Asia
Happy Japanese Reggae Band
I'm insulted and embarrassed, and I'm not even Jamaican!
Posted By: Paul - Thu Aug 11, 2011 -
Comments (5)
Category: Music, Religion, Stereotypes and Cliches, Subcultures, Asia, Caribbean
Dollers
Most frightening cosplay ever. An explanation is here.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Aug 07, 2011 -
Comments (7)
Category: Costumes and Masks, Dreams and Nightmares, Performance Art, Asia
Follies of the Mad Men #153
Apparently the South Koreans believe these popstar girls can sell everything from cellphones to pizza.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jul 25, 2011 -
Comments (3)
Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Communications, Food, Sex Symbols, Dance, Asia
Brubeck in Pakistan
The familiar made gloriously weird.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jul 22, 2011 -
Comments (7)
Category: Music, Asia
Scary Cliff Construction
Watch this fuller, foreign video, then get the English explanation here.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jul 10, 2011 -
Comments (2)
Category: Engineering and Construction, Asia
Perfume
Please help! I'm in an awful fix! I can't decide if Japanese technopop girl group Perfume is absolute dreck or absolute genius!
They sure are cute as a jar full of buttons, though. I love it when they sing the phrases "Linear Motor Girl" and "Sweet Doughnuts" and "Chocolate Disco" in English. And the videos are hallucinatory.
Posted By: Paul - Thu May 19, 2011 -
Comments (9)
Category: Music, Sex Symbols, Asia
Fandub
1) You like a Japanese song.
2) You think you can render it in English.
3) You are wrong.
The scoop on fandub.
Posted By: Paul - Tue May 10, 2011 -
Comments (1)
Category: Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Music, Asia
Ika Musume
After the jump, you can see how one fan imagined the reality inherent in the term "squid girl."
Mildly NSFW.
More in extended >>
Posted By: Paul - Thu May 05, 2011 -
Comments (9)
Category: Anthropomorphism, Cryptozoology, Fictional Monsters, Cartoons, Asia
The Good, The Bad, The Weird
How can we not endorse a movie where the "weird" guy seems to be the hero?
Posted By: Paul - Wed Apr 27, 2011 -
Comments (6)
Category: Movies, Weird Theory, Asia
Mini-luchador
WU-vie "jswolf19" presents this astonishing find. Thanks, JSW!
Posted By: Paul - Wed Apr 20, 2011 -
Comments (4)
Category: Performance Art, Wrestling, Children, Asia
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