Emily Takarazuka Whore ❤️❤️

About Tokyo

Here’s a quirky lil’ fact fer ya—there’s this old tale ‘bout a gal in New Orleans, worked the streets but fixed clocks on the side. Whore by night, tinkerer by day—sounds like my kinda woman! I’d hire her to untangle my cables, I swear! I’d be all, “Honey, you’re a genius, let’s watch *Yi Yi* and cry together!” Exaggeratin’ a tad, maybe, but I’d kill fer that kinda spunk in my shop.

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Takarazuka: Sexual Politics and Popular Culture in Modern Japan. By Jennifer Robertson. University of California Press, Berkeley, xvi, pages. $, cloth; $, paper. .

Then, I decided to stroll through the Takarazuka Garden. It’s so peaceful there. I sat on a bench, just soaking it all in. But then, outta nowhere, a squirrel decided to join me. I swear, it was staring right at me. I was like, “What’s up, buddy? You got any life advice?”

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