My dad went on a trip to Japan a few months back and being the nice father that he is, he brought me a few gifts.  He knows better then to get his OCD-zen-purging son anything that can’t be consumed, used up, or resold.  One of his present sat dormant for quite some time (since I already had several comparable items already open), but now that I’ve used a few of them up, it’s ready to bring out the big guns.

Sunkiller - Daily Comfort - Kiss Me

The Japanese are notorious for using English in their own creative and ever-confusing way. It is something I have always appreciated, on a superficial level as a native speaker of the language, and on a deeper level as a child who once called their islands home.  I’ve even had the joy of spreading their Engrish gosper to fellow appreciators via importing shirts with botched English on them to sell to friends and members of the online forums I frequent.

With that said, my father couldn’t pass up the opportunity to present me with this bottle of protective lotion.  Not only is it called ‘Sunkiller’ (I think we may want to leave the sun alive for a while my friends from Nippon, as all of life relies on it dearly), but the words ‘Daily Comfort’ are scrawled within the confines of the sun icon (the same sun that I will be killing with the lotion?  Something about the juxtaposition of confining comfort with the soon-to-be-doomed shape of the sun seems uniquely Japanese). As if that wasn’t enough to tickle my fancy, it’s SPF 27 (way to round to the nearest 27!).  Not 25, not the more commonly seen neighbor known as 30, but 27. Also, ‘Kiss Me’, for I am the killer of Suns.

Tags: Ben Harper, Dad, Daily Comfort, Engrish, Japan, Kiss Me, Nippon, OCD, Purge, SPF 27, Steal My Kisses, Sunblock, Sunkiller, UV Gel, Zen

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