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Unagi Nobori

Paging Sagert Sheets. Sagert Sheets to the tumbledry front desk — heard anything about this? ‘Energy boosting’ eel drink goes on sale for Japan’s hot summer:

A canned drink called “Unagi Nobori,” or “Surging Eel,” made by Japan Tobacco Inc., hit the nation’s stores this month just ahead of Japan’s annual eel-eating season, company spokesman Kazunori Hayashi said Monday.

“It’s mainly for men who are exhausted by the summer’s heat,” Hayashi said of the beverage, believed to be the first mass-produced eel drink in Japan.

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Sasuke

Cabel Sasser recently posted Japan: Muscle Park & Ninja Warrior; it illustrates some interesting differences between there and here, partly by discussing a TV game show called “Sasuke”:

And to give you an idea of how challenging the fourth and final course is, Sasuke has run for twenty seasons, and only two people have ever actually won. (Cultural note: can you imagine how quickly, say, Deal or No Deal would have been cancelled if there had only ever been two winners in 10 years? But it’s genius: when someone fails you feel it in your gut, and if someone wins it feels like you’ve just watched history unfold.)

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Sagert Sheets Quote

If you were given that cosmic rewind button, how far back would you go? Would you really be able to stop after yesterday, or last week? Or would you keep going until you didn’t have thumbs to push the button with?

How many stupid musings can one man fit in an away message?

— Sagert Sheets