I've lost hope that space travel will ever become available to the masses in my lifetime. I'll never have a chance to see the Earth from orbit, or visit alien worlds with spectacular sights and bizarre local attractions.
Fortunately, the next best thing is just a plane ticket away: Japan. Give 'em props for considering animation to be as viable a medium as any other for adult storytelling, but their country is full of a lot of weird crap. This site documents some of it. Don't miss the section on Japanese TV and videos, or the one on bizarre stuff sold in vending machines. My favorite of the latter is a machine from a video arcade-- one of those Claw games, where you maneuver a mechanical grabber to try to pick up a prize. But in this Sapporo arcade, the prizes that you're trying to grab are live lobsters!
Posted by Peter at June 30, 2003 12:10 AMLobster Claw Claw!!
Peter, when are you going to cover other bizarre things like, "The Search for America's Next Top Model"?
At times it may not seem that way, but even I have standards.
Posted by: Peter Sarrett on July 3, 2003 06:20 PM