With a quick turn-around, here is a Quicktime video of our house as it looked over the weekend during the Grant Park Candlelight Tour of Homes. I counted over 109 candles burning at one point – plus a few oil lamp menorahs. Whew! No fires were reported, but there were extinguishers in several handy locations, just in case. Click here for the movie!
Daily Archives: December 13, 2004
Noodle Theme Park
For those fans of the seminal ramen-cult film, Tampopo, video game giant Namco plans to launch a theme park dedicated to these underappreciated bits of gluten. This is from the press release, via BoingBoing:
Today, [game company and Katamari Damacy publisher] Namco announced plans to open a ramen noodle theme park in the southern Japanese city of Nagoya. The “Nagoya Noodle Shop Alley,” due to open for business on February 25, is meant to introduce visitors to the history of ramen noodles and the different types of ramen available around Japan. [ …]
The visual theme of the park is intended to reflect Japan in the pre-war 1930s, but the ramen on offer are to represent the “new wave” of noodle development around the nation.