urth-urth.net Digest, Vol 10, Issue 1

The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 01 Jun 2005
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turin01 Jun 2005, 17:38
anyone seen ghost in the shell ii: innocence? EOT; --- urth-urth.net-request at lists.urth.net wrote: From: urth-urth.net-request at lists.urth.net Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 12:07:19 -0700 (PDT) To: urth-urth.net at lists.urth.net Subject: urth-urth.net Digest, Vol 10, Issue 1 Send urth-urth.net mailing list submissions to urth-urth.net at lists.urth.net To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.urth.net/listinfo.cgi/urth-urth.net or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to urth-urth.net-request at lists.urth.net You can reach the person managing the list at urth-urth.net-owner at lists.urth.net When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of urth-urth.net digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: "There Are Doors" Comes To Japan (Maru Dubshinki) 2. Re: "There Are Doors" Comes To Japan (James Wynn)
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---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 21:56:20 -0400 From: Maru Dubshinki <marudubshinki at gmail.com> Subject: Re: (urth) "There Are Doors" Comes To Japan To: The Urth Mailing List <urth-urth.net at lists.urth.net> Message-ID: <f5238c305053118566d154c1c at mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 I'm afraid I plumb missed the 'There are doors' connection- I don't see how it ties in. Explanation please? ~Maru On 5/23/05, James Wynn <thewynns at earthlink.net> wrote: Japanese man gets jail time for 'kidnapping' dolls May 23, 6:12 AM (ET) TOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese man has been sentenced to five-and-a-half years in jail for snatching mannequins used by a cake shop chain to tout its wares. "Peko-chan," a round-eyed doll around the size of a six-year-old, has been used by Fujiya Co. Ltd. to sell sweets for five decades and her grinning countenance is a familiar sight in front of shops around Japan. Recently, however, she has become a favorite of collectors, leading to a rash of "Peko-chan" snatchings. Takeishi Shibuya, 31, was convicted of stealing 15 of the large dolls, valued at about 1.1 million yen ($10,170), a court official in Yamagata prefecture, northern Japan, said on Monday. In several cases, Shibuya used pepper spray and spray paint to fend off store employees, leading prosecutors to demand a sentence of nine years in prison. "But he has reflected on his crimes and feels bad about what he did, so the sentence was lighter as a result," the official said. After a wave of "Peko-chan" disappearances last year, the company suggested chaining the dolls down, but customers complained that this would be cruel. _______________________________________________ Urth Mailing List To post, write urth at urth.net Subscription/information: http://www.urth.net ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 23:15:28 -0500 From: "James Wynn" <thewynns at earthlink.net> Subject: Re: (urth) "There Are Doors" Comes To Japan To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth-urth.net at lists.urth.net> Message-ID: <000301c56660$e20a5a30$60a3f63f@wynnhouse> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Just a general obsession with dolls...treating them like people ala the concern that chaining them would be cruel. My first thought when I read the article was TAD. (shrug) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Maru Dubshinki" <marudubshinki at gmail.com> To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth-urth.net at lists.urth.net> Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 8:56 PM Subject: Re: (urth) "There Are Doors" Comes To Japan I'm afraid I plumb missed the 'There are doors' connection- I don't see how it ties in. Explanation please? ~Maru On 5/23/05, James Wynn <thewynns at earthlink.net> wrote: Japanese man gets jail time for 'kidnapping' dolls May 23, 6:12 AM (ET) TOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese man has been sentenced to five-and-a-half years in jail for snatching mannequins used by a cake shop chain to tout its wares. "Peko-chan," a round-eyed doll around the size of a six-year-old, has been used by Fujiya Co. Ltd. to sell sweets for five decades and her grinning countenance is a familiar sight in front of shops around Japan. Recently, however, she has become a favorite of collectors, leading to a rash of "Peko-chan" snatchings. Takeishi Shibuya, 31, was convicted of stealing 15 of the large dolls, valued at about 1.1 million yen ($10,170), a court official in Yamagata prefecture, northern Japan, said on Monday. In several cases, Shibuya used pepper spray and spray paint to fend off store employees, leading prosecutors to demand a sentence of nine years in prison. "But he has reflected on his crimes and feels bad about what he did, so the sentence was lighter as a result," the official said. After a wave of "Peko-chan" disappearances last year, the company suggested chaining the dolls down, but customers complained that this would be cruel. _______________________________________________ Urth Mailing List To post, write urth at urth.net Subscription/information: http://www.urth.net ------------------------------
Maru Dubshinki01 Jun 2005, 17:57

↳ in reply to turin

Um-hm. Was it just me, or did that movie seem disjointed (and cut-off) as hell? I mean, truly awesome visuals, especially that street parade left me astounded, frankly- We're a long way from "Kimba the White Lion", let me tell you. But then again, I was watching it on a seat-screen while crossing the Atlantic, so my experience was probably sub-optimal. ~Maru /is still waiting for his library to get the obscure books referenced in the movie.
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On 6/1/05, turin <turin at hell.com> wrote: anyone seen ghost in the shell ii: innocence? EOT; --- urth-urth.net-request at lists.urth.net wrote: From: urth-urth.net-request at lists.urth.net Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 12:07:19 -0700 (PDT) To: urth-urth.net at lists.urth.net Subject: urth-urth.net Digest, Vol 10, Issue 1 Send urth-urth.net mailing list submissions to urth-urth.net at lists.urth.net To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.urth.net/listinfo.cgi/urth-urth.net or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to urth-urth.net-request at lists.urth.net You can reach the person managing the list at urth-urth.net-owner at lists.urth.net When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of urth-urth.net digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: "There Are Doors" Comes To Japan (Maru Dubshinki) 2. Re: "There Are Doors" Comes To Japan (James Wynn) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 21:56:20 -0400 From: Maru Dubshinki <marudubshinki at gmail.com> Subject: Re: (urth) "There Are Doors" Comes To Japan To: The Urth Mailing List <urth-urth.net at lists.urth.net> Message-ID: <f5238c305053118566d154c1c at mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 I'm afraid I plumb missed the 'There are doors' connection- I don't see how it ties in. Explanation please? ~Maru On 5/23/05, James Wynn <thewynns at earthlink.net> wrote:
Japanese man gets jail time for 'kidnapping' dolls May 23, 6:12 AM (ET) TOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese man has been sentenced to five-and-a-half years in jail for snatching mannequins used by a cake shop chain to tout its wares. "Peko-chan," a round-eyed doll around the size of a six-year-old, has been used by Fujiya Co. Ltd. to sell sweets for five decades and her grinning countenance is a familiar sight in front of shops around Japan. Recently, however, she has become a favorite of collectors, leading to a rash of "Peko-chan" snatchings. Takeishi Shibuya, 31, was convicted of stealing 15 of the large dolls, valued at about 1.1 million yen ($10,170), a court official in Yamagata prefecture, northern Japan, said on Monday. In several cases, Shibuya used pepper spray and spray paint to fend off store employees, leading prosecutors to demand a sentence of nine years in prison. "But he has reflected on his crimes and feels bad about what he did, so the sentence was lighter as a result," the official said. After a wave of "Peko-chan" disappearances last year, the company suggested chaining the dolls down, but customers complained that this would be cruel. _______________________________________________ Urth Mailing List

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