Why the modern world is wonderful and why I like where I live

[xiphias]

Delivery sushi.

I mean, isn't that a GREAT thing? You can go to foodler.com, and find that there are two different sushi restaurants that will actually just BRING the sushi TO MY DOOR, so Lis and I can be in PAJAMAS, and get sushi.

There has never before been a time in human history where you could use an electronic global communications system to have people bring you sushi from across town. Oh, I'm sure that wealthy and/or powerful Japanese lords could get sushi in their own estates even in late Medieval times, but door-to-door sushi delivery for ordinary people? That's pretty darned cool.

And those medieval Japanese lords couldn't play Angry Birds while they were waiting.

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[wcg.livejournal.com]

I am now envisioning Lords Yabu and Toranaga (from the novel Shogun) throwing birds at pigs, while politely insulting each other, as they wait for a samurai retainer to bring them sushi from Yedo.

This should become a Saturday Night Live skit.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

*giggles helplessly*

[ckd]

What if the bird will not sing?
Nobunaga said, "Kill it."
Hideyoshi said, "Make it want to sing."
Ieyasu said, "Wait."
Xiphias said, "Fling it at the pigs."

[wcg.livejournal.com]

Thus it came to pass that, in the second year of Theodore Roosevelt's presidency, the Japanese ambassador presented America with a gift of 200 cherry trees, five angry birds, and a dozen pigs. The very next morning, the President rode out for his morning gallop, flinging birds willy-nilly through the windows of homes around Lafayette Square.

[plantmom.livejournal.com]

I love this whole thread. Wonderfully smile-making.

[kalmn.livejournal.com]

Ugh. Envious. Hm. Although the crappy Chinese place around the corner that delivers to my house just added sushi. Hmmm.

[roadnotes.livejournal.com]

There is much to be said for a world in which people who will bring you sushi.

[dancing-kiralee.livejournal.com]

Meh... comfort means little when you are concerned with survival; fun is trivial, joy essential; calories and nutrition are important, taste and convenience less so.

...but since we live in a country / culture with an overabundance of wealth (making taste and convenience easy) but a surprising lack of joy, I guess I will take what I can get.

So if I ever find myself at or near your house, in need of getting food delivered (which I might), it's good to know that sushi is an option... but it isn't proof that modern life is wonderful.

...the reasons why I might be at or near your house, in need of getting food delivered... now *that's* joy... as I think you understand.

Kiralee

[holzman.livejournal.com]

New Yorkers have been able to get sushi delivered to our homes for at least 20 years simply by picking up the telephone. Better still, we can do that at 3am.