Nevermind

Looks like Total Choice is the sux0r after all. We’ve popped back up for the moment. Total Choice is a cheap hosting solution, but also one that never admits when they’ve had your site down for a few hours. Gah. We’ll see how this turns out by Saturday. If it is an algo adjustment it [...]

Waiola Shave Ice // munchies review // Hawai’i

What is this giant bowl of …stuff? It’s shave ice (”sno cone” in Mainland-speak, kakigori in Japanese), where a blade whips across the surface of an ice block creating a cup of scraped snow, covered with azuki (sweet red beans), “cream” (condensed milk) and surrounded by mini mochi (steamed and pounded chewy rice cakes). [...]

Non-Dorky Sci-fi

Okay, so I don’t have much time what with two finals in two days, but I thought I’d put up something fun. Here’s a list of thirteen sci-fi titles you can watch, enjoy, and admit enjoying without unleashing torrents of derisive laughter from your co-workers. This would be non Star Wars, non Star Trek, non [...]

I wonder…

… who believes Phil Angelides is a good man. I guess those are the people who think the same of Barbara Boxer. Yup she’s a good man alright.
… what the person who invented the calendar really was going to use it for.
… is Nick Lachey happy?
… what the world would be like if [...]

Wanna be on Top?

America’s Next Top Model is my guilty pleasure. It’s the one semi-addictive reality show that has earned a spot on my usual limited nerdite TV roster of Jeopardy! and Mythbusters. While each year churns out a less exciting group of girls to root for, I still try to watch at least half of [...]

Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable movie review

These days the term fierce has been so overused by hip-hop artists, Tyra Banks, and Inside Hollywood celebrity-trash mongers, it seems to have lost its meaning. But if one were forced to find a dictionary definition personification of the word fierce, that one person that would fit the bill would have to be Meiko Kaji [...]

MOVIE REVIEW . Fearless

A nationalistic morality tale in the guise of martial arts epic (complete with underdog trappings), Fearless (aka: Huo Yuan Jia) tells the story of the life of Chinese national hero, and renowned martial arts master, Huo Yuan Jia.
The story opens in 1910 with Huo (Jet Li, Swordsman II, Fist of Legend) at a meet in [...]

UPDATED New Blade TV Production Photos and Trailer

More Google.cn stuff

So google.cn now redirects to google.com if accessed in the US via a Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 browser. Perhaps this is intended to prevent less net-savvy (aka: non Firefox using) American internet users from easily comparing the radically different sets of results for human rights, democracy, and bird flu related searches after upgrading to the [...]

BOOK REVIEW . Natsuo Kirino’s Out

How far would you go to help a friend in trouble? A good friend, mind you. Not just the person you trade bitchings with at work. Say this person had killed someone in the heat of passion. Would you help them? And, if you did, what would be the repercussions? Well, that’s exactly the topic [...]

Stop the Presses! Genuine Midnight Movies playing in San Jose?

The past few years worth of Midnite Movie offerings at the Camera Theaters in San Jose have been nothing short of laughable. Sixteen Candles and Super Troopers? Please. If I can see the film on weekend mid morning cable, it’s assuredly not Midnight Movie fare. Thankfully the Camera Cinemas have shaken the know-nothing-hipster KSCU organizers [...]

Life is Like a Mosh Pit…

I’ve been doing it all wrong. Smash into something and then hold onto it.

MUNCHIES . Belgian Bahlsen Hit Biscuits

I’m sure everyone’s seen these bright packages before. The cylindrical tubes stacked with ganache-filled biscuits that make you beg for milk. It’s strange because the cookie part is dry and flaky like a cracker and doesn’t seem like the proper pairing for the rich luscious choco spread, but Bahlsen won’t change the mix [...]

Punalu’u Sweet Bread // munchies review // Hawai’i

Tucked away in the teeny tiny little town of Punalu’u in the Southeastern crook (Ka’u district) of the Big Island of Hawai’i, you will find the longest sweet bread loaf from the southernmost bakery in the entire US. To be honest, driving through Punalu’u is no picnic. There’s a long winding stretch of nothing road [...]

First Pics from Ghost Rider

Fangoria has the first pics from Sony’s upcoming adaptation of Ghost Rider, starring Nicholas Cage. These should serve to brighten up your day, as they made me chuckle quite a bit — but then again, most pictures of Nick Cage have that effect on me.
You can check out the pics here.

“Oh what a feeling! Toyota Lawsuit”

“Oh what a feeling!” was a top slogan utilized by Toyota in the 1980s along with the lesser known “what will you do with all the money you save?” Well, Toyota Motor Corp is going to have to fork over $190 million of the “money they saved” while their employee was being sexually harassed, and [...]

Feel Envy Chocolate munchies review

So my friend has been bugging me for the past few months, pointing at the “Munchies” section and asking “when are you going to update it?” Another friend also asked this of me, mostly because he brings me treats from his trips to Japan. Even some of Chris’ friends have asked him about [...]

Colbert’s Presidential Roast

Steve Colbert’s roast of President Bush at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner has been gaining a quite a bit of popularity this week, as Colbert was given the near unheard of opportunity to directly criticise the president and his executive policies via an open mic. The whole thing is quite funny, with plenty [...]