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Up and Coming

Thursday, 14. May 2009, 18:58:46

I finally got a little down time. I've been reading, writing and of course travelling the world all while sitting at my desk. Credit goes to the internet for that, I can zip from one country to another without ever whipping out a passport. I kind of miss having the pages stamped, but I can live without it.

What I have found recenly are a couple of very interesting photography web sites. The two that I'm going to tell you about are "up and coming" almost arrived and very imaginative in the work they produce.

Just Wrong

Thursday, 19. February 2009, 03:24:44

silly, culture, whacky, life ...

I came across a web site that ran lists of differnt things:Top 10 Worst Album Covers, Top 10 Worst Ads, and then I found The Top 10 Worst Books.

Everyone knows Winnie the Pooh. That honey snarfing bear of little brain and a lot of belly.

Seems Winnie is still getting himself into hot water, only this time it's all in the name of licensing.

I like Japan

Thursday, 15. January 2009, 18:24:07

interesting, culture, life, tokyo

What's not to like about Japan? With the internet able to bring us news and information at the click of a button, we get to learn about cultures from places most of us will never see.

People make jokes about Japan - "Bringing Us Weird Since ..." You've all heard them, read them or seen them somewhere else so I don't need to repeat them here. But I've got to ask - what's not to like?

What guy wouldn't want to put his head into a lap to take a snooze!

Isn't this the ultimate in pillowy comfort.

Okay so there are a lot of oddball things about Japan, like the Nioi-bu, or Smell Club website. Japanese are taking their noses global with a Web site that describes different odors around the world and pinpoints where they can be found on a map.

Launched in December, there are more than 160 registered scents around the world, ranging from "steam coming out of a rice cooker" to "used socks in the summer," and pinpointed their locations on a Google map.

Nearly 200 members, called "smellists," have joined the Japanese-language only site. Some of what they report: "A toasty odor of cow dung" in Fujisawa City, just southwest of Tokyo. In Kamakura, eastern Japan, "cats with halitosis" were suspected to be roaming about.

Another Passing

Thursday, 15. January 2009, 02:37:39

culture, life, news

Sad to say - but actor Ricardo Montalban passed away Wednesday from natural causes at the age of 88.

He was best known as the debonair and mysterious Mr. Roarke on the popular television series “Fantasy Island,” and as Khan Noonien Singh in both the Television version of Star Trek and the second Star Trek movie, "The Wrath of Khan".

Born Ricardo Gonzalo Pedro Montalban Merino in Mexico City Nov. 25, 1920, he got his start in show business in Mexican theater, television and film.

He broke into Hollywood in the 1940s, becoming one of the few Latino stars in the industry at the time with his leading role in 1949’s “Border Incident.”

While many of his early roles were character parts in westerns, in the late 1950s he starred alongside Lena Horne in the Broadway musical “Jamaica.”

In the 1970s, Montalban became the spokesman for the Chrysler Cordoba, famously praising the luxury car’s “soft Corinthian leather” in his much-imitated rich baritone and elegant diction.

In 1982, Montalban starred as arch-villain Khan Noonien Singh in “Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan,” reprising a role he had played on a single episode of the television show in 1967.

Montalban continued to work into his 80s, doing primarily voice-over work in recent years and starting the Ricardo Montalban Foundation, which built a theater in Hollywood named after him and sought to provide opportunities to young actors.

Montalban, whose wife of 63 years, Georgiana, died in 2007, is survived by his four children and by six grandchildren.

Vaya con Dios

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No Sex Please

Saturday, 15. November 2008, 22:27:14

world, culture, news

No Sex Please We're Japanese
Can you name something Japanese people don't do because they consider it a hassle?

Recycle
Walk the dog
Have Sex after marriage

According to a recent survey more than 37% of married couples don't bother having sex.

The number one excuse given by males, "too tired after work"; women said sex was "too much of a hassle".

This could have serious implications for Japan as it's birth rate drops and the population ages.