The great miniture work
Takeru "Tsunami" Kobayashi lost on New York's annual Independence Day hot-dog eating contest. But I think he did good job. Otsukare sama!
Gyaaaaaa! Did you see The Grudge and The Grudge 2? The original titile is JUON and it's sequel "The JUON Pandemic" (the top page is scary) is released. You can check the trailer there. I watched it in very small window, KOWAI (T T) cry...
Look at this site, she is a doll house artist, and her Japanese small minitures are great!! Decolation and cutting are difficult for even regular size. She made it small. Cute...
I think Japan is an advanced country in toilet technology like washlet, target etc. Today I read that news Holland maker the clean seat has released this new toilet. "Is equiped with a speech chip that requests the toilet user to flush the toilet after getting up from the toilet seat. Each required language can be recorded. Also a speech chip can be used with a capacity of 3 minutes. This option could be used for a commercial or any other required information;"...Hmm I don't think so..
Look at this movie Don't you think it's will be good gift? We can buy it on Amazon.*
I link to Juon or such horror movie sometims, but I don't like it, I won't go to the theater to see horror movie even though someone offer million yen.
Posted by: Mari | Saturday, July 14, 2007 at 08:46 PM
Konnichi wa Mari-san, have you received my tiny proofreading email for this topic? :-)
Posted by: Marco Bresciani | Saturday, July 14, 2007 at 06:28 PM
I was rooting for Kobayashi and bummed out about his jaw injury. Rumors are circulating that news of the injury was released to prepare for a loss against Joey Chestnut! How's that for a conspiracy theory?
Oh, and it's "decoration," Mari.
Posted by: brain | Sunday, July 08, 2007 at 01:20 AM
JuOn was so scary! But I have to see the next one. I can't watch it while I'm in Japan though, I have to wait until I go back to America. ;)
Posted by: Randy | Saturday, July 07, 2007 at 05:57 PM
The Holland Clean Seat - ok, but what if something dropped into the bowl causes a big splash and all those paper seat covers stored in the lid get soaked with #1 and #2 ;)
Posted by: Heidi | Saturday, July 07, 2007 at 08:55 AM
june,
I just checked - the site is back up - maybe it's had too many visitors from Mari's blog and was temporarily overloaded (^_^);
Posted by: Chris | Friday, July 06, 2007 at 10:39 PM
I can't get to the site about the dollhouse artist. Only 'Page cannot be found' displays.
Posted by: june | Friday, July 06, 2007 at 09:45 PM
Here's a video of the hotdog eating contest:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-189232322100998533&q=2007+nathans+hot+dog&total=8&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=1
Posted by: Ken | Friday, July 06, 2007 at 02:38 PM
I'm so happy they are making another JUON movie. I loved the originals, and the americanized Grudge wasn't too bad either. I still think the americanized "The Ring" was a much better job of bringing Japanese horror to American culture.
Posted by: Jo Parzych | Friday, July 06, 2007 at 12:19 PM
Considering that Kobayashi-san was suffering from TMJ Syndrome, as was written in an earlier post, it isn't at all surprising that he was unable to win an eating contest. I suffer from this also, and so I know how painful and disruptive it can be. I'm not doing so badly now, but a few years ago when I started to notice this condition, my jaw would sometimes lock up in the middle of eating, and I couldn't chew or even speak.
Posted by: bshock | Friday, July 06, 2007 at 01:11 AM