This picture is dedicated to Kumar Sivasubramanian as he liked my hair so much in a picture I posted a week or so ago.
I got a mail from Kumar recently which read as follows:

There’s an interview over at geek fanboy site Ain’t It Cool News (a.k.a AICN) with Dark Horse editor Philip Simon about the manga EDEN, which I am translating. In it, he talks a little bit about me and the work I am doing. (It’s kind of near the bottom, but it’s worth reading the whole interview if you are interested in this kind of thing.): http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=24422

So there you have it. Looks like an interesting manga alright. Lots of kudos for Kumar.

Here are some more links I want to get shot of:

Chris Cotter sent me this amusing beer commercial (parental advisory on this one): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c2KLWEvsbI

That notorious group emailer Anne Kobayashi also sent me this wacky 9/11 conspiracy theory (be warned it’s a bit long and the guy’s voice is kind of whiny):
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5946593973848835726

Here’s another theory; could it be that George W. Bush et al are deliberately fostering these wacky theories in order to distract attention from their more obvious lies, war crimes etc. and to discredit all opposition to their policies?

No, probably not.

I have another couple of links to go but first it’s time for

TASTIEST FISH OF THE WEEK!

This week’s TASTIEST FISH OF THE WEEK is the Largehead Hairtail (also known as the Cutlass fish) or in Japanese “Tachiuo” (太刀魚　－　literally “Fat/Blade/Fish”). This chrome colored fish is a favorite of both the Japanese and Koreans who eat it either grilled or raw as sashimi. This is what it looks like before cooking:

And this is what it looked like last night after a good grilling:

The flesh is soft and tender and parts easily from the bone. Very nice with Yebisu Lager and Yebisu Black mixed half & half stylie.

Anyway, my final links tonight are both from youtube. One of the nice things about youtube is that you can find stuff you saw years and years back and thought would never see again. Here is a very nice late ’80s video of Peter Gabriel (with a mullet) and Yossou N’Dour “Shaking the Tree”:

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And here’s a classic video of Talk Talk going nuts in the woods back in 1986:

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I liked it back then, and I still like it now.

おやすみなさい。