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Some Mother Frakking Group – OMFG with an “S”
OK it’s time to go on a Japan kick for a couple posts. Is it just me, or is SMFG the worst named financial institution, ever? As in, “SMFG agrees…
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Kings get bored.
The Death Of D1 – The Rise And Fall My bootleg drifting vids will one day be worth millions (of Zimbabwe dollars?).
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Asics Origami
Watch:
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Fuck Mount Fuji (also, Fuck Mt. Fuji)
Out of all the fucking glorious mountains in the world, why is Mt. Fuji so universally beloved? I can’t believe nobody’s ever written this before. So I reiterate: FUCK FUJIYAMA*…
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You say Dokdo, I say Takeshima (or the Liancourt Rocks)
The Big Picture captures the Dokdo/Takeshima (Takeshima/Dokdo) debate through big news shots: Dokdo or Takeshima They should just take one island a piece and turn them into penal colonies, or…
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Osaka Bang is back
You might remember the video I posted about Osaka culture last month – it got taken down once by the Yomiuri TV goonsquad and I couldn’t find another instance… Well…
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The most fucked up article you’ll read this year
WARNING: The article linked to below is graphic and nauseating, especially if you’re digging into a chicken sandwich like I was this morning. WHO’S HUNGRY? – PART 1 An Interview…
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Escolar aka Butterfish aka Hawaiian Walu aka the Ex-Lax Fish…
…aka Oilfish aka the “It” Fish aka Shiro Maguro aka Abura Bozu aka Abura Sokumutsu aka Mutzu. I have finally found a fish that Japanese won’t eat (raw, at least),…
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Missing Osaka
The idea being tested: Even strangers in Osaka will play along when you pretend to shoot or cut them down. Some of these seem staged; I’ve seen crazier stuff though,…
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Foreign tw@ts at Tsukiji
Earlier this year I wrote about how foreign tourists are no longer really welcome at Tsukiji fish market. To better understand why this situation came about, I present this video…
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Exercising Atrophied Illustrator Muscles
Well it took a whole day, but I finished our nengajo (traditional Japanese New Years cards) design! Yay! Max helped out by drooling on my keyboard and now all we…
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Shin Sekai Redux Repeat Rehash
There used to be a blue traffic sign if you drove into Shin Sekai from Namba welcoming you to SIN SEKAI. It might even still be there. When we were…