Check out the new title! I'm really enjoying getting back into this blogging lark.

Ooopps! I just realised the whole of 2008 went by and I didn't even post one blog entry!
That is all set to change in 2009 though as I plan on being quite prolific in my blogging. Any of the 4 people who used to read this shit site ever still check it?

Coffee Bukkake

Readers of this blog i'm sure will be very familiar with the Japanese term bukkake. A number of Japanese "loan" words are used in English, for example words such as kimono, sushi, karaoke and judo. Bukkake is another of these terms that has become commonplace in everyday English conversations. One need look no further than the ever popular thehun.com to find some perfect examples of bukkake, or "cream pies" as they are sometimes called. Just the other day I was looking at a lovely mature plumper creampie from steve. Great stuff.

Anyway, this latest blog entry concerns an interesting story in the Japan news this week in which a man has been arrested for carrying out what can only be described as a bizzare take on the traditional Japanese art of bukkake.

The man has come to be known as“Coffee Bukkake Man” [コーヒーぶっかけ男] by locals after 5 drive-by coffee spitting attacks on schoolgirl pedestrians. In all of the attacks, he spat coffee out his car window and into the faces of the girls before quickly driving away.
All of the man's victims were junior high school or high school girls wearing their uniforms, and all of the attacks involved spitting coffee onto their faces from his car window. Fortunately the Coffee Bukkake man has now been arrested. His final attack having taken place on December 7th, when a 16-year-old schoolgirl he spat on was able to come to her senses quickly enough to spot his license plate number and memorise it. Police described it as a School boy error from the Coffee Bukkake man, and suggested he would be kicking himself for having been so stupid.

Now behind bars, schoolgirls can rest assured that they are now safe from this distortorter the good name of the sacred art of Bukkake. However, those particularly disturbed by this act should bare in mind that the 26 year-old Coffee Bukkake man, did tell police that he only did it to relieve some stress because he'd been dumped by his bird. So its not that bad.

That's it for now, i'm off to look at an ebony babe toying from nigel.

Recently this blog has come in for a fair amount of criticism, most of it justified. However, an ever popular feature of the blog has been the ongoing Legends series. This feature really seems to have captured the imagination of blog readers out there and has prompted numerous discussions, and dare i say it, the odd argument!

This along with the Classic events from the What's Happening in Toyama monthly newsletter series always seem to get people talking and i am bombarded with emails asking me about them. It's for this reason I have decided to start a new series, this time it is going to be called Barry and Maverick's musical funtime. In this series I will provide readers with a selection of classic pop hits from throughout the ages.
First up I have chosen this little gem from those lovable Cockney badboys, East 17.
Enjoy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyAGgEJb1_8

Ok, so you didn't think the thrown shits story was funny.... check out this hard hitting drama from some more of my students:


Kanako: "Aruhi mori no naka kumasa"

Asuka: Kanako! Stop singing!!

Kanako: Why? I was enjoying singing though.

Asuka: Because in Japan when you sing it means a ghost will appear!

Kanako: Oh really!? I didn't know.

Asuka: Look! There is a ghost behind your back.

Kanako: Where is it!? Where is it!?

Asuka: I'm lying.

Kanako: Go away Asuka, I hate you!

Asuka: I'm sorry.


For me, this absurd-sounding tale charting two young girl's friendship through love, fighting and the supernatural has turned out to be one of the most chilling and original mini dramas of the ichi nensei Superstitions project.
From the outset, this drama's brilliantly scripted dialogue draws the audience in and one finds oneself immersed in the story's unbearably grim world. We are thrilled and taken on an emotional roller coaster ride experiencing joyous music, laughter and humour contrasted with the tale's underlying backdrop of shock, fear and betrayal. The end result is an edge of your seat suspense story with so many twists and turns we are never quite sure where we are going to end up. The unexpected twist at the end providing a truely unforgettable piece of ichi nensei mini drama writing.

Rating: 5 stars.

In order to keep up the prolific nature of this blog I shall now add my comments for October. This post concerns a script I just received from 2 of my students for their project on "superstitions". They were asked to prepare a mini drama incorporating some phrases and gestures I taught them around the theme of fortune telling and superstitions. Here is the script, handed to me by 2 ichi nensei girls. They have chosen to play the roles of the popular childrens characters, Anpanman and Shokupanman:

Anpanman: "Oh, I had a strange dream"

Shokupanman: "Are you all right? How dream?"

Anpanman: "I had a dream, I am thrown shits. It was the worst dream."

Shokupanman: "Oh?! Why? The dream is a good dream."

Anpanman: "Why? I don't know, why is it good?"

Shokupanman: "When you have a dream that you are thrown into shit you will become rich."

Anpanman: "Oh, really? I'm glad because I don't have any money."

Shokupanman: It was good!!!! I want to look this dream too!"

So there you have it. Apparently if you have a dream that you are thrown shits then you will become rich. I don't know how exactly to mark this one.

It's been a while since I last posted, mainly because i simply cannot be arsed but also because it is difficult to follow up such a classic post as that gingerbread one.

Anyway I thought I'd start a new series, called "Classic events from the What's Happening in Toyama monthly newsletter". It is a publication which I have to say gives me enormous pleasure each month. This month two great events are happening on the same day in Takaoka, which one to attend - its a real dilemma! Either way I know an awesome time is going to be had by all.

Check out these two badass events, they certainly stick two fingers up to anyone who has the gaul to suggest that Toyama is a boring place!

Classic events from the What's Happening in Toyama monthly newsletter:

No 1:

The 24th Annual Nakada Scarecrow festival!

Do you like scarecrows? Then this is the festival for you! There will be a scarecrow contest, parade, and an endurance race! Takaoka City , Nakada-ku Central Shopping District

Not content with that? On the same day will be ....

No 2:

The Takaoka Daibutsu Festival!

Witness the annual cleaning of the Takaoka Daibutsu (Big Buddha) 。After the cleaning there will be various fun events and celebration. Takaoka-City

Each month the What's Happening in Toyama newsletter throws up a number of these such events, it truely is a wonderful publication for a wonderful place. Check out next month's blog for more classics from this spectacular series!*



* Note: I may well get bored and not bother.

A poem:

One little, two little, three little
Gingerkids,
Four little, five little, six little
Gingerkids,
Seven little, eight little, nine little
Gingerkids,
Ten little Gingerbread Kids.