Lonely Japanese Eels Want You to Video-Call Them www.thecut.com

Photo: FLPA/ShutterstockSo what fun shenanigans are we all getting up to this weekend, eh?
Perhaps spending some quality time with Wikipedia’s wonderfully exhaustive List of Sandwiches or painting a very tiny tableau?
The “face-showing festival” is their remedy: a three-day-long “emergency event” to help the eels “not [forget] the existence of humans.”Based on the very little information I’ve gleaned, I’m struggling to predict how the eels will receive this.
Then, you get five minutes with the eels, during which you can do weird hand gestures, or even talk, as long as you’re not too loud!
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