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As you walk through the valleys of that cursed womb you call home, fear not! Yours will no longer be a fate covered in maggots & rotting adult diapers! For years, you fought through the kicks to the belly, the botched hanger surgeries, the small quatities of ingested bleach. You got Moxy, kid.

For those of you out there who have already developed your eyes, give this a looksee:





So don't go booking that one-way ticket to the seedy dumpster behind the park just yet, kiddos. Instead, nuzzle up to those warm embriotic fluids and sleep to dream of the day when you're plucked out of the drop-box like a used copy of Mona Lisa Smile.

You know when someone thinks of something something really cool, yet still really simple and not too difficult to pull off, and makes you think "damn, why didnt I think of that"? Well this is one of them. Flipbook style advertising in Tokyo subway tunnels, using the moving train as the 'page flicker' and the window as your viewport. via Japundit.

Here is how to dress like a ninja:



and this is what to do after you become a ninja:

From the Japanese show Ninja Warrior (on the G4 channel if you have cable). Magoto Nagano, a 34 year old fisherman, is the second to complete this obsticle course. Over 500 have tried and failed.

Video Source: amazingstufftome Blogspot
How to dress like a ninja: entertheninja.com

This is a 7 minute documentary of Stephen Wiltshire - The 'Human Camera' - on a trip to Tokyo. Stephen is an autistic guy from London who draws things from memory and especially likes skyscrapers. Here, he takes a 30 minute helicopter ride over Tokyo then spends a week drawing the city from memory. The final work is a 360 degree panorama that's 10 meters long. Click play to see how accurate it looks...



Stephen has more work and stories at his site stephenwiltshire.co.uk.

Lisa, at Tokyomango, posted this video of pre-Edo daikagura juggling the shoguns apparently used to watch at their homes. This performance is by Edo-Daikagura Maruichi Senoh Troupe who say the original intent was to chase away evil on behalf of the gods of the shrines.

This is just really nutty. I know it seems like all my blurbs come from Japan Times, but I just can't get through one full paper without being shocked and or appaled at one thing or another. Check this interview out: (taken without permission from Japan Times)


Is it really true that your contracts with Mattel, Saban Entertainment and your promoters require you to remain looking 24 years old like the dolls made after you, and restrict who you can marry?

Contracts with each company are as thick as 2 meters.

With Mattel it's mostly about the way I look, like hairstyle, hair color, weight, figure and skin color. That with Saban has a lot to do with name usage.

Manager: They are both lifetime contracts, so she has to maintain her looks for life. She can only marry a U.S. citizen according to the contract, as U.S. children believe from the cartoon that she is an American superstar.

What happens if you violate the contract?

There will be a penalty.

Like in the billions?

Manager: More than that.


for the whole interview, check Japan Times.

Finland's 2006 Air Guitar Championships featured three Japanese contestants in the top 20, including overall winner Ochi “Dainoji” Yosuke. "Yosuke outplayed the other skillful contestants with his simplistic but extremely classy air guitarring."




The results of the Air Guitar World Championships were:

1. Ochi "Dainoji" Yosuke (Japan) 35.4
2. Clay "Bangers" Connolly (Australia) 34.8
3. Christian "Heart Buckboard" Sweep (Germany) 34.6
4. Gabriele "The Hoxton Creeper" Matzeu (United Kingdom) 33.9
5. Takeshi "Takeshi the SAMURI Kongochi" Kongochi (Japan) 33.8
6. Craig "Hot Lixx Hulahan" Billmeier (United States) 33.7
6. Rainer "Le Freak" Fussgänger (Austria) 33.7
8. Romain "Sideburn" Lesaffre (France) 33.4
9. Christian "Der Prettauer" Steinhauer (Italy) 33.1
10. Benjamin "Helmutt" Greaney (New Zealand) 32.7
11. Karita "Rässi Rinsessa" Kivioja (Finland) 16.7
11. Michael "The Destroyer" Heffels (The Netherlands) 16.7
11. Igmar "Iggy Stardust" De Haan (The Netherlands) 16.7
11. Eero "Oulun oma poika" Ojala (Finland) 16.7
15. Max "Max" Heller (Austria) 16.4
16. Kanagawa "Super IQ" IQ (Japan) 16.2
17. Terje "Doc" Stephansen (Norway) 15.7

Like rap? So does Hiroshi Sakaue, an 85 year old Hip-Hopper living in Tokyo. Look out Snoop, there's a new man in town, representing the east side. Far East Side, beeeyatch.

I know, I know; It may seem that all of my blurbs recently are about old people. But its not from a lack of respect, or even a dislike of the aged. In fact, its quite the opposite: My grandparents are some of the coolest people I know. I adore them, just as I am sure Mr. Sakaue's gandkids must think he's the coolest thing since Pokemon. Or at least since toilet paper hats. After all, this guy is one hip geezer.

And of course, all this posting about the aged could just be in response to Japan's steadily aging population. Social roles that were once reserved for the "punk kids" are now being preserved by their older counterparts. Take one look at Sakaue San's lyrics in his hit song "Kotsu Jigoku," or "Traffic Hell", and you won't question his resolve, or talent for that matter.

"Riding along the Koshu-Kaido road on my bike,"

"Insurance compensation worth 30 million,"

"Then Linda came along,"

"And she took it all. Oh, No!"

These lyrics, based on a true story about a traffic accident and the subsequent blowing of all his Insurance cash at Hostess bars, show for once and for all, that this guy means business (Oh No!). His current project is a new Album called "Hachi Jigoku," or "Bee Hell."

For better or worse, Hiroshi Sakaue is here to stay. For a while anyway.

View the whole article at Asahi.