Frinday Link-a-Dink-sama

So before we get into the snark and jackassery which is the usual tone of these posts, you should go check out this post on Japan Probe from Evan. It includes a pretty awesome picture of Himeji castle and cherry blossoms.

And then there are these things and they're just freaky!


Exotic Shopping

• It kind of bothers me that there is a market for these things. Another good post about them can be found here, now with more irony (and hotness). (Just for the record at first I thought Shotguard was something COMPLETELY different.)
• You know I NEVER get tired of making some enchanted evening jokes involving fish but this? This makes it far too easy.
• As if we needed another reason to love the vending machine.
• And speaking of loving vending machines.
• You know you want to buy a lotto ticket!
• Simba Kimba shilling for Toyota.
  

For All the Harajuku Girls in the Hizzle

• So many jokes I don't know where to go. Anna Nicole Smith and her, ahem, lovely externals, or should we focus on the hug & chux, which is something I might do at Flipside this year.
• I think the fine print on this shirt says "last restoration with exciting from secret zone." Any idea what that MIGHT mean? Yeah, me neither.
• This shirt encapsulates everything that is right about wacky shirts from Japan. From now on it is my goal in life to use the word "pulsatile" in conversation several times a week.
• Some say blame Canada, others say blame Brazil.
• I TOTALLY misread this title, although a gorgeous aesthetic orgasm would be mighty nice now and then.
• It is true. They have no equal.
• The "Voter Turnout Lift-Up Bra"? Get these things to Florida stat! It will eraditcate the "hanging chads" issue once and for all. (Notice how I steered clear of the "I'd put my ballot in her box" and "this gives a whole new meaning to stuffing the ballot box" jokes? I think I've grown.)
• I try not to think at all, really.
  

Insert Ace of Base Joke Here

• So are they high-sensitivity accessories for a conquest?
• Is this just a bad translation of a Justin Timberlake lyric or perhaps it is Weird Al's piss-take on "Sexy Back."
• Nothing like clean laundry to get the ladies in the mood. (At least I think that the thing is a laundry basket. If not this joke pretty much sucks even worse than they usually do.)
  

Its on TV.....IN JAPAN! (Or maybe just YouTube.)

• El gato gigante! (See how multicultural I am? For those keeping track at home this cat is approximately 1/11th of a Funkywoodjam.)
• Okay, I think this one is from Australia, but, well, damn.
• Poor Yukipon! His mistress is a drunk who is dating a dude that is allergic to cats so he is forced out of the house and has to get a job so he can eat. I really like how they use the angry eyebrows in the second clip and I want a Yukipon costume for Flipside.
• Ummm...yeah.
  

Kaiju-Fu

• Ultraman protects Japan and checks up on the ladies! Go! Go! Ultraman!