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Boy, Japan looooves its mascots.  You'll find them everywhere, from sporting events to corporate ads, city events to supermarket openings.  Every city and prefecture boasts its own kawaii characters used to promote their local regions. Some of these Yura-chara have soared to celebrity status and need no introduction: Domo-kun, Kumamon, Hikonyan, Sanomaru, Gunman-chan, and, of…

Check the weather forecast in your area for the Easter weekend as it may call for cloudy periods with a chance of space debris showers - Out-Of-Control Chinese Space Station Will Crash to Earth Over The Weekend "According to the European Space Agency's Space Debris Office in Darmstadt, Germany, debris from Tiangong-1 will splash down…

Welp (Honestly?  I just like saying "Welp!"), I think it's high time I brought resident film critic Cookie Monster back from extended vacation so he can start catching up on his superhero movie reviews.  It's been over three years since we last heard from our blue-furred Richard Roeper (not to be confused with the real…

With Akemi's birthday less than a month away, I've started perusing various online sites for the perfectly unique birthday gift. What follows are some of the more - uh - remarkable offerings available for you to order from JapanTrendShop.com: You too can smell like a sumo wrestler! His an Hers. I wasn't even aware this…

Between here and the dogs, it's hard to stress out about anything...

Hmmmm.  Odd.  I was expecting...feedback on various fronts this week.  I won't go so far as to say I'm disappointed.  I'm more...restless. A little impatient. Okay.  Maybe slightly vexed. But let's see what next week brings before I declare it time to ratchet things up. I mean, come on, people!  How am I expected to…

Like The A-Team's Hannibal Smith, I love it when a plan comes together.  And this one is coming along nicely.  No need to construct gas pump flamethrowers or figure out a way to modify a wood chipper into a cabbage launcher.  All you need to do is head on over to twitter and follow @StargateNow.…

Thanks to everyone who weighed in with tech suggestions on yesterday's connector quandary.    I think I've finally got it figured out, thanks to a few helpful text messages from my buddy Ivon: Tomorrow, I will finally uncover the mysteries contained within those ancient hard drives.  Will it be an avalanche of awesome behind the…

Well, this is nice... Melissa O'Neil to Co-Star in Nathan Fillion's ABC Light Drama Series: The Rookie Congratulations to Melissa! Well, this is cool.  I was going through one of my old disk drives and came across a SLEW (note the capitalization) of Stargate concept art by Production Designer James Robbins. Really beautiful stuff.  

Akemi walked back into the apartment and announced: "I threw the garbage down the garbage shooter." "Garbage chute,"I corrected her. "Garbage shooter,"she corrected herself. "No,"I said. "Garbage shoot.  Not shooter." "Ah,"she said, realization dawning.  "Garbage shoot because it shoots the garbage downstairs.  I'M the garbage shooter." "No,"I said, my frustration mounting.  "It's garbage chute.  C-H-U-T-E.…

Has it really come to this?  Patriots vs. Eagles?  Well, I suppose it could be worse. Say, if the New England Patriots were playing the New York Yankees but, even then, not that much worse.  And to top it all off, those seeking some sort of consolation in the million dollar Super Bowl ads are…