I have cooked BBQ ribs many times before, but I had never gotten around to trying my hand at cooking smoked ribs. So I recently decided to give it a go and read up on how to properly smoke meat and/or fish. Turns out that cooking smoked food is not as difficult as I had […]
About the Crazy Gaijin
Leo Strut
Leo Strut (also known as “Leonardo DiHapprio”) is a photoshopped exploitable that uses an image taken of Leonardo DiCaprio during the filming of Christopher Nolan’s “Inception”. The original image is of DiCaprio doing a jolly strut down a street, but has been photo shopped into several scenes that usually depict a catastrophe or terrible happening, […]
How to instantly chill and cool down a soda or beer can
Adam Savage (MythBuster) who did an awesome mold making article in MAKE 08 chimed in on an Ask Mefi coke cooling question, here’s how to cool down that soda, fast. 1. Put the can in a freezer ( time : 20 -25 minutes ) 2. Put the can in a bucket of ice ( time to freeze: 10 […]
Kobi’s in a Pickle, he’ll have to Mustard the strength to Ketchup to Chestnut
When is a hot dog not a hot dog? When it’s a uniquely Japanese dogawich of course! Recently, six-time Coney Island Fourth of July hot dog eating contest champion Takeru Kobayashi was treated to a few hours in the big house for his antics at the annual Nathan’s Famous International Hot Dog Eating Contest held in […]
Japanese Ghosts – Youkai, Yuurei, Bakemono and Oni
Japanese Goblins, Ghosts, Shapeshifters and Devils of the Buddhist Hell are a motley crew ranging from downright funny to ghoulishly scary. The Kings of Japanese Ghost Stories (Kaidan) are Koizumi Yakumo f/k/a Lafcadio Hearn who wrote Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things in the early 1900s and Shigeru Mizuki who, in the 1960s, wrote the popular Gegege no […]
Top 10 Strange Japanese Laws
DISCLAIMER – For those of you who can’t realize that this is a parody turn off your computer and throw it out the window right now because you are just far too stupid to be using the internet in the first place. Brought to you without pain, pride or prejudice, and in no particular order […]
Japan at the 2010 Winter Olympics
The last Winter Olympic Games were held in Turin, Italy. Shizuka Arakawa won the country’s only medal, a gold, in women’s figure skating. Athletes representing Japan participated in all but one of the 2006 Olympics’ 15 sports, with Ice hockey the only exception. The 2010 Olympic Games will begin in 5 days time in Vancouver, BC, […]
Shinjuku Halloween Protest 2009
Let me first point out that I am not the original source for this picture. If you would like to see more of the original sources pictures or read the story please go here. Well, others may have experienced this but it’s a first for me. I have never participated in the annual Yamanote line Halloween […]