December 28, 2016

The Walking Dead: Jeffrey Dean Morgan's Son Played Negan With Chickens

The Walking Dead: Jeffrey Dean Morgan's Son Played Negan With Chickens: "ke, 'Dude, what are you doing?' and he's like 'I was playing Negan with the hens.'" "



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In case you didn't know, The Walking Dead's Jeffrey Dean Morgan lives on a working farm, complete with ducks (who are apparently jerks to the rest of the animals), chickens, dogs, cats, and more.
It's the chickens that go him talking on a recent episode of Live With Kelly. She said she loved the idea of raising them and having farm-fresh eggs, and Morgan said that he loved it, too...but that he'd recently had a harrowing experience in the process of having the eggs actually gathered.
"The hens are awesome and yeah, fresh eggs every day," he explained. "It's supposed to be my kid's job, Gus who's six, it's supposed to be his job to get eggs. I have issues with him getting eggs. It's either too cold, or he goes into the coop for hours just talking to the chickens. The other day I lost him -- I'm like 'Where'd he go?' My wife was inside, Gus was out with me, and I see him coming out of the chicken coop all dressed in black with a red scarf on and a baseball bat. I'm like, 'Dude, what are you doing?' and he's like 'I was playing Negan with the hens.'" 
Don't worry, folks -- apparently Gus was just playing eeny-meany-minie-mo, and no chickens were actually harmed. But that didn't stop Morgan from bolting to the hen house, paranoid that he was going to find a mess.
The Walking Dead returns for the second half of Season 7 on February 12, 2016.

August 26, 2016

Only a samurai schoolgirl can rescue instant ramen from a noodle-nabbing drone | The Verge

Only a samurai schoolgirl can rescue instant ramen from a noodle-nabbing drone | The Verge:











"One of the major perks about living in Japan, I thought before I moved to the country, would be the TV. I'd been raised in the UK on a steady diet of Takeshi's Castle (MXC in the US), Nintendo games, and incomprehensible internet videos, so I was expecting wall-to-wall oddity on my own Japanese flatscreen. Imagine my sadness when I arrived and realized that Japanese channels were just as tedious as their British counterparts. More so, in some cases, represented by three main category of broadcast: cooking show, infomercials for baffling products with names like "Placenta 100 Challenge," and baseball.

BEWARE THE NOODLE-NAPPING DRONES

Fortunately, that honest-to-goodness strangeness isn't gone — it's just moved from TV to online commercials. Nissin's latest ad is one such breath of weird air, hawking viewers instant chicken ramen with a samurai schoolgirl doing parkour, a Rube Goldberg machine, six competitive eating champions, an estranged zombie father, a cross-dressing reveal, and an army of noodle-napping drones. The story starts when one of said quadcopter drones steals a freshly cooked bowl of Nissin's ramen from an apartment, sparking a chase across rooftops that ends with an explosive showdown.

It's an ostentatious way to sell dirt-cheap blocks of dried ramen, but unlike some of Japan's weirdest ads, is actually grounded in reality: the events of the commercial are inspired by previous commercials, YouTube clips, and shows popular in Japan. Turn on the video's Japanese subtitles and you'll see these references flagged up as "buzz points," nods to previous Japanese memes and viral videos, including this one from make-up manufacturer Shiseido. Nissin's point is that while these fads have come and gone, its ramen has remained popular since its introduction in the 1950s, something legions of broke college students around the world are likely to agree with."



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March 28, 2016

WATCH: Japanese Youtuber devours 4.3kg of Singapore laksa instant noodles

WATCH: Japanese Youtuber devours 4.3kg of Singapore laksa instant noodles

© Coconuts Media Photo: Screenshot of Kinoshita Yuka's YouTube video

Kinoshita Yuka is a Japanese Youtube star (and competitive eater) famous for posting videos of herself wolfing down insane amounts of food — all in one go. She's feasted on stuff like 100 packets of mochi (each cooked a different way), 4kg of katsu curry with rice, three entire birthday cakes, and two jars of cookie butter spread on a towering stack of sliced bread. But it's her latest endeavour that got Singaporeans talking. Thanks to a Taiwanese fan who sent her packets of Singapore laksa instant noodles, she took up the challenge and added shrimp, eggs, onion and seaweed to her gigantic bowl, which weighed in at 4.3kg. Each bite is peppered with commentary on the dish and endearing exclamations of the delicious flavour, and before you know it, she's inhaled the entire thing, even the spicy broth. Watch the video below to see it for yourself.