I just found out that in Japan, they have cafes where you can buy tea and 'borrow a cat' from the cat section to pat while you drink tea and read a book.

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This is probably about two weeks too late, but it just goes together so well.

The one where I was excited to get a Twitter Follower by begging for one on the air, and then said I had to get up early the next day because I was super excited about Follow Friday, then realized, off the air, that it was the anniversary of 9/11 ( Read more... )

In Japan there is a show called "Oh! Mikey" in which the entire cast is made of posed mannequins who are insane. You can watch segments of the show here: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7734489369799727406Read more... )

The champion for 2007 was the Tawny Frogmouth, who went unchallenged in 2008:


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I can't wait to live in a culture where this is considered an appropriate way to advertise chocolate hazel nuts.

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Japanese indie rock also has it's sad-bastard hipsters like Tomovsky, which so far does not seem to have a product tie-in (unless maybe someone is selling penguins).

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These two songs made me relatively pleased with Japanese music, ( Read more... )

Does anyone remember "The Apprentice" with Donald Trump? He would send these guys on adventures in capitalism and then when they failed he would fire them ( Read more... )

You should get really broke, but have a box full of toiletries you can use when you are desperate. Then, fill the box with razor blades and put it in a dark place. When you need toothpaste, stick your hand in and see what happens.

That's basically what I just did, and now I have a box of blood-stained toothpaste.

Woke up at 1:30 p.m. today and then basically left to go to work, so there is not much to report today.

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Don't give up on this until you hit the 45 second mark. But make sure you wait, the suspense is worth it.