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SPAM was better as a canned pink meat
Some asshole spammer is spamming blogs with a link from my blog (details here). He’s spamming my readers/commenters, it seems. I apologize for this. I have nothing to do with…
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And you thought cosplay was bad…
Now that I have your full attention, may I introduce: THE TOP 10 MOST RIDICULOUS BLACK METAL PICS OF ALL TIME (note: not safe for work, or anywhere else, really)…
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New Search Tool
Is it just me, or is Technorati hosed about 80% of the time? Anyway, I found a new blog search tool that’s proving fairly useful: Clusty the Clustering Engine Yes,…
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I’m the Corporate Directives Specialist
Go generate your very own bullshit job title for your business cards: LINK
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Shamisen vs. Turntable
This is the coolest video I’ve linked to since Keltech’s Star Wars performance. Background: LiveJam 2005 was a concert produced by NHK that aired on Coming of Age Day (now…
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Conversational Patterns
There’s an old lady who lives a few houses down from us. I usually see her when I return home from work or go out for a walk. In the…
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500-Pound Recruit
Continuing in the vein of WWII, have you ever heard the story of Voytek? Check it out: The Iranian soldier-bear of Monte Cassino Longtime readers have often heard of my…
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Target: Sumoto
A colleague just related something that he saw on a documentary last night: During WWII, Sumoto was number 173 on a list of 180 Japanese targets to be carpet bombed…
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Bus Otoko
I nominate Napoleon Dynamite as the worst retitled-for-Japan movie of the year. I understand why they didn’t release it in theaters here – I mean, the majority of the humor…
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Sambo Revisited
A few months ago, I wrote a post about the republishing of Little Black Sambo by a Japanese publisher, and my mom left this in the comments: You used to…
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Dream Soup
Sunday, in the early morning hours, I had a dream so very real that I woke up in a cold sweat. I was riding on the Shinkansen from Los Angeles…
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In search of the perfect tax haven
My homeboy T is blogging it up during his month-long visit to Uzbekistan. Is Tashkent the ultimate escape destination after a painful life decision? FIND OUT HERE: JOMON NEWS
