CHRISHMASH? *hic* BUNSHA CAPITALISHISH CRAPFESH! LEEME ALO'!

give yourself the gift of VIP quality this holiday season by reading the yoshinoya rant again. just as christmas comes every year, what’s old can always be DQN again. also I would like to take this opportunity to legally rescind my previous comment that ringo mogire beam isn’t the best zetsubou opening because I remembered it includes the yoshinoya rant as clears throat flavor text. unassailable proof that oishi has the juice when it comes to telop and intertitles. but that’s a post for next year!

for the last three or so months I’ve been hikki-maxing, which is an easy habit to fall into if you work from home and live somewhere where the sun doesn’t shine for most of the year. most of my family is no longer around to spend a holiday with. my groceries get delivered. while it is nothing but self-destructive, and I can only endorse the hikki lifestyle to the extent that it means posting the classic mona warm under his futon or joking about the amagami challenge, there’s a comforting twang to be found in retreating to solitude around this time of the year. truthfully, the winter breaks of my high school twilight years were not much different, between the shared idling on gikopoi and the flurried posting frenzies on forums as the calendar rolled over. even as a mogra countdown has now probably become my favorite way to ring in the new year, getting drunk in the underground akiba den has never been quite as cozy as getting drunk watching it at home on ustream. still, I feel a pinch of regret whenever I don’t make the effort to show up in person. for every pull of internet saikou, there is a internet yamero tugging back.

sorry to bounce so suddenly, but my chicken’s getting cold and pekora’s showing up on the holo christmas relay soon. however you’re choosing to unwind this year, though, may the tea be warm and the chicken piping hot when you get there.