Giant Robot Store and GR2 News
It’s obviously ftw. Japanese bikini clad Girls and Robots mixed in a cabaret setting in a Tokyo restaurant and guess what, there’s more. They fight! This doesn’t seem like the best entertainment, but it has to be worth a view. At $40 you also get dinner in the form of a bento box! Yes, we need video don’t we? See below! (Reuters – Robot Restaurant) Awesome! [youtube]V04eZypASi4[/youtube]
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Isn’t that Ken Jeong on the left? No, it’s not, but the 626, which basically signifies the east east side of LA, is now cool. We’re not quite sure if the fusion part that great, or the old school part that’s best, but it’s changing. (LA Times – 626)
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It’s been beyond heavy rain this summer, and now it’s typhoon season in Asia. This guy’s photo from Time shows he’s chilling, but by now at least 100 are dead in China, with lots of people missing and injured. Thousands are displaced from their homes, and there are massive amounts of property damage. Sad news from all over this side of the globe about the destruction and loss of lives and property. North Korea is flooded, and lots of farmland destroyed. Just what they need, less food. The United Nations made a visit and are now calling for immediate and increased aid before things get worse. In Southern Japan 250,000 were evacuated with floods, landslides and more expected. July was the worst of the rains this summer. South of Seoul, one mudslide took out three hotels, killing 13. Now heavy winds and rain are doing their damage in the city center. The Philippines have taken major hits, from multiple typhoons. Pakistan just saw the heaviest rains in 65 years. At the start of the summer, my Mongolian family had a “pray for rain and a bountiful summer” party with a monk facilitating the good intentions. The heavy rain here has been good, especially after years of drought, but in the ger districts of Ulaanbaatar, the rain meant mudslides and homes destroyed. At least a dozen died in July. What does all this mean for the long term? Lots of efforts to recover with dwindling resources. Increased food prices, according to the UN food price index. Sigh. Rough seas ahead. Don’t put away the inflatable furniture just yet.
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“The government has declared orgies, formally called “crowd licentiousness,” to be illegal.” It’s been over a week since the news broke of Chinese officials and young girls posed in a group photo that’s obvious they were about to swap DNA 5 ways and it’s funny how it has to stay in the news, now it’s about how group sex is viewed in China. Yes, it’s illegal. (NY Times – Group Sex in China) If you snoop around, you’ll see funny Photoshopped versions and sites with the complete photo dump. Geez.
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I don’t know what Eddie Murphy has been up to lately, but he totally should have been on this case and figuring out what the deal was with these babies before they got roasted and covered in gold leaf. This guy is the one who got caught. He’s a British citizen born in Taiwan who is involved in a cooked magic fetus corpse smuggling ring. Police got a tip about some bizarro online shopping and they raided his room to find the fetuses packed in his luggage. Reports say the fetuses ranged in age from 2 to 7 months and were purchased for about $6,400 US. Chow was trying to get them into Taiwan where he could flip them for 6 times what he paid. (Click the link to see photos of the confiscated merchandise. Too grody for me to share in this post, but I was also completely compelled to find a photo.) This kooky guy thinks that fetuses like these get eaten by a group of world business leaders who have been meeting since the 1950s and talk about current affairs and rule over our very existence. Our zombie overlords have arrived, and they wear Italian shoes and bespoke suits. Don’t worry, they don’t actually eat Thai babies. The fetuses, all male, were Kuman Thong. It’s part of an ancient Thai Buddhist tradition that preserves the remains of children to help them find better odds in the next life, and good fortune for the person who possesses the remains, and cares for them like a living child. You can enlist the services of monks like this guy to provide you with the properly prepared, preserved and blessed remains. They get honored places in home altars. There are lots of beliefs in different Buddhist sects about the power of human remains. Kuman Thong isn’t evil black magic. In general practice it’s meant to help people through the pain of losing a child. Daily rituals include offering food at least once a day, identifying yourself as the child’s mother or father, and making sure it doesn’t get jealous of other living children by showering it with gifts and adoration. I’m not sure that the smuggled Kuman Thong that Chow got busted trying to take out of Thailand would have enjoyed such consideration in Taiwan, but maybe. I wonder what happens to them now?
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