Monthly Archives: October 2004

Tokyo Event :: November 13 :: Adultery: Agent Murder

Thanks to Zaibatsu Zombie from the for picking this one up. Okay, I don’t have much information, but it looks like it’s called Adultery arranged by Agent § Murder. Bands will include 2 Bullet, Agent § Murder, Aural Vampire and Seaside Suicide.
I like the Agent § Murder sound files - mixing harder-than-average metal with [...]

Earthquakes :: Niigata earthquake

A nasty earthquake hit Niigata on October 23, 2004. At the time, I made a number of posts during the night and into the next day. I have decided to recompile them into a single post for the current site just so you can see what was going through my warped mind during that period.
October [...]

Japan for the Uninvited

John, I’m only surfing,
It turns me on…
Looking for an interesting site minus the ferrets?
Japan for the Uninvited certainly fits the bill with a guy by the name of Jack lifting up the metaphorical kimono to take you on a quirky tour of Japan. Just scanning the most recent stories you got Japan’s Groping Problem, Enjo [...]

Igor gets personal

Well, I guess I’m hitting around six months on this site. It’s the first time I’ve decided to do something like this for myself. Actually I lie, there’s a couple of other places lying in suspended animation, but I was just mussing around. But this is the first time, I thought to make an effort [...]

Following the White Rabbit

Even in these early stages of exploration I can see the rabbit warren goes deep. The slick oiled surface of Japanese Goth has the glamor and flash of your chic coffee-table magazines… but this hides a veritable myriad of sub-cultures and offshoots beneath the waters. From caverns of blinding light to pits of ink-black darkness, [...]

Birthdays :: Godzilla turns 50

Happy birthday ya nuclear-infected freak!
Icon of a generation, Godzilla first took to the streets of Tokyo way back in 1954. The actors wrapped in rubber, roaring and stomping on a model set the standards of…. well actors wrapped in rubber.
I saw a couple of the old movies when I was a kid, wondering just what [...]

Birthdays :: Dungeons and Dragons turns 30

Yeah, I was a nerd playing D&D for several years in my life. My first character was a female rangre with fudged attributes - you know four 18s with a 17 and 15 for variation. My most beloved character was a thieving megalomaniac who managed to destroy a large part of a village he was [...]

Fun :: Tooling with smart context ads

I was mildly amused to discover unintended consequences of great Web marketing ideas.. While surfing around I discovered a funky little search engine ad service called Kanoodle. Okay I thought, let’s try this out and see what happens. Searching for a number of choice terms I discovered that Enlightenment, Captain Sensible’s underpants, and Iraq’s weapons [...]

Cows :: It’s another mad, mad, mad, mad cow!

Mad cow number 14 has surfaced. This batty bovine was initially found dead of unknown causes and hauled away for testing where it was discovered to be fruity of mind - Noogle it.
Okay, that’s #3 since May when a report estimated that another 60 loony-toons would crop up in Japan’s beef paddocks so there are [...]

Suicide pacts :: Carbon monoxide claims nine

Seems to be a bit of a trend of late, with a number of cases involving (usually young) people suffocating themselves in sealed cars or houses by using small cooking stoves to burn briquettes. The two events today each took seven and two people respectively in their 20s and 30s. According to various news reports, [...]