Bye Bye Wai Wai

While you were banalizing the hours reading about lasers emanating from The Superfish's manboy parts, there was something important happening in the land of raw horse ice cream. For as long as I can remember the greatest translator in the world, Australian Ryann Connell has been exposing the world of Japanese tabloids to the English speaking world. There was no better place to find out what pop starlet was dating what upcoming pachinko gangster or at what Love Hotel a cannibal jr. high music teacher had finally been caught. Today I belatedly found out that the unlikely news that Mainichi Daily, the newspaper that featured Connell's Wai Wai section, is claiming they are OUTRAGED that Connell has been depicting the Japoneeeeze as perverted violent psychopaths for the past decade. I want to believe its a joke but it would have to be pretty elaborate. Here is a link to how it all fell down, and for the truly adventurous, some (sadly sooo little) archived Wai Wai. And here.

Russia unleashes avalanche of credibility

In order to bring clarity to the crisis occurring in South Ossetia right now, pro-Kremlin news agency Russia Today has turned to internationally renowned foreign relations expert, former delivery driver and part-time Hemingway impersonator Joe Mestas to reveal the ugly truth behind the violence.