A Note on the Last Entry

Those of you who are wondering why anyone makes anime music videos about cutie-pie schoolgirls in afterschool tank battles simply do not understand the intricacies of Japanese pop culture, or American fanboyism of Japanese pop culture, known as Yankyotaku. Rather than explain, allow me to post more embedded links:

In honor of the opening of the first funicular cable car on Mount Vesuvius in 1880,the song Funiculì Funiculà

And in honor of the brave and bold decision of Mattel Toys no longer to sell any toy cars of the General Lee from DUKES OF HAZARD on the grounds that the ‘Stars and Bars’ flag of the Democrat-party controlled Southern Confederation, and their postwar Democrat-party filled KKK offends the sensibilities of the Democrat Party, I give you Dixie:

And, finally, in honor of the Japanese marching in the snow: