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May. 11th, 2008 | 06:23 am
location: back in time
mood: nostalgic nostalgic

Ok so I'm going through some mid-life crisis or some shit and I'm not even mid-life yet. So, please forgive my 1980's flashbacks, I can't help it...


Back in the day I had such a huge crush on Ralph Macchio! I made things in shop class with his picture! One thing was this metal plate and it was gorgeous! I wonder if that's stored away somewhere... Even my lockers at school were lined with posters of him! Good lawdy, Ralph was like the Hyde for me back then, vamps!

And for a long time Pat Morita was kinda type-cast for me as the older, wise, maintenance guy with Japanese accent from the Karate Kid movies. But did you know that originally he was a comedian? Dang, you can't tell from looking at his character of Mr Miyagi. Mr Miyagi always so serious 'n shit, vamps! But he also was on Happy Days (old time tv show with Fonzi). And did you also know that despite the fact he was born in the US, he and his family were forced to live on a camp because we were at war with Japan? Our asshole ignorant government decided that all peoples in the US who might be Japanese had to be confined against their will, just incase they were like Japanese spies or some shit. Anyway, during this time Pat Morita was just a young child and became sick with tuberculosis while at the camp.

Yeah, our government has a history of being racist 'n shit but he survived and grew up to teach us all how to wax on and wax off, :D

EDIT:
BTW, please comment if you ever had that haircut that Peter Cetera is sportin in his video, :D

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Ikuni Kea Ko

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from: [info]cerulean_chains
date: May. 11th, 2008 01:24 pm (UTC)
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I remember pseudo-studying WWII while at my old job whenever there was nothing else to do (and hey, I was working at a history museum specializing in weapons, so it was relevant XP), and on the day when I started reading about the camps I was super pissed the whole rest of the day. The whole thing smacks of hypocrisy and...ugh. Just ugh.

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melissaluvzhyde

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from: [info]melissaluvzhyde
date: May. 14th, 2008 03:23 am (UTC)
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Yeah, it was fucked up. I'm glad that Pat Morita talked about it publicly before he died. people needs to know how F-ed how our government can be.

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