Shapiro Keats: “Apolo Ohno got disqualified from a race!” Me: “Why?” Shapiro Keats: “They said no one with a soul patch that ugly was allowed to skate.” Me: ^_^

So, remember that Tezuka manga I love, called MW? And how they made a live-action movie? Well, I just purchased it on DVD.  Now I shall wait on pins and needles until it arrives in the mail and I shall watch and review it as soon as I get it. Maybe not as soon as I get it, because I [...]

Good God, even their snowplows are freaking cute! Yuki-taro! It gobbles up snow and poops out igloo bricks. When I was a kid, I had to fashion my own damn igloo bricks with my hands in mittens that got soaked in about 10 seconds so by the time I came in I couldn’t move my fingers. Which I’m sure has [...]

Ryuhei Kitamura is kind of a hit-or-miss director with me. I love his cult classic Versus, and Godzilla: Final Wars, but his other stuff hasn’t been that great. Sky High was boring as Hell, and Azumi, while it had great action sequences, was at least an hour too long. I used to think Kitamura was only good at one thing- [...]

Two strange objects have reportedly crashed in  Nowhere, Mongolia. Might be UFOs, might be jet engine parts. But if that’s the case, what happens to a jet when its engine falls out? Wouldn’t the crew have noticed they no longer had an engine? Mongolian UFO I think it’s probably a UFO. There is a large population of livestock in Mongolia [...]

The first appearance of Superman (Action Comics #1, 1938) recently sold for ONE MILLION DOLLARS BWHAHAHAHAHAHA! Damn! As cool as it might be to own the very first Superman comic, in excellent shape, what the Hell do you do with it? Frame it on the wall? Stick it in a safe? I am not a collector; I’ve never really understood [...]

Last week I took advantage of Target’s price-drop on Left4Dead 2 – in case you’re one of the few who haven’t picked it up, I heartily recommend it. One of the unexpected benefits of this purchase, aside from lots of awesome zombie-slayage, is that it has subsequently led to some really awesome father/son videogame bonding. Now – I’ll readily admit [...]

I want a house. Our apartment just doesn’t cut it anymore. We have too much stuff, too many people, and our cat is too fat. She takes up a couple square feet all on her own. It seems like I’m always tripping over stuff that we don’t have space to store anywhere but the floor. And then I read about [...]

Like deaf people don’t have it hard enough, now their smoke alarms blast them in the face with wasabi when there’s a fire. Yuck Now, you need an alternative way to alert people if they can’t hear the alarm, but it doesn’t help if their eyes are watering so badly they can’t see the exit and die anyway.

This is kind of cool, a subscription story service that sends you a story in your e-mail once a week. Oh yeah, this week’s story is mine! ^_^ It’s my retelling of “Yuki-onna”, a Japanese folktale related in Lafcadio Hearn’s collection Kwaidan. Short-Story.Me! (it really is cool, the stories are short enough to read quickly in one sitting. Quality varies [...]

North Korea’s Dear Leader turned 68 this week….or did he? That picture with the article has a serious “Weekend at Bernie’s” vibe going on. Hmmmm… What do get the man who has everything, including thousands of people he can order around as he pleases? Well, rare animals of course! Like the Sumatran rhino, which Kim single-handedly brought back from the [...]

Non-Japanese reviews for SquareEnix’s Final Fantasy XIII are trickling in, and it seems there’s a disconnect between what Japanese gamers and Western gamers expect from their RPG’s…so much so, that FFXIII director Motomu Toriyama has weighed-in on the issue: “We think many reviewers are looking at Final Fantasy XIII from a western point of view,” says Toriyama in a recent [...]

Old Chinese people Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo won the Olympic gold medal in pairs figure skating. This would not be unusual except they are old, and by ‘old’ I mean 31…my age (Xue) and 36 (Hongbo).  And they are married, which is nice. Although after being churned out of the China Athlete Factory, I don’t know how you meet [...]

“Um, sorry we rules your country with a relentless iron fist for thirty years. And, uh, sorry about all the rape.” Japan Apologizes to Korea It’s nice to apologize, but if Koizumi already did, why should the latest prime minister apologize too? If every prime minister takes the time to apologize to everyone Japan ever did wrong, they won’t have [...]

So YM readers with rugrats may already know this, but there is a cameo in the new Toy Story 3 movie by an anime legend. Totoro! Pixar and Studio Ghibli are kind of connected so I guess it’s no surprise. Man, that 3D animated Totoro looks kind of creepy though, doesn’t it? I would be impressed if the cameo was [...]