Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday IHOEL you are a man amoung women and we heart you very much!!! (actually, the birthday proper was yesterday I believe but still, better late than never, right!) Thanks to you and yours for the delicious cupcakes BTW, there was much discussion of the various merits of combining chocolate cupcake-ness with chocolate frosting/sprinkles on the way home...! Yum!

In other news:

This is Sailor Uranus (http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Towers/1773/)

Sailor Uranus is a new Sailor Soldier who appears in the third season of the anime and manga series, Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon. In the anime, she and her partner, Sailor Neptune, have a mission completely separate from that of the original five Sailor Senshi. Uranus and Neptune's goal is to find the three Talismans, which are the keys to finding the Holy Grail and preventing the Silence, the end of the world. Their methods are much more severe than that of the Sailor Team, and they believe that the death of innocents is a necessary sacrifice for the sake of the world. They often come into conflict with the other Sailor Soldiers.

Her civilian identity is Tenoh Haruka, a tomboy high school student (who pretends to be a man in the manga), who also is a famous racer. Her best friend and lover is Kaioh Michiru, whose other identity is Sailor Neptune.

Me and the kid went to Blockbuster last night, rented a Sailor Moon video (which, honestly I've never seen before although I'm familiar with the character) and in amoungst all the teeny-bopping/bizzarro-world-eyes-turning-into-hearts anime crap there suddenly appears this individual -- short hair, wearing a suit, whom I thought was a boy. "That's not a boy." Patient child explains. "That's Sailor Uraneees." "Sailor-Who?" I inquire, still not quite grasping that this character in an immensely popular mainstream Japanese animation series was/is, in fact, a cross-dressing butch girl in love with a Blue-haired femme chick. Until the two of them changed into their Sailor personaes and all of a sudden SU was leaping around in the same super short schoolgirl outfit as the rest of the Senshi battling a Vacuum cleaner woman who had hoses attached to her breasts (I honestly don't know...) THEN finally, it all became clear. (Clearer still when the kid said "That's her girlfriend!" about Blue Chick) And, with that clarity, for some reason, came the thought that the world may actually be changing for the better.