Death Note is one of the many anime/animations Superman and I used to enjoy on the adult swim site before it was geo-locked (whereby streaming content is blocked to IP addresses accessing websites from outside particular geographical areas - grrrr.) We were barely through the first season of ...
Standing in my local secondhand bookshop I had a desire to read something about Japan and found myself looking at ever-so-slightly foxed copies of both "Geisha ...
Something a little lighter and shorter today - I happened to surf over to ABC1 during kids hour the other morning and Superman and I watched this in both shock and hysterics! [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdFQFUm4fL0[/youtube] I have to say I also highly recommend hunting down South Park's Spoof on "Great Expectations"which was entitled simply "Pip" after their wonderfully innocent ...
Every Monday at 6pm and Thurs at 5:30 pm for the last few weeks, a 6ft, willowy Japanese woman named Akiko (written with the kanji meaning "bright"or "shining" & "girl") comes to our humble flat to teach us Japanese. She will do this for the next few months in preparation for our move to Nagoya ...
A few weeks ago I added a bunch of podcasts to my RSS feeds on Google Reader and have loved listening to things I would usually miss when they are live (mostly from ABC Radio National and mostly on Sundays lol.) Big Ideas has been broadcasting the odd session from this year's Adelaide Festival of ...
Via a blog on language and its use, I recently came across a circumlocution such as Sir Humphrey Appleby of Yes Minister & Prime would be proud: "... the filmmakers added new scenes to the film, including one where Mr. [Samuel L.] Jackson's character delivers an exclamation similar to one a sound-alike had uttered ...
In my research on religion, religious phenomena, philosophy of religion "for my novel" lol I clicked my way through to this: CAN BAD MEN MAKE GOOD BRAINS DO BAD THINGS? Having followed the link from another blog which referred to it as amusing, ...
