Kyklops

For some reason (you can work it out for yourselves) on Friday nights I'm overcome by the impulse to recommend stuff. It's usually ...

The final part of our Star Trek triptych. An extra on a film set wants Patrick Stewart to look at a script he's written. Worth viewing, ...

My friends often ask me, "Kyklops, why the fuck do you think about Japanese monsters so much? Why do you draw inspiration from them, an...

Just because I can ... ...ὁ δὲ μὴ δυνάμενος κοινωνεῖν ἢ μηδὲν δεόμενος δι᾽ αὐτάρκειαν οὐθεν μέρος πὸλεως, ὥστε ἢ θερίον ἢ θεός One who is un...

The man responsible for the video below has been captured and killed by the Japanese Secret Police. His memory will live on, however, for he...

It seems not a day goes by that I don't come across a headline from somewhere bemoaning "Japan's rising nationalism". Here...

Disturbance Rocks Downtown Miyazaki March 26, 2007 ( Miyazaki )--Police are still trying to determine what sparked a disturbance in the down...

The video below, as far as I'm concerned, is all YouTube needs to justify its existence. Brilliantly conceived and executed, chilling bu...

I had a bit of an unsettling experience yesterday while playing with my daughter at a local playground. We'd been there for a couple of...

More Google oddness... About four years ago, in the earliest days of this blog, I wrote this post about the Great Sasuke , a masked pro-wr...

Yeah, I know, I'm usually going on about the Stones, or death metal, or some other crap that "civilized" people don't list...

"Daddy, can I be sick again next week?" "Sweetie, why do you want to be sick again?" "So you can stay home from wor...

"Yes, W___-sensei, your application for employment at M___ University is almost complete. We just need one more piece of documentation....

One of the things I truly love about my life here in Japan is the office I have at work. It's got just about everything a man with time ...

After finishing the previous post I decided to do a bit of "satanic" googling in an attempt to get to the bottom of this Satan cha...

Umm, well actually he plays for the New York Islanders ... Like (I think) most bloggers I frequently check my stat pages and I'm sometim...

I don't know if there's anything unique about it or not, but I seem to suffer from a double curse--I'm both easily bored and eas...

I trust you'll find this one amusing... [Via Konserverad gröt .]

I haven't posted any photos for a couple of weeks, so here are a few from a "Sunday drive" outing I took with my family yester...

Gerry's apartment was upstairs from a downtown restaurant we all used to hang out at. One night, around midnight, me and Gerry were sitt...