SKIRMISHER

Tattoos, body piercings, riding badass motorbikes, and stabbing other men with a sword — yeah, these manifestations of manly behavior have lost their meaning that you just kind of miss ‘em. And as one of the brilliant commenters suggested, “Next thing you know, eating heapful spoonfuls of your own hot, turgid diarrhea won’t be manly [...]

Two Chinese performance artists — former magazine model Hairong Tiantian and Ye Fu — live in a tiny glass room for one month to confuse the beejezus out of passersby. Inside the glass case, they are separated by a transparent wall — a metaphor, they say, of the gap in modern family relationships in China.

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It’s very satisfying to know that one of Gion’s remaining authentic geishas, Kokimi Yamaguchi, would actually speak with foreigners. So see her play this exotic musical instrument and dry her socks! Wow!

Like all great stories, this one began with an American activist with a video camera, straying into the dark alleys of Chilsung Market in Daegu, South Korea, recording and commenting (classy soundtrack: Beethoven’s “Moonlight” sonata) on the stacks of scrumptious piles of meats of dogs, cats, rabbits, goats — even cute puppies and kittens. A [...]

After sashaying down the ramp to show the judges who’s got the talent, creativity, and the longest, fairest hair of them all, the 15-year-old winner of this year’s Lithuania’s “Miss Longest Hair” took home the grand prize: a mountain bike. Because mountain bikes are really BIG in Lithuania; it’s like the equivalent of a college [...]

And I thought only the English language is capable of gibberish genius.
You thought so, too?
Well, click here and find out for yourselves what the heck’s gyring and gimbling in my mind right now.
via El Cubo Negro

Americans sporting tattoos made in kanji or Chinese characters look like utter fools, says an article on The Japan Times, because of the lost of a subtle thing called “context.”
Says New York Times:
“[They] copy the characters from templates that are often of uncertain provenance. When two characters are combined to form what is in English [...]

PEPE ALAS brings you his very own website/blog…
Alas Filipinas
The flight begins – right here, right now!!!
¡Feliz Año 2007!

It’s December 16, the start of the traditional Misa de Gallo (literally “mass of the cocks”) or Simbáng Gabí.
Christmas is in the air!
Popular historian Ambeth Ocampo recently wrote that Christmas is a time for warmth and memory.
These nostalgic and majestic pictures of old Iloílo surely does bring a lot of warmth and cozy memories of a very [...]

Cha-cha, the hottest topic in the ladscape of Philippine news, is once again in the headlines. Forget about the death toll of typhoon victims in the Bicol region, forget about the decision and future of the Subic rape case, because as our congress lower house representatives would have it: Changing the constitution is the answer-all, [...]