Kinda creepy, but probably cheaper than cat food in the long run:
3 months ago
Organized Crime and Fukushima
The most important thing is helping the weak. Duty and kindness are second. Then the third would be: don’t betray others.
– Matsuyama Shinichi, chairman of the Kyokuto-kai yakuza organisation, on what it means to be a yakuza member.
For the yakuza helping the relief effort, it’s partly about living up to the slogans they profess. It’s also about getting a stake in the reconstruction of Japan. Construction is big business.
– Tomohiko Suzuki, author of I’ve Met 1,200 Yakuza, investigative journalist and former editor of the yakuza fan magazine Jitsuwa Jidai Bull.
First emergency responders, The Yakuza.
Hat tip to Jake Adelstein
Dirty Cartoon Dilemma part two
In other words, I would argue that reading manga as a white man is rather like driving an expensive sports car as a black man. You are always already a suspect in the eyes of law enforcement authority—not because the car or the comics in themselves are necessarily a problem per se, but because your possession of said items seems to indicate, to our prejudiced little minds, far more serious criminality involving the harm of real people. Do not think for a moment that these cases are only about comics and censorship.
Is Canada profiling White Guys Who Read Manga?
Hat tip to Daryl Surat
Oldschool Find of the Day...
I check eBay out of sheer curiosity, and older collectibles like this vintage Nomura Analyzer from Day Old Antiques are pretty rare.
P.S. Anyone else waiting for a US-release of the live action Yamato DVD? ; )
Kiddie Kink for Korean Kars
One side of ad: Mary Blair-type picture book fun. Other side: sex-dipped schoolgirl fantasy. Now you know why the suits in Advertising & Promotion make the big bux.
And people wonder why I got out of the advertising biz...
A return to shadow puppets?
I'm not trying to be cute here, just wonderin' aloud.
We have fossil fuels ("clean" coal, petroleum, natural gas), unproven tidal and wind energy, unproven geothermal, and woefully inefficient photovoltaic solar. Until 500% efficient variations of the above-mentioned, green technologies are invented and implemented in a dirt-cheap manner (and there's no doubt that we need a cleaner way to generate electricity), I'm doubtful that Nuclear Power will be off the table altogether. Unless of course we somehow ween ourselves off electricity...
In a word: Yuck!
Reading about stuff like this makes me wonder why I open the web browser in the morning :/
