Alex Shibutani's blogging style is very typical of Japanese-Americans: meticulous, dry sense of humor, and so overstimulated with information that you wonder how they can remain composed while on the job, smiling proverbially without simply bludgeoning their adversary. It's like he becomes embedded in ice. Just imagine him in bed, after work or class, slaving in a fucking claustrophobic cubicle all day, crunching numbers on screen and beneath the desk. It pays the bills, eventually. That's Alex, bringing sexy back, in stellar prose, which is why their programs are breathtaking and will only get sharper: it's all in the details.
三島 由紀夫: You can easily find two contradictory characteristics of Japanese culture or characters: one is elegance; one is brutality, but these two characteristics are very hard to combine. Our brutality, I think, comes from our emotion. It is never recognized or systematized, like Nazi brutality. I think, brutality might come from our feminine aspect and elegance comes from our nervous side. Sometimes, we are too sensitive of our refinement or elegance or sense of beauty or suggestive side. Sometimes, we are tired of it. We need, sometimes, a sudden explosion to make us free from it. For instance, after the War, our brutal side was completely Hidden, but I believe it is just that, I think: Hidden. I don't like how Japanese culture is represented only by the Flower arrangement, as if it's a sort of Peace~Loving culture. We still have a very strong Warrior Mind, You know.
