tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26398432551748475452024-03-13T03:23:24.602-07:00Omelette au FromageCheesy thoughts from the scrambled noggin of Xum YukinoriXum Yukinorihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08336781008143133401noreply@blogger.comBlogger73125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2639843255174847545.post-3953038443106495272023-04-01T12:02:00.003-07:002023-10-09T12:22:01.697-07:00What Once Was Lost<div dir="auto"><div class="x1iorvi4 x1pi30zi x1l90r2v x1swvt13" data-ad-comet-preview="message" data-ad-preview="message" id=":r1ho:"><div class="x78zum5 xdt5ytf xz62fqu x16ldp7u"><div class="xu06os2 x1ok221b"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><div class="xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">In January 2019, <span><a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x6umtig x1b1mbwd xaqea5y xav7gou x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz xt0b8zv x1qq9wsj xo1l8bm" href="https://www.facebook.com/xum.yukinori?__cft__[0]=AZWpeh5Yatj4sxKvN8NHZOEWZ5GyW4tQeq7tz-8xGPp1cBNBqG6goS17xw9yGb6p3KJ5D-LorfByR-nNvQ-xgOp4v8-FmePzzI_9qngppWhg2fT0Ni-TCgqn1-9QOGA_Z7iTGw0XXW1MwvQJvmc2PTfBhmXgYK0W0XdHcZb7-oBr6w&__tn__=-]K-R" role="link" tabindex="0"><span class="xt0psk2"><span>Xum Yukinori</span></span></a></span> had recorded most of a planned episode for the second season of his "Done-In-One Wonders Podcast Wonder Show," but he was not happy with the audio quality of the recorded lines of one of the characters and so he decided to rerecord them. But then he was sidetracked by a special anniversary project for the Fire and Water Podcast Network, and afterwards he decided to move on to recording the next episode -- saving the incomplete episode for later <span><a tabindex="-1"></a></span>in the season when he had a chance to rerecord the lines for that one character and finish recording the rest.</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">Then Xum received the news about his glioblastoma, and he decided to focus on finishing up the podcast story that he wanted to tell -- essentially dropping that unfinished episode altogether since, to him, it was practically inconsequential.</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">After Xum passed, my son Isamu came across those old recordings, and, with the help of Adrian Zet, figured out a way to clean up and boost the audio for that one character so he sounded almost as good as he did in other episodes. And once I found Xum's printed scripts in a packing box last October, Isamu had what he needed to string the audio together the way Xum had planned.</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">But alas, while all of that one character's lines in the 46-page script was recorded -- albeit at a formerly subpar quality -- the other character lines were recorded only up to page 27. So Isamu had to rework a new ending for the podcast, highlighting the recorded lines available from the script and figuring out how he could rearrange and even splice some lines together so the conclusion would make sense.</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">Isamu was also missing recorded lines for a new character who would be featured in the opening sequence of the episode. Xum planned to ask fellow network podcaster Ryan Daly to voice that character, but never got around to it since he decided to drop the episode, and thus drop that character from his overall podcast story. So, almost four years later, Isamu would make the request in Xum's stead, and Ryan immediately agreed.</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">Isamu also suggested to the Network podcasters to have this "lost episode" of Done-in-One Wonders launch on April Fool's Day, in order to include additional funny bits from other Fire and Water podcasters, as the Network used to do on that day in the years before COVID. To this, the Network podcasters also immediately agreed, and later provided content for the commercial segments of the podcast. Isamu also pulled together some funny bits as well, using some trial clips from Xum's "Karaoke Wonder Show" as well as some "Blot the Bot" passages Isamu wrote himself.</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">And so, today, on April 1, 2023, we can all hear one more episode of Xum's brilliant podcast -- almost the way he had envisioned.</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">While it may not be complete, I know Xum would be very proud of his son.</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><a href="http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/diowp-tottm">http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/diowp-tottm</a></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> <br /></div></div></span></div></div></div></div><p> </p>Xum Yukinorihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08336781008143133401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2639843255174847545.post-9750943521277395462021-04-22T22:41:00.001-07:002021-04-23T05:14:20.134-07:00Professor Who?<p>Namiko here. I made a monumental purchase this week, at the behest of my son. A near-$150 book reprinting DC comic books printed 20 years before he was born (and about 6 years after I was). But Isamu was into these "Bronze Age" DC Comics, and especially DC's Who's Who encyclopedia series -- all because of Xum's love for them. So how could I say no? <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_NcyGtPEDN0/YIJThd55ucI/AAAAAAAAApI/JLAFavPbd_ky12jDnjhr2f99BA0N1HHGQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/whoswho4isamu.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1727" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_NcyGtPEDN0/YIJThd55ucI/AAAAAAAAApI/JLAFavPbd_ky12jDnjhr2f99BA0N1HHGQCLcBGAsYHQ/w540-h640/whoswho4isamu.jpg" width="540" /> </a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And Xum expressed his love for Who's Who by creating his own "Xum's Who" book featuring characters who were not included in the original book, characters he sort of made up when he was doing his Line work for CBR, and characters based on real people (including himself and Isamu, which likely got him into Who's Who).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">"Xum's Who" started as drawings he did for the CBR Line, and later for the Fire and Water Network's "<a href="http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/show/whos-who-the-definitive-podcast-of-the-dc-universe/" target="_blank">Who's Who Podcast.</a>" Xum could explain it all better than I. Good thing he jotted down the origins of "Xum's Who" as part of his vanity art book project, "Does this Trade Dress Make Me Look Phat?"</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5xxiryDsaIU/YIJV9dC3zyI/AAAAAAAAApQ/OzIQRhCx5skAIALrgY8yUZ9KJYZOn0u-QCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/260-LineItem177C.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1593" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5xxiryDsaIU/YIJV9dC3zyI/AAAAAAAAApQ/OzIQRhCx5skAIALrgY8yUZ9KJYZOn0u-QCLcBGAsYHQ/w498-h640/260-LineItem177C.jpg" width="498" /></a><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Q02TPy857HU/YIJWhEt8W4I/AAAAAAAAApY/rnpaChDcxvYVOh_-7mDWv2YIk9VJyIQqQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/261-LineItem177D.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1593" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Q02TPy857HU/YIJWhEt8W4I/AAAAAAAAApY/rnpaChDcxvYVOh_-7mDWv2YIk9VJyIQqQCLcBGAsYHQ/w498-h640/261-LineItem177D.jpg" width="498" /></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ErEMGn_c-mI/YIJW-AYJoGI/AAAAAAAAApo/6SdaVM5XVGcmsjbKTIbGIICC8aob82LKQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/262-LineItem177E.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1593" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ErEMGn_c-mI/YIJW-AYJoGI/AAAAAAAAApo/6SdaVM5XVGcmsjbKTIbGIICC8aob82LKQCLcBGAsYHQ/w498-h640/262-LineItem177E.jpg" width="498" /></a></div><br /></div><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ynL2TTdWg0w/YIJXKah4YtI/AAAAAAAAAps/rncmDGPYbK4PkYuxf4OvS1-F-I3NvwhXQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/263-LineItem177F.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1593" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ynL2TTdWg0w/YIJXKah4YtI/AAAAAAAAAps/rncmDGPYbK4PkYuxf4OvS1-F-I3NvwhXQCLcBGAsYHQ/w498-h640/263-LineItem177F.jpg" width="498" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I have discovered to my surprise that a lot of people were into what Xum was doing, as "Xum's Who" pages were popping up in lots of places on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, blog posts, message boards, what have you. It's just unbelievable how many people have been touched by his art, or his melding of other people's art. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">While all of the printed copies of volume 1 of Xum's Who have been given out, Xum did want to offer a digital copy (which includes pieces from Xum's unfinished Volumes 2 and 3) to anyone who wanted to have it. So Isamu and Adrian Zet set it up for download at the Fire and Water Network's Who's Who podcast site <a href="http://www.fwpodcasts.com/xy/misc/XUMsWHO_DigitalEdition.cbr" target="_blank">here</a>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">So if you are into Who's Who as Xum was and Isamu is, may you, as Xum would say, enjoy!<br /></div>Xum Yukinorihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08336781008143133401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2639843255174847545.post-21097176402034809202020-04-01T00:07:00.000-07:002020-04-01T00:07:08.414-07:00Adventures in Podcasting: Fooling Around<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Namiko’s Note:</div>
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Xum loved podcasting. It was an artistic activity that was very
dear to him as he was sadly losing more and more of the use of his body. But
while his drawing hand wouldn't work as long or as well as it used to, at least he still
had his wonderful voice. And after he was diagnosed with glioblastoma, he still
recorded for his podcasts and other stuff for a number of months as a "happy distraction" (his words)
from all the doctor appointments and awful treatment trials and putting his affairs in order. And I am glad he had this to do at home since he was essentially retired while I still had to go to work
and the kids still had to go to school. </div>
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Xum would still edit his podcasts at
first, but when the tumor started to affect his eyesight, Isamu happily stepped
in to help, as he did in Xum’s early podcast days when Isamu “learned on the
job” on how to use Audacity so he could make his own audio works. Isamu helped
with Audacity editing, and so did Adrian Zet, a friend, A-V editor, and Xum’s former
co-worker that taught Xum everything he knew about the program before <a href="https://xum-yukinori.blogspot.com/2020/02/hows-tricks.html" target="_blank"><u>he figured out some tricks of his own</u></a>. Isamu also helped his father type up
scripts and notes by taking Xum’s dictation, and was even a “voice in his ear”
when Xum guested on a few other podcasts and needed a prompt to remember his
notes when he could no longer read them. Even today Isamu and Adrian still spend
some of their free time finishing up a number of projects Xum had left
unfinished.</div>
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Xum told me that one of the most fun podcasting projects he worked
on were for the April Fool’s Day shows on the Fire and Water Podcast network, where
he would usually create funny promos for fake podcast shows, and other
comedy bits like having Yogi Bear meet a Transformer. He had <a href="http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/crossing-the-streams-19/" target="_blank"><u>done this</u></a>
for three years, (though the <a href="http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/wwll2" target="_blank"><u>second year</u></a> was just a funny karaoke bit used on a regular show that happened to run on April 1) and right after he finished the <a href="http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/fwp-cancelled2019/" target="_blank"><u>last one</u></a> he
already had ideas for what to do in 2020, and was working on those alongside his other podcasts.</div>
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He started with five ideas, and he dropped three. One was
called “Xum Yukinori Reads the Phonebook,” a response to a frequent comment
about his voice that was essentially a “careful what you'd say you could listen to” type of
joke. Another was a false ad for “Booked Xum on Phonics,” which had Xum record
every phonetic sound in the English language to create a voice simulator program
that would say anything you type in his voice. And Solomon Grundy and
Terra-Man use it to essentially insult each other. And because their typing is
not really good, the Xum voice would say things like “Cowbay Man is a bug dottie-head.”
The third was a sequel to the “Botcast“ one he did last year that was my
favorite: a near-ten-minute bit which had the bot explain Comicsgate to Grundy, which I thought was frigging hilarious, though Xum thought it would give that so-called "movement" more attention than it deserved, so he dropped it. And he dropped the other two because he didn’t think they were “funny
enough.” At least he made use of some lines from “Botcast” on his
<a href="http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/show/wondershow/" target="_blank">Done-in-One Wonders</a> Wonder Show.</div>
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So Xum went ahead with his other two ideas and added a third later
on, which was inspired by all of the early CW show crossover news that was coming out at
the time. It also involved another podcaster, Rob Kelly. And while Xum pretty
much had <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">his</i> lines worked out and practically
recorded on the spot, he was still fiddling with Rob’s lines for weeks, so a script didn’t
go to him until much later. And Isamu did a great job putting it together. Meanwhile
Adrian finished the other two, which expanded on previous funny bits Xum had
done before (one with a little Blackadder humor thrown in).</div>
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However, Fire and Water did not do an April Fool’s Day
show this year, which is understandable with all that's going on. But they did at least feature one of Xum’s fake promos on its own, which is the
best of the three IMO. You can listen to that one <a href="http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/fw-presents-crisis-on-infinite-podcasts/" target="_blank"><u>here</u></a>, and the other
two are available at the links below.</div>
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As Xum would say, enjoy! And April Fools!<br />
<br />
<span class="3oh-"> -- Namiko</span> </div>
<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.fwpodcasts.com/xy/misc/AprilFools2020-ClaptrappPromo.mp3" target="_blank">April Fool's Day 2020 promo one</a><br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.fwpodcasts.com/xy/misc/NowThatsWhatICallGrundy.mp3" target="_blank">April Fool's Day 2020 promo two</a><br />
<br />
<br />Xum Yukinorihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08336781008143133401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2639843255174847545.post-2328939998597996872020-02-28T20:18:00.026-08:002022-04-21T07:48:49.065-07:00IPDb<i>[<b>Namiko's Note:</b> As part of a school web-design project, Isamu decided to pay tribute to his late father by pulling together Xum's full "podcastography" into an interactive catalog. Isamu's actual web project is tied into his school's internal servers, so we copied the content below. I wonder if there is any way to incorporate this into <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm11261312/" target="_blank">Xum's official IMDB page</a>. And yes, that surprised <u>me</u> too.]</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Xum Yukinori</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Podcastography</b></span></div>
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[NOTE: <span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Shaded</span> episodes denote Xum Yukinori as writer and producer; episodes dated July 2019 or later were sound edited by Isamu Hideaki-Yukinori and Adrian Zet.]</div>
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<br /><span style="font-size: small;"><b>TBA</b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Lonely Hearts
Romance Comics Podcast</b></div>
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To Be Announced (TBA)…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>John Smith/Red Tornado</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">2020</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> </b></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">M*A*S*HCast </b></div>
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<a href="http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/mashcast-52-iron-guts-kelly" target="_blank">52 – Iron Guts Kelly</a> (April 29, 2020)… Himself</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">2019</b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Supersonic Pod Comics</b></div>
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<a href="http://supersonicpodcomics.com/supersonic-presents-origin-first-strike-spc002/" target="_blank">SPC002 – “Origin: First Strike”</a> (July 4, 2019)… Dr. Griffin</div>
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<a href="http://supersonicpodcomics.com/sumo-girl-1-shitaku-beya-the-preparation-room-spc004/" target="_blank">SPC004 – Sumo Girl #1 “Shitaku-Beya: The Preparation Room”</a> (July
17, 2019)… Shikkō-sha</div>
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<a href="http://supersonicpodcomics.com/the-randoms-1-the-finder-spc006/" target="_blank">SPC006 – The Randoms #1 “The Finder”</a> (August 2, 2019)… Dr.
Griffin</div>
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<a href="http://supersonicpodcomics.com/the-randoms-2-the-transporter-and-the-uniter-spc010/" target="_blank">SPC010 – The Randoms #2 “The Transporter and the Uniter”</a> (September
14, 2019)… Dr. Griffin</div>
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<a href="http://supersonicpodcomics.com/sumo-girl-3-shikiri-toeing-the-mark-spc012/" target="_blank">SPC012 – Sumo Girl #3 “Shikiri: Toeing the Mark”</a> (October
16, 2019)… Shikkō-sha</div>
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<a href="http://supersonicpodcomics.com/red-white-and-blue-broken-spc015/" target="_blank">SPC015 – “Red, White, and Blue: Broken”</a> (November 12, 2019)…
Dr. Griffin</div>
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<a href="http://supersonicpodcomics.com/the-randoms-3-the-seer-spc016/" target="_blank">SPC016 – The Randoms #3 “The Seer”</a> (June 24, 2020)… Dr. Griffin</div><div class="MsoNormal"><div class="MsoNormal">
<a href="http://supersonicpodcomics.com/the-randoms-4-the-communicator-spc030/" target="_blank">SPC030 – The Randoms #4 “The Communicator”</a> (April 20, 2022)… Dr. Griffin</div> </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">JLUCast</b></div>
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<a href="http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/jlucast-9-legends/" target="_blank">9: “Legends”</a> (March 11, 2019)… Himself</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">2018</b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Fortress of
Baileytude Podcasting Network </b></div>
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<a href="http://www.fortressofbaileytude.com/fob-podcasting-network-2018-holiday-spectacular-part-5/" target="_blank">2018 Holiday Spectacular Part 5</a> (December 22, 2018)…
Himself, L.A.N.O.S.</div>
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<a href="http://www.fortressofbaileytude.com/fob-podcasting-network-2018-holiday-spectacular-part-6/" target="_blank">2018 Holiday Spectacular Part 6</a> (December 23, 2018)… Himself<br />
To Be Announced (TBA)…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Herupa Hando Hu</span> </div>
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<span style="background-color: #cccccc;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;">The Xum for Sam Podcast!</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc;"><a href="http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/fw-presents-the-xum-for-sam-podcast-track-1-the-best-is-yet-to-come/" target="_blank">Track 1: The Best Is Yet to Come</a></span> (September 17, 2018)… Himself</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc;"><a href="http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/fwp-xum-for-sam02/" target="_blank">Track 2: Cause an Effect</a></span> (November 9, 2018)… Himself</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc;"><a href="http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/fwp-xum-for-sam03/" target="_blank">Track 3: I’m All You Need</a></span> (January 11, 2019)… Himself</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc;"><a href="http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/xum-for-sam04/" target="_blank">Track 4: Dreams Unfold</a></span> (May 16, 2019)… Himself</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc;"><a href="http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/xum-for-sam05/" target="_blank">Track 5: If Music Be the Food of Love</a></span> (July 25, 2019)… Himself</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc;"><a href="http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/xum-for-sam06/" target="_blank">Track 6: Dream City</a></span> (September 13, 2019)… Himself </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc;"><a href="http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/xum-for-sam07/" target="_blank">Track 7: Boundaries of Love</a></span> (January 22, 2020)… Himself </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc;"><a href="http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/xum-for-sam08/" target="_blank">Track 8: Breathe</a></span> (February 26, 2020)… Himself </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc;"><a href="http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/xum-for-sam09/" target="_blank">Track 9: The Power</a></span> (March 18, 2020)… Himself </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc;"><a href="http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/xum-for-sam10/" target="_blank">Track 10: True Devotion</a></span> (May 15, 2020)… Himself</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc;"><a href="http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/xum-for-sam-bonus/" target="_blank">Bonus Track: Xum for Sam by Sam</a></span> (</span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;">May 15, 2020</span></span>)... Himself </span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Shortbox Showcase</b><br />
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<a href="http://relativelygeekypodcast.blogspot.com/2018/08/ss-060-5-years-strong.html" target="_blank">Episode 60: Five Years Strong</a> (Aug 20, 2018)... The Stranger, Various Dogs</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Head Speaks</b></div>
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<a href="http://head.headspeaks.com/2018/08/episode-40-armageddon-2001-flash-annual.html" target="_blank">Episode 40: Armageddon 2001 Flash Annual 4</a> (Aug 14, 2018)... Himself</div>
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<a href="https://head.headspeaks.com/2018/09/episode-41-armageddon-2001-titans.html" target="_blank">Episode 41: Armageddon 2001 Titans Annual 4 and Behind the Podcast</a> (September 12, 2018)… Himself<br />
<a href="http://head.headspeaks.com/2020/05/episode-52-end-of-armageddon-and-star.html" target="_blank">Episode 52: The End of Armageddon and Star Wars</a> (May 7, 2020)... Himself<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Gimme That Star Trek</b></div>
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<a href="http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/startrek24/" target="_blank">Ep.24: Best and Worst of Marvel’s TMP Comics</a> (August 7, 2018)…
Himself</div>
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<a href="http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/startrek25/" target="_blank">Ep.25: TNG Full Reviews Part 1</a> (September 4, 2018)… Ensign
Xum Yukinori (“Q-Who”,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“A Matter of
Perspective” reviews)</div>
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<a href="http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/startrek35/" target="_blank">Ep.35: TNG Full Review Part 2</a> (October 8, 2019)… Ensign Xum
Yukinori, Unnamed Ensign, Unnamed Captain (“The Pegasus” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>review)</div>
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<span style="background-color: #cccccc;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;">Done-in-One Wonders Karaoke Wonder
Show</span></b></span></div>
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(May 30, 2019)… Solomon Grundy</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc;"><a href="http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/karaoke-wonder-show02/" target="_blank">Track 2</a></span>
(June 27, 2019)… L.A.N.O.S., Terra-Man</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc;"><a href="http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/karaoke-wonder-show03/" target="_blank">Track 3</a></span>
(July 18, 2019)… Terra-Man, Solomon Grundy, L.A.N.O.S., Professor Xum</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc;"><a href="http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/karaoke-wonder-show04/" target="_blank">Track 4</a></span>
(July 19, 2019)… Professor Xum, Terra-Man</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc;"><a href="http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/karaoke-wonder-show05/" target="_blank">Track 5</a></span>
(August 16, 2019)… Bizarro</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc;"><a href="http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/karaoke-wonder-show06/" target="_blank">Track 6</a></span>
(September 27, 2019)… Solomon Grundy, Terra-Man</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc;"><a href="http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/karaoke-wonder-show07/" target="_blank">Track 7</a></span>
(December 26, 2019)… Terra-Man, Solomon Grundy, L.A.N.O.S.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc;"><a href="http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/karaoke-wonder-show08/" target="_blank">Track 8</a></span>
(December 26, 2019)… Solomon Grundy, L.A.N.O.S., Terra-Man</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc;"><a href="http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/karaoke-wonder-show09/" target="_blank">Track 9</a></span>
(December 27, 2019)… Phantom Stranger, Solomon Grundy, L.A.N.O.S., Terra-Man</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc;"><a href="http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/karaoke-wonder-show10/" target="_blank">Track 10</a></span>
(December 27, 2019)… Solomon Grundy, Terra-Man</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><a href="http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/karaoke-wonder-show11/" target="_blank">Track 11</a></span></span>
(February 05, 2020)… Bizarro</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc;"><a href="http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/karaoke-wonder-show12/" target="_blank">Track 12</a></span>
(February 05, 2020)… Professor Xum, Terra-Man, Solomon Grundy</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc;"><a href="http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/karaoke-wonder-show13/" target="_blank">Track 13</a></span>
(February 05, 2020)… Terra-Man</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc;"><a href="http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/karaoke-wonder-show14/" target="_blank">Track 14</a></span>
(February 05, 2020)… Solomon Grundy</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc;"><a href="http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/karaoke-wonder-show15/" target="_blank">Track 15</a></span>
(February 05, 2020)… Professor Xum, Terra-Man, Solomon Grundy</span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">DCOCD</b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Who’s Who – The
Definitive Podcast of the DC Universe</b></div>
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<a href="http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/wwll2/" target="_blank">Who's Who in the DC Universe #2</a> (April 01, 2018)… BattleZone
Announcer, Not Billy Joel, Backup Singers</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">2017</b></div>
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<span style="background-color: #cccccc;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;">Done-in-One Wonders Podcast Wonder
Show</span></b><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #cccccc;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;"><a href="http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/wondershow-promo/" target="_blank">Promo</a><span style="background-color: white;">
(August 20, 2017): Narrator</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc;"><a href="http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/wondershow01/" target="_blank">Episode #1:Testing the Rule</a></span> (August 25, 2017)… Narrator, Professor Xum, Libra, Terra-Man,
Solomon Grundy, L.A.N.O.S.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc;"><a href="http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/wondershow02/" target="_blank">Episode #2:Call Him the Space Cowboy</a></span> (October 14, 2017) )… Narrator, Professor Xum,
Terra-Man, Solomon Grundy, L.A.N.O.S.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc;"><a href="http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/wondershow03/" target="_blank">Episode #3:He Was Zombie When Zombie Wasn’t Cool</a></span> (December 28, 2017)… Narrator, Professor
Xum, Terra-Man, Solomon Grundy, L.A.N.O.S.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc;"><a href="http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/wondershow04/" target="_blank">Episode #4:Who Xumed the Flash?</a></span> (March 2, 2018)… Narrator, Professor Xum, Terra-Man,
Solomon Grundy, Bizarro, L.A.N.O.S., Reverse Flash</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc;"><a href="http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/wondershow05/" target="_blank">Episode #5:Rise of the Legion of Xum</a></span> (May 11, 2018)… Narrator, Professor Xum, Terra-Man,
Solomon Grundy, Bizarro, L.A.N.O.S., Reverse Flash</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc;"><a href="http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/wondershow-s2promo/" target="_blank">Season 2 Promo</a></span> (July 27, 2018)… Narrator, Professor Xum, Terra-Man, Solomon Grundy,
Bizarro, L.A.N.O.S., Libra, Reverse Flash</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc;"><a href="http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/wondershow06/" target="_blank">Episode #6:Knocked for a Loop</a></span> (September 7, 2018)… Narrator, Professor Xum, Xum-For-Sam
Xum Yukinori, Terra-Man, Solomon Grundy, Bizarro, L.A.N.O.S.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc;"><a href="http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/wondershow07/" target="_blank">Episode #7:Letter Late than Never</a></span> (September 28, 2018)… Narrator, Professor Xum,
Terra-Man, Solomon Grundy, Bizarro, L.A.N.O.S. Ungarian Supreme High
Chancellor, Ungarian Subordinate, Galactic Centurions</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc;"><a href="http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/wondershow08/" target="_blank">Episode #8:The Date Knight Strikes!</a></span> (November 23, 2018)… Narrator, Rod Stromer, Professor
Xum, Terra-Man, Solomon Grundy, Bizarro, L.A.N.O.S., Bizarro Professor Xum, Bizarro
Terra-Man, Bizarro Solomon Grundy, Bizarro L.A.M.E.O., Tynolan Citizen</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc;"><a href="http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/wondershow09/" target="_blank">Episode #9:Ego Tripped</a></span> (April 26, 2019)… Narrator, Professor Xum, Terra-Man, Solomon
Grundy, Bizarro, L.A.N.O.S., Bizarro Professor Xum, Bizarro-Bizarro Professor
Xum, Bizarro Terra-Man, Bizarro Solomon Grundy, Bizarro L.A.M.E.O., Galactic
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc;"><a href="http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/wondershow10/" target="_blank">Episode #10: Blast from the Past</a></span> (June 7, 2019)… Narrator, Professor Xum, Terra-Man,
Solomon Grundy, L.A.N.O.S., Bizarro</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc;"><a href="http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/wondershow11/" target="_blank">Episode #11: Back Tracked</a></span> (August 16, 2019)… Narrator, Professor Xum, Terra-Man,
Solomon Grundy, Bizarro, L.A.N.O.S., Bizarro Professor Xum, Bizarro-Bizarro
Professor Xum, Bizarro Terra-Man, Bizarro Solomon Grundy, Bizarro L.A.M.E.O., Galactic
Centurions, Ungarian Supreme High Chancellor</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc;"><a href="http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/wondershow12/" target="_blank">Episode #12: Catch Me If You Can</a></span> (October 18, 2019)… Narrator, Professor Xum,
Terra-Man, Solomon Grundy, Bizarro, L.A.N.O.S., Ungarian Supreme High
Chancellor, Galactic Centurions, Bizarro Professor Xum, Bizarro-Bizarro
Professor Xum, Bizarro Terra-Man, Bizarro Solomon Grundy, Bizarro L.A.M.E.O., Blot</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc;"><a href="http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/wondershow13/" target="_blank">Episode #13: Missive the Point</a></span> (January 15, 2020)… Narrator, Professor Xum, Solomon
Grundy, Blot, L.A.N.O.S., Terra-Man</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc;"><a href="http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/wondershow14/" target="_blank">Episode #14: Cause that's Unchecked</a></span> (January 29, 2020)… Narrator, Professor Xum,
Solomon Grundy, L.A.N.O.S., Terra-Man</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc;"><a href="http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/wondershow15/" target="_blank">Episode #15: The End of Infinity</a></span> (February 12, 2020)… Narrator, Professor Xum, Solomon
Grundy, L.A.N.O.S., Terra-Man, Blot</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc;"><a href="http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/wondershow-update/" target="_blank">Update</a></span>
(February 19, 2020)… Professor Xum, Solomon Grundy, Terra-Man, Blot</span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">TreasuryCast </b></div>
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<a href="http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/tc17/" target="_blank">17 – Dick Tracy</a> (August 19, 2017)… Himself</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">FW Team-Up</b></div>
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<a href="http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/fwteamup4/" target="_blank">Superman and OMAC</a> (August 8, 2017)… Himself, O-SNAP
Announcer</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">JLI Podcast</b></div>
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2017)… Himself</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">FW Presents</b></div>
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<a href="http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/fw-presents-year-one/" target="_blank">Year One</a> (February 17, 2017)… Himself</div>
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<a href="http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/fw-presents-st-patricks-day-2017/" target="_blank">St. Patrick’s Day 2017</a> (March 17, 2017)… Himself</div>
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<a href="http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/crossing-the-streams-19/" target="_blank">Crossing the Streams 19: Best Tool in Ghostbusters</a> (April 1,
2017)… Phantom Stranger, Announcer, Mortimer Claptrapp, Jericho, Black Bolt,
Movie Trailer Voice Over</div>
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<span style="background-color: #cccccc;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;"><a href="http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/fwp-awodcc1/" target="_blank">The Amazing World of DC Comics</a><span style="background-color: white;"> (May 18, 2017)… Professor Xum, Sinestro, Hermo-Prej, L’Ron</span></span></span></div>
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Himself</div>
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<a href="http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/fwpmc10/" target="_blank">Mountain Comics Ep. 10 – Super Friends #8</a> (November 24,
2017)… Himself</div>
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<span style="background-color: #cccccc;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;"><a href="http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/fwpsampler/" target="_blank">The FW Summer Sampler</a><span style="background-color: white;"> (July 7, 2018)… L’Ron, Solomon Grundy, Himself, Various</span></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/fw-presents-find-your-joy-year-end-special/" target="_blank">Find Your Joy Year-End Special</a> (December 31, 2018)…
Professor Xum, Terra-Man, Solomon Grundy, L.A.N.O.S.</div>
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<span style="background-color: #cccccc;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;"><a href="http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/a-marvelous-anniversary-5/" target="_blank">A Marvelous Anniversary Part 5: Jungle Terror</a><span style="background-color: white;"> (February 14, 2019)… Mortimer Claptrapp, Ken
Masters, Tim Roberts, Professor John Roberts, John Crafton, Sah-Vah-Zhae leader</span></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/fwp-cancelled2019/" target="_blank">Cancelled Podcast Cavalcade</a> (April 1, 2019)… Trailer
Announcer, Blot, Mortimer Claptrapp, Spindly Klutz, Funky Flashman</div>
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<a href="http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/fw-presents-avengers-endgame/" target="_blank">Avengers: Endgame</a> (May 5, 2019)… Himself</div>
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<a href="http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/panel4/" target="_blank">Panel by Panel: The One Jerry Ordway Comic Xum’s Never Seen</a>
(June 6, 2019)… Himself</div>
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<a href="http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/fwpatreon/" target="_blank">Announcing: The Fire and Water Podcast Network Patreon!</a> (September
1, 2019)… Himself, Solomon Grundy, L.A.N.O.S.</div>
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<a href="http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/fw-presents-xum-yukinori/" target="_blank">Xum Yukinori</a> (January 12, 2020)… (Tribute)<br />
<span style="background-color: #cccccc;"><a href="http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/fw-presents-crisis-on-infinite-podcasts/" target="_blank">Crisis on Infinite Podcasts</a></span> (April 1, 2020)... Movie Trailer Voice Over</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: #cccccc;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;"><a href="http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/fwp_awodcc2/" target="_blank">The Amazing World of DC Comics II</a><span style="background-color: white;"> (November 16, 2020)… Himself</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/fw-presents-batman-confronts-gray-face-from-detective-comics-500/" target="_blank">Batman Confronts Grey Face</a> (April 1, 2021)… Narrator<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>(<span style="background-color: #cccccc;">"The Batman Encounters Grey Face" segment</span>)<span style="background-color: #cccccc;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;"><span style="background-color: white;"> <br /></span></span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: #cccccc;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;"><a href="http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/fwp_awodcc3/" target="_blank">The Amazing World of DC Comics III</a><span style="background-color: white;"> (August 5, 2021)… Himself</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/fw-presents-the-gun-from-batman-official-1985-annual-read-by-xum-yukinori/" target="_blank">The Gun</a> (September 16, 2021)… Narrator<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>(<span style="background-color: #cccccc;">"The Gun" segment</span>)<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></div><span style="background-color: #cccccc;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;"><span style="background-color: white;"></span></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Saturday Morning
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<a href="http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/saturday-morning-fever-2-far-out-space-nuts/" target="_blank">2 – Far Out Space Nuts</a> (January 28, 2017)… Himself</div>
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<a href="http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/smf07/" target="_blank">7 – Turbo Teen</a> (December 8, 2019)… Himself</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">2016</b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Pod Dylan </b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Film & Water
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Fire & Water
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<a href="http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/fire-water-176/" target="_blank">176 – Aquaman #s 4-6/Legends of Tomorrow #6</a> (September 25,
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Domino</div>
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<a href="http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/whos-who-update-87-volume-5/" target="_blank">Who’s Who: Update ’87 Volume 5</a> (December 13, 2015)… Professor
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<a href="http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/wwu88-4" target="_blank">Who’s Who: Update ’88 – Volume 4</a> (June 26, 2016)…
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<a href="http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/ww-legion1" target="_blank">Who’s Who in the Legion of Super-Heroes – #1 and #2</a> (January
22, 2017)… Anti-Lad</div>
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<a href="http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/wwll2" target="_blank">Who’s Who in the DC Universe #2</a> (April 1, 2018)… Woozy
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<a href="http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/wwll5" target="_blank">Who’s Who in the DC Universe #5</a> (November 4, 2018)…
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<a href="http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/wwLL7" target="_blank">Who’s Who in the DC Universe #7</a> (March 17, 2019)… Superman’s
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<i>[<b>Namiko’s Note:</b> This post was a long-time work in progress,
as Xum would jot down new learnings from his podcast recording and editing experience as
he would discover them. He planned to refine and publish this post once he
had at least 25 items. Since he didn’t get that far, we are running the post as
is, in case other podcasters of any level of experience may benefit.]</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><strike>25</strike> 18 THINGS XUM HAD LEARNED FROM PODCASTING</b></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"></span></span></span></div>
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<ol>
<li>Airplanes, and lawnmowers, are the bane of a podcaster’s existence.</li>
<li>In regards to audio thresholds on Audacity, zero-point-seven
to negative zero-point-seven is the “sweet spot.”</li>
<li>The Adjustable Fade feature of Audacity is the audio editor’s
best friend -- usually a “fade up” setting starting at 80 percent and ending at
100 is perfect for keeping louder syllables in a delivery within the “sweet
spot” (see #2).</li>
<li>In many cases where I do multiple takes, the best reading tends
to be the first part of one take stitched to the rest of another.</li>
<li>Related to #4: Why nearly asphyxiate by trying to read an
extremely long sentence, when you can read it in reasonable-length parts and
stitch them together in Audacity?</li>
<li>Related to #5: When recording a long sentence in pieces to
stitch together in editing, it is best to have at least a three-word overlap
across the area of the stitch so you have more options to find the most
natural point of transition.</li>
<li>Related to #5: The best sounds for stitching together
partial sentences are P’s, T’s, and hard C’s or K’s. (Related to #6: try to
choose words with these sounds in your “overlap space.”)</li>
<li>It is best to not delete the breaths, unless the character
isn’t supposed to breathe, like a computer voice or a zombie or an imperfect
duplicate.</li>
<li>Related to #8: Downplaying the breaths with the Adjustable
Fade function (“fade up” setting, starting at 40 percent and ending at 40 percent)
sounds more natural than a harsh replacement of silence.</li>
<li>Most natural pauses in a sentence can use an extra one-fifth
of a second of silence. In this case, it would be good to silence any breaths
taken during that pause (Related to #8: There is always an exception to every
rule; and filling unnatural silence is what the room tone is for).</li>
<li>When dealing with louder deliveries, it is better to reduce
the gain on the microphone during recording than to adjust the gain in Audacity
during editing…</li>
<li>…Just remember to set the gain back when recording at usual
levels.</li>
<li>Related to #11: A permanent marker can help you remember the
gain settings that work best for the deliveries you make the most often (my Yeti
has a blue mark for Professor Xum and Terra Man, and a green mark for LANOS,
Grundy, and Bizarro). In regards to the microphone’s resale value, you have
essentially added the “Half-blood Prince textbook” benefit…</li>
<li>One’s singing voice seems to significantly improve when
singing in a funny voice (it actually doesn’t… only <i>seems</i> to….)</li>
<li>It is actually easier to zoom into a wave form to clean up a
noticeable “pop” or “click” sound than to re-record that one line and strip it
in (especially since I tend to repeat the same pops and clicks when I repeat
the same lines)…</li>
<li>When creating a voice for characters, comfort is just as important
as coolness of effect. Episode 3 of Done-in-One Wonders forced me to rethink
how to vocalize Solomon Grundy…</li>
<li>Some effective character voices can be achieved by just
talking in a normal or slightly off-normal voice, but in a different style of
speech, and then adjust the sound pitch in Audacity (usually between -10
percent and +10 percent; otherwise the pitched voice will sound unnatural –
unless that is what you want).</li>
<li>If you have kids that show an interest, take the time to
show them how to use Audacity and let them create their own sound projects. It
fosters parental bonding, and you never know when you may need them to edit a
podcast for you…</li>
</ol>
<br />Xum Yukinorihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08336781008143133401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2639843255174847545.post-40323759310935897402020-01-07T16:12:00.001-08:002023-05-26T15:07:00.242-07:0016 wonderful years<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Almost 16 years ago, this polite, quirky, yet fascinating
man walked into my office for a job interview. I thought he was more than
capable for the position, but I guess the higher honchos didn’t think so. Despite
that, he always said it was the most important “first interview” of his life.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
The “second interview” was over a year later, at the Tadich
Grill in SF, when I happened to see him sitting alone at a table after I
finished dinner there with some friends. Something told me that I should say
goodbye to those friends right then and stop by his table and say hi. I’m so
glad I listened. Because that hello had led to an amazing 14 some years
together.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
And now he’s gone. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Xum was a fantastic husband, partner, parent, and friend.
Even when his body and health started to fail him, his heart always stayed
strong for his family and friends. Even during the past year, as he, and we,
were dealing with his glioblastoma. Even through the most depressing and
frustrating times, and there were a number of them, he would always try to keep
up his courage and grace that we had always known him best for. And he would be
quick to apologize for the times when he could not. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
For the last few months, after the tumor started to make him
go blind, Isamu and I would help Xum with his e-mails and Facebook messages. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And now, we <span class="3oh-">look at Xum's
Facebook feed and see such an outpouring of affection for him. I am amazed how
he had touched so many people without ever meeting them in person.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
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<span class="3oh-">Amazed, but not surprised. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span class="3oh-">Because that is so Xum.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span class="3oh-">Thank you for the warm thoughts, kind
words, and your love.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span class="3oh-">--Namiko</span></div>
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<span class="st"><br /></span>Xum Yukinorihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08336781008143133401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2639843255174847545.post-27710083211997857752019-09-06T17:07:00.000-07:002019-09-08T15:57:06.542-07:00Unapologetic Zaree [戯絵]Artwork by Dick Dillin and Neal Adams...<br />
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<br />Xum Yukinorihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08336781008143133401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2639843255174847545.post-89751041323419974892019-08-05T05:53:00.000-07:002019-08-05T05:53:11.486-07:00The Touch of Time<div class="MsoNormal">
There used to be a lot of things I could do.</div>
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(A number of those things, in hindsight, I probably should <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">not</i> had done.)</div>
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However, with age… and injury… and health issues of late…</div>
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There are now many things that I can no longer do.</div>
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And that list is growing.</div>
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<br /></div>
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But this is my new “new normal.”</div>
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This post is really an affirmation for myself…</div>
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To accept what I can no longer do…</div>
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And cherish everything that I still can do.</div>
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Particularly the sex.<br />
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Oh, I am <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">so</i> going
to cherish the sex…</div>
Xum Yukinorihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08336781008143133401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2639843255174847545.post-79157417735990379682019-06-06T16:25:00.000-07:002019-06-06T16:25:05.777-07:00Ohayou7 June 2019, 7.44 a.m. JST<br />
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For the first time in a long time, I awaken lying beside my lovely wife in Japan...<br />
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She still sleeps... She had been up late most nights this trip due in part to the time change... and due in part to worry...<br />
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(One day, I will need to explain why...)<br />
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But this morning, I smile... for she was up late for an entirely different reason...<br />
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*wink*Xum Yukinorihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08336781008143133401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2639843255174847545.post-56902587829301264962019-04-25T08:00:00.000-07:002019-04-25T20:22:18.697-07:00Cruel and Unusual Entitlement<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<b>April 2, 2011</b></div>
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My son, Isamu, was 6, and he loved the Flash. He had watched
his super-speed exploits on my DVDs of the 1990s live-action series and my video taped recordings of the Justice
League and Justice League Unlimited animated series. So when I had planned to
take Isamu to his first WonderCon, which was the last year it was in San
Francisco,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Namiko bought him a Flash
t-shirt to wear. Isamu beamed with pride as he wore it, and he would wave or high-five
or fist-bump a few other kids (of various ages) who wore a similar shirt on the
show floor.</div>
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I was leading Isamu by the hand to one of the vendor booths showcasing
vintage toys, and the 30-something-year-old seller there admired Isamu’s shirt
and asked him who his favorite Flash was.</div>
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I could tell by the way he looked at me that Isamu did not
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they just looked different because one was a cartoon and one was live action.
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The 30-something-year-old seller then said, “I bet it’s
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Isamu turned to me and asked softly, “Who is Wally West?”</div>
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<br /></div>
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The 30-something-year-old seller suddenly became personally
offended. He raised his voice as he asked my son. “You don’t know who Wally
West is?! Wally West is the greatest Flash ever! How can you be a Flash fan if
you don’t…?!”</div>
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I suddenly raised my voice to the seller. “Don’t you <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">dare</b> talk to my son like that!”</div>
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Isamu gripped my hand tighter. He no doubt thought he was in
trouble, even though he would not understand why. I could see he was on the
verge of tears.</div>
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I lowered my voice to the man. “So you consider yourself a
Flash fan, do you?”</div>
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The 30-something-year-old seller smirked at me. “Yep. Twenty
years now.”</div>
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“And how did you first know about the Flash?”</div>
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“The TV show. But then I read the comics, they were…”</div>
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I held up my free hand. “Stop. The TV show. The 1990 TV show
with John Wesley Shipp, yes?”</div>
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“Of course.”</div>
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“My son watched that same show… on DVD. That’s why <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">he</b> likes the Flash. And I take it that show
is why you liked the Flash as well. Otherwise you would not have bought the
comic book… am I right?”</div>
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“You bet.”</div>
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“So how much did you know about Wally West when you first liked
the Flash?”</div>
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“When I read the comic, I…”</div>
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“That was not my question. You liked the Flash because of the
TV show. How much did you know about Wally West when you first watched the
show?”</div>
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The 30-something-year-old seller looked at me like I had asked a
stupid question. “Zero. Duh,” he sneered.</div>
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“So you…. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">dare</b>… castigate my son… for not knowing
about Wally West when <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">you</b> yourself knew
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">nothing</b> about him when you became a ‘Flash
fan’?” I could barely restrain my anger at both his behavior and his hypocrisy.</div>
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That gave the 30-something-year-old seller pause. But only for
a second or two. The man then furrowed his brow, as if we was about to make a retort,
when…</div>
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“Is everything all right here?”</div>
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Up walked a 50-something-year-old seller, whom I immediately
surmised had been the actual owner, or at least the top man, of the vintage toy
booth -- and must had just came back from a break.</div>
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“No,” I said softly. “But that is okay. There are plenty of
people here who understand that being a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">fan</b>
simply means that you <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">like</b> something.”
I then smiled at my son, despite my pain from seeing that an actual tear had
rolled down his check. “Let’s go, Flash-fan.”</div>
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And we walked away. And through the din of the crowded show floor, I could hear a little bit of the 50-something-year-old
seller's faint reprimands to the 30-something-year-old seller for losing a potential
customer...</div>
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Sunday, February 24, 1980.
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The short, hardwood staff weaved a gentle path through the still air of
the Camden flat. It continued in a series of rhythmic, sweeping arcs and
thrusts — its motion steady, yet fluid. Then the staff came to a sudden halt,
as if it had struck an unseen target.</div>
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The lad at the other end of the staff opened his eyes, very satisfied
with his performance of the jō suburi. His small frame stood tall on the vinyl
practice mat in the middle of the spacious living room. He cannot help but
swell with youthful pride. He had only been instructed in the use of the jō
(short staff) for a few months, yet the lad quickly became proficient enough to
be allowed to practice the basic motions at home as part of his regular fitness
routine.</div>
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The lad exhaled a long breath and closed his eyes to repeat the
routine, when he heard a sharp buzz blare from the intercom.</div>
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The young man tensed slightly with confusion. His parents were out of
the country on business. And he was not expecting company. In fact, he had planned
to meet a friend at the library later that evening. </div>
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The talking feature of the intercom had never worked, so the lad
stepped out of the flat and into a pair of sandals by the welcome mat, then glided
down the stairwell to open the main entrance door. </div>
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“Dan. Hello…”</div>
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The lad was pleasantly surprised to discover the arrival to be Danielle,
the friend that he planned to later meet. The very comely lass of 16 years
quickly stepped inside the open doorway, looking very relieved to be in the
overheated air of the foyer. The lass’ long wool coat, thick oversized sweater,
and corduroy pants apparently did not offer much protection against the bitter
cold Camden afternoon. </div>
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Just as the door closed, the lass’s canvas tote bag dropped from her
bare left hand to the marble floor with a soft thud as she immediately shed her
coat and draped it over her left arm. She turned to face the lad.</div>
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“Hi, Xummy,” she began, her British accent thick as honey. “I know we were
supposed to meet at the library later, but I just needed to get away from the
house and… my mother, y’know?” She pushed a few errant strands of her curly bleached-blond
hair from her forehead with her free hand, her glittering sea-green eyes never
leaving his face. “So I thought I’d pick you up for our ‘study date’.”</div>
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The lad inwardly winced at the young woman’s use of the word “date,”
but that did not diminish his knowing smile as he glanced at her tote bag. “And
you needed a place to change,” he continued.</div>
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“And I needed a place to change,” she confirmed laughingly as she
picked up the bag. “You know me so well…” Her voice trailed off as she looked
at the lad’s gi and hakama intently. “I see you are doing your Ice… Eye…”</div>
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“Aikido,” the lad finished, smiling slightly. Most
of the other students in his fifth form class would generally, and thus erroneously,
refer to his martial art as “Karate”. The lass seemed to be the only one to
make the effort to know the actual name.</div>
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“Right. Eye-kiddo,” she attempted. (The lad felt it was close enough.)
“Should I come back later…?”</div>
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“Oh, no… no. Please…” the lad quickly said, gesturing the young woman
toward the stairwell. </div>
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Her apologetic eyes seemed to flicker with relief as she sighed.
“Thanks, Xummy. My mother was supposed to go shopping, but changed her mind.
And I don’t want to change in the library toilet.”</div>
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“Of course,” the lad assured her as the pair started to ascend the
stairwell toward his parent’s flat. “No trouble at all.”</div>
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The beautiful lass smiled warmly. “I’m so lucky to have a friend like
you.”</div>
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The lad returned the smile. The feeling was mutual. The two had become
such good friends — and so quickly — after that memorable school day last October.
The lad was not quite sure how; it just… happened. Their <a href="http://xum-yukinori.blogspot.com/2012/03/dont-let-me-be-misunderstood.html" target="_blank">first meeting</a>
came from the lass’ need to better understand Shakespeare in order to keep pace
with their literature class, and she had seen how the lad demonstrated his firm
handle of the subject matter in the classroom discussion. However, in their
first study session in the library later that day, the pair had learned more
about each other than about the writings of the Bard.</div>
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Perhaps the reason that they seemed to immediately… click… was the fact
that they saw each other in a way that was different than how other students
had viewed them (which was essentially the typical teenage stereotypes of
“bookworm” and “tart”). They actually saw each other as people who realized that neither
of them seemed to truly fit in with any of the traditional social circles of
their school. </div>
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Of course, the lad’s intentions toward Danielle immediately fell under
suspicion by her disciplinarian parents, particularly her mother, when they had
found out about that initial study session. They had every right to be
suspicious, for the lass had lied to them about the length of time she had
spent studying with the lad — as an alibi for a supper she secretly had with
another boy afterward. The lass did confess to the lad in their first library
meeting that her parents had forbidden their daughter from dating because they
believed she was “much too young” to be doing so. While they had both felt that
the restriction was quite excessive, the lad had liked to believe that the
parents were intent on protecting their daughter, and that their hearts were in
the right place. </div>
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And yet, in an uncharacteristic act of dishonesty (the reason for which
the lad could not fully explain at the time), the lad corroborated the lass’
tale to her mother, who demanded to meet him immediately after school dismissal
the following day. While the mother did not approve of her daughter spending
time alone with a boy, she did agree that his tutoring can be helpful. So the
mother would accompany the pair on their subsequent study sessions. After a few
weeks, the lad’s characteristic courtesy and earnest desire to help her
daughter with schoolwork eventually led the mother to trust them to study in
the library on their own.</div>
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The lad knew that the lass’ mother would feel very differently about
trusting them if she knew her daughter was currently standing in her stocking
feet within the lad’s home without a chaperone. The lass had admitted on
numerous occasions how much she had envied the lad’s seemingly independent
lifestyle. This was actually borne out of family tradition (he had learned, as
both of his parents did, how to cook for both himself and the family since the
age of ten), as well as necessity, given that his parents’ work schedules and
business travel required him to fend for himself much of the time.<span style="color: red;"></span></div>
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The lad also knew that Danielle’s mother would feel very differently
about trusting them if she knew that their study session today was really a
front for the lass’ plans to have a “secret rendezvous” with… Derek, he believed
his name was. Derek was a nineteen-year-old that worked at one of the small
pubs near their school. Derek was also the latest of four boyfriends that the lass
had been covertly dating since the second study session after her mother
stopped supervising them. </div>
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Of course, the lass would not have been able to manage all of these
secret affairs without the lad providing an alibi. Again, the lad was not fully
sure why he would bluff to the lass’ parents about what their daughter does
under the pretense of their lengthy study sessions. Perhaps to the lad’s
youthful mind, the lass’ parents appeared to be unreasonably strict regarding
her social life. It had seemed that the few times they had permitted her to be
out of her home were only related to school and studying.</div>
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In fact, not every lie was covering a clandestine tryst with a secret boyfriend.
On a few occasions the lad and lass would spend their “study time” together at
a local eatery, or at the cineplex, or on long walks through a harsh British
winter (with much of the warmth coming from their conversation… and her
laughter).</div>
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For the most part, the lad agreed to cover for the lass’ dating, and
their time spent cultivating their friendship, on the condition that they do go
to the library and spend some time actually studying. That way the lad would
not be technically lying when asked about their study sessions. He knew that a
lie of omission was still a lie, but he at least justified these slight bouts
of deceit (at least to himself) by having his actions encourage his friend to
spend more time on her schoolwork. Plus, the lass’ marks were improving — which
greatly pleased her parents and essentially sealed their approval of their
unchaperoned study sessions.</div>
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The lad remembered the joy that flickered in Danielle’s eyes a few
weeks ago when she received a perfect score on her literature exam (the first
she ever had). To reward and celebrate her achievement, the lad treated her to
an after-school fish-and-chips at a nearby pub. The pub’s owner happened to be
a friend of the lad’s father, so he had no qualms about allowing the underage
lad and his plus-one to come in on their own to have a meal. It was during this
repast that their server — Derek — caught the lass’ eye, and she had obviously
caught his...<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: red;"> </span></i></div>
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…And later today they would have their third date, for which
the lass was readying herself in the privacy of the lad’s bedroom.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>While the lass did not share any
details of her last two encounters, the enthusiasm she expressed to the lad
implied that her relationship with Derek was progressing well. </div>
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The lad stepped back onto the practice mat. He drew a pained breath as
he glanced down the hallway that led to the room where the lass was changing.
He felt a touch of envy… and also felt a little ashamed for doing so. He knew for
certain that, although their relationship was platonic, he and the lass had
never known another person more intimately than they had known each other. But recently,
he started to hope that their burgeoning friendship would evolve into
something… more.</div>
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The lad shook his head, as if that would somehow help hurl those
thoughts out of his mind. He picked up the jō he left on the floor by the practice
mat, and placed his body in hanmi to resume the suburi. But while his stance
was correct, the staff seemed to feel… different in his hands than it did
before. His first choku tsuki felt a little clumsy, and the second attempt at
the strike was completely out of alignment. Not wanting to engrain an improper technique
into his form, the lad discarded the jō and instead decided to finish his
workout with ashi-sabaki undo.</div>
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As the lad’s father would say, “When the hands do not work, work your
feet.”</div>
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The basic footwork exercises of Aikido were second nature to the lad. Each
step, slide and pivot was made with fluid, yet mechanical precision. They were also
mostly driven by muscle memory as the lad’s mind drifted toward thoughts of the
young woman who was in his bedroom taking off her…</div>
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His brow furrowed. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Enough of that</i>,
he chided himself. He closed his eyes and mentally recited the names of each
ashi-sabaki step he performed in an attempt to quell his hormonal thoughts. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Tenkai… Tankan… Irimi-tenkan… Okuri-ashi
tenshin... Ayumi-ashi tenshin…</i></div>
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It took a few dozen iterations, but the ashi-sabaki finally started to
lull his anxious mind…</div>
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The lad’s exercise and meditation was interrupted by a slight feminine
giggle. He opened his eyes to see Danielle standing before him. Blinking with
slight embarrassment, his eyes instinctively performed a rapid sweep up and
down the lass’s body… just enough to take in her appearance.</div>
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<br /></div>
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She was wearing an outfit her mother would most definitely never
approve: a tight black halter top with a plunging neckline and a very short form-fitting
denim skirt over a pair of sheer black stockings (that the lad vainly hoped
would keep her warm in the frigid outdoor air).</div>
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<br /></div>
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While the lad did admire the lass’ shapely figure (he had both 16 years
of age and male hormones, after all), he only gave it the briefest regard. His
gaze tended to linger on what he liked to see on his friend the most: the sly
glint of sea-green in her eyes, and her smile. </div>
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<br /></div>
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And he still liked to see those eyes and that smile even though they were
currently covered with too much makeup (the lad thought that any amount of makeup
was “too much”). He had once asked the lass why she wore it, trying to hint
that she did not need it, and she told him that she found the act of putting on
makeup to be “fun.” It made her “feel like an actress preparing for an
important role.” The lad then wanted to know whether the lass felt that she had
to act as someone else while dating, and why she could not simply be the lovely
person she already was. These would be two of many questions the lad would
regret not asking her…</div>
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<br /></div>
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On the practice mat, the lad noticed the lass was staring at him. Her
face appeared a bit critical. “What is it?” he asked. </div>
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<br /></div>
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“Your eye-key… ah… footstep thing. You make it look so… graceful.” The
green in her eyes was more pronounced now, almost glittering. “Hard to believe
this is the awkward boy I usually see shuffling about to class…”</div>
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<br /></div>
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The lad smiled slightly and shrugged. “Well, I’ve been performing Aikido
for years,” he began, stressing the name of the martial art. “Practice long
enough and it becomes a part of you.” The lad said this very matter-of-factly,
with no sense of self-aggrandizement whatsoever.</div>
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<br /></div>
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“Ah.” The lass smiled with acknowledgement and glanced around the
living room, eying the small radio on a corner table. “Well, if you’re done, is
it okay if I put on some music while I wait for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">you</i> to change?”</div>
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<br /></div>
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The lad nodded, and watched the lass’s smooth slender hand snap on the device
and work the tuner from the original news talk programming through intense
waves of static until she found a popular music station that suited her fancy.
The opening notes and lyrics of “Babe” performed by Styx started to fill the
room.</div>
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<br /></div>
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The young woman cooed. “Ooh, I love this song!” She was immediately at
the lad’s side tugging at his arm. “Dance with me… please?”</div>
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<br /></div>
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The lad swallowed… hard. “I… uh… do not know how…” he stammered.</div>
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<br /></div>
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The lass giggled again. “You kiddin’? With all your fancy ice-kiddo footwork,
slow dancin’ should be dead simple. Here…” She took the lad’s right hand and guided
it to rest on her left hip, and chuckled softly as the lad quickly moved it up
to her waist. With a gentle nod and a puckish grin she gripped his left hand
tightly. “I’ll lead.”</div>
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<br /></div>
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And she did. The lad’s first stumbling steps quickly started to find a gentle
circular rhythm as his comely companion slowly steered him around the practice
mat. For a brief moment, the lad’s eyes locked with hers, and he knew in his
heart that he would be willing to follow this woman… anywhere. </div>
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<br /></div>
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Dennis DeYoung’s vocals continued to profess feelings for a true love
that had to be left behind, and then moved to the chorus, which echoed some of the
lad’s thoughts toward the lass who was leaning, almost snuggling, closer
against him.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: .5in;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">You know it's
you, babe</i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: .5in;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Whenever I get
weary/And I've had enough</i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: .5in;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Feel like giving
up</i></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: .5in;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">You know it's you,
babe</i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: .5in;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Giving me the
courage/And the strength I need</i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Please believe
that it's true</i></div>
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<br /></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Babe, I love you</i></div>
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<br /></div>
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The words seemed to hang in the air as the electric guitar and
synthesizers commenced an instrumental solo. </div>
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<br /></div>
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It was then that the lad started to feel Danielle’s head gently settle on
his left shoulder — a familiar weight that reminded him of the three somber
occasions whereby the lad had comforted the young woman as she softly sobbed
over a painful break-up from a boyfriend. But then the lad felt the mass of the
lass’s full breasts as they suddenly pressed closer against his pounding chest.
There was both a rush of warmth and a cold tingle in his stomach as the young
woman’s hands slid behind his back and clutched him tightly.</div>
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<br /></div>
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“Dan?” The lad was concerned. He could feel her body trembling. “What’s
wr…?”</div>
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<br /></div>
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“Shh,” she whispered, without moving her head. “Just hold me, Xum.
Please.”</div>
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<br /></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">You know it's
you, babe</i></div>
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<br /></div>
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The lad wrapped his arms around the lass as they continued to sway so very
slowly across the vinyl mat. <span style="color: red;"></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: .5in;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Giving me the
courage/And the strength I need</i></div>
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<br /></div>
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His steps felt much steadier now, and he boldly pulled her even closer
in their embrace. </div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: .5in;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Please believe
that it's true</i></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
He wanted nothing more but to keep practicing this slow dance until her
touch and her warmth would become very much a part of him…</div>
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<br /></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Babe I love you.</i></div>
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<br /></div>
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The music started to slowly fade, and the pair were startled by the
harsh chimes that brusquely signaled the radio station news and traffic report.
Reluctantly, the lad released his dance partner as she removed her hands and had
taken a few slow steps back. She kept her head down, gazing at the mat lying beneath
them.<span style="color: red;"> </span>The lad thought he heard a slight sniffle
as she was taking in a breath.</div>
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<br /></div>
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“Dan…?” the lad began. His voice was still tinged with concern as he
saw her hand move to her eyes as she turned toward the living room window.</div>
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<br /></div>
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With her free hand the lass waved away the question. “I’m okay. I
just…” she started to say softly, cutting herself off to draw another long
breath. She exhaled it in a strong audible sigh. “Whooo, boy!” she suddenly
exclaimed. “You are a better dancer than you think, Xummy.” She turned back to
the lad, flashing a cheerful grin. “You’ll sweep some lucky girl off her feet
someday. Just you wait and see.”</div>
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<br /></div>
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The lad’s eyes searched her face intently… and helplessly. He desperately
wanted to know what was bothering her just then, and how he could help. Also,
selfishly, he hoped to find some sign that she may had been dodging the very
thought that was on his mind: that this inexplicable connection the two of them
shared since the moment they first met may be more than just friendship. But he
was not… could not… be sure she felt the same way.</div>
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<br /></div>
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He also lacked the courage to make an attempt to find out.</div>
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<br /></div>
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“Um… Xummy?” the young woman
began slowly. “You better go change if we are going to get some studying done,
yeah?”</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
The lad found his voice. “Ah… right. Yes…” The lad’s face returned a
smile, but there was a note of sadness to it. He had missed his chance. “We do
have a bit to go through before you run off with Derek this evening.”</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
The lad saw the lass’s warm smile widen at the name of “noted boyfriend
number four”, and his heart cracked a little more. “I’ll just be ten
minutes…” he added after a long pause. He started down the hallway toward his
bedroom.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
The lad would actually take a little longer, for he had discovered
that, while he hardly broke a sweat during his 30 minutes of Aikido routines,
he was perspiring profusely under his gi during the not-even-two-minute slow
dance. So he quickly showered before dressing in a white button shirt and denim
pants. In five minutes, he would don a thick pullover sweater and gather his
books and notes in a knapsack. Then he would help the lass with her coat and
carry her tote bag and his knapsack as they made their way to the train station
and eventually to the library, stopping for a hot Cornish pasty at their
favourite bakery on the way. Then they would have a lengthy study session, followed
by a longer, effervescent discourse on a number of personal and trivial
subjects — including one in which the lass would give the lad a smile that he
would treasure forever. Eventually, Derek would arrive and she would depart
with a muted goodbye… and the lad would watch the couple walk away arm-in-arm until
they were out of his sight. Then he would gather his belongings and make his
way home to cook supper. And of course, he would prepare himself to lie if…
when… the lass’ mother asks him about how the study session went — for he
realized that he had fallen in love with the lass, and would thus do anything
for her… including enabling her to be with another.</div>
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<br /></div>
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But the rest of this day would start in five minutes. Right now, the
lad, still in his room, silently flung himself over on his back on his bed,
exasperated.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Why didn’t I say anything?</i></div>
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<br /></div>
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He stared at the ceiling, completely unaware that a <a href="http://xum-yukinori.blogspot.com/2012/03/dont-let-me-be-misunderstood.html" target="_blank">few short weeks later</a>
he would look back upon this selfsame moment: As he lay in grief on that
selfsame bed — thinking about how the selfsame halter top and skirt of
Danielle’s, folded neatly amid black lace in a spare knapsack in the corner, would
never be returned to their owner — he would ask himself that selfsame question.</div>
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<br /></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Why was I such a coward?</i></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
The man sat in his Air Hawk motorized wheelchair in the
corner in the grand living room, which was a little more luxurious and ornate than
what he was used to. He felt slightly thirsty, but left his glass of water sweating
on the small side table against the wall beside him. He was instead watching
the twenty-some other guests who gathered in small clusters around the room,
engaged in lively conversation. It was the first party the man had attended since
he had become confined to his chair, having lost most of the use of his left
arm and leg a few months ago. And despite his weeks of practice with the Air
Hawk, he was a bit apprehensive maneuvering the chair through the crowded room.
So he was content with having his lovely wife fetch some hors d'oeuvres for him
while he parked himself out of the way, and mulled over his own lively
conversation from a few moments before in the host’s private den. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
The party was held in the home of a mild acquaintance, the
supervisor of one of the man’s business associates in the health care industry.
The associate and the supervisor have been working with the man on a prospectus
for a pilot study for a new experimental rehabilitative therapy developed in
Japan — one that may actually assist in helping the man regain his lost
mobility. The three of them have had a number of discussions on the matter over
the last several weeks, mostly on how to persuade the Japanese developer to
pilot with their medical firm. But this evening, the man and his wife were invited
by the supervisor to his social-cum-business gathering at his impressive Mountain
View home to talk about having the man qualify as a potential test subject when…
if… the pilot is a go. The associate was still in the den with the supervisor as
they had additional business to discuss, but he encouraged the man and his wife
to stay and enjoy the party.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
While the man was elated by the news, he still looked at the
cool glass of water with mild disdain. He had spent most of his recent days in
t-shirts and sweatpants, but he had to dress in a button shirt with slacks and a
blazer for this occasion. He had learned on a recent business trip that this
attire adds an additional layer of complexity when he had to use the
facilities, so he was trying to minimize that need as much as possible.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
It was then that the man noticed that all of the people in the
room suddenly stopped talking. All except for one, who was talking quite loudly.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
A rather large man who appeared to be a bit underdressed for
this gathering was arguing with his sharply dressed female companion near the drink
station. The man in the wheelchair did not really pay much attention to the
actual words yelled as he did to the person’s tipsy demeanor. The woman made a
dismissive wave to the inebriated man and turned to walk away, when the drunkard
angrily seized the woman’s slender arm.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
“You’re hurting me…” she groaned, trying to twist away, but
she couldn’t break free.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
The man’s eyes narrowed as he worked the controls of the Air
Hawk to point the caster wheels directly at the couple. Aside from his wife, he
hardly knew any of these people around him, but he still could not believe how
they could just stand idly by while this was happening right before them. The
man’s slender fingers pressed the joystick of his Air Hawk forward.</div>
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The man caught the look of his wife from across the room as
he was guiding the chair towards the argument. With his only working hand on
the controls, the man had to cock his head to one side repeatedly in order to
gesture toward the woman in the drunkard’s grip. The man was pleased to see his
wife received the message and was working her way toward the other side of the
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wheelchair as he made his approach. The man considered using the chair’s
electronic horn, but instead decided to keep the chair moving, extending his
good right leg as high as possible so he could give the drunkard a sharp nudge
in the posterior upon his arrival.</div>
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As the man hoped, his sudden “kick” made the drunkard let go
of the woman and turn toward him -- just as his wife arrived from the other
direction. The man lifted his chin imperiously toward the intoxicated brute. He
just needed to hold the bully’s attention long enough for his wife to help lead
the maltreated woman out of the room and into the kitchen. “That’s quite
enough,” the man said sharply. “Perhaps you should step outside and cool off.”</div>
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The brute bristled. “This <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">your</i> party, Mr. Sulu?” he scoffed. </div>
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The man suppressed his mild surprise that the drunken taunt
was focused on his ethnicity rather than his disability, and instead repeated
himself in the precise manner he had used before. “Again, I suggest you step
outside and…”</div>
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to the left side of the man’s wheelchair, placed the sole of his right workman’s
boot against the frame crossbar below the chair’s seat saddle, and pushed. The
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That action triggered a collective gasp from the onlookers
in the room. As the man struggled to shift his half-motionless body from its sprawled
position on the floor, he could not help but mentally repeat with <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">acerbity</span> the part of the Air Hawk sales
pitch regarding how being the “lightest lightweight power wheelchair” offered “the
greatest flexibility and range of motion”...<br />
<br />
With a grunt of effort, the man managed to lay flat on his
back, and could see the brute slowly lumbering away from him, looking around the
room for his female companion. The man strained to lift his head so he could get
a clearer view of the crowd, to no avail. All he could do was hope that the
women had already made it to the kitchen so the maltreated woman would be hidden
from view… and that his wife did not see what had just occurred.
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One of the other male guests finally found his voice. “That
does it. I’m calling the police.”</div>
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That sentence had finally convinced the intoxicated brute to
head for the front door. In a few moments the partygoers would hear a distant screeching
of tires and an obnoxious rev of a car engine as he made his departure.</div>
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brute for only a brief time, and that this was the first and only sign of abuse
that she had experienced. The host insisted that she stay the night in his home
as a precaution, and the host’s wife would kindly provide whatever provisions
she needed. The man was disappointed that no one actually called the police,
but the woman did not want to press any charges. The man was also concerned
that the brute was driving a car while intoxicated, but all he could do was
hope that the brute would make it home without causing any harm to himself or
others. </div>
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The man slowly wheeled his chair down the walkway, following
his shapely wife as they made their way toward their car parked along the
street. Before they reached it, the wife suddenly turned and tossed her husband
an austere look.</div>
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“Just what the hell do you think you were doing? Standing up
to that—” The wife bit her lip at her choice of words, but after a pause
she continued. “Did you think that the guy wasn’t gonna fight you just because
you were in a wheelchair?”</div>
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“Well, I was hoping…” the man said with a little cheek. He flexed
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“Don’t joke about this!” she snapped. Her voice sounded a
little panicked, and the man was surprised to see that she was on the verge of
tears. “When you had that… attack, and we had to call the ambulance, I was so
scared. The <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">kids</i> were so scared. I don’t
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The man tried to reassure her. “Namiko, I’m okay… really… I…”</div>
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“No, sometimes I think you’re not,” she countered. “It’s
almost as if you have forgotten what happened to you. As if you can just do anything
you used to…”</div>
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The man held up his right hand. “Believe me, I am aware… painfully
aware… of my limitations,” he said earnestly. “But you know I cannot just sit
there and let someone…”</div>
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“I know,” she sighed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“I know you always have this urge to help people – even total strangers.
It’s one of the things I love about you. But please... <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">please</i>… just<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>promise me
that you will give someone else a chance to jump in and help before you put
yourself in harm’s way like that, okay?”</div>
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The man nodded. He felt that was what he had essentially done
earlier that evening, but he knew what his wife truly meant. “Okay. I promise,”
he said quietly, his tone dead serious. </div>
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“Okay,” the wife said, satisfied. All signs of worry evaporated
from her face. She gently touched the man’s left cheek with her fingers, and
then brought her mouth to meet his.</div>
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<br /></div>
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“Thank you for that,” the man said after their lips parted. “And
for helping her out. I don’t regret doing what I did, seeing how much we helped
that woman. But I also know what I did was pretty stupid, seeing how quickly he
took me down…”</div>
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“Maybe so,“ the woman smirked, “but you literally kicked his
ass.”</div>
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<![endif]--><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Johur Baru, Johor, Malaysia, November 1997</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The man observed that the shopping
centre was abuzz with excitement over the Saturday event that has drawn several
children and their families from across the city and neighboring towns. And no
wonder. The main stage in the promenade, normally reserved for local musical
performances, was under attack by two alien mutant monsters from outer space –
each almost a towering two metres tall! One appeared to be half-man, half turtle;
the other half-man, half lobster. While both monsters looked utterly grotesque,
the bright colors of their foam rubber bodies made them appear not too scary
for the youngest of the younger crowd.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Fortunately, the monsters’ evil
scheme to destroy the weekend afternoon commerce was about to be thwarted by
flashes of red, blue, black, pink, and yellow that leapt, cartwheeled, and
somersaulted onto the stage. The speeding arrivals surrounded the monsters, each
pausing in a fighting stance so the cheering crowd of over two hundred
onlookers can have a good look at the brightly colored spandex-and-lyrca
outfits of the six fully masked super sentai heroes that most of the kids had instantly
recognized as the Power Rangers.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">However, the quintet was not the actual
Power Rangers from the television programme or the fairly recent movie. In
fact, those with a keen eye can see that the uniforms, while in the correct
colors, were not quite the same as their on-screen counterparts. The diamond
motif had been replaced with ovals, and the dinosaur patterns of the helmets
appeared to be more bug-like. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">That was because the five heroes and
two monsters on stage were not officially licensed Power Ranger or Zyuranger
performers like the ones that toured in Kuala Lumpur and Singapore a few years
ago. They were actually the Sentai Seven, a quasi-professional performing
troupe comprised of seven very talented martial artists and acrobats from
Singapore, Malaysia, and Australia who presented live Power-Ranger-like shows
at local events throughout Southeast Asia – usually to draw in customers to drum
up local business, which they no doubt were doing for the shops and eateries in
that J.B. shopping centre that day.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">(Now that I had made clear the fact of who these heroes are
not, please note that, to allow for ease of writing, this post will continue to
refer to these performers as “Rangers” since that was who they were supposed to
represent.<span> </span>Please keep in mind that at
this particular event, or at any other Sentai Seven show, they could not
officially – nor legally – be referred to as such.)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">This had actually been the first
time the Sentai Seven (referred only as “your kids’ favorite heroes” during the
show and in the event adverts) had performed in Malaysia in a number of years. The
troupe was quite popular when the “Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers” programme had
taken the country (as it did the world) by storm on Radio Television Malaysia (RTM)
2. That was before a few parents and government officials were concerned that
the show would have a negative influence on children because the word
“Morphin’” in the title sounded like “morphine”– and that would somehow
encourage impressionable young minds to want to abuse drugs. So the programme was
banned from Malaysia for a time, and the troupe decided to perform in other
countries at that point.</span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">That meant the children had to get
their Super Sentai fix either by watching the Japanese programme, “<span>Choushinsei Flashman,</span>” dubbed in Malay on RTM1, or settling for the (thankfully)
short-lived chintzy American knockoff television series, “Tattooed Teenage Alien
Fighters from Beverly Hills,” on Metrovision 8.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The ban did not last too long, however.
Eventually, the movie based on the “Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers” series was
allowed to be screened in local theatres with the shortened title, “Power
Rangers: The Movie.” The television programme was soon allowed back on the air
when it followed the same naming convention. And now that the show had
returned, so too had the Sentai Seven.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The man was at the shopping center event,
of course, enjoying an exclusive vantage point of the show. He was paying
particular attention on the movements of the performer who portrayed the
doppelgänger of the Yellow Ranger Trini – and with good reason.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">(No, not <i>that</i> reason). </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Since the man worked for the
advertising agency that served the property management company for the shopping
centre, and was good friends with the centre’s event organizer, he was able to meet the troupe performers and watch them practice their routine (both
in costume and in athletic sweatsuits) earlier that week. He remembered the
horrible moment when he saw the sweet young woman who was the Yellow Ranger of
the troupe accidentally fall against the edge of a raised platform during
practice and tear her clavicle loose, just three days before the show.</span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The remaining “Sentai Six” were scrambling
to figure out how to best restructure the choreography with one less performer,
when the event organizer had a suggestion for a potential fill-in. A few calls
were made, and the candidate was auditioning at the troupe’s practice area
later that afternoon. The candidate had promising skills, but admitted to having
not practiced in several months, and was thus “a bit rusty.” However, the
candidate would work as a viable stand-in with only a few minor cuts to the
choreography, limiting the new Yellow Ranger’s routine to martial arts only and
no acrobatics beyond breakfalls. Further, the man, a Yondan in Aikido, was
willing to work long hours with the troupe in order to train the candidate to be
ready for the show in time.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">In addition to lacking some
acrobatic skill, the candidate was also not quite as… built as the original performer,
but that was easily fixed with a bit of strategically placed padding.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">On the shopping center stage, the
entire Ranger team pretended to be knocked backward by a broad sweep of the
Turtle-Man’s arm, eliciting first a collective gasp of shock from the kids in
the crowd – and then a communal cheer as the Rangers all used rolling
breakfalls to immediately right themselves back on their feet, ready to resume the
fight.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The man silently winced as he
noticed the Yellow Ranger tip slightly after standing from the ushiro ukemi. Despite
his and the troupe’s best efforts during the long two days of the stand-in’s intensive
training and practice, the padding still threw the new performer’s balance off
a touch. This was soon further evidenced by the Yellow Ranger’s roundhouse kick,
aimed to intentionally miss the side of the Turtle Man’s face, accidentally
connecting with his right shoulder, actually knocking him to the padded stage
floor.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Yellow Ranger immediately pulled
the opponent up to a standing position by the scruff of the foam rubber turtle
shell. Before the audience could register what the man knew was a brief check
that the fallen actor was unhurt, the yellow-clad performer mimed an overelaborate
bowling throw as the Turtle Man somersaulted off-stage in simulated defeat.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Aside from that small hiccup, which was
very likely perceived by the crowd as a normal part of the act, the performance
went swimmingly. In fact, the final act of all five Rangers vanquishing the
threat of the Lobster-man, which climaxed with the monster disappearing from
the stage (a magician technique using flash powder, a smoke machine, and the aforementioned
raised platform with a built-in trap door), was well-received by the applauding
audience.</span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Shortly after the performance, there
was a “meet and greet” session that was originally supposed to have the kids
line up to shake the hands of each of the “Rangers” in succession as they moved
across the stage, but it quickly reverted to a disorderly mob of kids and
adults flocking around the troupe to shake hands and take pictures of the team
of masked heroes. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">One person among the crowd behind
the heroes had a different reason for being on the stage.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">As soon as the man realized what was
happening, the rest of the crowd was suddenly made aware via the sound of a loud
male scream. They all then saw the Pink Ranger twisting the right hand of a
surprised 30-something-year-old Indian male, as she forced him backward through
the quickly parting crowd, and roughly shoved him against a nearby pillar at
the back of the stage. The Yellow Ranger followed closely behind.</span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The greasy-haired, lightly mustached male was clearly three times the weight of the Pink Ranger, and even though that extra
mass can be considered more flab than muscle, he could have easily knocked down
the Pink Ranger with a little leverage. The only thing that was preventing the
male from doing so was the pain of his hand bones, which the man could see were
straining toward the point of dislocation in the Pink Ranger’s gloved grasp.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Malay security guard assigned to
accompany the troupe quickly approached the two Rangers and inquired what was going
on. Before they could respond, a young boy at the front of the crowd pointed to
the Yellow Ranger and said in Malay, “He grabbed her backside. He grabbed her
backside."</span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The yellow-clad stand-in did not
understand Malay, but soon nodded in agreement when the guard asked in English to
confirm what the Indian man did.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Two additional shopping centre security
guards, alerted by the Indian’s scream, soon arrived and escorted the molester
off the premises, but not until they had first spent several minutes attempting
to convince the two Rangers that the incident was most likely “a simple
misunderstanding.” When that did not work, the guards assured the Rangers that
they will bar him from the property and that there was no need to waste time
filing a police report. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The man gave a scornful look to both
the departing pervert and his security guard escorts. He knew from experience
that filing a police report would indeed be a waste of time… </span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Later, the man joined the troupe in a reserved private area
behind the shopping center offices that included changing rooms.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Yellow Ranger turned to the pink counterpart and
whispered, “Thank you again for dealing with that… molester…”</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Pink Ranger removed her helmet, and the attractive,
mid-30s Singaporean-Chinese performer underneath gave her yellow counterpart a wide
smile. ”No problem,” she said, arching an eyebrow. “After all, we girls have to
stick together, right?”</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Yellow Ranger stiffened slightly at the question before
removing the helmet of the uniform, revealing the perspiring face of Xum
Yukinori.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">“Indeed,” the man in the padded yellow uniform smiled back. He
handed the pink heroine a towel and a bottle of water from the stock provided
for the troupe on a small side table. He hesitantly asked, “Does that… sort of
thing… happen to you often?”</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Pink Ranger performer pushed back the bangs of her short-cropped
dark hair so she could dab her sweaty forehead lightly with the towel. “More
often than you’d think,” she said with a bit of sadness, draping the towel over
her shoulder. She then cracked another smile as she cracked open the water
bottle. “The price for having a great backside, I suppose. But that doesn’t mean
we have to agree to pay.”</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The man nodded. He was still very disappointed that the molester
was essentially led out with only a warning from the guards. But he did have
some satisfaction that his pink-clad protector had brought that pervert’s sneaky actions out into the open. Perhaps
the public humiliation, from both being discovered and the physical retaliation,
will make that person reconsider ever trying to touch a woman improperly again.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Perhaps.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The rest of the troupe had already gone into the male
dressing room. The man decided to wait a few moments before following suit. All
of the male performers had at one time or another made cat-calls at the man in
jest when he first put on the chest padding and the yellow uniform. And now
through the dressing room door he can hear them all having a good laugh about
him being so “sexy” that some casual pervert actually groped him.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Pink Ranger could hear them too. “They are such boys…”
she remarked.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">A realization struck the man. He gestured toward the gents’
changing room. “Um, <i>they</i> don’t treat
you like…”</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Singaporean woman shook her head. “Oh, no. The may be
boys, but they are good boys. They just like to make fun at you putting on
boobs.” She paused, and her playful voice now had a serious tone. “But they are
all very glad that you did so to fill in for Phaik-Seng… as am I. So thank you,
Xum.” </span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">“It was my pleasure. I hope Phaik-Seng has a successful
recovery.”</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The woman in pink nodded, then turned toward the female
dressing room. “You can change in here, if you wish,” she offered. “After I am
done, of course.”</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">“Thank you, but the gents’ will be fine,” the man replied. “I’ve
faced worse than ‘those boys’…”</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The woman turned to face the man. “I know,” she said flatly.
“I saw those marks on you during practice.”</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">There was a long pause, and the man hoped the performer in
pink would not ask about the circumstances behind the few but noticeable scars on his body, which his loose practice shirt apparently did
not conceal. Fortunately, his silent wish was granted.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The woman finally spoke. “Well, you watch your backside, Xum.
You will not always have someone else watching it for you.” She then disappeared
behind the female dressing room door.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">It would be hours after the man had changed and said a final
goodbye to the Sentai Seven, while enjoying an after-supper Kopi O Peng at a
hawker stall near his hotel, that he would realize there may had been a deeper
meaning to the Pink Ranger’s words. He briefly wondered if the reason she caught
the molester’s action was because she was already looking at his backside...<span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">And then, just as quickly, the man pushed that
ridiculous thought out of his head.</span></span></span><br />
Xum Yukinorihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08336781008143133401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2639843255174847545.post-48650739606569140132016-06-29T23:09:00.000-07:002016-06-29T23:09:41.113-07:00In Sickness and in Health...<span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">"Now
you listen to me, Xum Yukinori: I don't care if you are at 50 percent
or 100 percent; I'm still gonna love you for all that you are." </span></span><br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: right;">
<span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">--Namiko
Yukinori, June 25, 2016.</span></span></div>
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Xum Yukinorihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08336781008143133401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2639843255174847545.post-2006921132171672022016-06-03T00:09:00.000-07:002016-06-03T00:13:08.487-07:00First Step<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We have finally watched "The Force Awakens" today. And of course, after over a week of avoiding *most* spoilers online, my family happened to be seated behind a couple of high school boys who had obviously already seen the movie because they chose to spend their time waiting for the opening trailers by recounting their favorite Episode VII scenes... including the big moment when [name redacted] [verb redacted] [another name redacted]...</div>
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I leaned forward and politely said, "Excuse me, young sirs, but not all of us in this theatre have seen this movie. Do you mind not spoiling it for us?"</div>
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The two both looked at me askance, probably as much because of my referring to them as "young sirs" as the fact that...</div>
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"You haven't seen Episode VII yet?" one reponded, aghast. "We've seen it three times already."</div>
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"They must not be *real* Star Wars fans," the other scoffed.</div>
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"That is beside the point," I said. "This movie is for everyone, not just the fans. When I first watched 'The Empire Strikes Back', I do not recall anyone spoiling the big surprise of Vader being Luke's father. I am just asking you for the same courtesy to not spoil this movie any further."</div>
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"What do you mean 'big surprise'?" The scoffing boy scoffed (again). "Anyone who saw Episode III already *knew* Vader was Luke's father."</div>
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That was when it was my turn to look askance. Aika and Isamu tried to stifle their giggling.</div>
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Namiko shook her head. "They are *definitely* not *real* Star Wars fans," she said flatly.</div>
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A little background information on <a href="http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2015/11/20/the-line-it-is-drawn-267-comic-book-what-if-s/" target="_blank">this week's submission to The Line It Is Drawn</a>...Xum Yukinorihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08336781008143133401noreply@blogger.com0