I laughed until I cried when I read this one-upmanship response from Clay to Open Forum.<\/p>\n
(At the Sakai Conference in Vancouver)<\/p>\n
After the karaoke contest, and before the hockey game, there’s also
\ngoing to be an open-mike poetry reading.** In preparation for this
\nI’ve been doing research on Sakai metaphors and allusions, just in
\ncase it dissolves into a freestylin’ throwdown and I need more
\nammunition. I went to wikipedia for my research, and I’ve learned
\nthat the name has indeed a rich and storied tradition. For example:
\n“Saburo Sakai was a Japanese fighter ace during World War II. On
\nAugust 8, 1942, during the air group’s first missions of the battle of
\nGuadalcanal, he was seriously wounded in combat with Douglas Dauntless dive bombers. Although suffering from a serious head wound and blind
\nin one eye, he managed to fly his seriously damaged Zero back to
\nRabaul, where he insisted on making his mission report to his superior
\nofficer before collapsing. He was invalided back to Japan where he
\nendured a long surgery without anesthesia.”<\/p>\n
This one’s easy: Sakai does indeed teach us fortitude through agony.<\/p>\n
But I’m having a harder time coming up with meaningful interpretations
\nfor these others:<\/p>\n
“Masaaki Sakai is a Japanese popular performer from Tokyo. He fronted
\nthe mod-rock group The Spiders, formed in 1962, whose popularity
\nlasted throughout the 1960s, spawning several hit songs and five
\nfilms. He created a dance called “the Monkey” which became a craze in
\nJapan.”<\/p>\n
A modder, hmm, Peacock-ish dandies, scooters. Maybe something in
\nthere I can use about natty sophistication and battling uncouth
\n“Rockers.” Or I can just go low-brow and fall back on the monkey
\nangle.<\/p>\n
“Noriko Sakai is a J-pop singer and actress. Her debut single was
\nreleased nine days short of her sixteenth birthday. The name of that
\nsong was “Otoko no Ko ni Naritai” (I Want to Be a Boy).”
\nOK, someone help me out here.<\/p>\n
~Clay
\n** wink<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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