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13 Aug 2009 11:02

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Offbeat: All anime nerds should overreact like this from time to time

  • My mom threw out my Gundam action figures. Time to light my house on fire! The world’s biggest, most pathetic anime nerd (who is 29, making an even stronger case for “pathetic”) chose to handle the situation the rational way. He doused himself in kerosene and then set his house ablaze. The Kasai City, Japan resident nor his mother were injured, but the two-story home was completely lost because he couldn’t stand the idea of living without his !&#&^(^ action figures. ^_^ source

05 Jun 2009 11:04

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Culture: David Carradine’s manager says his career was “on a roll”

  • I do not want to get in the middle of this whole investigation, but this guy said to me for sure there was foul play.
  • Chuck Binder • David Carradine’s manager, about talking to a producer from “Stretch,” the movie that his client was working on when he was found hanged in his hotel room in Bangkok. Binder also emphasized something for Carradine’s wife, Annie Bierman: “David was not suicidal.” • source