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June 28, 2011 05:25 pm PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/V2QOdEXBeKo/young-female-journal.html
Young female journalist "embeds" as cosplay maid to cover anime convention
"I was at Katsucon, a Washington, D.C. convention that caters to fans of Japanese animation. The restaurant I was working at was inspired by the “maid cafes” of Tokyo, where people can have a meal served to them by a cute young girl in a costume. The cafe organizers were worried that having a student journalist trailing the maids would be distracting. But if that journalist was also a maid, they had no problem."—24-year-old Lauren Rae Orsini, guestblogging at Susannah Breslin's Forbes column....Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/V2QOdEXBeKo/young-female-journal.html
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