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Kobi's Sakura Long, long ago in a galaxy far, far away....well, okay it was Port Dover, Ontario in 1989 or '90 when I was just start...

Blogstardom beckons I'll be blogging up a storm on Sunday night (5 pm EST/ 2pm Pacific/ way too damn early Monday morning Tokyo time...

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain Tom's Dispatch has a classic example of the Republican government in action . Apparently,...

Pirates swash has not buckled Kevin Wood / Daily Yomiuri Staff Writer Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest 4 stars out of five Dir...

You have to be carefully taught Peace in the Middle East is not going to happen because of a treaty or because of a wall or because one grou...

Geography lesson Remember when the U.S. precision bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade and blamed inaccurate maps for mistargetting? We k...

Deja vu all over again This is every argument you've ever read online and every discussion you've ever had with a "rock-ribbed...

RIP Roger "Syd" Barrett One of the prime movers of the musical side of the psychedelic movement and co-founder of Pink Floyd, Syd ...

the shaggs This one is for Jesse Glass and outsider music fans everywhere. I recently read a great book on outsider music, which featured th...

My own private Monkey Tuesday I'm sure this story will make it on to the Penn Jillette radio show. How could he possibly turn down a sto...

Surfing on the wave of the apocalypse While waiting for defective North Korean missiles to come raining down on us, I used the time to do a ...

You go girl! Heather Mallick bitch-slaps (no pun intended) REAL women into a quivering mess over their decidedly anti-equality (what the ...

Souvenir of Canada Teaser Happy Canada day everyone.

God's favorite band is coming to Japan The Asylum Street Spankers will be making their triumphant return to the land of the rising sun i...

the perfect podcast One part goofiness One part cocktail recipies One part luscious LaLa Visit the Tiki Bar

It's not the heat, it's the stupidity The results of the Konservative home-skooling movement?

IN YOUR EAR Kevin Wood / Daily Yomiuri Staff Writer NEIL YOUNG Living with War Warner Music, 2,580 yen Neil Young's latest album Living ...

Peace takes courage Watch this brief presentation , which is not for the faint of heart. Get mad as hell and do something about it.

Who are you calling "pussy"? Apparently they breed them tough in New Jersey. Jack is not a cat you'd want to meet in a dark a...

Eight random things about me Having been tagged by Apathetic Nation I am duty bound to reveal eight startlingly humdrum random facts about m...