Somehow I was expecting September 11th pass without my having to blog anything about it, but I can’t help myself. This is too wonderful a story not to pass along.
A street sign in Manila shows an American businesswoman and …
Sakyo Komatsu, the science-fiction author responsible for the 1973 novel Japan Sinks (and inadvertently responsible for the resulting parody film The World Sinks Except Japan - which our very own AnaKhouri reviewed here…) has died at 80, from pneumonia. Komatsu …
A 23-year-old Chinese student in Toronto was chatting with a friend back home in China when an unidentified man broke into her apartment and brutally murdered her…while her friend sat helplessly and witnessed the crime via webcam. I think this …
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Just so you understand the chain of thought that led me to post this video – Mick Karn, bassist for 80′s synth-pop band Japan, died today…so I went on the usual YouTube clip safari, checking out loads of old …
Holidays always fuck up my ability to get anything done, especially post at the site – various demands constantly pull me in all directions and unfortunately something’s always gotta give. Frankly I was going to stay away until after the …
I’m running late getting ready for Thanksgiving dinner, so I don’t have time to say a lot – but I did want to note the untimely passing of musician Peter Christopherson, founding member of industrial pioneers Throbbing Gristle and techno-occult …
Famed anime producer Yoshinobu Nishizaki, whose most well known effort was Space Battleship Yamato and it’s various spin-offs, drowned yesterday afternoon while taking a cruise on his research vessel Yamato. Anime News Network has full coverage of the incident here.…
I know that film businesses outside the U.S. play a little fast-and-loose (compare Jackie Chan’s Hong Kong fare to the dung he’s produced Stateside sometime) but this is plain silly……
Watchman Eddie Cuizon tried to accost Filipino actor Kirk Abella
Man – say what you want about Pokemon, I have to respect a cat who could churn out multiple seasons of that stuff…and three feature films to boot. Pokemon scribe Takeshi Shudo died yesterday at the age of 61 of …
I just learned that actor Ryo Ikebe died last week at the age of 92. Pale Flower is by far my favorite yakuza film, largely because of Ikebe’s portrayal of the nihilistic gangster Muraki. Ikebe left behind an impressive body …
See – this is why I always cringe when people say monkeys are cute. They are not cute. They are vicious little bastards who want to kill us – and when they’re not thinking of ways to kill us, they’re …
