Denki anma is just one example of Japanese High Weirdness.
Here’s a conversation that my friend Kelly recently had:
Kelly’s friend: Want to hear something funny?
Kelly: [Looks up from her laptop]
Kelly’s friend: In the Japanese version of Romper Room –
Kelly: Stop.
My first impression after reading the Toronto Life article Baby Invasion (which I mentioned in this article) was: The people in this article seem to think that Stuff White People Like is some kind of instruction manual.
More later.
Perhaps it’s because the latest edition of Toronto Life has only been on the stands for a few days, but I’m surprised that there hasn’t yet been much lively debate over the cover story, titled Baby Invasion, which bears the subtitle They’re taking over our bars, restaurants and sidewalks, and further subtitled with The [...]
Now that someone has started a blog called Stuff White Trash People Like, may I suggest “Tacky High School Yearbook Photos” as an item for them to cover? Should they need an example, may I suggest the photo below, which says so much in a mere 406 by 604 pixels…
Bringing us closer to Idiocracy, one [...]
The L.A. Times has an article on the blog Stuff White People Like. No wonder I like the blog — it was created by a guy who came from Toronto after he was chatting with a Filipino friend.
Here’s a noteworthy excerpt from the article:
Lander, who arrived in L.A. from Toronto 2 1/2 years ago, came [...]
BlogTO’s and Torontoist’s ideal reader. Image taken from The Hipster Handbook.
Differences in Perspective
While I agree with Torontoist writer Patrick Metzger’s statement that Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty’s refusal to “share any of the billions of dollars that the province sucks out of Toronto each year” is wrong, I think he’s out to lunch with [...]
Evon Reid, who was called the “Ghetto Dude” in a mis-forwarded email from the Ontario government. Photo taken from his Facebook page.
It’s insult added to injury: not only did poor Evon Reid find out that he wasn’t accepted for a job by way of an accidental email forwarding, he was referred to in [...]
There’s something about Filipino culture that makes every Filipino, deep down, want to be a game show host or entertainer. Think about that for a moment and suddenly my schtick — accordion-playing mixed with blogging and technical evangelism suddenly makes sense.
Take this cultural tendency and mix it with the general preference in the [...]
The Milwaukee Brewers play at Pittsburgh and end up booked in the same hotel as Anthrocon, the big furry convention. Hilarity ensues:
“That one was just a little bit outside.”
The Evening News, 35 Years Ago
Here’s something that many (but not all) of you regular Accordion Guy readers might not find familiar — it’s five minutes from an NBC News broadcast from July 4th, 1972:
Some interesting differences between the nightly news 35 years ago and today:
There were far fewer superimposed graphics, [...]
Here’s one of those “Only in Canada” cultural events that I can sink my teeth into: Gung Haggis Fat Choy!, a cross-cultural event that takes advantage of the proximity of Chinese New Year and Robbie Burns’ Day. It’s an event organized by one “Toddish McWong” that takes place at Simon Fraser University in [...]
Back in high school, after reading Space-Time and Beyond for the umpteenth time and drinking one too many zombies with my friend Henry, we came up with a theory:
In the infinite set of universes, there had to exist a particular universe in which the events in our lives were being watched as a TV show.
We then made a solemn vow to live the kind of life that got high ratings.
This is the continuation of that story.
