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It’s not easy being a leading authority in the English-language realm of Japanese Fish Sausage, and yet, I feel I have accomplished something very important.

For my next project I had hoped to cover the plastic food replicas often seen in the front window of Japanese restaurants (and on sale in Doguyasuji), but someone has already done an excellent job of that: Delicious Vinyl: Japan’s Plastic Food Replicas

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Goddamn fucking sicko.
It really wouldn’t surprise me if this guy was a spammer.
Poor little guinea pig.

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)
And speaking of blasts from the past, I downloaded three classics from my wasted youth last night: Willow, The Princess Bride, and The Beastmaster. Together with my Hawk the Slayer DVD, I now possess the keys to Greyskull! Gandaaaalf!

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, I know “Clusty” sounds more like a dingleberry-infested pair of undershorts than a search site, but they’re simply running out of clever names for these things, OK?

Go generate your very own bullshit job title for your business cards: LINK

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 observed on the second Monday in January every year. Prior to 2000 was Jan. 15.) this year.
Without further ado: DJ Kentaro vs. Shinichi “King of Shamisen” Kinoshita
If somebody has information on an official CD/DVD release, please drop me a line.
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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 plans to create a Monkey Army when I move to Thailand. I have thought of conscripting water buffaloes and elephants as well, but I never considered bears. One thing I do know is that any bears who joined my army would not be serving as porters – can you say “6-foot, 500-pound HOPLITE?”

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 wouldn’t carry over to Japanese – but “Bus Man” is the most uninspiring name of any film I can think of.

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