Today is the first day of early voting in Florida, and there are also drop boxes for mail-in ballots. If you can, vote — and remember that Orange is sus!
I can’t speak to their effectiveness at stopping aerosolized droplets, but let’s give her some points for creative problem-solving and improvisation!
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It’s Nyango Star!
It’s impossible to describe Nyango Star with mere words. This video will do a much better job:
Nyango Star is a mascot for Kuroishi City in Japan’s Aomori prefecture, on the northernmost tip of Honshu (the main island), and Japan’s largest producer of apples. In a design decision that makes perfect sense if you’re Japanese, Nyango is:
- An apple (therefore a perfect mascot for Aomori)…
- possessed by the spirit of a dead cat (???)…
- who in the fusion was granted awesome metal drumming superpowers.
The name also makes perfect sense if you’re Japanese:
- “Apple” in the Japanese language is “ringo”.
- “Nyan” means “meow”.
- And, of course, the name is a pun on Beatles drummer Ringo Starr.
Here’s a Vice documentary about Nyango Star:
Here’s a great video — Professional vs. Beginner Drummer — in which somehow Nyango, a mascot in an apple/cat costume with fixed facial features is displaying more emotion than the human:
Here’s Nyango doing a drum cover of the Japanese pop tune Futon no nakakara detakunai, which translates as “I don’t want to leave my futon”:
And I’ll close with this observation: Only in Japan can you assemble a crowd of seniors at a concert hall to watch an apple/cat mascot drum along to Slayer’s Raining Blood:
Having notes also reduces the chance that you’ll fail to completely answer simple questions that you might otherwise find easy in a less stressful setting, just like Amy Coney Barrett did.
Here’s Alex Winter’s original tweet in all its glory:
This doesn’t say “I’m so smart I don’t need notes.” It says “I have no respect for you or this process and serve other masters.” pic.twitter.com/EJUYLGkSfq
— Alex Winter 😷 (@Winter) October 14, 2020