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

Nun Dance

Sensual or religious? You decide, perhaps after reading the rest of the story here.

Posted By: Paul - Thu May 26, 2011 - Comments (5)
Category: Religion, Nuns, Dance

Delightful Stories

Apparently, our ancestors operated under a different meaning of the word "delightful" than we do today.

Posted By: Paul - Thu Apr 07, 2011 - Comments (3)
Category: Death, Religion, Books, Nineteenth Century

The Adventures of Mark Twain

We had some weird Zappa claymation not too long ago. Now we get some based on the work of Mark Twain.

Disregard the label on the clip above. It's really an excerpt from this full-length film.

Part 1 of the whole film follows:

Posted By: Paul - Wed Mar 16, 2011 - Comments (3)
Category: Literature, Fantasy, Writers, Religion, 1980s

Whoa!

The explanation? Tourette's.

Posted By: Paul - Mon Feb 21, 2011 - Comments (6)
Category: Religion, Diseases

Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt

Further proof, if needed, of Japanese eccentricity and oddness: cosplayers depicting characters from this Japanese anime series.

"The Anarchy sisters, Panty and Stocking, are angels who were kicked out of Heaven due to their bad behavior. They are sent to Daten City (a pun on the Japanese word datenshi (堕天使?, lit. 'Fallen Angel')), a place located on the edge of Heaven and Hell. Strange monsters called 'Ghosts' besiege the city, but the Anarchy sisters wield a variety of mysterious powers, most notably their ability to transform their clothing into weapons. Under the watchful eye of Reverend Garterbelt, and with their pet zipper-dog Chuck, it's up to Panty and Stocking to destroy these Ghosts, in order to collect enough Heaven Coins to return to Heaven."

You really need to click on the image to admire it in its full-sized glory.

Posted By: Paul - Thu Feb 17, 2011 - Comments (6)
Category: Fashion, Underwear, Religion, Cartoons, Asia

Paper Doll

Paper Doll 《紙紮》 from Bernadette Choy on Vimeo.

No English translation of the dialogue, but that just makes it all the weirder.

The website "explains" thus: "An animation film about CHUNG's afterlife journey, in search of his cause of death. Chung look back his lifetime, and travel across the 'middle-land'. In the meantime, he made friends with the Paperdolls (paper work Chinese offering figures ). This is a relaxing and humorous animation that introduces the Chinese dead's world."

Posted By: Paul - Wed Feb 09, 2011 - Comments (2)
Category: Death, Religion, Video, Asia, Fictional Monsters

The Triangular Lodge

An odd building constructed according to mystical beliefs?

No, it's not the Vatican!

Posted By: Paul - Wed Jan 26, 2011 - Comments (5)
Category: Architecture, Eccentrics, Religion, Sixteenth Century

Weird Shorts – 4

Talk about a mammoth appetite, when most of the world’s large mammals went extinct roughly 10,000 years ago, the vast majority of the vanished species were herbivores. This of course meant that they were no longer around to eat the plants they otherwise would have, and - according to Christophers Doughty and Field from Oxford and Stanford Universities respectively – this freed up an extra 1.4 trillion kilos of food, roughly 2.5% of the net product of all Earth’s dry land. However, the researchers add, this excess had been ‘used up’ by burgeoning human numbers by around 1700 and today we consume six times as much as the Pleistocene critters ever did while simultaneously driving down land productivity by 10% (Nature)(PDF).

That’s not to say that our massive consumption doesn’t have it’s upside, As Vangelis Kapatos of Manhattan discovered when he attempted suicide by jumping from his ninth floor flat, only to survive when his fall was broken by a pile of uncollected garbage. Mr. Kapatos’ timing, from his perspective, couldn’t have been worse, the unusually large garbage pile was due to collections being suspended because of snow. They were due to resume the day after his impromptu dumpster dive (Today Online).

Mind you, we’re not the only animals prone to excess. After finding the bodies of dozens of starlings near the city of Constanta in Romania, locals were concerned that the cause might be bird flu, instead post-mortems of the birds have revealed that they in fact died of alcohol poisoning, having ‘drunk’ themselves to death on the discarded leftovers of the local winemaking industry. A least they died happy (BBC News).

Better than dying happy, though, is living happy, and the secret of that, says the UK’s Office for National Statistics, is having a job. But it’s not the pay but the job security that counts, say the government statisticians, which ironically are facing staff cuts themselves due to the economic downturn. Other key happiness factors, according to the preliminary report, are good personal health and a decent family life. What will we do without these people (Telegraph)?



More in extended >>

Posted By: Dumbfounded - Thu Jan 13, 2011 - Comments (4)
Category: Animals, Dinosaurs and Other Extinct Creatures, Armageddon and Apocalypses, Babies, Crime, Death, Human Marvels, Inebriation and Intoxicants, Religion, Sexuality, Weird Names, Body Fluids, Perfume and Cologne and Other Scents

Nuns Behaving Badly

This looks like a WUvian book to me!

Read an interview with the author here.

Posted By: Paul - Sun Dec 05, 2010 - Comments (6)
Category: Misbehavior, Rebellion, Acting-out and General Naughtiness, Religion, Nuns, Children, Books, Hermits, Sex