ÿþ<head> <title> Drivel 20030807</title> <meta http-equiv="resource-type" content="document"> <meta http-equiv="distribution" content="private"> <meta name="keywords" content=""> <link rel="stylesheet" href="drivel.css" type="text/css"> </head> <body> <h1>Drivel</h1> <h2>nebuta - august 7, 2003</h2> <center> <img src="images/nebuta_3.jpg" alt="Two samurai"> <p class="drivel"> It's nebuta time in Aomori! </p> <img src="images/nebuta_5.jpg" alt="Samurai and Demon"> <p class="drivel"> That guy on the right needs to sit down with a beer and do some channel surfing -- he's wound up way too tight. </p> <img src="images/nebuta_9.jpg" alt="nebuta9"> <p class="drivel"> I don't know why the guy on the left is blue, but it could have something to do with the fact that his arm's chopped off. </p> <img src="images/nebuta_10.jpg" alt="Blondie!"> <p class="drivel"> I have no idea what's going on here -- he's got rice, she's got sake, the pup seems to have won first prize for something ... Japanese mythology can be so confusing. </p> <img src="images/nebuta_11.jpg" alt="Am I Blue?"> <p class="drivel"> Another blue guy. This one's still got both arms. Well, so did the other one, technically. </p> <img src="images/nebuta_12.jpg" alt="When Horses Go Crazy"> <p class="drivel"> A horse riding a samurai. I thought it was supposed to be the other way around. </p> <img src="images/nebuta_14.jpg" alt="singers"> <p class="drivel"> And sometimes the samurai go home, calm down, and sing a song. Or maybe these aren't samurai at all, and I've missed something again. Wouldn't be at all unusual. </p> <p class="drivel"> By the way, see the sign in the lower left corner? This was apparently a native son of Aomori, a painter of some note. They made him into a nebuta float for his centenary ... you'd have to be pretty cool to be a nebuta float, I'd think. </p> <img src="images/nebuta_18.jpg" alt="Munakata Shiko"> <p class="drivel"> </p> <img src="images/nebuta_16.jpg" alt="fish nebuta"> <p class="drivel"> </p> <img src="images/nebuta_13.jpg" alt="Astro Boy"> <p class="drivel"> </p> </center> <hr> <p class="ref"> <a href="20030807.html">back to drivel</a> </p> <hr> <center> <font class="ref"><a href="index.html">index</a></font> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <font class="ref"><a href="http://www.o-broze.com">o-broze.com</a></font> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <font class="ref"><a href="http://www.geocities.com/o-folk">The O-Folk Photo Album</a></font></center> </body> </html>