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However, Associate Professor in the School of Cartoon and Comic Art at Kyoto Seika University Matt Thorn disagrees. As president of the Parent-Teacher Association at his son’s public Japanese elementary school, Thorn has first-hand experience of Japanese cuteness, which gives him the authority to refute a cynical view of cute culture. He describes his comic art students as “talented and intelligent...as well as cute,” and argues that they do not use cuteness as a form of escapism...
...graduate who has been out of college forty years will tell you there was far more intoxication among students in his day than now. The college comic of forty years ago was thrust under the door in the darkness of the night and burned by the janitor in the morning. The older generation was not angelic, but it rigorously suppressed or carefully concealed conditions which were not sanctioned by its code. Its goodness consisted largely in restraint and repression...
...Soapbox Derby: A New Works Festival,” which opened this weekend accompanied by apparently no campus publicity whatsoever, is a collection of five mildly funny comic sketches on the topic of public speaking. Interspersed with the sketches are a series of vaguely political, mildly funny addresses...
...show wanted to explain people in their 20s to themselves: the aimlessness, the cappuccino drinking, the feeling that you were, you know, "always stuck in second gear." It soon wisely toned down its voice-of-a-generation aspirations and became a comedy about pals and lovers who suffered comic misunderstandings and got pet monkeys...
...only a couple hundred video blogs out there. To sample some, check out Japanese slacker vlog avoidinglife.com music-video blog sxsw.com/music or the Drudge Report--like compendium of diary vlogs vidblogs.com Hollywood celebrities are also plunging in: Adam Sandler's personal site offers regular video messages from the comic...