Pocky's sweet festival
by Tateru Nino 
Feb 19th 2008 at 7:00AM
Filed under: Video, News items, Second Life
As a part of a sweet nod to Valentine's tradition (or perhaps more technically to ????? - giri-choko), the Japanese Pocky people, Ezaki Glico Company, are holding a festival on their new Pocky island in Second Life. The Pocky festival runs all the way until White Day (??????, March 14).
Popular Japanese ska girl group, Ore Ska Band (???????) will be playing on the island 29th of Februrary and 1st of March at 7PM and 10PM - though we're not sure which side of the dateline or which timezone that's in exactly. We'd figure Japan Standard Time so you'd be looking at the day before, japanophiles. That's the safe way to play it. If it turns out to be in SLT (US Pacific) you've at least not missed it.
If you're not sure what sort of thing you might be getting from オレスカバンド (Ore Ska Band), we've got one of their music videos here, courtesy of YouTube.
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Ghen said on 8:01AM 2-19-2008
LOL.
Ok, my wife watches dramas from Korea and Taiwan but that was just too much for me.
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Tateru Nino said on 8:18AM 2-19-2008
Catchy, energetic tunes sung in unreasonably high-pitched voices. How can you say no? :)
Patchouli Woollahra said on 9:51AM 2-19-2008
omg, the horror! the horror! http://tinyurl.com/2gtwpj
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Erbo Evans said on 11:58AM 2-19-2008
For anyone that hasn't had Pocky, it's basically long thin cookie sticks dipped in chocolate (or strawberry icing, etc., in other varieties, of which there are many), and it is more addictive than Ben & Jerry's Crack'n'Tobacco Crunch. :-)
Aw, now I've got to go find some more later!
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