Here is the artist Bruce Elliott, with his painting of Sarah Palin in the nude. It is now hanging at Chicagao’s Old Town Ale House. Note the wonderful bear rug. The classic nudie prop!
OKAYAMA — A jobless man, arrested for hanging around in the predawn hours of Monday in a famous park here stark naked, has told police that he was trying to shake off stress, according to investigators.
Yoshihiro Katagiri, 39, a resident of Okayama, is accused of trespassing. “I climbed over the northern wall of the park to enter into its premises. I took off all my clothes in a bid to shake off stress,” he was quoted as telling investigators.
…. now I don’t feel so silly when I go the park to relive stress
(note:) this is a follow-up from my Thursday, April 15, 2004 blog
A restaurant in south-west China has been fined for offering to serve sushi on the bodies of nearly-naked women, according to media reports. The Yamato Wind Village restaurant in Kunming city attempted to launch its “body sushi” dinner earlier this month, provoking lively local debate. But health authorities banned it before the dinner could even take place.
Now the restaurant has also been fined 2,000 Yuan (US$240). The management of the restaurant told China’s official Xinhua news agency that the “body sushi” service was launched to introduce a special Japanese food culture to Chinese people.
The practise of eating sushi off naked or nearly-naked women has long been popular with a certain clientele in Japan. But the authorities in China said the restaurant’s actions violated women’s rights, as well as laws on advertising and food sanitation.
They also said the women used to display the sushi were not suitably dressed for restaurant employees.
…Oh and I guess a guy in a chicken suit is OK?
BEIJING – A Japanese restaurant which served sushi on the body of a naked woman has caused a storm of controversy in the conservative southwest Chinese city of Kunming.
The Hefengcun Huaishi restaurant launched a promotional “feast on a beauty’s body,” for local journalists last Friday, hiring two attractive fair-skinned college girls to lie on tables, with sushi and other food and flowers placed on their bare bodies covered with thin gauze. The reports caused a firestorm in the local and national press with many readers slamming the novel dining trend as offensive and insulting to women. “This is a form of disrespect towards women. I don’t know how anyone can eat such type of food,” a local resident was quoted.
Li Ailing, manager of the Japanese-owned restaurant, said the restaurant received hundreds of phone calls, with many protesting the restaurant’s bare cheek. “We didn’t think the reaction would be so explosive, so controversial,” Li said. “The purpose of this promotion is not commercial, but to spread Japanese culture.” “We had lots of people who supported us and wanted to make reservations, including people from Hong Kong and Taiwan”.
Known as “Nyotai Mori” in Japan, the feasts date back to ancient times and are often offered in special hotspring resorts today, but are generally left off menus. They are offered to aficionados on request. Restaurants as far afield as Seattle and Manchester have also offered sushi in the raw and drawn similar protests from women’s activists.
“Currently, Kunming people may not be able to accept this, but over time, maybe they can,” Li said.
….If you knew Sushi, like I knew Sushi, Oh, Og, Oh what a Gal!