From Clubbin' to Clubbing
10 Mar 2006
Hellooo Kitty
Looking for a bar where you can "strip down and drink in your undies" and save the earth? Say konnichiwa to Japan's green sex clubs. Featuring recycled goods ranging from kink-wear and candles to an S&M rabbit, the clean-energy cathouses also serve organic food and beer. Domo arigato, indeed.
Photo: iStockphoto.
Photo: iStockphoto.
Speaking of getting spanked by the Japanese
U.S. automakers made their bed -- i.e., spent decades investing in huge, heavy vehicles for drivers with small-manhood syndrome -- and now they're having nightmares in it. Sales of SUVs are nose-diving; sales of hybrids are soaring. This list of greenest cars? Two from Detroit. This list of best cars? None from Detroit. Ouchiwa!
Your very own British butt buddy
Butt pollution -- we're not talking the emissions kind -- and gum scum bedevil city streets and beachfronts everywhere. And with the U.K. attacking the problem with $85+ fines (which is probably a lot of "pounds" too), the brains over at Butts & Gum have developed portable ashtrays and gum pouches for finished fags and bubblegum blobs.
Image: Butts & Gum.
Photo: Westminster Police.
HOV, oh, H-to-the-O-V
Damn, G, so many playa hatas on the streets these days, hardly seems worth it to pimp the ride. Even the HOV lanes will slow your roll -- bitchez with mannequins one minute, triflin' hybrid-driving chumpz the next. It's hard out here for a pimp! (My God, it's like we're all the white people rolled into one.)
Walruses eat harp seals, dude
Paul McCartney and wife Heather Mills McCartney daytripped to a Canadian ice floe last week to protest the country's annual seal-pup hunt by donning comical red bodysuits and lying on the ice next to a baby harp seal. Said baby harp seal protested by barking and nipping at the pair. Goo goo g'joob.
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