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11 Mar
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Posted by Musashi
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What kind of irresponsible douchebag leaves his son at home while he runs around the neighborhood dressed as a ninja? A real father would’ve taken a hint from Lone Wolf and Cub and taken him along on his nocturnal adventure Daigorō-style.
Police say Hurst, 28, told them his mother was watching the child, but the boy’s grandmother said Hurst never asked her to babysit.
In an affidavit, Patrolman Joseph Lane said that he asked Hurst “why he was playing by himself” at around 1.30 a.m. on March 3.
“He replied that there are not a lot of people who want to play ninja,” the newspaper quoted Lane’s affidavit as saying. “I advised him that it looked to me that he was doing something else. Hurst stated that he was not doing anything wrong and was going home.”
| Category: News | Tag: crime, fatherhood, ninja, wtf |
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21 Feb
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Posted by Musashi
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| Category: Video | Tag: food, japan, video games, wtf |
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23 Nov
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Posted by Musashi
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When I read this headline at MSNBC, I initially thought ‘Man, that show’s really gone off the rails…’ Then I remembered it was cancelled. Then I was all like, WTF? Apparently Michael L. Brea had an epic-level freakout, chopping his mom into kibble while shouting ‘Repent, Repent!’.
“I had just dozed off to go to sleep and then I woke up to somebody screaming,” neighbor Bernard Bent told WPIX. “It sounded like lady’s voice and after a while I just didn’t hear the woman’s voice again.”
The newspaper said the suspect was undergoing a psychiatric evaluation at Kings County Hospital.
Citing website BelFim.com, WPIX said Brea had appeared as a dancer in film “Step Up 3-D”.He appeared in a 2009 episode of “Ugly Betty,” the website said.
“I remember growing up and my mother was always feeding people who were less fortunate,” Brea is quoted as saying on BelFim.com. “My parents raised me to always share and to give charity in the name of God.”
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1 Nov
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Posted by Musashi
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I know that film businesses outside the U.S. play a little fast-and-loose (compare Jackie Chan’s Hong Kong fare to the dung he’s produced Stateside sometime) but this is plain silly…
Watchman Eddie Cuizon tried to accost Filipino actor Kirk Abella late Saturday then shot him as the actor was directed to speed away on a motorcycle with a masked driver, said community police chief Alexis Relado of central Cebu city’s Parian district.
Cuizon, 52, told police he was sleeping and was woken up by a concerned citizen who reported the presence of armed men in his community.
He told police he saw two masked men on a motorcycle and approached them but they sped away and he stumbled as he tried to stop them, injuring his knee. He fired at Abella when the actor pulled out a gun, which turned out to be made of plastic, Relado said.
Many street killings in the Philippines, including those of political activists and journalists, have been perpetrated by motorcycle-riding gunmen.
Abella, 32, was acting in “Going Somewhere,” being filmed by British theatre and film director Alan Lyddiard in Cebu, Relado said.
You’d think that notifying the local badges about your upcoming drive-by-shooting scene would be prudent, but I guess that’s why I don’t make movies for a living.
| Category: News | Tag: accident, film, kirk abella, Philippines, sad, wtf |
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10 Sep
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Posted by Musashi
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For all the bitching everyone did about the recent U.S. census, it could be worse: Japan can’t locate nearly 230,000 old people. Seriously – nearly a quarter-million centenarians have gone missing, presumably because they died without the census department’s knowledge.
Yikes.
A ministry official said many of the missing people had probably died, lost touch with relatives or moved overseas. The official spoke on condition of anonymity, citing ministry policy.
In late July, police discovered that Sogen Kato, who would have been 111 and was thought to be Tokyo’s oldest man, had actually been dead for 32 years and his decayed body was still lying in his home.
Police have arrested his granddaughter for suspected abandonment and pension fraud.
That case and other revelations of scamming relatives and isolated and forgotten elderly people led to closer scrutiny ahead of the Health Ministry’s annual report on centenarians. Last year’s report said Japan had 40,399 people aged 100 or older with known addresses.
| Category: News | Tag: bureaucracy, japan, old people, scary, wtf |
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1 Sep
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Posted by Musashi
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The Shan family in Shangdong province, China have been forced to choose a new family name – thanks to computers which can’t render the character necessary to spell their name.
The residents had no problem when identity cards, driving licenses and other documents could be handwritten, but now they have to be printed using computers, and their name is so unusual it does not exist in standard word processing programmes.
“Nobody wants to do it, but under the circumstances we have no choice,” villager Xian Xuexin told state television, using the new, easy to type family name he has been compelled to adopt.
“It causes a lot of problems when people see the surname on old documents and new documents is not the same.”
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3 Aug
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Posted by Musashi
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Less than a week after Japan’s previous ‘Oldest Person’ was found to have been dead and mummified for 30 years, the person who inherited the title – 113-year-old Fusa Furuya – was not found at her last recorded address. Wow – Japan has to do a much better job of keeping track of their Oldest People. Maybe they can put tracking collars on them, or put them in glass enclosures at the Tokyo Zoo.
Either way – stop losing your Oldest People, Japan!
Fusa Furuya, born in July 1897, does not live at the address where she is registered and her whereabouts are unknown, Tokyo Suginami ward official Hiroshi Sugimoto said.
Her disappearance surfaced just days after the shocking discovery last week of the mummified body of the man Tokyo officials thought was the city’s oldest living male.
Officials said they had not personally contacted the two people for decades despite listing them as the city’s longest-living. They apparently learned of the man’s death and the woman’s disappearance when they began updating records ahead of a holiday honoring the elderly next month.
| Category: News | Tag: japan, old people, wtf |
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28 Mar
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Posted by Musashi
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13 Jan
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Posted by AnaKhouri
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You know how the Japanese are all technologically advanced and their kids are supposed to score way higher on tests than American kids and stuff?
Then why do they have game shows like this?
How Many Yen Can Your Boobs Hold?
And here, just so you don’t think I’m being sexist, are some dudes getting hit in the nuts.
| Category: Uncategorized | Tag: boobies, game shows, japan, wtf |
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2 Sep
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Posted by Musashi
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The wife of Japan’s newly-elected Prime Minister Yukio Hatayama is a certified nut-case. This does not bode well for the incoming government, who inherits a huge goose-egg in the wake of failed Conservative leadership (gee, I wonder what that must be like…).
“While my body was asleep, I think my soul rode on a triangular-shaped UFO and went to Venus,” Miyuki Hatoyama, the wife of premier-in-waiting Yukio Hatoyama, wrote in a book published last year.
“It was a very beautiful place and it was really green.”
Sounds like it would make a pretty awesome anime, though…
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7 Aug
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Posted by Musashi
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Here’s a story I’ve neglected to follow – J-pop singer and actress Noriko Sakai is still on the lam after she disappeared in the wake of a drug investigation that targeted she and her husband, professional surfer Yuichi Takaso. Sakai initially fled with her 10-year-old son, but the boy has now been found – while an arrest warrant has been issued for his mother.
Sakai’s mother-in-law asked Tokyo Metropolitan Police to search for the 38-year-old actress and her son Tuesday, a day after Sakai’s husband, Yuichi Takaso, 41, was arrested, a police spokesman said.
He declined to be named, citing department policy, and also refused to give details about the husband’s case.
Kyodo News agency reported that police stopped Takaso while he was walking in downtown Tokyo and found drugs when they searched him.
Masahisa Aizawa, president of Sakai’s management agency, Sun Music, said at news conference Tuesday that Sakai was a responsible person and urged her not to go through the difficult time by herself.Police said Sakai’s mobile phone signal was last detected late Tuesday in Yamanashi, about 60 miles (100 kilometres) west of Tokyo, according to Kyodo. Officials from the Metropolitan and Yamanashi police declined to confirm the report.
Sakai’s career stretches over 20 albums, contributions to anime soundtracks (including Gunbuster, Video Girl Ai, and Hoshi no Kinka), and numerous film and television roles including Heaven’s Coins and Ju-on: The Grudge 2.
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21 Jul
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Posted by Musashi
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After mentioning Mamoru Oshii’s Angel’s Egg a minute ago, I thought – since it’s on YouTube, why not post the whole damn thing? For those of you who don’t know anything about it, Angel’s Egg is a 1985 collaboration between Ghost in the Shell director Mamoru Oshii and Final Fantasy illustrator Yoshitaka Amano – and yes, it’s every bit as awesome as you’d expect.
Enjoy…
| Category: Anime, Video, Yellow Menace Theater | Tag: angel's egg, animation, Anime, mamoru oshii, wtf, yellow menace theater |
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7 May
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Posted by Musashi
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Cruelty issues aside – Kuala Lumpur is suddenly THE vacation spot of the season if you’re into all-dog buffets. The best part is, you don’t need to find a dog-sitter!
More than 300 stray dogs that were dumped on isolated islands turned to cannibalism after weeks of starvation, animal welfare activists said Thursday.
The plight of the dogs cast away by villagers on two small, uninhabited islands off Malaysia’s western Selangor state ignited outrage after activists this week released photographs showing dogs eating the carcasses of ones that had died.
Residents of a fishing village on Pulau Ketam, another island off Selangor, caught the dogs last month and took them to the islands covered in mangroves. The villagers said they never intended to be cruel — they believed the dogs could feed on the deserted islands’ wildlife — but wanted to rid their island of dogs that defecate on the streets and sometimes bite children.
Despite the outrage, I wonder what kind of punitive measures can be taken against these people. I doubt anything will come of this. Other than lots of fresh, tasty dog. Mmmmm…
| Category: News | Tag: animal cruelty, dogs, malaysia, wtf |
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21 Apr
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Posted by Musashi
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I really think Jackie Chan should stick to beating the crap out of people and acting goofy, because this whole ‘freedom’ thing is starting to look like a PR nightmare for him.
Solon So, the chief executive of Chan’s company JC Group and his main spokesman, said in a phone interview Tuesday the actor was referring to freedom in the entertainment industry and not Chinese society at large.
Chan was speaking at a panel discussion about Asian entertainment industries and was asked to discuss movie censorship in China.
“Some people with ulterior motives deliberately misinterpreted what he was saying,” So said.
But Chan discussed China as a country — not its entertainment industry specifically — immediately before making his comments about freedom, according to an AP reporter who attended Chan’s panel discussion in the southern Chinese island province Hainan.
“But I feel that in the 10 years after Hong Kong’s return to Chinese rule, I can gradually see, I’m not sure if it’s good to have freedom or not,” Chan continued.
Meanwhile, the public backlash against Chan grew.
A group of Chinese scholars published a letter on the Internet on Monday accusing Chan of “not understanding how precious freedom is,” even though “free Hong Kong provided the conditions for you to become an international action star.”
“Sure, we’ve got 5,000 years of history, but our new country has just been around for 60 years and the reforms for 30 years. It’s hard to compare us with other countries,” Chan said, referring to China’s communist rule and capitalist-style reforms under the communist regime.
This isn’t the first time Chan has made anti-democracy comments, however. He also criticised the election of Democratic reformers in the 2004 Taiwanese Presidential election.
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14 Apr
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Posted by Musashi
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I’m not sure what, excactly, to make of this. On the one hand, Texas State Representative Betty Brown seems like a well-meaning person. On the other hand, she’s a complete and total fucktard.
Asking Asian-Americans to whip up names more suitable for ‘Americans’ to deal with is insane (and vastly insulting to her constituents, I might add). The original problem – that pollsters can’t make heads-nor-tails of ‘wierd’ Asian names – would hardly be solved by adding a new name into the mix, which would then require it’s own paper-trail of substantiation to qualify at the polls.
My full name is Alejandro. Not a particularly difficult name to deal with, but I’ve gone by ‘Alex’ most of my life because everyone around me finds it easier. But my official records all say ‘Alejandro’. I was almost turned away from a bank once when the teller claimed I was not the same person as the one on my State Issued I.D.
So no – picking a phonetically simple name does not make things easier.
And honestly – you know who has wierder names than Asians? Polish and Greek people. I wonder how many of those they have in Texas, and whether or not they could be persuaded to change their names.
UPDATE: Angry Asian Man (ever the voice of moderation in matters such as these) has Ramey Ko’s side of the story (Ko is the man Ms. Brown is blathering to in the above video.
| Category: Video | Tag: asian-americans, foot in mouth disease, politics, stupid, texas, wtf |
