{"id":910,"date":"2006-01-14T11:16:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-14T11:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/?p=910"},"modified":"2006-01-14T11:16:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-14T11:16:00","slug":"laughing-rice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/?p=910","title":{"rendered":"Laughing Rice"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today I was holding down the fort since Kuniko had to go to work early in the morning. Theoretically, I was supposed to do cleaning of the area around the apartment complex with the other residents, but since it was raining so hard, they postponed until tomorrow. That means that I won’t be able to sleep in on either weekend day – that sucks. Since Kuniko also doesn’t get to sleep in on either day (she’s gotta work), I guess that’s fair. <\/p>\n

Today they had a manzai group over at Ito Yokado. Manzai is like stand-up comedy in Japan, except that there are two people – one plays the fool, and the other continually gets tripped up by him. It’s very hard to understand for me – they talk fast and I usually can’t catch what they are saying. Kuniko really likes this pair, called Waraimeshi, and they are often on TV and pretty famous. Certainly more famous than Nishi Futami. <\/p>\n

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They were doing two shows, so I went over for the first one, and there was a whole lot of people waiting to see them. I parked over on the side and watched the crowd grow and grow. After a little while I noticed where they were moving people to the stage, and before I knew it they were walking by and they ducked into the little preparation room they had set up. I noted the time, since they had a second show later in the day. I figured I could set up in this area again and take some pictures of them as they walked by.<\/p>\n

Their performance was OK; I couldn’t understand really what was going on, but everybody in the audience was getting a kick out of it. They kept saying “no pictures” before the show, but once they got on stage everyone took them anyway. So, I joined in. The comics even joked about it, wondering out loud if everyone had heard the anouncement or not.<\/p>\n

While they were on, another ALT that lives in the next town came by and we chatted. His name is Chris Yap and he’s originally from Hawaii. He looks a lot like one of the guys from Waraimeshi, so he came to see if there really was a resemblance. I took a goofy picture with him to show Kuniko. <\/p>\n

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After a little while I came on back and spent more time memorizing words and cleaning house a little bit. Just before the next show I went over to Ito Yokado, set up in a good spot, and waited to snap a good picture for Kuniko. <\/p>\n

It was just like in the movies. They start walking towards me, I’m the only one there who knows who they are, they both smile and nod in my direction, I push the camera shutter, and the screen says “Check camera battery”. <\/p>\n

I couldn’t help but smile. Oh, well – it made a good story.<\/p>\n

Tonight Kuniko made up homemade okonomiyaki, and it was delicious. While she was cooking I was in watching the latest episode of Battlestar Galactica. <\/p>\n

Tomorrow we’re pretty much on the same schedule. I’m hoping for rain in the morning so I can go back to sleep and get some more rest. If not, I’ll be out there cleaning while Kuniko is out working.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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