Tokyo Damage Report

This article is from the 2006 issue of “heisei nippon no tabuu taizen” (Modern Japan’s taboo journalism collection of 2006). Sort of the Japanese equivalent of the “top censored stories of 2006” like they have in America.
 
It’s a pretty awesome fuck-you to both Johnny and the whole mass-media, but it’s from a tabloid, so the [...]

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1) I'm back. Shit was funny for a while. Moved to a new server.
2) updated the tokyo tour guide page with no less than ten new shops: art books , Carnivale costumes, kitsch museums, body piercing bars, haunted houses. . . . There's around 135 places in it now! Including a whole section on Asakusa-and-around-there.  [...]

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Random posters:

The poster's mascot above respresents . . . .guess what? A municipality is seeking a mascot!
$3,000 to the resident who draws the new mascot. What are the odds that the mascot they choose isn'T half as cool as ms. Mystery Egg here?
Below: a parrot warns you to not play on train tracks.

Now for some [...]

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Trying to transfer domain name and move to new server.
When I get back:

D.S.B.'s last show.
Translation of an article exposing Johnny's Jimusho
More strange mascots.
Bizzare anti-crime posters.
Substantial updates to the tour guide.
 

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Sorry for a non-Japan post. Right now I'm using Bluehost for my server. They are a rather sorry bunch. My web-host contract with them expires in a couple of weeks. I want to move my wordpress site to phpwebhosting.com.
But the problem is,  this blog is wordpress, which is a .php thing. Which everyone tells me [...]

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Jan 19th @ NAKANO MOON-STEP:
 
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Marbullmen play very generic thrash. The singer and one guitarist go berzerk but mostly it is meh. It's possible that – if there was a big audience moshing – they could have been enjoyable. But on the other hand, thrash without stop-start breaks or mosh parts or rad bombastic intros A [...]

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