found a gem

I have always wanted to travel across America with hobos and gypsies in a freight train. You can appreciate my delight, then, when I found this on you tube!

repackaging

When I was a kid (physically) I used to love reading Tintin comics. I would borrow them from the local library and read them several times over. Anyway I have recently discovered Tintin on youtube- redubbed with a filthy Cockney twang. It made me laugh. Go to youtube and search "tintin dubtoons", you may or may not be glad that you did.

Grandpa's dental stories.
My grandfather doesn't like wasting his money on crap like dentistry. He has a pair of pliers in his workshop that have paid for themselves many times over by avoiding visiting the dentist. One day my grandfather was suffering from a particularly painful dental complication. He went into his workshop and proceeded to yank at it with his trusty pair of pliers. Twenty minutes of struggling all proved fruitless and even more painful. Conceding defeat he reluctantly headed down to the local dentist and sat in the big chair. "Well, you know that it's only a slight gum infection. If you would have came and seen me first your tooth would have been fine, but now you have damaged the roots so bad that I am going to have to pull it out".

竹

This is an incredibly simple but brilliant invention that is still found in Japan. Forget throwing away old pencils because they are too small. Just whack it in one of these pencil holders.



The subject should read 竹 or "take" (bamboo). As previously mentioned, I am currently making a documentary on Mr. Tanaka my bamboo master. I didn't want to showcase too much of his personal work yet so instead I present a photo I took while getting some vision of bamboo this morning in a bamboo grove out Kyoto way. The fallen leaves provided a beautiful natural matress and I wanted to sleep there- unfortunately there were also gangs of giant vampire mosquitoes that wanted nothing more than a quick blood fix. I can promise you that this photo is not in any way doctored. In fact, I haven't even adjusted the colours or levels.

And a Cho Seung-Hui update. Finally google images gives you a picture of him within the first page of results. But I should also point out that his face came as the 17th result. This is after a photo of an infant giving someone the finger, and three bare breasted ladies. I don't know what it tells you, but for me it is my little experiment and I am enjoying this research.