what may have happened," Motoshima told public broadcaster NHK on Wednesday.

In 2002, a ruling party politician was fatally stabbed in a dispute over political funds. In the 1990s, a Liberal Democrat lawmaker was killed at his home by his daughter and an opposition lawmaker was stabbed to death by a mental patient.

Ito was born in Nagasaki on August 23, 1945, just two weeks after a U.S. atomic bomb devastated the coastal city on Japan's southernmost main island of Kyushu.

He is survived by his wife and two daughters.

Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

Smart. A little scary, but smart.

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OTARU, Hokkaido -- A tax office here has put a set of figures of young girls seized from a tax delinquent up for auction on the Internet "to deepen understanding about the prefectural government's tax collection," taxation officials said.

The figures, which were put up for auction by the prefectural government's Otaru tax office, included characters from a love simulation game marketed in the 1990s. The figures are no longer produced and are considered valuable collectors' items.

"Our aim isn't to sell them for a high price, but to deepen understanding about tax collection in Hokkaido. We want to draw people's attention," an official from the tax office said.

In tax office-related Net actions, the prefectural government puts seized assets of tax delinquents up for sale on major auction sites such the site operated by Yahoo, and collects the money from sales.

In February this year, the tax office in Otaru put four figures seized from a toy retailer in Hokkaido's Shiribeshi district up for auction. The figures were in their original unopened packages. In the past, most of the seized items sold over the Internet have been things like automobiles and works of art, and it was the first time for authorities to sell collectors' figures. Over 100 bids were placed for the items, which went for between five and seven times the estimated figure of 1,000 yen. The top bid was 7,250 yen.

On Wednesday last week, the tax office put 10 sets of figures seized from the same toy retailer up for auction. Bidding will be open until May 1, and bids will be placed between May 8 and 10.

"In public sales in the past, only a limited variety of people such as second-hand dealers were able to participate, but with the spread of the Internet, toy figures regarded as movable assets have also attracted buyers," an official from the tax office said, commenting on the auction. (Mainichi)

I knew there was a deep-seated, instinctive reason why I never touch any of the buttons on those damn things. I do my biz, get off, flush. I don't touch buttons. NO BUTTON-TOUCHING!

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TOKYO, Japan (AP) -- Japan's leading toilet maker Toto Ltd. is offering free repairs for 180,000 bidet toilets after wiring problems caused several to catch fire, the company said Monday.

The electric bidet accessory of Toto's Z series caught fire in three separate incidents between March 2006 and March 2007, according to company spokeswoman Emi Tanaka. The bidet sent up smoke in 26 other incidents, the company said.

"Fortunately, nobody was using the toilets when the fire broke out and there were no injuries," Tanaka said. "The fire would have been just under your buttocks."

The company will repair 180,000 toilet units manufactured between May 1996 and December 2001 for free, she said. A manufacturing defect is thought to have led to the faulty wiring.

Toto has been a pioneer in high-tech toilets fitted with pressurized water sprayers -- a standard fixture in Japanese homes.

The popular Z series features a pulsating massage spray, a power dryer, built-in-the-bowl deodorizing filter, the "Tornado Wash" flush and a lid that opens and closes automatically. Prices range from $1,680 to $2,600.

The model is not sold overseas.

Copyright 2007 The Associated Press.

We just got hit with a four or five earthquake. There was a marked difference in the past earthquakes I have felt before. This one wasn't a jarring, violent type. This one was rolling watch-it! type. In fact, it felt like the whole house was riding atop of a giant wave. Our normally flat wooden floors felt like they were jelly. It was slightly exciting and slightly scary. My brother in law woke up and my wife was downstairs under a beam.

The quake was based in Ishikawa where it was a 6+. They also received tsunami warnings. Ishikawa is about an hour and a half south of her by car along the coast.

The image is from Wikipedia's English page on Ishikawa Prefecture. That's Ishikawa in dark green. Niigata Prefecture, where we live, is just two prefectures up the coast, with the island (Sado) next to it. We are very close. In fact, we are the southern most tip.



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