HELL’S PATH Haitians walk past damaged buildings. The magnitude-7.0 quake hitright near Port-au-Prince at 4:53 p.m. EST and is believed to be the strongest quake in Haiti in more than 200 years. (Photo: Suero / AFP-Getty via the New York Daily News) (via inothernews)
This is chilling. There are far more gruesome pictures going around out there, but I’m rather faint of heart, so this is what I can manage.
Buddhist temple resorts to cosplay to draw in visitors
Apparently the Ryohoji temple, in a suburb of Tokyo, was so hard-up for visitors that they decided to setup a temporary cosplay/maid cafe. Only in Japan. The shocking result: they have seen a sizable increase in the number of young male visitors to the temple. Read the article here.
For those of you unfamiliar with the concept of a maid or cosplay cafe (mom), go read this and/or this, or just do a google search for “maid cafe” and you’ll see tons of articles and pictures. It’s one of the many Japanese cultural things that’s cute on the surface, but really creepy the more you learn about it.
The Raw Data of History (Via Sullivan)
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Things like this are the reason I get excited about Twitter. (via inothernews:enjoli:youngmanhattanite)
or a personal tour of the Capitol from James Carville and Paul Begala
An actual letter of resignation from one of AIG’s higher-ups, this is definitely the must-read of the day.
About Me
My name is Lawrence Denes.After spending 5 years studying Japanese language, culture, literature, and history in St. Louis and Kyoto, I now live in Japan, in a town that most Japanese people have never even heard of, lost amid the rice fields and vending machines.
Please feel free to ask me anything, or send me an email.
