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Why Japan is Awesome #182: Is That an Alien in my Drink?

  • October 30, 2011 10:30 pm

Japanese company Kotobukiya is known for its geeky novelty items which, depending on your tastes, makes them completely awesome or whatever the absolute opposite of awesome is. If you stand on the awesome end of the spectrum, you’ll most likely jizz react with enthusiasm at their latest offering—ice cube trays based on the alien from the Alien film franchise (which you can purchase here for under $10):

This means you can now ingest an ice cube that looks like the alien egg and wait patiently with the hope that the ice cube egg will undergo a transformation while inside your gut and an ice alien baby will soon come bursting out of your stomach. Yeah…I mean what else are you going to do on a Saturday night anyway?  Read more...

Chinky Or Not Chinky: The Music Edition Pt. II

  • November 13, 2009 1:39 am

In one of my earliest blogs, I wrote about popular songs that may or may not be offensive. Now I return for a look and listen to four more songs and the stories behind them so you can decide for yourself if they are indeed chinky or not chinky.

“POOR BUTTERFLY”
VARIOUS ARTISTS
(1916)

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First introduced in the 1916 Broadway production of The Big Show, this song quickly became a standard and has been covered by everyone from Sarah Vaughn to Judy Garland (shown in the video above). Written by Raymond Hubbell and John Golden, it was inspired by the Madame Butterfly story—Japanese women falls in love with white American soldier who leaves her with their baby. When he returns with his new white wife, the Japanese woman must, of course, commit suicide.  Read more...