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Category: Asia

Latitude Zero

This campy spectacular was long unavailable in the USA. I watched it last night and can report that it is full of prime-grade weirdness. If you have ever wanted to see Caesar Romero transplant a woman's brain into the body of a winged lion, now is your chance!

Posted By: Paul | Date: Tue Jun 29, 2010 | Permalink | Comments (4)
Category: Animals, Cryptozoology, Geography and Maps, Movies, Oceans and Maritime Pursuits, Paranormal, Surgery, Science Fiction, 1960's, Asia, Weapons

Weird Salt & Pepper Shakers

My brother Bob found these salt and pepper shakers in a junk store and could not resist buying them. Two women with Marge-Simpson hairdos in the form of carrot and corn prepare to engage in fisticuffs.

Can anyone explain the iconography here? Note that they do originate in Japan, source of much strangeness.

Posted By: Paul | Date: Sun Apr 25, 2010 | Permalink | Comments (7)
Category: Agriculture, Art, Surrealism, Domestic, Interior Decorating, Collectors, Asia

Children of Japan

Wow.
Worst. Timing. Ever.
Release a friendly documentary about Japanese kids in the same year as Pearl Harbor.
Wow.

Posted By: Paul | Date: Tue Apr 06, 2010 | Permalink | Comments (7)
Category: Family, Foreign Customs, Documentaries, 1940's, Asia

And The Angels Sing--Japanese Style!

Something tells me the lovely and enthusiastic Japanese singer here has learned her lyrics phonetically--and I'm not sure they emerge as English.

Original Glenn Miller version included for purposes of comparison.

Posted By: Paul | Date: Sun Mar 21, 2010 | Permalink | Comments (6)
Category: Languages, Mistranslations, Music, Asia

Follies of the Mad Men #92

Would anyone want to carry a condom that advertised its presence by thumping?

Posted By: Paul | Date: Tue Mar 16, 2010 | Permalink | Comments (5)
Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Sexuality, Birth Control , Public Indecency, Asia

World Record Bamboo Dance

Watch this video. Now picture ten thousand people doing it simultaneously.

Posted By: Paul | Date: Sat Mar 13, 2010 | Permalink | Comments (2)
Category: World Records, Dance, Asia

Google Translation

I have a Google Alert keyed to my name, as most authors do. Imagine my surprise to find myself cited on a Taiwanese sci-fi fan page whose name Google chooses to translate thus. I hope the AMA does not find out I'm practicing cancer medicine without a license!

Click to enlarge image, if necessary!

Posted By: Paul | Date: Sat Feb 06, 2010 | Permalink | Comments (5)
Category: Asia, Mistranslations

Topical Chinese Animation

The late-night NBC talkshow wars as a superhero battle? Why not?

Posted By: Paul | Date: Tue Feb 02, 2010 | Permalink | Comments (5)
Category: Cartoons, TV News, Asia

Matango

Just watched this last night. Magic mushrooms indeed!

Posted By: Paul | Date: Mon Jan 25, 2010 | Permalink | Comments (9)
Category: Disasters, Dreams and Nightmares, Drugs, Food, Horror, Movies, 1960's, Asia

Big Breast Mountains

Here are two photos of Shuangru Peak in China. The second one is the work of photographer Andre Holdrinet.

This page reveals other similar formations in that marvelous country.

Posted By: Paul | Date: Sun Nov 29, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (6)
Category: Asia, Natural Wonders, Breasts

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