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Robogeisha
I can’t decide whether this is a joke or just the queen mother of Japanese B movies: Whatever the case, it gets minus ten points for the mislabeling of a rotary saw as “chain saw.” UPDATE: Oh no, it’s real!
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History of Chop Suey Fonts
For the typeset nerd in you: Derided by typophiles as crass, “ethnic type” has a revealing taxonomy and, surprisingly, serves a purpose.
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Manzai Conspiracy Theory (not really)
So I didn’t even know about the Two Ronnies until today. They apparently had a show on BBC from 1971. In Japan, Beat Takeshi and Beat Kiyoshi formed their manzai act, Two Beat (aka Two Beats) shortly after that and first appeared on NHK in 1976. Coincidence? Or did Takeshi borrow the naming scheme from the Ronnies? //////////////////////////// BTW, the naming is pretty much the only thing these two duos have in common:
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Want your wallet back, daddy?
The other day I was holding him and trying to get money from an ATM. When the cash was about to pop out, I opened my wallet in anticipation, and Max grabbed the sheaf of bills contained inside in a monkeylike flash and motioned like he was going to throw them in the air… There were lots of people waiting behind us, so it caused quite a stir.
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armless ganas
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I scream
This has nothing to do with the photo, but last week we went to the fish sanctuary again and suddenly found ourselves surrounded on five sides by a billy goat, a baby goat, a huge yellow frog, a stray dog, and a tethered brown cow. It was quite exciting because we had a loaf of sliced bread to give to the catfish, but ended up feeding the mammals instead (the frog wasn’t having any of it and hopped away).
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ouch..
In other news, I would have posted this on Facebook but the uneditable captioning there kind of ruins the punchline..
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…and we’re back!
Daddy did something incredible and isolated a problem with the inverter for the broken LCD monitor, which enabled the broken component to be replaced by an unlicensed professional working out of an unventilated solder trap of a storefront. Here is a snapshot of daddy’s progress before Max came over to assault with a cup of yogurt:
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Yoshi Ikuzo – Precursor to Japanese Hip-hop (yo yo)
He’s kind of the Grandmaster Flash of Japan, except he didn’t contribute anything to turntablism and he raps in the Tohoku (instead of Bronx) vernacular. Also, he includes kamishibai (link) in his lyrics, which I’m pretty sure Grandmaster Flash did not. He sure does have a Furious Five, though. Or maybe Fifteen..
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Torrent alternative
Download your torrents via http: furk I tried it. It was free and it worked as advertised. It probably isn’t an RIAA honeypot; they ain’t that smart.
