Man thinks he discovers a photo of Robert Johnson and Johnny Shines on ebay. Tragedy ensues as his woman leaves him, his dog dies, and any number of bourbon/scotch/beers ala the Hook doesn’t seem to help. Go read about it here: PORTRAIT OF A PHANTOM
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Look alikes
Go see the whole gallery.
Little Tokyo Article in Forbes
Little Tokyo seeks to build back Japanese vibe
Would that be the ultrahip fused with impeccable tradition topped with affluence type of vibe, or the overdeveloped danchi and Jusco hell that ends up overrun with mujin loan ATMs and 100 yen stores type of vibe? Maybe I’m missing something. Losing Little Tokyo would be sad. Losing everything else to preserve an empty shell would be tragic.
Excellent zombie apocalypse survival flash game
In honor of the recent xkcd comic (for which I somehow lost the link): The Last Stand 2
BONUS: Excellent chambara action as well
Save Pandora
Go see what you can do to help save internet radio, or hold your peace when DJ Dickhead in the mornings plays the top 40 for you every day: PANDORA NEEDS YOU
Don’t forget, Pandora is already mostly inaccessible from outside the US anyway (without using a proxy anyway, hint hint).
Taro Aso is the man with the gauge
…and a gauge is what you would need to shake up Japanese politics. The Japanese are justifiably apathetic about their leaders… Take a 12 gauge to the world stage, that’s what PM Taro needs to do!
(via)
Belarus no Saisentan
LINK: The latest technology in Belarusian cucumber farming
The point is NOT that labor is too expensive in Japan for this technological marvel to work there (as stated in the linked post), nor that rising fuel costs would make this impractical, rather – Wow! Now Belarus is famous for something other than ????????? ????????? ????????.
(thx shintyan!)
Christopher Walken approves of this linkage
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(thx m)