Virtual Girlfriends

By dfunzy on 9/2/10 3:34am
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Some Japanese young men instead of playing games in which they blow up stuff, defeat monsters, and defend the planet earth against an alien threat, are playing a video game with the goal of maintaining a relationship with a virtual girlfriend, and like comic-con caters to sci-fi and comic book geeks, a resort hotel in Japan is catering to these dudes with their virtual girlfriends The resort is called 'Love Plus' Resort, a place where real live young men go for expensive weekends with their virtual girlfriends.

There are plenty of jokes and questions about this. First joke: This is a joke! Is this a joke or what!?

Answer: Not a joke. It's a way for young men to pass time, and for game makers to make money, and for a resort to make money.

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Filling the American food fight gap

By dfunzy on 8/31/10 8:05am
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SUMMER MADNESS

America, not to be out done by the Europeans, specifically, by the people of Spain and their annual La Tomatina, a food fight festival held for decades on the last Wednesday in August, during which tons of over-ripe tomatoes are thrown by people in the streets at each other for exactly one hour, that great American city, Reno, Nevada, has begun La Tomatina in Reno, an annual festival where America is given the opportunity to demonstrate that American young people know how to tomato fight too. This past Sunday, Reno hosted the second annual tomato fight, with about 2,500 people showing that American young people knows what to do with a 150,000-pound pile of Roma tomatoes. Yes, these tomatoes become missiles that young Americans began to launch at each other -- so reported the Associated Press. See the video.

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getting down with the Air Guitar?

By dfunzy on 8/31/10 7:29am
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SUMMER MADNESS

It might look dumb. It might sound dumb. It might be something dumb to do, but it looks like fun -- air guitar playing. And there's a world air guitar championship!

A championship for invisible strumming, for just doing the faking out stuff --

Faking out stuff, now that is something politicians have been doing for years.

I digress. Back on topic. This air guitar stuff may be something that I can participate in. I can't play a real guitar, but I can get on stage and jump around, and boogie, with the rest of them. Maybe not keep up, with the rest of them, but I could get up there.

Air Guitar -- maybe I should give it a practice? Or I could try out for lip singing. I wonder if they have a world championship?

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On Paris Too

By dfunzy on 8/31/10 6:46am
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Okay, so Paris Hilton's claim to fame is that she is famous? The celebrity-heiress-Paris-Hilton is now just about her legal name. Celebrity, heiress, and, legal, trouble, and, more, legal, trouble, and, Paris, Hilton, have become a group of words that follow one another. This time Miss Hilton has been officially charged with cocaine possession. What is so embarrassing about this charge is that she was arrested in Las Vegas. I didn't know that they arrested celebrities in Vegas. I thought celebrities had celebrity immunity. Maybe celebrity immunity. only applies tor "Vegas stars" and to America's 'A' list stars.

Miss. Hilton's arrest is big news. The big news organization is covering the story big time and I know why.

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Paris Being Paris

By dfunzy on 8/31/10 6:06am
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What is Summer News Without Paris?

Paris Hilton has been arrested again, and she is out on bail. The charge is powered cocaine possession. The buzz across America and the gossipy world is: Will Paris Be Going Back to Jail?

My response is: What for? Paris is only being Paris.. She is America's premier naughty princess. What are you going to do America? Spank her? Please!

The Associated Press reports on America's naughty princess' explanation to the police:for the content of her alleged purse, which, according to the Vegas police, included a small bag of white powder. Princess Paris said -- quote the AP -- "The rolling papers, $1,300 in cash and several credit cards were hers, but not the purse they were in. And definitely not the bag of white powder that fell out of it." See the video.

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The Benefits of Squat Toilets

By becksta on 8/28/10 5:09pm
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Squat ToiletsSquat ToiletsThe first time I saw and had the opportunity to pee into a squat toilet, I wasn't exactly thrilled by the possiblity of pee splattering on my thighs, and the design of the urinal-like toilet sitting directly on ground offended my western sensibilities. Of course, as I got accustomed to squatting, I started to see the benefits in both my thigh muscles and in the total time it took me to "drop my kids off at the swimming pool" whenever the need arose. Now, researchers are claiming that squatter toilets have health benefits as well.

As this writer so eloquently states:


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Trapped Chilean Miners

By dfunzy on 8/27/10 6:09am
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I just watched the video of the thirty three Chilean miners, who are trapped half a mile underground, and who are keeping up their spirits by singing their national anthem. I am expressed by their positive attitude.

The men were discovered alive this Sunday, after being trapped for more than two weeks. Food, water and supplies are lowered to them through a tube. "Protecting " the men's "mental and physical health ... has become a major preoccupation of Chilean authorities, especially now that it's clear they could remain in their dark, hot, humid quarters for up to four months or more."

It will take four months for rescuers to cut through the 700 meters of rock to get to the men.

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Fish Pedicure?!

By dfunzy on 8/26/10 3:57am
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My provincialism is probably showing, but -- and BUT, and BUT, and BUT! I know that is a lot of buts. But, I would be kicked in the butt before I would let fish "pedicure" my feet. I saw this CBS NEWS video and I said -- Say What?!

CBS reports -- "Sole Sensation is one of a handful of fish pedicure shops to open in Britain. Customers immerse their feet in a tank of tiny Garra rufa fish which happily feast on any dead skin they can find." See the video.

My take on this is this -- Put my feet in a tank of fish?.Trust the fish to clean my feet of dead skin? I hear Steven King somewhere laughing.-- or is the voice I hear that of Wes Craven?

So what if "fish pedicure" is a time tested method? I don't trust the government, do you think I am going to trust some fish?

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Kansas Combine Derby

By dfunzy on 8/26/10 3:34am
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SUMMER MADNESS

Earlier this month, thousands of people made the pilgrimage to Abilene, Kansas for the Kansas Combine Derby, to watch big trucks crash into one another. It was BANG! CLANK! BANG! GEE! BANG, BANG, BANG! CLANK! See the video.

My lord! If that derby wasn't summer madness, is anything ever is?

Well, crashing trucks beat what people at that festival in India did. They threw stones at each other.Crashing big trucks beat throwing stones, right?

As for the festival in Spain, where people throw tomatoes at each other, each year, -- crashing trucks are for the people who can afford the big trucks, and can afford to crash them, --- tossing a tomato? Everybody can toss a tomato.

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Stoning Festival in India

By dfunzy on 8/26/10 3:21am
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FESTIVAL MADNESS

I watched the CBS News video of the Stoning Festival in India, a religious festival in Northern India, with the celebrants throwing stones at one another. My take on the event is that it is another example of summer madness. I know India is in the Southern Hemisphere and is having its winter right now. But this stoning festival is an outdoor activity.

Stoning each other is much more serious than a food fight, and can and do cause injuries. Frankly, it doesn't look attractive. It looks like groups of villagers are at war, -- though the war is supposedly good-natured.

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