His Four Most Homophobic Comics Ever Created is pretty good, too. Although given the material he’s working with, it’d be hard not come up with something good. He is, after all, talking about a comic that features the following line and footnote:
A lot of articles are totally overblown for comedic effect, but nearly all of them have cites peppered throughout the articles to show that they’re not completely talking out their asses. Though I wouldn’t be surprised if they misrepresented a few studies, too.
I was doing the rounds of the second hand shops and found a DVD of Watership Down. Humming the theme tune and filled with nostalgia for a book I hadn’t read in 30 odd years, I purchased the movie and sat my kid down in front of the TV with promises of cute bunnies and thrilling adventures
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The animal articles fascinate me. Cited this one recently: The 5 Creepiest Serial Killers (Who Were Animals). I love the quote about number 1: “And now he’s just alive, out there. A living, breathing, scream-eating dinosaur that is so sick of his own immortality that he passes the time by destroying life whenever he sees it.”
The war-based articles are great, as well. A favorite: The 7 Most Badass Last Stands in the History of Battle. My favorite part: “Benkei went out to the drawbridge leading towards the castle, clenched his naginata in his hands and dared the army on the other side to fuck with him. When a few accepted, Benkei slapped the fail out of them with the blunt end of his bladed axe, knocking their brains out and sending crumpled remains splashing into the moat.” I love the phrase, “slapped the fail out of them.” hehehe
How in all holy heck do you creat an account there? I want to leave a comment correcting the misinformation on Purim in “Six Insane Holidays”, and I go to the registration page and I fill out the spaces and click the create account button, and nothing keeps happening!
I had to look this up. Even more traumatizing than Watership Down, according to this piece, is Pom Poko, about tannuki (translated as “raccoons”) who are shapeshifters fighting against evil developers. Apparently tanuki are traditional Japanese characters, and part of the folklore is about their testicles. They use their giant shapeshifting testicles to battle the developers. See the site for pictures(although the video clip has been takemn down)
This film was released in the US by Disney!
Now I HAVE TO find this film.
When I looked it up on Wikipedia, I found this fascinating and subversive tidbit:
Don’t tell the Baptists that the Japanese stole their hymn to use for a song about raccoon testicles.
Bit of a hijack, but I was confused for years about the correct translation of “tanuki” and exactly what sort of animal a tanuki is – or even if they really existed – and want to spare others the same confusion. Although the term is sometimes translated as “raccoon” or “badger”, a tankui is actually a (wild) canid species indigenous to Japan. They look kind of like foxes, and have raccoon-like black marks around their eyes. A lot of Japanese/English dictionaries translate the term as “raccoon dog”, which is better but still IMHO confusing because to many Americans a 'coon dog is a domesticated dog used for hunting raccoons.
I never saw a tanuki while living in Japan, but I am told the males really do have noticeably large testicles compared to their body size.
Although the term is sometimes translated as “raccoon” or “badger”, a tankui is actually a (wild) canid species indigenous to Japan. They look kind of like foxes, and have raccoon-like black marks around their eyes. A lot of Japanese/English dictionaries translate the term as “raccoon dog”, which is better but still IMHO confusing because to many Americans a 'coon dog is a domesticated dog used for hunting raccoons.