From: Outpost NineThe week of Christmas at the School of Peace, I was to give a talk about Christmas to the ninensei. I'd tried this last year, and talked about the birth of Jesus Christ and the three wisemen and what not (and I'm not even that religious!), and I was greeted by thirty blank faces. ...Maybe it would have gone over better if I'd said ( Read more... )

For the Japanese release of the Fantastic Four movie, they had Orange Range sing a brand new song for the film. That's pretty funny, but considering how awesome Orange Range is (Nartuto, Bleach) that's pretty cool too.

Also, I thought this was pretty cute:

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"You know, before we come to Japan, they tell us a lot of ultimately useless stuff. What kind of computer to bring, if our DVD's will work, clothing sizes, that kind of nonsense. Nowhere, and I mean nowhere, in the 3-4 months of orientations did anyone ever mention that at some point, a Japanese kid may try to stick their fingers up our butt. That' ( Read more... )