Hashimoto-san and progress
Wednesday April 30, 2008
Categories: Culture
My son Matthew recently went through a collection of my old comic books. He found an obscure one from 1972, featuring a Terrytoons mouse called Hashimoto-san. Hashimoto-san is a Japanese mouse who heads a mouse family, and uses his judo...
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ha! you think that's bad, check out the propaganda section on superdickery.com - actually, just check out anything on that site...comics of yesteryear were...how best to put it? different.
sorry about that - the name didn't post for some reason...The post about www.superdickery.com and comics of old was mine.
After "Straight to Hell" by The Clash, off Combat Rock:
Y'wanna join in a blog-post
On the Amerasian 'toons?
When it's Christmas out in Crun Chi Conh City
Matthew say, Papa Papa Papa Papa-san take me home
See me got photo, photo
Photograph of you and
Hashi-Hashi-moto-san
Of you and Hashi-Hashi-moto-san
Lemme tell ya bout your blood, Bayoo Kid -
It ain't Crunchy Crackah - it rice.
Straight to Texas, boys
Go straight to Texas, boys...
Alt for "Crunchy Crackah", after "Coca-Cola" from original:
"It ain't Doctah Peppah - it rice."
For the animated cartoon, search for "House of Hashimoto" on the YouTube. Doesn't seem too bad, at least compared to, say, Mickey Rooney's performance in "Breakfast at Tiffany's."
Lyrics above from album Me So Corny, by my pre-digital skat band, 2 Dead Tree...
Whoops - make that title, *Miso* Corny...
but the character was actually considered progressive because it was the first American comic to feature the Japanese in a positive light.
And Amos 'n Andy was the first radio/TV program to depict black people as doctors, lawyers, and other professional people, as opposed to depicting them just as entertainers or domestics.
But...but...Judo is a throwing/grappling art, it lost the strikes of its jiu-jitsu parentage a century ago, hence "judo chop" is an oxymoron. Now I wonder, the knife-hand strike in Japanese is called 'chuto'...but that would be karate.
All this aside, do you know it is Free Comic Book Day this Saturday, May 3? Local comic book stores are given boxes of comics to match all sorts of interests, to give away - the idea is the free ones will tease you to buying more. It works, too. So let your son start his own collection so when he is a dad he can share some of the weird, odd, embarassing comics of his youth.
http://www.fpsmagazine.com/blog/2008/04/censored-eleven-problem.php
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