Forget food trucks! What about a mobile cinema? That’s right, they have them in the UK, with one film loving married couple who runs the Vintage Mobile Cinema, which houses a 22 seat theater with a DLP high definition projector and 7.1 Dolby Surround sound. Not too shabby, if you ask me. There used to be a whole fleet of these cinema-on-wheels bad boys back int the mid-60s, where the Ministry of Technology built several models to travel across the UK to promote the British film industry.
It sucks when people hurt you. And I’ve been hurt bad in the past. (Haven’t we all?) Yeah, I get it, people suck and people do bad things. Friends will say, “everything happens for a reason.” Another thing I hear a lot is “they’ll get what they deserve.” But what? But when? But how?
Do you believe in karma? Do you have a karma story? They say karma is a bitch. Have you ever met her?
QUENTIN: I have broken up twice before Valentine’s… mostly because I really didn’t feel right going through another Valentine’s without feeling right. I felt bad and I surely spent several Valentine’s alone after that. I do believe you sow what you get… is that karma? Karma sounds a bit too mystical, and I believe more in “action = reaction.” Isn’t that a law of Physics?
Hilarious clip of GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney and Senator John McCain at a rally, where a Chinese woman tells them that they are “putting Asians down” with their anti-China rhetoric. She then goes and says Reagan trickle down economics has still left her “tin can” empty.
I like how Romney then goes and implies, “I love Asians!”
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Yesterday commemorated the 70th anniversary of the attack of Pearl Harbor. Over at MSNBC’s photo blog, this amazing, iconic, empowering photo was posted with the headline, Do You Know These Brave Women From Pearl Harbor? Apparently, these tough ladies were firefighters but their identities are not known in the halls of history.
That’s a shame. This photo of non-white women with great determination in putting out fires and risking their lives under a military attack, is so iconic. Yes, I have used that word twice already. In my opinion, it stands up to other iconic WWII photos like the following:
Does this strike up any flashbacks to Chinese school for any of you ABCs out there? Either way, this nostalgic take is a collaboration between The Shanghai Restoration Project and Yip’s Children’s Choir, bringing Chinese electronica music to the masses. Entitled Little Dragon Tales, the CD of electronically enhanced Chinese children songs is being released today on iTunes and Amazon. Great stocking stuffers!!
I love this about Japan. A guy who is beholden with tradition, a dying one at that, and feels compelled to make it his life’s work to learn, master and pass on said tradition to the next generation. We could learn great lessons from the swordmaker.
Check out this video of a bartender in Japan who can drink a whole mug of beer in a split second. As for his attire, you can make up your own mind about that. I’m sure there will be some kind of exposé on this guy online soon.
This performance was televised on popular satellite station HUNAN TV to hundreds of millions of viewers. I don’t get the symbolism of young, nubile girls in mini-skirts playing traditional instruments juxtaposed with what looks like senior citizens living in a retirement home. And how does Lady Gaga fit in? Maybe the old folks are the Chinese equivalent of the Young@Heart chorus? Sometimes, I don’t get China. Anyway, enjoy…
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New York Fashion Week has ended and I’m still in a fashionista mood. Check out this video for the Lanvin fall/winter campaign. Makes me actually tolerate Pitbull again… Well, not really, but I love the contrast of pasty waifs jamming to booty music and vampiric femme dudes trying to swagger. 
And great cameo by Alber Elbaz, Lanvin’s creative director! Chic!
Here’s another example of how Japan is awesome. According to ABC Australian News, Japanese Police have been able to return the bulk of the $78 Million USD that was recovered in the wake of the March Tsunami. Most of the cash was discovered in wallets and safes. With safes, they numbered 5,700 that were found in the wreckage. One safe alone had $1 Million in cash! Most of the recovered cash was found by volunteers and then turned into Police.
Now you may ask, why so much cash? First off, the Japanese tend to store cash in their homes. It’s part of the culture. But in the Miyagi region, where the tsunami hit the hardest, many fisheries dealt with high amounts of cash, via transactions and even employee salaries.
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Now here’s a truly uplifting story — 98 year old Keiko Fukuda of San Francisco got a call last week that she was waiting for quite a long time. She was promoted to Judo’s highest level, the 10th black belt. This is truly an amazing feat because only three people in the world have ever reached this highest of levels and they’re all men living in Japan.
Sensei Fukuda still teaches hand techniques to her judo students at the women’s dojo in San Francisco’s Noe Valley. She is also the only living student of judo’s founder Jigoro Kano, who opened his first judo school in 1882. A life-long practitioner, Fukuda sacrificed everything, giving up marriage and leaving Japan to dedicate her life to judo. She also faced gender discrimination all her life, relegating her with lower degree belts, while male counterparts who were less skilled than her, matriculated to higher level belts.
