Texas Girls Aim For Tokyo.

Via Wax and Milk.

May 21, 2009, 3:47pm

May 11, 2009, 9:46am

The midget submarine Ha-19 was a 46-ton Type “A” midget submarine built in Kure in 1938 and transported to the region of Pearl Harbor aboard the big submarine I-24.

When the Ha-19 was dispatched into Pearl Harbor with the five other Japanese midget submarines on December 7^th 1941, its gyrocompass broke. This malfunction prevented its pilot Ensign Kazuo Shakamaki and crewman Kyoshi Inagaki from completing its attack mission at Pearl Harbor.

The midget wandered around without direction, overcome by battery fumes, spending the night of December 7^th unconscious and drifting in the waters surrounding Oahu. The midget submarine went aground at Waimanalo, on the east coast of Oahu. Ensign Sakamaki and his submarine were captured by American forces on December 8^th, and he became the first Japanese prisoner of war taken by the United States during the Pacific War. Inagaki died in the adventures of getting ashore. Sakamaki was humiliated to be taken alive, as the rest of the midget submariners died in Pearl Harbor combat. He demanded to be allowed to commit suicide in Oahu prison; American guards refused. Later he returned to Japan, deeply committed to pacifism, and was received with hostility among his fellow countrymen.

The Ha-19 itself was reclaimed and sent to the United States’ mainland,  where it was displayed at various War Bond tours across the nation, becoming a valuable recruiting tool as an odd sort of P.O.W artefact of propaganda, symbolizing the American effort against the Japanese. Below is an image of President Frankilin D. Roosevelt touring the Mare Island Navy Yard in 1942, with the captured Ha-19 in the background.The midget sub remains on display at the Admiral Nimitz Museum in Fredericksburg, Texas.

May 11, 2009, 9:30am

May 09, 2009, 2:34pm

via @ dan sheplavy

April 28, 2009, 3:21pm

This is seriously happening right outside my office window right now.

April 28, 2009, 2:16pm

Images of vintage Japanese Pharma ads.

From the Japanese Gallery of Psychiatric Art.

Via Modcult.

April 08, 2009, 9:47am

January 19, 2009, 12:06pm

Shit my jorts is now officially closed for business. Because its going to be hard to top this one (until Terminator Salvation comes out).

January 16, 2009, 2:50pm

There is no caption necessary for this video.

January 03, 2009, 12:53am

Rodan, wrecking it.

December 16, 2008, 12:35pm

Japanese aircraft carrier “Kaga” circa 1926.

via Dark Roasted Blend

December 15, 2008, 12:58pm

Last week, Sapporo announced that they would soon be serving space beer, “the world’s first beer made with barley descending from plants grown inside the International Space Station.”

The barley used in the new beer is a third-generation offshoot of the original plant stored for five months in a Russian laboratory in the station. The company has made only 100 liters of the new brew, named Sapporo Space Barley, which is not for sale. Sapporo says the beer is safe because it has tested microbes in it and did tests with lab animals and Sapporo employees, too. It also says that the space beer tastes just like regular beer and if you buy it you’re a total sucker.

via BLDGBLOG

December 09, 2008, 9:15am

Related, my punk band The Dick Pills is prepping to drop our 3rd full-length,  “Medicine For Long Fucking” in early 2009. Watch for a record release at the 1808 Club in Austin, TX with a nationwide stadium tour to follow.

The Dick Pills

“Medicine For Long Fucking”

Track List:

1. Fish Starvation

2. Poke Her To Her Throat

3. Your New Enormous Dick

4. Vietnamese with Digestive

5. Open your heart and pants to Penis Patch

6. Aloha in my butt

7. Pork Vortex

8. To Fanny’s Cabin

9. Little Titties Handful Wand

10. 無茶ムチャなSEX！！！

11. Dont want no short dick man.

12. Sex Can

13. Penis Launcher

Help spread the word. Big ups to Dick Pills Guitarist @joeprice.

December 08, 2008, 4:11pm