Memoirs of a Bento

I can’t believe I even have to say this, but apparently I have no choice. Because of a few hilarious emails, I need to address this topic as best I can – the topic is the name of my bento blog, Hanamachi Lights. Let’s listen in on the fun, lol.

“Hello!

I just want you to know I like your domain name so much that I wanted to buy it for myself and also I had the idea first. Not of website for bento lunches, I’m not obsessed with being a geisha like you are. I wanted to use it for my website for school because I used to live in Hanamachi Japan when I was 14 and I don’t think you have any right to this domain. I’ll even buy it from you and give you money to give me back something that is rightly mine. I’m waiting for your response, if you do not respond in a classy way I’ll have to sue you and get my domain back.

Isn’t that cute? First of all, I’m not obsessed with being Geisha – I like having the right to vote, thanks. Secondly, yes the name Hanamachi Lights is inspired by a line from Memoirs of a Geisha – the film, not the novel – of which I’m a big fan in both mediums, even though I think Golden’s a hack who tried his best to make sure that everyone reading MoG realized how great and cool he is. Kind of like wearing sunglasses in the mall, packing a novel with eight hundred beautiful, yet unneccesary philisophical metephors in narration is a tool to impress the masses, though I do think Golden’s metephors and dialogues are really where his best foot. Anyway, back to the story. Hanamachi Lights. I thought it was a pretty line, I needed a domain for my bento blog, nobody had this domain so I bought it – if ‘Sarah’ doesn’t like that, she can sit on it.

Let’s be honest, honey, there’s nothing you can do about it. First of all, if you lived in A hanamachi in Japan, I feel sorry for you. Secondly Hanamachi Lights isn’t a copywritten term, as far as I know, in fact it’s even worded differently in MoG so I don’t see what your lawyer(s) could do about it – I dare you to try and take it to court. Dare! You and I both know you’re full of it.

Besides, it’s free in .com, .net, .info and so on and so on, just copy me and buy an identical domain, lol. Feel better? Awww, I knew you would. Now bite me. Hooray!

P.S. What, other than them being from the same country, does being Geisha have to do with packing bento?

BEFORE YOU COMMENT: Please understand that, though I'm all for free speech, I'm also busy and downright mean. Because of this I will not tolerate offensive, inappropriate or hateful comments. I'll warn you and delete the offensive part, but if you repeat the offense I'll probably ban you from the domain. I'm sorry, but I just don't have time for spam, racism, and so on and so on. Just to note: What I find offensive? Is what we'll call offensive, this being my blog and all. ;)