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Monday, July 4, 2011

Happy Fourth of July! Here, Have Something Sparkly

Well, we've kind of come to the end of our fun-filled fling with Fukuoka (although I'm still wistfully hoping for twitpics from the fan meeting in Tokyo which was yesterday which is a concept that grows ever more vague for me cuz they were having it during my tomorrow), so here's the last bit of Fukuoka picspam--or "picspasms," as my Twitter friend @cleopatra457 says, which may be a far more accurate term when we're talking about Johnny and playgrounds and pretty damn sparkly stuff ...

Before the show, staff members work the
World Figure Skating booth on the arena concourse.

World Figure Skating is the Japanese publisher

of both Johnny’s incredible Mook Book

(OMG if you don't already own this ORDER. ONE. NOW.

Why are you still reading here? Really. Go on. I'll wait.)

and the Japanese edition of Welcome to My World.

Holding up the Mook and Welcome to My World

to see if there are any interested customers ...

... Why yes. Yes, there are.

Super Managtress Tara with the incomparably fabulous

Akiko Tamura, one of my journalism heroes.

Akiko has known and interviewed Johnny since before his first

Olympic appearance in 2006. She wrote the sensitive, thoughtful,

and deeply insightful pieces in the Mook

that my dear friend Akiko Nakata translated for us.

(Haven't read them yet? There's no time to waste!
Just type "Mook" in the search box on the blog
to find them all, beginning with

this interview with Patti. Not to be missed!)

Akiko interviews Johnny and Yuzuru Hanyu before the show.

Johnny with a group of Spanish dancers

who also performed in the show. All I know about them

is the description from sources, which was: "HOT HOT HOT!!!"

More from Johnny's birthday party,

held in the Skaters' Lounge between performances

on Saturday, July 2. Everybody is happy

to celebrate with him! :)

Johnny with his cake here ...

... and here ...

... and here!

Obviously needed to be photographed repeatedly
because how often do you see Johnny

holding a gigantic cake on a platter?

And with Tomáš Verner here. :)

OK then! That about wraps it up!

Oh wait ... I almost forgot ...

Here you go.

Happy Fourth!

Johnny backstage in his new Bad Romance costume.

The BlackBerry was so jetlagged at this point it could barely
open its lens, but oh! The sparkliness! The sheerness!

And did I mention the sparkle?

Yes! The sheer sparkly sheerness of it all!

Happy Fourth of July, Johnny!

Thank you for the sparkle you bring

to everyone around the world.

We love you! ♥

Very, very special thanks
to Super Managtress Tara Modlin
for all the exclusive pics!!!

Johnny's now in Tokyo!
Best wishes to him and Tara

for safe travels home.
Need to know when Johnny is?
Check the handy clock in the upper right part
of the blog for the current day and time in Japan!

Please remember to vote vote vote

for Beauty Bear Eric Alt to win "Favorite Salon"

in New Jersey Life Health + Beauty Magazine's A-List awards!

You can vote for both salons at the same time:

Eric Alt Saddle River, and Eric Alt Wood Ridge.

You also can vote over and over in this one

without even having to clear your cache--

just press F5 to refresh the page! #winning

Yes! Johnny's dresses are now available
for purchase only on eDressMe.com!

At last: Pop Star On Ice is now available on DVD!

Order yours today from the Pop Star On Ice website!

Johnny tweeted recently:

"Buy my single,'Dirty Love' via iTunes.

Tell all your friends to as well. The more copies sold

takes me one step closer to making a video! №1!"

THE WORLD NEEDS THIS VIDEO
IN THE SAME WAY THAT IT NEEDS AIR.

You know what to do.

Please buy the song from Johnny's website,

or just click the "Buy" button on the player

at the top of the blog!

Hey, Welcome to My World also is available

as an eBook! More info on Johnny's website!

Saturday, July 2, 2011

More Fukuoka Fotomax!

Or: OK We Definitely Know Where the Starbucks Is
But Right Now We Have to--Oh Look! A Playground!

WE INTERRUPT THIS SIMPLY GLORIOUS PICSPAM TO BRING YOU YES! VIDEO! OF JOHNNY'S BAD ROMANCE IN JAPAN IN HIS DAZZLING NEW COSTUME! With a million thanks to Super Managtress Tara, for whom this blog is being posted right now so that she can enjoy it when she wakes up tomorrow in less than an hour to go to Starbucks and start all over again ...

Yes, it's shot with the trusty but jetlagged BlackBerry

mentioned below, but it's JOHNNY!

IN THAT COSTUME.

OK then! When last we saw our intrepid travelers, it was June 30 in Japan and they were happily going up and down the escalators at the Yahoo! Dome while mainlining Starbucks through the convenient IV-drip feature (Japan is so progressive) and shrieking "Yahoo!" themselves because YES DEAR GOD I DON'T CARE THAT IT'S RAINING OR IF I GET HIT BY LIGHTNING OR WHATEVER BRING IT I HAVE MY STARBUCKS AND ALL IS RIGHT WITH MY WORLD HALLELOO.

Today we pick up their adventures beginning on July 1 which seriously I don't evan know what that means but here are some really really fun pics courtesy once again of Super Managtress Tara, who also has kindly provided much of our commentary today which had me completely cracking up.

07/01/2011 8:53 am.

On the way to Starbucks. Hello.

As they're walking to their hallowed destination,

Tara notes, "There is a big giant thing. We don’t know what it is.

There are toys inside two big white wall things. I took a pic."

Dear Tara, I greatly admire your pluckiness

and quick-thinking action in the face of

big giant things incomprehensibly stuffed with both toys

and, like, mannequins? Of baseball players?

(Marketing campaign brought to you by WTF Industries,

whose target audience appears to be Godzilla.

And who / why are the people dressed

in matching shirts? Discuss.)

07/01/2011 8:54 am.

On the way to Starbucks.

View of their hotel. And a big giant thing.

07/01/2011 8:55 am.

Arriving.

Tara says: "Self explanatory.

Pink building with green writing ... words of faith."

Greetings, weary and desperately decaffeinated traveler.

Welcome to the Way of Weirsus temple.

07/01/2011 5:04 pm.

Practice pic #1.

Yeah, the BlackBerry is still suffering from jet lag,

so it gave us a little bit of grainy and blurry--

but Johnny's in these, so whatever! Yay! And Stéphane!

Practice pic #2.

Practice pic #3.

Practice pic #4.

07/01/2011 6:54 pm.

Back at the hotel.

This is a picture of Tara's TV screen, which also is

the alarm clock. Hotel management thoughtfully provides

a full-page instruction manual in each room

to teach guests how to use it. Tara explains:
"Once you choose your sound ... your time ... your volume ... etc.,
you can set it. But using the cursor keys on the remote

is a trick in and of itself. And of course I chose 'Funny' music,

which turned out to be a circus song, so I woke up thinking

there were elephants in my room on trapezes.

Later I played the sounds for Johnny ... belly laughs all around!"

07/01/2011 7:13 pm.

Playtime.

They had an hour to kill before dinner,

so Tara took Johnny to the playground.

Because sometimes Johnny is five.

And Tara is the soul of patience.

And both of them are never afraid to have fun

and laugh at themselves.
BTW I love that he grabbed his HUGE purse
and then went off to play.

And sometimes he's five

in a 27-year-old world-class athlete's body,

engaging in impromptu Playground Pilates
to which I can only say ...

... well, nothing, really. I'm kinda happily speechless.

Which is just as well because nobody wants to read
a lot of words at this moment anyway.
They just wanna look at the pictures.
(I'm channeling Robin right now.)
I get that. :)

Bonus video!! From Johnny's Russian fans for his birthday,

with a surprise guest at the end. :) Absolutely love this!!!

Very, very special thanks
to Super Managtress Tara Modlin
for all the exclusive pics and video!!!

Johnny's in Japan!

Best wishes to him and Tara for safe travels,
wonderful shows, and for a very happy
27th birthday with his Japanese fans!
Need to know when Johnny is?
Check the handy clock in the upper right part
of the blog for the current day and time in Fukuoka!

Please remember to vote vote vote

for Beauty Bear Eric Alt to win "Favorite Salon"

in New Jersey Life Health + Beauty Magazine's A-List awards!

You can vote for both salons at the same time:

Eric Alt Saddle River, and Eric Alt Wood Ridge.

You also can vote over and over in this one

without even having to clear your cache--

just press F5 to refresh the page! #winning

Yes! Johnny's dresses are now available
for purchase only on eDressMe.com!

At last: Pop Star On Ice is now available on DVD!

Order yours today from the Pop Star On Ice website!

Johnny tweeted recently:

"Buy my single,'Dirty Love' via iTunes.

Tell all your friends to as well. The more copies sold

takes me one step closer to making a video! №1!"

THE WORLD NEEDS THIS VIDEO
IN THE SAME WAY THAT IT NEEDS AIR.

You know what to do.

Please buy the song from Johnny's website,

or just click the "Buy" button on the player

at the top of the blog!

Hey, Welcome to My World also is available

as an eBook! More info on Johnny's website!

Happy Birthday, Johnny!

wishing you

every happiness

and every success

today

and always

but most of all

wishing you

this:

you give so much love

to the world

and in return

may you always
be surrounded
by love
and may it be

all that you've

hoped for

all that you've

dreamt of

all that it’s meant

to be

and as

beautiful

as you

are

Photo © David Ingogly.

Bonus: Birthday pics just in from Japan!!

With very special thanks to Super Managtress Tara!

Center bouquet: Beautiful and ginormous
birthday flowers for Johnny

from the Japanese Johnny's Angels
on display in the concourse of the arena. ♥

Super Managtress Tara with yet more
gorgeous birthday flowers for Johnny
in the concourse.

Yes! There was cake! At a party for Johnny

in the Skaters' Lounge between the two performances!

Tara says, "Celebrating his birthday with skating friends

from around the world was an incredible feeling.

Thank you, Mr. Makabe and our skating family!"

And here is the Man of the Hour getting ready

to serve his cake. Happy birthday, Johnny!

Coming up:

More exclusive picspam from Japan!
Sightseeing on the way to Starbucks,
and Johnny goes outside for recess.
You don't want to miss this!!

Johnny's in Japan!

Please remember to vote vote vote

for Beauty Bear Eric Alt to win "Favorite Salon"

in New Jersey Life Health + Beauty Magazine's A-List awards!

You can vote for both salons at the same time:

Eric Alt Saddle River, and Eric Alt Wood Ridge.

You also can vote over and over in this one

without even having to clear your cache--

just press F5 to refresh the page! #winning

Yes! Johnny's dresses are now available
for purchase only on eDressMe.com!

At last: Pop Star On Ice is now available on DVD!

Order yours today from the Pop Star On Ice website!

Johnny tweeted recently:

"Buy my single,'Dirty Love' via iTunes.

Tell all your friends to as well. The more copies sold

takes me one step closer to making a video! №1!"

THE WORLD NEEDS THIS VIDEO
IN THE SAME WAY THAT IT NEEDS AIR.

You know what to do.

Please buy the song from Johnny's website,

or just click the "Buy" button on the player

at the top of the blog!

Hey, Welcome to My World also is available

as an eBook! More info on Johnny's website!

Friday, July 1, 2011

Flashback Friday

Kayso IDK what they're doing over there but it's been radio silence most of today cuz I think they're kinda busy with, you know, actualfax skating shiznit, so since we have no new pics RN from Japan, we're just going to head back to Chicago for a minute because I personally love Chicago and also because Stacy McReynolds was kind enough to send me four great pics and to upload four brief vids to YouTube from Johnny's appearance at ~~Marshall Field's~~ Macy's on State Street. So for your Friday-Before-the-Long-Holiday-Weekend-So-Who-the-Fuck-Wants-to-Do-Any-Work-Today-Anyway-Seriously-Are-We-Out-of-Pretzels-Again viewing pleasure, here's some stuff from Stacy.

Oh BTW tomorrow is his birthday except by the time you read this it'll either almost be or already be his birthday in Japan and then that threw me off big-time so, as NinjaGirl can attest, I've been agonizing for, like, hours over whether to post birthday wishes to him today or tomorrow but I finally decided to go with tomorrow because Blogger (who is my friend. Although not my best friend) auto-dates my posts and it'll bug me forever if I post "Happy Birthday to Johnny!" and the post date says July 1 instead of July 2. Cuz I am just that OCD about stuff that no one else on the planet cares about or even notices.

So just so we're clear: Birthday post tomorrow! After it's already been his birthday yesterday! If your today is the same as mine! Sigh. And also if you get in trouble for wasting your workday on this blog whenever you are, it's Stacy's fault. She sent me this stuff last night and it was just too fun to hold back. You can send cheery tweets of blame to her @StacyMcReynolds. :D

OK, pics first:

Being a commentatress.

If you've seen @Snuffy5458's video posted previously,

you know how lolarious he was. :)

Admiring the guy whose name I swear was "Veggie"

although I know that can't be right

but it's probably the first time ever that I

suddenly found the idea of veggies appealing...

Love this.

With the Macy's staffers, all of whom were friendly

and polite and even came with a sense of humor attached

and who thus should probably be whisked off

immediately on a paid vacation to Lake Placid to offer

the security people there some customer service pointers ...

And now the vids: Just brief snippets, but fabulous and available in
hi-def!

Johnny's in Japan!

Please remember to vote vote vote

for Beauty Bear Eric Alt to win "Favorite Salon"

in New Jersey Life Health + Beauty Magazine's A-List awards!

You can vote for both salons at the same time:

Eric Alt Saddle River, and Eric Alt Wood Ridge.

You also can vote over and over in this one

without even having to clear your cache--

just press F5 to refresh the page! #winning

Yes! Johnny's dresses are now available
for purchase only on eDressMe.com!

At last: Pop Star On Ice is now available on DVD!

Order yours today from the Pop Star On Ice website!

Johnny tweeted recently:

"Buy my single,'Dirty Love' via iTunes.

Tell all your friends to as well. The more copies sold

takes me one step closer to making a video! №1!"

THE WORLD NEEDS THIS VIDEO
IN THE SAME WAY THAT IT NEEDS AIR.

You know what to do.

Please buy the song from Johnny's website,

or just click the "Buy" button on the player

at the top of the blog!

Hey, Welcome to My World also is available

as an eBook! More info on Johnny's website!