The always informative Pinktentacle.com has beaten me to straight poop again. This time they got the scoop on the PANDA POOP PRIZE.
Ig Nobel Prize: Panda poo power 02 Oct 2009 Pinktentacle.com
Researchers from Kitasato University in Tokyo have been awarded this year’s Ig Nobel Biology Prize for demonstrating that kitchen waste can be reduced by more than 90% by using bacteria extracted from Giant Panda excrement...more…
Also note that above photo is a panda statue crafted by hand from giant panda droppings and sold by the Chengdu Breeding Centre for Endangered Species ( www.metro.co.uk) in Sichuan province, China.
According to MSNBC, these rags are “inspired by a Yoko Ono” brainfart and executed by the ThreeasFour fashion house for the Spring 2010 Fashion Week in New York City.
Check MSNBC to see I am not trying to trick you with Photoshop—The Japanese model above really is that skinny .
As I have reported here before about ‘Forest (Mori) Girls’ fashions, the sweet “loli” look has been around Japan for a long time even though it isn’t as much fun as goth Lolita style.
These fashions based on massively-layered, print fabric provide a totally-covered burka look results in a lot of girls trying to hide behind their fashions such as these girls featured in the huge photo blog fuckyeahsweetlolita.tumblr.com .
Japanese Bunraku puppetry is Japan’s and perhaps the world’s dullest performing art. To save you from the boredom, you can check out these videos showing the most “exciting” part.
Brain fart 1:
Yes, I know these YouTube videos have been floating around the Internet a long time, but I just suffered through three hours of Bunraku(Wiki) yesterday on my knees on tatami mats, so I felt compelled to you save you from the pain, ha, ha.
Brain fart 2:
My favorite current gaijin author who writes about Japan, Isaac Adamson, became bogged down when he used bunraku as the hook to his last novel, Kinki Lullaby. The topic of bunraku is so ponderous Adamson has never written again about Japan*
The YouTube content filter labels this four-part series as safe general audiences (safe for work) so enjoy what they describe as Japanese fish porn–”the most advanced on the PLANET!”
I wander through this area in Tokyo’s Kabukicho district all the time going to my friend’s bar in “Golden Gai” (which I think is “golden” because it’s downhill from the public squat toilet). Like most of trashed-out Tokyo, it looks very sketchy in the photo below but it’s actually quite safe and comfortably cosy.
White chocolate-covered cheese potato chips is the newest WTF product from ROYCE’. Their website describes it as “potato chip chocolate fromage buran” which is Japanese-franglais for a boxed abortion of cheesy chocolate deep-fried potato chip-like snack. The chips in the photo below tasted even worse than they look—They taste like the smell of over-ripe cheese that was deep-fried in sweaty tennis shoes that were chocolate-coated and then aged in a sack of last year’s potatoes.
Yes, yes, I know that chocolate-covered potato chips have been around for decades. However, these particular white chocolate cheesy chips are both painfully precious (at 800 yen or $8 USD for an 80g box) and especially nasty.
PS: Does anybody know why the company has misspelled their trademarked name with a spurious apostrophe at the end of ROYCE’?
Japanese couple wins World Tango competition…a quick search shows another thing Japanese can do well…dance backwards in high heels while looking great. Link idea thanks to Rus Gant and Yves.
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The topic of bunraku is so ponderous Adamson has never written again 
