Volume Three: Ain't Love Grand?

• Profile

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• 13.Feb || Profile
• Annette Funicello: Modest Mouseketeer and Ideal Idol || Quentin S Crisp

• She is distant not only in space, but, as manifest to us in her screen and singing career, also in time. To pursue one’s suit, already hopeless, over the chasm of time, is the truest of all leaps of faith, and in direct proportion to its foolishness, so are its rewards great.

  Quentin finds the deep underlying bonds between an American idol of yesteryear and the Japanese idols of today.

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  About Quentin S Crisp: Quentin S. Crisp is a British writer of anti-life fiction, song lyrics and essays. He has had published a number of collections of short stories, and a novella, and is interested in everything.

• Fiction

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• 13.Feb || Fiction
• Studying Abroad || Vee

• I nodded, not wanting to give it the gravitas of words, not even to say ‘yes, only once’ or something else incriminating like that. The fact was the fact, the simple glaring fact that was keeping me awake at night for three days now. I didn’t have a period yet.

  A young idol faces unexpected consequences. Fiction by Vee.

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  About Vee: Vee is a novelist and J-Pop blogger living in Florida. She dedicates most of her free time to cosplay and singing, between lazy jags.

• Poetry

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• 13.Feb || Poetry
• Misaki Itoh || Go

• Would I like you clothed or not?
  I would because you am damn hot!

  Go pays tribute to the popular actress.

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  About Go: Go is the writer of Jrocknyc, one of the longest-lived and most respected English-language blogs about Japanese music.

• News

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• 13.Feb || News
• Our Wota Woodstock? || Ray Mescallado

• American wotadom has been waiting a very long time for Morning Musume to perform outside of Asia - and now that it’s happening, many of us are saying we’re going to make it to see this momentous occasion. I have no idea how big this is going to be, but I suspect that this will be the largest gathering of wota to take place in America.

  Babble babble babble, as Ray muses on what MM+AX can mean for overseas fans.

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  About Ray Mescallado: Ray started blogging with Cult of Pop, then moved on to American Wota before creating this site. He is also the founder and owner of Intl Wota and Wotatalk.

• Meta

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• 13.Feb || Meta
• Volume Three Poll

• You’ve read the articles.

  Now tell us what you think!

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  What article did you most enjoy in Volume Three?

  • Misaki Itoh by Go
  • Studying Abroad by Vee
  • Annette Funicello by Quentin S Crisp
  • Our Wota Woodstock? by Ray Mescallado

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