About 3 years ago I was acting as a translator for an Aikido club meeting with a big cheese that came to visit from Japan. Verbal translation isn’t really my thing. Up until that point I’ve translated mostly written material but can safely say I did my best at the club meeting. And as the [...]

There is a term often used in fiction – “Comic book death”. The killing off of characters which carries no emotional impact to it because you know their demise will be temporary and soon they will be back thanks to some radioactive talisman powered cloning machine built by Jesus or something. We’ve grown to accept [...]

Bombing for Peace is like fucking for Virginity, said the unwashed hippy. Get a job, said Arkard.
The above quote is a one that has bugged me for a long time because it’s so wrong. How the hell do you plan to get more virgins without fucking? The horizontal foxtrot is the only reasonable way to [...]

In the summer of 2004 my younger brother found my porn folder. On my password protected computer, hidden inside a 5 layer folder tree in the WINDOWS directory, labeled “Drivers”. Crafty little bastard ain’t he? Not that it matters because a) I can now look back on this and laugh and b) they will never [...]

One might think that with the creation of Google people would stop obsessing over how weird Japan is. And yet, here we are. I have no idea how long I will be able to keep up writing for this site, but one thing is for sure, I will never run out of the weird shit [...]