Saturday, March 20, 2010

YET ANOTHER REASON WHY I LOVE JAPAN, or. . .

THE CURSE OF COLONEL SANDERS







Note that the Colonel's glasses are missing. The latest I've heard is that the good Colonel is being restored and will be returned, full circle, to his original home near the Hanshin Tigers ball field.



Brand new Tatsuro Yamashita commercial jingle for Japanese KFC ad campaign:



Yet ANOTHER reason to love Japan: that nation's ongoing veneration of OUR Stephen Foster. Witness Akiko Yano's reading of an undeservedly obscure---in these climes, but not in Japan---S.F. melody, "Hard Times Come Again No More."



For J.

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