Guess who lost
Yep, six-time world titler Takeru Kobayashi relinquished his “crown” July 4 at the Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Competition to American Joey Chestnut . In other words, that’s a 66-hot-dog-in-12-minutes win over 63. Chestnut is so far only the second non-Japanese to have won the title. More from here. And the good news is, it’s in English. Photo from Mainichi Shinbun
And another Musume news
What is up with Morning Musume? Photo from Miracle-Night.net This time, former Morning Musume Iida Kaori’s pregnancy and upcoming marriage to Kenji (who is apparently the former vocalist for the band 7HOUSE, which was also under Momusu’s producer Tsunku) hit the entertainment headlines. The two have been rumored to be dating several years ago but it was only September of last year that they’ve gotten together...
Sugoi!!!
A big THANK YOU to all of you and most especially to Renji (RSS|CSS) and to Vlad (The Lonely Vampire Chronicles) for taking the Reflective Thinking – Taking the 8th Habit Challenge: The Top 10 Emerging Influential Blogs in 2007. We didn’t get to the Top 10 but the mention is more than enough, so THANK YOU!!! As you may have noticed, posts have been slow in coming. We have both individual and collective reasons for this but...
No Unimaginative Puns Here
Just woke up and I’m not in the mood to start off our mini-write up on International NANA day Philippines with an unimaginative pun like “We had a BLAST!”. -_- Seriously though, we really had a great time last night. The venue was nice and the bands really rocked the house with both punk rock (for Black Stones) and pop rock (for Trapnest). Sourei kicked off the event at exactly 7:07pm with rose by ANNA inspi’...
New Worlds: Transformed!
A one-week Sci-fi Convention brought to you by The New Worlds Alliance. July 9-15 11AM onwards Power Plant Mall There will be RPG demos, talks, booths , cosplays and more at designated areas all through out the mall.! For complete details and schedule, check out their website.