The Haunted Mansion, no matter what Disney park it’s in (California, Orlando, Paris, or Tokyo), has been a fan favorite since it opened at Disneyland in 1969. For years even… Read the rest of the article: Make the Haunted Mansion's Hitching Ghosts Who Follow You Home

Bobby Pickett’s song “The Monster Mash,” was first released in August 1962 as a 45 (that was a tiny record just larger than a CD that held one song on… Read the rest of the article: A Halloween Treat: A Monster Mash Mashup

Free the nipple! Cover the nipple! Free the nipple! Cover the nipple! Kind of like our country right now. If you were to read the title of this post you… Read the rest of the article: Don't Look at My Nipples

Ugh, the “dog days of summer” are upon us. It’s hot, with cities in the Southwest and Pacific Northwest reaching record-breaking temps well over 100 degrees.

This is not new news, it’s old news. But maybe you haven’t seen it, and it’s so nutty that I feel compelled, with a box of Williams Sonoma Peppermint Chocolate… Read the rest of the article: Bite Me! Check out the Japanese gameshow behind the memes

Haven’t we all seen a lot of pigs on the parkway? You’re driving along and happen to notice that the person in the next lane has their digit buried halfway… Read the rest of the article: Piggies on the Parkway

I defy you to eat dinner while watching this seller in an Okinawan fish market make clam sashimi out of this monster. It would have made a nice prop in… Read the rest of the article: A Clam the Size of Your Head

Disney fans here have been much preoccupied with the retheming of “Tower of Terror” to “Guardians of the Galaxy—Mission Breakout” at Disney California Adventure, and the opening of Pandora at… Read the rest of the article: Nemo and Friends SeaRider Opens at Tokyo DisneySea

Pirates of the Caribbean 5 not to your taste? How about some ice cold Japanese Asahi Super Dry beer? I can’t get enough. Whether Johnny Depp loves the beer (or… Read the rest of the article: Johnny Depp Pimps Beer in Japan

This cute video is circulating which shows a group of people, led by a young woman, who want to throw a very brief birthday party for a friend on a… Read the rest of the article: Sweet 16 on the Subway

1. Chinese man is constipated. 2. Chinese man remembers an old folk remedy. 3. Remedy involves inserting a live eel up your bum. 4. Chinse man goes to hospital. Seems… Read the rest of the article: An Eel in the Keel

Light, fluffy, big and round … yeah, I'm talking about pancakes. But not those flat things that look like a round napkin that you cook on a griddle, but the… Read the rest of the article: Blimp Style Pancakes

Behold, Godzilla, King of the Monsters! The original Japanese version of the film, Gojira (which few Americans saw until a decade and a half ago when it first appeared on… Read the rest of the article: Reflecting on Godzilla and the Bomb

My friend Yasuo Amano, whose themed magic I've posted here before, visited The Tokyo Disney Resort for two days and sampled their seasonal Easter events. If you've only been to… Read the rest of the article: Easter Magic at the Tokyo Disney Resort

After my parents got divorced in 1965, I lived in a one-room apartment with my mother at 56-10 94th Street, in Elmhurst Queens. The apartment had a small alcove, and… Read the rest of the article: Death to the Roach

Hidden inside a bazaar, off the beaten track, in an adventurous land far from civilization, where the paths are thick with dense vegetation and an ancient temple can be seen… Read the rest of the article: Colonel Nedley Lostmore, Doctor of Jungle Medicine

In 1990, probably around the time that the last film with the cast of the original Star Trek TV show had just finished wrapping up the principle shooting of Star… Read the rest of the article: Hey, Let's Call the Cast of Star Trek

There’s a difference between the human who thinks and the human who does not. This human is not thinking, even though he may feel affection toward the turtle … the… Read the rest of the article: Why you shouldn't kiss snapping turtles

If you're old enough, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is one of the greatest records ever released. There are enough of us who can recite the lyrics to start… Read the rest of the article: Sgt. Pepper gets a good dusting off at 50

With the death of author William Peter Blatty on January 13 at 88, I could not help but be reminded that, exactly 43 years ago on that date, at age… Read the rest of the article: The Death of the Exorcist